PREFACE 



My purpose in presenting "Rural Veterinary Secrets", to the 

 farmer and other owners of domesticated animals shall be to educate 

 them to use home remedies intelligently whenever they are applicable 

 in case of emergency, and to properly comfort and care for the patient 

 till medical aid can be summoned ; to teach my readers to use the right 

 remedy in the right place in case of emergency, instead of employing 

 anything and everything that might be suggested by the casual ob- 

 server; to avoid the misapplication of drugs, which so often leads to 

 the destruction of valuable farm animals ; and to give professional ad- 

 vice to those who are in need, as well as those who seek professional 

 knowledge on those subjects. 



In order that my readers may readily understand what I am to 

 present to them, I will employ common farmer language, avoiding 

 technical expressions as much as possible. I shall prescribe the most 

 practical and effective remedies for each particular case, regardless of 

 who might be the manufacturer thereof. The remedies prescribed 

 shall be those which I have found the most successful and practical 

 during my twenty-seven years of practice. 



I have decided to place the knowledge and experience obtained in 

 these twenty-seven years of continued and uninterrupted practice as 

 a veterinarian before my readers in concise form, boiled down for quick 

 and ready reference, in this, my first edition of "Rural Veterinary 

 Secrets." 



A. H. HARTWIG, M. D. C. 

 Watertown, Wisconsin, July 1st, 1921. 



