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PREFACE. 



An experience as a student in animal husbandry in 

 two agricultural colleges (Ont. Agl. Col., Gnelph, Can- 

 ada; Iowa Agl. Col., Ames, Iowa) leads me to believe 

 that, iu common with the veterinary works written for 

 stockmen, the veterinary courses were far too technical, 

 thus being a drudgery to the students and calculated to 

 mystify rather than enlighten, due, I believe, to the 

 idea that the agricultural .student or stockman should get 

 veterinary knowledge in the same form as the veterinary 

 student, the difference being only one of degree. The 

 demands of the Short Course in Agriculture in the Uni- 

 versity of Wisconsin would 'not allow of the use of tech- 

 nical terms or big words, or even a multiplicity of 

 diseases, hard to distinguish between, with their attend- 

 ant treatment. This book embodies in a simple form 

 the lectures as delivered to Short Course students, the 

 main object of the author being to fit the stockman so 

 that he shall be to the veterinarian what the trained 

 nurse is to the physician. The proper recruiting ground 

 for veterinarians is from among the stockmen. To become ' 

 so no one should attend a veterinary college having less 

 than a three-year course. I have placed under contribu- 

 tion. Hayes' Points of the Horse and his Veterinary 

 Notes for Horseowners ; Smith's Veterinary Physiology ; 

 Henry's Feeds and Feeding ; and Fleming's Veterinary 

 Obstetrics ; a perusal of any of those works will repay 



the reader. 



A. G. H. 



University of Wisconsin, 



Madison, Wis. 



