SHEEP, SWINE, AND POULTRY;
EMBRACING
THE HISTORY AND VARIETIES OF EACH; THE BEST MODES OF
BREEDING; THEIR FEEDING AND MANAGEMENT; TO-
GETHER 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 PHILA-
DELPHIA; LATE PROFESSOR OF VETERINARY MEDICINE IN THE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE
OF OHIO; SECRETARY OF THE AMERICAN VETERINARY ASSOCIATION OF PHILA-
DELPHIA; AUTHOR OF “THE HORSE AND HIS DISEASES,”
“CATTLE AND THEIR DISEASES,” ETC., ETC.
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 andfor the Eastern
District of Pennsylvania.
PREFACE.
Encouraged by the favorable reception of his former works, the authorpresents in the following pages what is intended by him as a popularcompendium relative to Sheep, Swine, and Poultry.
It would not have been a difficult matter to collect material bearingupon each distinct class sufficient for an entire volume of the presentsize. Indeed, the main trouble experienced has been the selecting ofsuch facts and suggestions only as seemed to him of paramount practicalimportance. He has not deemed it advisable to cumber his work with itemsof information which could be of service to particular sections andlocalities only; but has rather endeavored to present, in a concise, yetcomprehensible shape, whatever is essential to be understood concerningthe animals in question.
The amateur stock-raiser and the wealthy farmer will, of course, call totheir aid all the works, no matter how expensive or voluminous, whichare to be found bearing upon the subject in which they are for the timeinterested. The present volume can scarcely be expected to fill theniche which such might desire to see occupied.
The author’s experience as a veterinary surgeon among the great body ofour farmers convinces him that what is needed by them in the premises isa treatise, of convenient size, containing the essential features of thetreatment and management of each, couched in language free fromtechnicality or rarely scientific expressions, and fortified by theresults of actual experience upon the farm.
Such a place the author trusts this work may occupy. He hopes that,while it shall not be entirely destitute of interest for any, it willprove acceptable, in a peculiar degree, to that numerous and thriftyclass of citizens to which allusion has already been made.
The importance of such a work cannot be overrated. Take the subject ofsheep for example: the steadily growing