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to be his " own Cattle Doctor," may enable him to save the life 

 even of the meanest animal on his estate. In a word, the want 

 of some such work would be an obvious defect in every farmer's 

 hbrary, however small it may be, and this one is of the highest 

 and most recent authority in a country where the subjects of 

 which it treats have been most carefully investigated and are 

 best understood. To have been revised and sanctioned by Mr. 

 YouATT, as it is believed to have been, is of itself a sufficieiit 

 tilie to pubhc confidence. 



J. S. S. 



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