Thursday, Decemb
10
er 14.
1905.
COMMON DISEASES OF LIVE STOCK.
A CONSIDERATION OF THEIR CAUSES, PREVENTION AND CURE.
PROGRESSIVE FARMER AND COTTON PLANT.
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such as
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Beef Scraps,
Blood Meal,
Bone Meal,
to take the place of the insects,
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summer. OYSTER SHELLS and
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I. An Introductory Word.
The Editor of The Progressive
Farmer and Cotton Plant has asked
me to write a series of articles on the
common ailments' of domestic ani
mals. I have consented with some
reluctance, owing to the difficulty
always experienced in conveying
technical knowledge to those who
have had no special training in the
particular line under consideration.
To treat a disease is much more
simple and easy than to diagnose it.
In fact, the real difficulty in the
practice of medicine is to find out
just what is the matter. To enable
any one to do this, no education is
too thorough. A knowledge of the
healthy animal is plainly essential.
Anatomy and physiology are founda
tion studies and chemistry is scarcely
less important. It also goes without
saying that a knowledge of drugs is
necessary if one is to prescribe them
with safety.
After this there is the study of the
diseases. Their nature, causes, symp
toms and treatment in all their different-
stages, complications and va
riations must be studied with care
and keen intelligence if good is to
result from an attempt at their me
dicinal treatment.
Of course the giving of .such
knowledge as we have indicated can
not be attempted in the proposed se
ries of articles, and consequently ths
scope and probably the usefulness of
these articles will be limited to an
extent fully appreciated by the
writer.
The object of these articles, there
fore, will be to convey information
such as everyone who has the care of
live stock should possess, and if as
they progress it occurs to the reader
that not enough of the actual me
dicinal treatment of disease is given, j
I beg him to remember that m the
oninion oi tne writer meaicmes
should never be given unless the out
prescribing them knows their full
and different effects and also knows
just what ails the animal to which
they are to be given.
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It is probably a tact tnat more
narm tnan good is done to our live Tmnmfint. TVforrill TTnll. tho
ii .1 1 1 1 l - i r -
siock oy tne meaicmes tney now re- cultural building, containing labo-
oeneve tney wouia oe Detier rtnr;M for otri.imiltnT.l
of study and effort to obtain that
knowledge. That is, he does not be
lieve, that a liveryman, or any other
man who has 'cared for live stock for
a term of years, is because of such
experience any better fitted to treat
the diseases of live stock than is a
man who has associated with meji for
a like period qualified to treat their
diseases.
In conclusion, our first lesson
should be to learn what not to do,
or if we do not know what to do, let
us insist that the best course is to
do nothing; that is, let the greatest
doctor, Nature, have the case with
out interference on our part.
TAIT BUTLER,
Department of Agriculture, Raleigh.
Tennessee Short Course in Agriculture
and Domestic Science.
At the University of Tennessee
for ten weeks January 4th to March
14, 1906 a short course in agricul
ture and domestic science will be
given.
Object. To furnish men and wo
men on the farm the privilege of tak
ing practical courses in any or all of
the following branches of study:
Farm Crops, Dairying, Stock Hus
bandry, Horticulture, Plant Study,
Insect Life, including bee culture and
Household Economy. ,
Cost. The cost of the course need
not exceed $50, exclusive of railroad
fare, which means about $5 a week,
or a little more than living expenses
at home.
The Course. The course includes
450 lectures and exercises on agri
culture, animal husbandry, stock
judging, dairying, horliculture, bot
any, veterinary science, agricultural
chemistry, cooking, hygiene and home
management.
Entrance Requirements. Students
must be sixteen years of age or over.
Men of mature years have taken the
course with erreat profit. There are
no entrance examinations, but stu
dents should have at least a fair rural
school education. Tuition is free.
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without any medicine than with
what is now given. Live stock suffer
from hundreds of different diseases.
and if we are to guess -at a diagnosis
of their ailments the chances for er
ror are too great. And then, if after
soils, physics, pruning and grafting,
zoology and entomology, and botany,
and also a good "library ; the Univer
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Where to Get Most lor your
. Guano Money.
Each week we want to call the atten
tion of the farmers of North and South
Carolina to what some of our customers
say about the results obtained through
our guanos last year. See the North
Carolina Bulletin for 1905 and consider
this evidence carefully when you go to
purchase guanos for 1906.
8-5-7 Ti nek Fertilizer Best of all
Grades Handled.
Lumber Bridge, N. C. Nov. 8 1905.
The Southern Exchange Co., Maxton, N. C.
Gentlemen: 1 bandied about 100 tons of
your various k'nds of fertilizers this year,
also handled and sold 800 ions o'otber guano.
I found your fertilizers to com pare favorably
with any I handled. As for your 8 5-7 truer
fertUlzer, I can pay that gave the best re
sells of any fertilizer 1 handled. My custo
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Yours very vruiy,
(Signed) M. L. MARLEY.
"Makes Best Crop I've Raised for
20 Years."
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must again guess at the appropriate buildine" with modern eauiDment- Dear Slrs:-I used fiO bags of yooi -JU
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remedies the danger of our dumb
servants and friends is still further
increased. Better by far let them
alone and give nature, .that greatest
of healers, a chance to repair the in
jury. For we should not forget that
every living thing has within it a
tendency and power which operates
to repair any injury to its body. If
left alone probably nineteen out of
twenty cases would get well; then by
all means be careful that no medi
cines are given that will lessen the
power of the animal to get well. It
will not do to depend on the ability
of the animal to get well in spite of
our treatment, as I fear is now fre
quently the case. There is one other
consideration which must operate to
make such an attempt as is proposed
still more difficult. Nine-tenths of
those who have handled live stock
for any considerable length, of time
imagine they are competent to treat
their common diseases. The writer
believes that it requires just as
much knowledge to know how to treat
the diseases of domestic animals as
to know how to treat the diseases of
man, and that it takes the same sort
head of live stock, and laboratories
for cooking, sewing, etc.
Prizes. Valuable prizes are offered
for proficiency in the various sub
jects.
For full information and special
circular of the course of study, etc..
write to
H. A. MORGAN, Chairman,
College of Agriculture, University of
Tennessee, Knoxville, Tenn.
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Xours truly, rTrirTKH
(Signed) J. H. WILKI8i
CO.,
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SOUTHERN EXCHANGE
Maxton, N. C.
Nash County Alliance Changes Date.
Please announce in The Farmer
that the Franklin County Alliance
will be held with New Port Sub on
first Thursday in January instead of
second, as formerly announced.
Fraternally,
W. II. STALLING S,
Secretary.
Nash Co., N. C.
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