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CATTLE AND THEIR DISEASES
EMBRACING
THEIR HISTORY AND BREEDS, CROSSING AND BREEDING, AND
FEEDING AND MANAGEMENT; WITH THE DISEASES
TO WHICH THEY ARE SUBJECT, AND
THE REMEDIES BEST ADAPTED
TO THEIR CURE.
TO WHICH IS ADDED A LIST OF THE MEDICINES USED IN TREATING CATTLE.
BY ROBERT JENNINGS, V. S.,
PROFESSOR OF PATHOLOGY AND OPERATIVE SURGERY IN THE VETERINARY COLLEGE OF
PHILADELPHIA; LATE PROFESSOR OF VETERINARY MEDICINE IN THE AGRICULTURAL
COLLEGE OF OHIO; SECRETARY OF THE AMERICAN VETERINARY ASSOCIATION
OF PHILADELPHIA; AUTHOR OF "THE HORSE
AND HIS DISEASES," ETC., ETC.
PHILADELPHIA:
John E. Potter and Company,
617 Sansom Street.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864, by
JOHN E. POTTER,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, in and for the EasternDistrict of Pennsylvania.
PREFACE.[5]
A marked interest has of late years been manifested in our countryrelative to the subject of breeding and rearing domestic cattle. Thishas not been confined to the dairyman alone. The greater portion ofintelligent agriculturists have perceived the necessity of paying moreattention than was formerly devoted to the improvement and perfection ofbreeds for the uses of the table as well. In this respect, Europeancattle-raisers have long taken the precedence of our own.
The gratifying favor with which the author's former publication, "TheHorse and his Diseases," has been received by the public, has inducedhim to believe that a work, similar in spirit and general treatment,upon Cattle, would not be without interest for the agriculturalcommunity.
In this belief, the present treatise has been prepared. The author hasavailed himself of the labors of others in this connection; never,however, adopting results and conclusions, no matter how stronglyendorsed, which have been contradicted by his own observation andexperience. In a field like the one in question, assuredly, if anywhere,some degree of independent judgment will not be censured by those whoare familiar with the sad consequences resulting from the attemptedapplication of theories now universally exploded, but which in the dayand generation of their originators were sanctioned and advocated bythose who claimed to be magnates in this department.[6]
To the following works, especially, the author acknowledges himselfindebted: American Farmer's Encyclopædia; Stephens's Book of the Farm;Flint's Milch-Cows and Dairy Farming; Laurence on Cattle; Allen'sDomestic Animals; Youatt and Martin on Cattle; Thomson's Food ofAnimals; Allen's Rural Architecture; Colman's Practical Agriculture andRural Economy; Goodale's Breeding of Domestic Animals; and Prof.Gamgee's valuable contributions to veterinary science.
Particular attention is requested to the division of "Diseases." Underthis head, as in his former work, the author has endeavored to detailthe symptoms of the most common ailments of cattle in such a manner thatevery farmer and cattle-owner can at once understand them, and also tosuggest such procurable remedies as a wide experience