4 THE FARMER S VETERINARIAN 



observation and experience ought also to tell him 

 when his stock are in good health or when they 

 lack thrift or are sick and need treatment 



LEARN TO RECOGNIZE ANIMAL DISEASES 



Few farmers there are, indeed, who are not 

 acquainted with crop diseases. Smut is readily 

 recognized when present in the wheat or corn or 

 oat field ; so colic, too, should be recognized when 

 your horse is affected by it. The peach and the 

 apple have their common ailments ; so have the 

 cow and pig. In either case the facts ought to be 

 familiar. So familiar that as soon as diagnosed 

 and recognized prompt measures for treatment 

 should be followed that the cure may be effected 

 before any particular headway is at all made. 

 Handled in this way, many cases that are now 

 passed on to the veterinarian would never develop 

 into serious disturbances at all. 



PREVENTION BETTER THAN CURE 



The old saying, " Prevention is better than cure," 

 is both wisdom and a splendid platform on which 

 to build any branch of live stock work. Every dis- 

 ease is the result of some disturbance, somewhere. 

 It may be improper food ; the stockman must know. 

 Moldy fodder causes nervous troubles in the horse. 

 Cottonseed meal, if fed continuously to pigs, leads 

 to their death. Hence, food has much to do with 

 health and disease. Ventilation of the stable plays 

 its part. Bad air leads to weakness, favors tuber- 

 culosis, and, if not remedied, brings about loss and 

 death. Fresh air in abundance is better than med- 

 icine ; and the careful stockman will see that it be 

 not denied. 



