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Title: Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Baker, A. H. (Austin Hart), 1852-
Subjects: Livestock Veterinary medicine
Publisher: Kansas City, Mo. : Intercollegiate Press
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tment, in connection with the most excellent training, they came topossess the pei-fection of form, united with great speed and en-durance, and almost human intelligence. That careful and scientificbreeding was understood and appreciated by the ancients is evidenced bythe lines of the first lyric poet of the time of Augustus Caesar, whichwe find translated freely, but pointedly as follows; The brave begotten are by the brave and good.There is in steers, there is in horses bloodThe vu-tne of their sires. No timid doveSprings from the coupled eagles furious blood. VHI. Artificial Breeding, and Diseases.It is well known that wild animals like savage tribes are little subjectto disease It is the aitificial surroundings, and artificial living whichproduce diseases unknown in a state of nature. Hence, on the farm,animals are less susceptible to disease than in city stal^les, where the liteof the horse is purely an artificial one, and where he must be depenaeru THE HORSE, HIS ORIGIN, ETC. 47
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48 CYCLOPEDIA OF LIVE STOCK AND COMPLETE STOCK DOClUii. upon man, even for the water he drinks. Unfortunately he is too oftendependent upon ignorant and brutal helpers who, the moment theeye of the master is turned, shirk their duty and the animal suffers.Hence the absolute necessity that all large stables should possess in theperson of the foreman a competent head, and one whose sympathies arewith the helpless an-Mials under his charge. Such a person will not onlyearn his wages fully, l)ut will save largely to the owner every year by hisconstant watchfulness and -are. Artificial breeding also gives rise to a num-ber of diseases, peculiar in themselves, and which may only be guardedagainst by intelligent care. Among the most serious of these are abortion,and all that class of diseases incident, to animals kept in confinement in largenumbers, and which, with other diseases of domestic animals, will betreated of separately in appropriate departments of this work. IX. Opinions Belating t

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