INTRODUCTION 

 Facing Disease on the Farm 



To call a veterinarian or not that is the ques- 

 tion. Whether your horse or cow is sick enough' 

 for professional attendance, or just under the 

 weather a little, is a problem you will always be 

 called upon to face. And you must meet it. It 

 has always faced the man who raises stock, and it 

 is a problem that always will. Like human beings, 

 farm stock have their ailments and troubles; and, 

 in most cases, a little care and nursing 1 are all that 

 will be required. With these troubles all of us are 

 acquainted ; especially those who have spent much 

 time with the flocks and the herds on the farm. 

 Through experience we know that often with every 

 reasonable care, some animals, frequently the 

 healthiest-looking ones, in the field, or stable, give 

 ^rouble at the most unsuspected times. So the 

 ffjtult is not always with the owner. 



There is no reason, however, why an effort should 

 not be made, just as soon as any trouble is noticed, 

 to assist the sick animal to recover, and help 

 nature in every way possible to restore the invalid 

 to its usual normal condition. The average observ- 

 ing farmer, as a rule, knows just about what the 

 trouble is ; he usually knows if treatment is beyond 

 him, and if not, what simple medical aid will be 

 effective in bringing about a recovery with greatec 

 dispatch than nature unaided will effect. 



Now, of course, this means that the farmer 

 should be acquainted with his animals; in health 

 and disease their actions should be familiar to him. 



