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their horses indiscriminately, irrespective of 

 whether the animals are doing well or the re- 

 verse. If a horse is out of condition or sick 

 the remedies administered should be those 

 which have been proved to be curative under 

 similar circumstances. This "doping" a horse 

 with a lot of different drugs, whether in the 

 form of a stock-food, condition powder or any- 

 thing else, is all wrong. A shotgun prescrip- 

 tion never yet effected a cure. I am not much 

 of a believer in proprietary "dope" anyway. 

 A few of these proprietary remedies are of 

 standard and meritorious efficacy, but many of 

 them are worthless. I suggest that those who 

 desire to discover much about the composition 

 of patent remedies, designed for the human as 

 well as the equine subject, purchase the book, 

 "Secret Nostrums - and Systems," by the late 

 Dr. Charles Oleson. Dr. Oleson was a friend of 

 mine and to my certain knowledge devoted a 

 great deal of time and care to collecting the 

 data presented in his most interesting work. 



Among farm animals the horse is the only 

 one which is immune from tuberculosis, and 

 the manner of his life is conceded to be that 

 which grants him his immunity. He is out al- 

 most always by day and often at night. Pigs 

 and cattle are too often closely confined in- 

 doors. Sheep, which suffer little from tuber- 

 culosis, are also animals which live outdoors. 

 The lesson of this is that all stables in which 



