The Farmer's Veterinarian: A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of Farm Stock

=ABORTION.=--The expulsion of the fetus at a period too young to live exterior of its mother is known as abortion. This ailment may afflict cows, mares, sows, and ewes, but is m...

In purchasing farm stock, it is a good plan to deal with reputable people only. Leave the horse trader alone. He knows too many tricks, and if you are a stranger to him you can...

The cell is the unit of growth. It is so with all forms of life--plant or animal, insect or bacterium. In the beginning the start is with a single cell, an egg, if you please. A...

A close relation exists between the soil, plant, and the animal. One really cannot exist without the other to fulfill its destiny. A soil without plant or animal growth is barre...

Tincture of aconite is derived from the root of a plant. When used, the heart beats more slowly and the blood pressure is decreased, making the medicine desirable in cases of in...

Any departure from a normal condition is disease. The body, composed of different organs and parts, is in a healthy state when each of these performs its natural functions. Thus...

Some diseases are not difficult to diagnose. Those resulting from wounds or knocks are easily located, and their treatment readily outlined. Others, however, are not so easy. So...

The stockman has all sorts of wounds with which to deal. He may guard his animals with the care and caution of a mother and still find constant bother and worry to face in the d...

Page 1. Health Frontispiece 2. Common Sheep Scab 3 3. Hog House and Feeding Floor 5 4. Poulticing the Throat 8 5. How a Cell Divides 10 6. Bones of Skeleton of a Horse 16 7. One...

Even on the best-managed stock farms some animals do get sick and die. Good care and good nursing may be given, but the sick animal frequently does not recover--death often foll...

When a colt is born the first and second temporary molars, three on each jaw, are to be seen. These are large when compared with the size of those that later replace them. In fr...