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handle through. A drover came along in one case where a cow had 

 picked up an apple — I want to say right here, if a cow gets in where 

 the apples are, do not run them out nor set the dog after them to 

 chase them away. If you go to running them, or chasing them 

 with a dog, they are almost certain to become choked — this drover 

 as I commenced to say, had a nice yearling that picked up an apple 

 and choked on it. They had an old man along with them who, as it 

 happened, had a very large cane, and it was very sharp on one end, 

 and the old man took this cane and jammed it down the throat of 

 the animal and it died in about an hour. The rubber hose is the 

 best thing for relieving this condition, and any man can use it, and 

 if you institute workers will convey this knowledge to the farmers 

 as you travel over the State, it may be the means of saving a valuable 

 animal, and if I can be the means of saving the life of one animal 

 of that kind, I shall feel that I have been well paid. 



There is another subject which I want to mention, and that is 

 dehorning which is quite common at present. I am not going to 

 say whether it is best or not. The farmer knows better than any- 

 body else whether that animal should be dehorned or not. If the 

 animal is ugly and unmanageable, I would certainly dehorn it. Now 

 as you have probably noticed, there is bleeding after dehorning. 

 You see the little arteries that come up in here (indicating on model) 

 come up to the horn very closely to the edge of the gland that goes 

 to the horn. Now the bleeding never comes from the inside of the 

 horn, but it comes from this little facial artery that curves up very 

 near and then goes back in here and in cutting it off, most of men 

 cut a little of the skin — in cutting it off you often clip that little 

 artery. I was called out to see one the other day. It had bled 

 more than a pailful, and the man had a ball of cotton batting wound 

 around the cow's head. Now when you get a case of that kind, keep 

 cool; don't get excited; just go to that cow and see where that blood 

 comes from. You will find just as I have told you, that it comes 

 from the outside of the horn, right about there (indicating on model) 

 you will find a little artery which will spurt right up. Now take 

 yoiuir thumb nail and hold it for half a second or so there, and in 

 nine cases out of ten it will stop it at once. Any little thing that 

 will shut that together just for an instant is all that is necessary, 

 and the bleeding is all stopped, but do not try to bundle on a great 

 lot of cotton batting; that only soaks the blood up after it comes 

 out. 



In dehorning, never leave the hole open in the horn. Nearly all 

 our cattle are subject to hollow-horn. You will find there is an 

 immense opening at the stump of that horn after it is cut off, a very 

 good idea, as was once suggested by our worthy Secretary, take a 

 piece of cotton cloth about the size of that (indicating the size) 

 spread a little tar on that and put it over the hole. That hole runs 

 directly down to the head, and connects with the nasal passages, 

 and if you will take pains to examine, you will find that the breath 

 will spurt right out of that hole. 



(The doctor now passed over to the model of the horse.) 



Here v/e have the bones. You will notice that in the horse the 

 bones are a little more compact than in the cow, for the horse is a 

 beast of burden. In this we have 2.5G; in that, 2.51, the main differ- 

 ence coming in this part of the animal. (Indicating.) 



