Transcriber’s note: Printing errors have been amended but the author’sidiosyncratic style and spelling have not.
THE
FARMER’S OWN BOOK:
A TREATISE ON THE
Numerous Diseases of the Horse,
WITH AN
EXPLANATION OF THEIR SYMPTOMS,
AND THE
COURSE OF TREATMENT TO BE PURSUED;
ALSO A TREATISE ON THE DISEASE
OF
HORNED CATTLE.
PUBLISHED BY
J. D. KOOGLE,
Middletown, Maryland.
1858.
Entered according to the Act of Congress in the year 1857,
By J. D. Koogle,
In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of Maryland.
PREFACE.
The object of this work is to give a thorough explanation ofthe numerous diseases to which the horse is subject, and pointout in a clear and distinct manner the symptoms by which thediseases may be known, so that the Farmer and others havingthe care of horses may be enabled to detect any disease in itsfirst stages,—thereby rendering it an easy case to cure; also,giving a regular course of medicine to be pursued in the treatmentof the different diseases, by which almost any one, with a littlestudy, can treat the most difficult cases. The great objection toother works that have been issued is that they do not point outthe symptoms of the diseases in horses; and their treatment isso badly arranged that it is very difficult for the Farmer andpersons generally to understand it. The advantages this workpossesses over others, is its plainness in pointing out the difficultiesattending the treatment of diseases in horses and themanner in which they may be surmounted. And it is hopedthat those interested will give this book their careful attention,as the author is satisfied that it will save them a vast amountof time and trouble in times of need.
THE AUTHOR.
DISEASES OF HORSES.
The diseases of the horse are very numerous,and many of them so complicated as to defy detection,except by those who are thoroughly acquaintedwith the nature of the animal, and hismode of living. This is the reason that horseswhich have been under the care of the farrierare often returned to the owner in a worse conditionthan when they received them. It is toprevent this practice as much as possible thathas induced me to bring this work before thepublic, in the hope of alleviating the conditionof that noble animal—the Horse.
THE POLL EVIL.
This disease may arise from accident, but iscommonly the result of blows or bruises carelesslyinflicted by those having charge of thehorses. It is a tumor or swelling in the sinews,found between the noll bone and the uppermostjoint of the neck, immediately on the nap ofthe neck.
Nearly all farriers, tell you to sell your horsefor anything he will bring, or give h