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supply of healthful, nutritive food and pure water. While tonics 

 may improve the appetite so that the animal will temporarily con- 

 sume and digest more food, should this increased quantity of nu- 

 trients consumed not be appropriated by the tissues of the body, 

 harm may result from thus overloading the lymphatic system, or 

 from an increased action of the excreting organs. 



Treatment of Sick Animals. It is believed to be unwise to give 

 drugs to animals when it can possibly be avoided. Even such simple 

 substances as salts, ginger, gentian and the like should be used as 

 sparingly as possible. If an animal is out of condition, and it is be- 

 lieved a tonic will be helpful, try the following : Pulverized gentian, 

 1 pound; pulverized ginger, % pound; pulverized saltpeter, */4 

 pound; pulverized iron sulfate, l /2 pound. Mix and give one table- 

 spoonful in the feed once a day for ten days, omit for three days, then 

 give ten days more. Cost of the above, 20 cents a pound. In ex- 

 ceptional cases, when skilled medical treatment appears absolutely 

 necessary, it is far wiser to employ a reliable veterinarian than to at- 

 tempt home doctoring by the indiscriminate use of patent medicines 

 or powders recommended to cure everything. (Mass. An. Kept. 

 Part II, 1910.) 



AUTHORITIES CONSULTED. 



Beef Production. Mo. B. 76; Miss. B. 76; Kans. B. 118, 113; 

 Mich. B. 241; Kas.B.lll;Tenn.B.79;Tex.B.86;Tenn.B.3.Vol.XV; 

 S. Dak. B. 100 ; Ag. Dept, F. B. 71 ; Miss. B. 92, 136 ; Nebr. B. 75, 85, 

 90; la. B. 66; Mich. B. 247; An. Rept. Sec'y Ag. U. S., 1908; Mont. 

 B. 48; la. B. 75, 79; Miss. B. 137, 145, 149, 152; Ag. Societies of 

 Ont. llth Rept. ; Tex. B. 121, 147 ; Kans. B. 146, 158 ; Miss. B. 125 ; 

 Pa. B. 26 ; Minn. B. 60 ; Kans. B. 86 ; Mass. An. Rept. Part II, 1910 ; 

 Tex. B. 97 ; Tex. B. 86 ; Mass. B. 44 ; la. B. 75 ; Tex. B. 135 ; Kans. B. 

 112; Kans. B. 130; Ag. Dept. Bu. An. Ind. B. 34; 111. Cir. 88, 92, 

 94 ; Mich. B. 241. 



Commercial Cattle Foods. R. I. A. E. S. B. 77; Miss. B. 114; 

 Mass. B. 45; Mass. B. 94; Nev. B. 26; N. J. B. 185, 237, 153, 160, 

 230; Tex. B. 141; Mass. B. 108, 106; Tex. B. 127; Mass. B. 101; 

 N. J. B. 165, 175, 212; Pa. B. 41; R. I. B. 94; Conn. Rept. 1905, 

 Part 3; N. J. B. 193, 201, 185; N. Y., Geneva, B. 268; Term. B. 

 Vol. 9, No. 3 ; Pa. B. 81 ; Conn. Rept, 1909, Part 3 ; La. B. 86 ; Va. B. 

 107; N. Y., Geneva, B. 198; La. B. 114; N. Y. (State) 217; N. H. 

 B. 147 ; Mass. B. 93 ; La. B. 88 ; Conn. Biennial Rept. 1908, Part 10 ; 

 N. H. B. 116; Mass. B. 56, 64, 85, 71; N. H. B. 147; Mass. B. 53, 

 136, 139; la. B. 66; Nev. B. 26; Vt. B. 144; Vt. B. 138; R. I. B. 78, 

 105, 112; la. B. 65; N. H. B. 149; R. I. B. 119; La. B. 98; Mass. B. 

 78 ; R. I. B. 119 ; R. I. Inspection B. 1911 ; Conn. Rept, 1906, Part 3 ; 

 N. H. B. 133; R. I. B. 134, 140; Wis, Cir. Inf. 11, 22, 1; Tex. B. 70; 

 R. I. B. 98; Ind. Cir. 7, 6. 



