PREFACE. 



In presenting to the public a comprehensive book on 

 Farriery and the treatment of Cattle, we have deter- 

 niiiied to make the work complete; to embrace in it 

 every subject useful to the farmer, the grazier, the 

 dealer in horses, and others. Horses, neat cattle, 

 sheep, and swine, — the management of them, the dis- 

 eases to which they are subject, and cures for them, 

 — all will be found in this book, carefully selected 

 from the writings of Small, Youatt, White, Lawrence, 

 Hines, Clayter, etc. As a book of advice and refer- 

 ence in regard to useful matters, we have so arranged 

 it under different heads, that the reader by running his 

 eye down the Contents will be enabled at once to find 

 any particular subject upon which he may wish to 

 inform himself. 



" Ten minutes advice" is a short treatise compil- 

 ed to guard the unwary from deceptions in. the pur- 

 chase of a Horse, as well as to refresh the memory 

 of gentlemen already acquainted with the requisite 

 qualifications of that noble animal. The remarks are 

 drawn from long, and, in some instances, dear-bought 

 experience, in the snares with which jockies and grooms 

 beset those who are under the necessity of dealing 

 with them. Having premised thus much, it is proper 

 that we should introductorily remark, as a general 

 guide, viz : 



That a large shin-bone, that is, long from the knee 

 to the pastern, in a foal, shows a tall horse. 



