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better. His practice was chiefly in ,tlie great stock-raising 

 regions of Tennessee and Mississippi, but extended all the 

 way from the Ohio to the Kio Grande. 



This book is the result, apd we put it forth in the full 

 confidence that it will more fi^lly meet the wants of American 

 horse-owners and managers than any other, or all other, 

 works extant. It is distinctively American, treating more 

 fully and explicitly of the diseases peculiar to the American 

 horse — more especially those peculiar ^ to the Valley of the 

 Mississippi — than any other work hitherto published. It is 

 written in plain, simple language, that any one can under- 

 stand with the aid of the Glossary of Technical and Scien- 

 tific Terms, and will be found peculiarly adapted to the use 

 of the farmer. We send it forth on its rmrits, and have no 

 fears but what it will stand there. 



Those who may use it will confer a favor by communi- 

 cating to us, by letter, the results of their experience. We 

 shall thereby be enabled to detect and correct any errors 

 that may have crept in, or that may occur on the part of 

 those using the book. 



THE PUBLISHERS. 



CiirciKNATi, January 1, 1867. 



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