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definite purpose, moulds and develops into the most graceful 
adult forms the seemingly ill-shaped and ill-proportioned young. 
The watchful care and concern of the natural parent for the 
young, and her evident pleasure in its being can nowhere be so 
fully appreciated as on the stock-farm. When the conditions 
calling for the practical application of the principles of medi¬ 
cine and surgery arise, the wide range of difference between the 
environments of the stable in city or town, and the barn of the 
farm at once suggests such modifications as would reduce those 
principles to their very simplest forms. In the absence of the 
more complete assortment of the city drugstore, the simpler and 
more ordinary articles of domestic use have very often to be 
called into requisition and with the most charming results. In the 
absence of the elaborate and scrupulously kept operation table 
of the city infirmary, a carefully sprinkled cement floor, or con¬ 
tinuous antiseptic spray, the carefully regulated light, etc., the 
stock-farm offers the shade of an overspreading tree, under which 
bundles of straw may be spread and sprinkled, or even an open 
lawn covered with sufficient turf, with abundant light from the 
firmament above, with air sufficiently purified by the sun’s rays 
and warmth as to reduce the number of germs to a minimum. 
These comparisons refer with directness to the more ordinary 
cases calling for treatment, but when the more serious condi¬ 
tions, such as an epidemic of contagious and infectious animal 
diseases, march in or break out upon the field, being communi¬ 
cated either by diseased conditions existing on neighboring or 
adjoining farms, or introduced through the medium of new ac¬ 
quisitions to the farm, then the plan of warfare has to be modi¬ 
fied and changed to meet the special conditions and recourse to 
isolation, quarantine, preventive inoculation, disinfection, etc., 
becomes imperative, the success or effectiveness from any or all 
of these methods being just in proportion to the thoroughness 
with which said methods are carried out and applied. 
6. The Stock-farm as a Natural Experiment Station .—The 
stock-farm managed with intelligence and foresight sufficient to 
appreciate the changes and variations of conditions as they arise 
