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INTRODUCTORY. 



INTRODUCTORY 



HE only \va_\- 1j_\" which the farmer, dair_\-man, pouhryman or live stock 

 owner can reah/e the most from his investment and his labor is by 

 continually guarding the health and welfare of his live stock as a 

 precautionary measure, and by employing the most advanced pre- 

 scriptions and discoveries in eradicating disease as soon as it appears. 

 It is the object and purpose or this book to present in clear, concise and 

 simple language, facts wilh which every farmer and cattle owner should be 

 acquainted. It gives you a brief history of the most important farm animals ; also 

 interesting statistics. It tells you how to care for and manage your live stock; 

 how to keep them in good condition so as to always produce the best results ; 

 how to prevent disease; how to know disease when it does appear, and lastly, how 

 to treat and overcome disease. The precautionary measures, to start with, are 

 absolute cleanliness, with conditions and surroundings as sanitary as possible. 

 Then it is necessary at all times to have on hand a sufficient supply of good disin- 

 fectants, with which to destroy parasites and germs of all kinds, which multiply so 

 rapidly and exist everywhere, especially wdiere cleardiness is neglected. 



In this book we make mention of the different diseases to which live stock is 

 subject, and we treat at some length on those for wdiich we have positive, tried and 

 tested prescriptions. We make note of other diseases for wdiich we do not claim to 

 have a prepared prescription, and these subjects ma\' be taken up by correspondence 

 direct with Dr. David Roberts, who will give each and every incjuiry his careful and 

 personal attention. In regard to the prescriptions which are offered in this book, we 

 wish to say that they are the result of thousands of experiments and the experience 

 of over twenty-two years of active veterinary practice in the richest dairy cattle 

 section of the United States. Exceptional opportunities have been offered Dr. 

 Roberts for studying the cause and effect of such complicated and persistent 

 diseases as Abortion, Barrenness, Retention of the Afterbirth, Scours in Calves, 

 etc., and on such sulijects he is a recognized authority, as hundreds of unsolicited 

 testimonials will prove. 



Abortion, for instance, is a germ disease ; the germ is found in the mother's 

 blood, afterbirth and llowels oi the fcetus, and such conditions can only be corrected 

 by the hypcdermic injection of such medicines as will destroy and eradicate the 

 germ and thus restore the anioial to a healthy condition. 



We make mention of this to illustrate that the treatment and prescriptions for 

 these diseases lyre the subject of much scientihc study, and cannot be successfully 

 handled exeefit by a man of much experience and practice. These things can- 

 not lj»? kan-jefj from books. The knowledge must be acquired from the most 

 thorovah ami successful masterB — Experience and Practice. Dr. Roberts, 



