PREFACE. / 



sought, and these points I have endeavored to most 

 fully answer in the pages which follow. 



While I have not intended that this book should in 

 any sense be regarded as a veterinary, work, yet I have 

 thought I might add greatly to its practical usefulness 

 by incorporating with it the material portions of several 

 articles, prepared at my request by Prof. James Law, of 

 Cornell University, N. Y., and previously published 

 under my direction, wherein he treats of some of the 

 diseases to which stallions, brood mares and young 

 foals are especially subject. And I have also added a 

 number of pages of matter of a similar nature, prepared 

 especially for this work by N. H. Paaren, M. D., State 

 Veterinarian of Illinois, whose high scientific attain- 

 ments and many years of extensive practice have espe- 

 cially fitted him to give valuable counsel upon such 

 topics. 



In the belief that the book will be found interesting 

 to all students of the science and art of breeding, and 

 especially helpful to those who have the care and man- 

 agement of breeding studs, whether on a large or small 

 scale, it is given to the public with a full consciousness 

 of the fact that it does not contain a tithe of what might 

 profitably be written or said upon the subject. 



J. H. SANDERS. 

 CHICAGO, Feb. 1, 1885. 



