PREFACE. VII 



ne general subject, as may well be coveted by every Gentleman 

 Farmer, and to lead to important practical reforms. He has 

 endeavoured particularly to impress his own persuasim, trxat a 

 more general use of oxen in place of horses, would be highly 

 expedient and economical, accompanying his reflections on this 

 topic with ample instructions as to breeding, breaking, and gear- 

 ing them. 



Deeming famiharity ^\^th the names of every part of the 

 animal frame essential to an intelHgent treatment of accidental 

 injunes or disorders to which it is constantly exposed, anatomical 

 deHneations have, for that purpose, been introduced, which are 

 not given in the English work. For the same purpose, and 

 illustrated in Hke manner, certain instruments and contrivances 

 there only referred to, as necessary in the administration of re- 

 lief in certain dangerous cases of common occurrence, will be 

 found in this American edition — viz: the stilet probang, for 

 relieving cattle that are choked, and Read's Patent Veterinary 

 Syringe or Stomach Pump, to be used for the extraction of gas, 

 when cattle get hoven, as often happens, by over-feeding on 

 gi'een and wet clover, or other deleterious substances. 



To the medical part of the work in the shape of notes, some 

 recipes have been appended, consisting of elements more simple 

 or more easily procured than those prescribed in the text ; but 

 only such have been thus inserted as seemed to be either inno- 

 cent in themselves, or recommended on alleged experience and 

 respectable authority. 



To say nothing of the duty which common humanity enjoins 

 on every one, to be prepared with common medicines, and s 

 directions for the use of them, which may enable him to extend 

 prompt relief to speechless suffering ; on the sordid score of self- 

 interest alone, the most calculating, it may be supposed, will not 

 neeitate to provide himself with a book which in teaching him 

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