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table either to ignorance or carelessness, and is 

 preventable. 



RECOGNITION The ability to recognize the more common 

 diseases of live stock by the farmer and stock- 

 man is often the means of saving the lives of 

 valuable animals. A knowledge of how to pre- 

 vent disease is of vastly more importance. 



TROUBLE BY Domestic animals have lost the power of 



GIVING rustling for themselves. They have become de- 



GOOD CARE pendent upon the personal attention of man. It 

 is said that wild cattle will not eat poisonous 

 plants, but tame ones do not seem to discrimi- 

 nate. They take what man gives them. 



While it is often true that germs cause dis- 

 ease, and are the real and only cause of the dis- 

 ease, yet the fact remains that animals well cared 

 for are not so predisposed to disease. This rule 

 holds good at every stage of the game in the live 

 stock business. 



Feed your live stock from the day they are 

 born ; feed them well. It will not pay to keep 

 them unless you are prepared to feed them. 



Tn the arid region we have the very best pos- 

 sible sanitary conditions. If animals are not 

 penned up too closely or given dirty quarters, 

 they naturally keep well. A good, pure water- 

 supply should always be available. Be cautious 

 about feeding any food that is mouldy, musty, 



