Transcriber’s note: Printing errors have been amended but the author’s idiosyncratic 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 of the numerous diseases to which the horse is subject, and point out in a clear and distinct manner the symptoms by which the diseases may be known, so that the Farmer and others having the care of horses may be enabled to detect any disease in its first stages,--thereby rendering it an easy case to cure; also, giving a regular course of medicine to be pursued in the treatment of the different diseases, by which almost any one, with a little study, can treat the most difficult cases. The great objection to other works that have been issued is that they do not point out the symptoms of the diseases in horses; and their treatment is so badly arranged that it is very difficult for the Farmer and persons generally to understand it. The advantages this work possesses over others, is its plainness in pointing out the difficulties attending the treatment of diseases in horses and the manner in which they may be surmounted. And it is hoped that those interested will give this book their careful attention, as the author is satisfied that it will save them a vast amount of time and trouble in times of need. THE AUTHOR. [Illustration] 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 acquainted with the nature of the animal, and his mode of living. This is the reason that horses which have been under the care of the farrier are often returned to the owner in a worse condition than when they received them. It is to prevent this practice as much as possible that has induced me to bring this work before the public, in the hope of alleviating the condition of that noble animal--_the Horse_. [Illustration] THE POLL EVIL.