10 PREFACE. 



umes prepared for those who have time to spend in their 

 pemsal — in short, to avoid all superfluous detail, and 

 give the information in as few words as a proper under- 

 standing of it would permit. He has given no directions 

 which will not be clearly understood, and which may 

 not be easily followed ; and among the prescriptions 

 which he has furnished for the cure or amelioration of 

 animal diseases, he beheves none will be found which 

 are not readily available by every farmer. In every 

 case the treatment recommended may be relied on and 

 regarded as neither untried nor hazardous, but such as 

 will generally prove successful. 



It was the apology of an eminent writer, for extend- 

 ing a work through several large volumes, that he "had 

 not time to make it more brief;" and although, to those 

 who have not made the experiment, it may appear un- 

 reasonable, it may be safely asserted, that, to condense 

 and give within the limits of the present volume, any- 

 thing like the amount of information which, on exami- 

 nation, it will be found to contain, requires far more 

 time, labor, and patience, than to compile a work of sev- 

 eral times the size. 



, With these observations, the Farmer's Guide is re- 

 spectfully submitted to the judgment of those, for whom 

 it has been especially prepared, in the confident hope 

 that it will be found adequate to the purposes for which 

 it is designed. 



T. B. W. 

 New York, Mut/, 1849. 



