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Dr. Paige, the veterinarian at this college, very 

 Do Healthy pointedly expresses the most advanced views of the 

 Animals Need profession when he says, " Animals in a state of 

 Medicine? health do not need condition powders or tonic 

 foods. There is in the body of a healthy animal a 

 condition of equilibritini of a 1/ body functions. The processes of diges- 

 tion and assimilation are at their best. All that is required to main- 

 tain this condition of balance, is that the animal be kept under sani- 

 tary conditions and receive a sufficient supply of healthful nutritive 

 food and pure water. While tonics may improve the appetite so 

 that the animal will temporarily consume and digest more food, 

 should this increased quantity of nutrients consumed not be appro- 

 priated by the tissues of the body, harm may result from thus over- 

 loading the lymphatic system, or from an increased action of the 

 excreting organs." 



The writer believes it unwise to give drugs to ani- 

 Treatment of mals when it can possibly be avoided. Even such 

 Sick Animals, 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 believed a tonic will be 

 helpful, try the following suggested by Bartlett of the Maine station t 



" Pulverized gentian, one pound ; pulverized ginger, one-fourth 

 pound ; pulverized saltpeter, one-fourth pound ; pulverized iron sul- 

 fate, one-half pound. Mix and give one tablespoonful in the feed 

 once a day for ten days, omit for three days, then give ten days 

 more. Cost of the above twenty cents a pound." 



In exceptional cases when skilled medical treatment appears abso- 

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

 to attempt home doctoring by the indiscriminate use of patent medi- 

 cines or powders recommended to cure everything.* 



*This bulletin does not decry the various veterinary medicines put up by pharmacists and 

 veterinary surgeons for the use of stockmen. The claims made for them are, as a rule, 

 quite reasonable and they unquestionably have their proper sphere of usefulness. 



