Produced by Steven Giacomelli, Harry Lamé and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images produced by Core Historical Literature in Agriculture (CHLA), Cornell University) +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES: | | | | [OE] and [oe] represent the oe ligature. Text printed in italics | | and boldface in the original are represented here between under- | | scores (as in _italics_) and equal signs (as in =boldface=), res- | | pectively. Text printed in small capitals in the original have been| | transcribed as ALL CAPITALS. | | | | More Transcriber's Notes will be found at the end of this text. | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ SHEEP, SWINE, AND POULTRY; EMBRACING THE HISTORY AND VARIETIES OF EACH; THE BEST MODES OF BREEDING; THEIR FEEDING AND MANAGEMENT; TOGETHER WITH THE DISEASES TO WHICH THEY ARE RESPECTIVELY SUBJECT, AND THE APPROPRIATE REMEDIES FOR EACH. 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," "CATTLE AND THEIR DISEASES," ETC., ETC. [Illustration] With Numerous Illustrations. 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 Eastern District of Pennsylvania. PREFACE. Encouraged by the favorable reception of his former works, the author presents in the following pages what is intended by him as a popular compendium relative to Sheep, Swine, and Poultry. It would not have been a difficult matter to collect material bearing upon each distinct class sufficient for an entire volume of the present size. Indeed, the main trouble experienced has been the selecting of such facts and suggestions only as seemed to him of paramount practical importance. He has not deemed it advisable to cumber his work with items of information which could be of service to particular sections and localities only; but has rather endeavored to present, in a concise, yet comprehensible shape, whatever is essential to be understood concerning the animals in question.