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Rural Veterinary Secrets: A Farmer's Text Book for Ready Reference, and the Secret of Successfully Applying First aid and Home Remedies to Farm Animals - Couverture souple
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Dr. A. H. Hartwig, the author of Rural Veterinary Secrets, was born on a stock and dairy farm in Watertown, Dodge Co., Wisconsin, where he had a good opportunity to study the natural habits and wants of ailing farm animals. He received his preliminary education in the public schools and Northwestern College of Watertown, Wis. At the age of seventeen he expressed the desire to study veterinary science and become a veterinary physician and surgeon. However, as his services could not be spared on the farm at that time, he was obliged to abandon the idea, at least for the time being. When twenty years of age he entered the short course in Agriculture of the University of Wisconsin, under the direction of Dean Henry, it being the second and third year of the existence of that course. Dr. V. T. A tkinson, the first State Veterinarian of Wisconsin, gave a course of lectures and demonstrations in veterinary science. These lectures and demonstrations proved of particular interest to the young agricultural student, and again he was inspired with the determination to take up this interesting study, but neither the time nor the means to further attend college could be spared. After concluding his university studies he returned home and devoted most of his time to breeding draft horses, coach horses, and dairy cattle. In 1892 he made a tour through Europe. There he visited the various veterinary colleges in the Old World. On his return he brought with him an importation of Oldenburg coach horses. His experience in stock breeding convinced him that a knowledge of veterinary medicine and surgery would be of great benefit to himself and his community. He again determined to become a veterinarian and then actually entered the Chicago Veterinary College, from which he was graduated in the year 1895. After graduation he entered upon his practice as a veterinarian in Watertown,
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