The Yorkshire Cattle-doctor and Farrier ... Twenty-second thousand, revised and corrected

Front matter

Edward Hailstone, Horton Hall. THE YORKSHIRE CATTLE-DOCTOR AND FARRIER. THE YORKSHIRE CATTLE-DOCTOR & FARRIER ; A TREATISE ON THE DISEASES OF HORNED CATTLE, CALVES, AND HORSES; WRITTEN IN PLAIN LANGUAGE, WHICH THOSE WHO CAN READ MAY EASILY UNDERSTAND. THE WHOLE BEING THE RESULT OF SEVENTY YEARS' EXTENSIVE PRACTICE OF THE AUTHOR, JOHN C. KNOWLSON. THE TWENTY-SECOND THOUSAND, REVISED AND CORRECTED. MANY OF THE RECIPES IN THIS BOOK ARE WORTH TEN GUINEAS EACH, AND THE WHOLE ARE NEW TO THE WORLD. LONDON : LONGMAN AND COMPANY, PATERNOSTER ROW. WILLIAM WALKER AND SON, OTLEY. Price Seven Shillings.

Introduction

TO THE FIRST EDITION OF THE CATTLE-DOCTOR. By the desire of many friends and acquaintances this little treatise is put forth into the world. Many think it my duty to do so, and indeed it is, for I have none to succeed me in my business as Cattle-Doctor ; therefore, for the good of my fellow-creatures, I ex plain to them that which has hitherto lain much in darkness. I trust that the candid reader will bear with my weakness and plain language, as I can appeal to the Searcher of Hearts that I hide nothing that I know would be useful. This little treatise on Cattle is written by me when seventy -four years old, and after having been in great practice for fifty seven years. I have been nearly twenty years at Skipton, in Craven, and twenty-three at Otley. As for my knowledge of the Disorders of Cattle, and how to cure them, it is well known to many, so that little need be said on that head.

Several of the recipes in this book are worth ten guineas each, and have been hitherto unknown to the world. I do not mean to ridicule other Cow-Doctors, but I wish some would get to understand their business better. How many Beasts are lost through people that neither know their disorders nor the drugs they give them ! I think I may truly say that there is more light thrown on the business of a Cow-Doctor here, than has hitherto been brought forward ; but I leave it for my readers to judge for themselves, and am their well-wisher, J. C. KNOWLSON. Otley, IS 19.