...Prakash Kumar Beastly Encounters of the Raj: Livelihoods, Livestock and Veterinary Health in North India, 1790–1920 . By Saurabh Mishra . Manchester : Manchester University Press , 2015 . 208 pp., £70.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-7190-8972-5 . © 2016 Agricultural History Society...

...Lisa Cox Healing the Herds: Disease, Livestock Economies, and the Globalization of Veterinary Medicine . Edited by Karen Brown and Daniel Gilfoyle . Athens : Ohio University Press , 2010 . 288 pp., $24.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-8214-1885-7 . © the Agricultural History Society...

... to the professionalization of veterinary medicine. Using Tennessee in the nineteenth century as a case study, this paper examines the corpus of popular knowledge on the identification and treatment of horse ailments available to lay people in printed sources, focusing primarily on newspapers and to a lesser extent on patent...

...KENDRA SMITH-HOWARD Abstract New ways of understanding milk purity accompanied the introduction of veterinary antibiotics to the dairy farm. Antibiotics—once viewed as substances that could rid milk of bacterial hazards—became understood as food adulterants when residues of the drugs were detected...

...Tad Brown Abstract As veterinary efforts reduced outbreaks of rinderpest in the Gambia, the colonial government sought to capitalize on an increased rural cattle population. One idea was to build a boat—the Jarga —to ship cattle downriver to the capital. This article recounts that venture. Whereas...

.... lisa cox Ontario Veterinary College University of Guelph Fruits of Eden: David Fairchild and America s Plant Hunters. By amanda Harris. gainesville: university Press of Florida, 2015. 312 pp., $24.95, hardback, iSBn 978-0-8130-6061-3. Soybeans, navel oranges, avocados, mangoes foods familiar...

... into conflict with farming communities. This article highlights the importance of historians developing more nuanced understandings of farmers’ responses to scientific agriculture. © 2018 Agricultural History Society 2018 Notes 1. Division of Veterinary Science, Report, 1902–3 , Appendix V...

... and twentieth centuries in several European countries. The volume is divided in two thematic parts, the first on animal husbandry and dairy cattle, the second on veterinary medicine and drugs (specifically, antibiotics). The first part combines chapters ranging from a cultural history of agricultural statistics...

... policies and correctly argue that veterinary medicine in colonial india embraced a broader agenda after the First World War. mishra rightly connects this broadening of outlook to the fact that veterinary medicine was coming out of the shadow of military departments. The greater importance given...

... of Medicine 17 ( Apr. 2004 ): 23 – 39 . See, also, Anne Hardy , “Pioneers in the Victorian Provinces: Veterinarians, Public Health, and the Urban Animal Economy,” Urban History 29 ( Dec. 2002 ): 372 – 87 ; John R. Fisher , “Not Quite a Profession: The Aspirations of Veterinary...

... boundaries (between countries and between periods) and demonstrates the complex historical processes whereby northwest europe came to be such an agriculturally productive area. Stephen rippon University of Exeter Asia Beastly Encounters of the Raj: Livelihoods, Livestock and Veterinary Health in North India...

... scientist in the thick of events. Paul D. Peterson Clemson University Healing the Herds: Disease, Livestock Economies, and the Globalization of Veterinary Medicine. Edited by Karen Brown and Daniel Gilfoyle. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2010. 288 pp., $24.95, paperback, ISBN 978-0-8214-1885-7. The focus...

... , no. 3 ( 1956 ): 110 ; E. W. Stringam , “Dwarfism in Beef Cattle,” Canadian Journal of Comparative Medicine and Veterinary Science 22 ( 1958 ): 401 ; M. L. Baker , C. T. Blunn , and M. M. Oloufa , “Stumpy, A Recessive Achondroplasia in Shorthorn Cattle,” Journal of Heredity...

... revealed that under chemical-intensive management, livestock farmers experienced “a higher rate of birth mortality, decreased reproductive efficiency, and increased respiratory ailments among their livestock, resulting in lower production, and higher veterinary costs.” USDA , Report and Recommendations...

... of the American Veterinary Medical Association [JAVMA] 123, no. 917 (Aug. 1953): 114; “Uncooked Garbage Banned,” JAVMA 122, no. 910 (Jan. 1953): 39; “Cooking Raw Garbage,” JAVMA 122, no. 911 (Feb. 1953), 102; “Report on Garbage Feeding,” JAVMA 122, no. 911 (Feb. 1953), 102; “The Status of Garbage-Cooking...

... in agricultural and veterinary knowledge, see Mordechai Tamarkin, Volk and Flock: Ecology, Identity, and Politics among Cape Afrikaners in the Late Nineteenth Century (Pretoria: UNISA Press, 2009), 14–21; on agricultural knowledge and experimentation, see Paul Richards, Indigenous Agricultural Revolution...

... in Animal Feeds ( Rockville : Bureau of Veterinary Medicine , 1978 ); Lester Crawford to Ann Holt, July 10, 1979, carton 1, Jukes Papers; Thomas K. Shotwell , “Likely Restraints on Animal Health Industry,” Feed Industry 57 (First Quarter 1981): 26 – 27 ; Council for Agricultural Science...

... in Nancy K. Berlage s account of the organization of local farm and home bureaus. The origins of cooperative stores, 4-H clubs, local extension agencies, and even veterinary medicine are found in these farm associations of the Progressive Era. Ever-present attitudes about the relative advantages of hard...

... science that has cleaved over time to principles and ethos mirrored in other sciences, including veterinary medicine, public health, and the natural sciences in general. Formative Years is divided into four parts, each with a fairly helpful summary. Part One addresses plant diseases in the ages of reason...

... as means toprevent this.The veterinary profession takes on greater importance as the book progresses because itsprofessionals became better equipped to answer questions concerning how horses passed on their positive and negative at tributes. Derry mines an impressive number of sources, but is especially...