Dairy Management. 189 



Pleuro-Pneumonia. — During the year 185G pleuro-pneumonia 

 prevailed to some extent in the neighbourhood, more especially 

 amongst the dairy cows about Leeds. Its first appearance in my 

 immediate vicinity was in the herd of my next neighbour, who 

 lost several, and sent others off immediately for slaughter — in all 

 16 to 18. Towards the close of July, and during the hot weather 

 of August, my own herd of cattle, more especially my milk cows, 

 were also attacked. I sent some few off which were in a forward 

 state of fatness ; the return for these being small in proportion to 

 their value for milking, together with the unpleasant idea of 

 sending off animals at all ailing for slaughter, influenced me to 

 use every means for their restoration, and to give their treatment 

 my best attention. At first my treatment underwent various mo- 

 difications, and I lost two cows. Without describing the change, 

 I proceed to supply particulars of the treatment I afterwards 

 adopted, and which I have since continued with little alteration. 



My feeders are strictly enjoined without loss of time to report 

 to me any appearance of ailment, a practice I strenuously recom- 

 mend to any one who concerns himself about the treatment of his 

 cattle when sick, more particularly as regards the disease of which 

 I am speaking, the chance of success in which depends essen- 

 tially on early application. 



The first appearance which arrests the feeder's attention is loss 

 or partial loss of appetite. If on examination I detect any of 

 the symptoms which characterise pleuro, viz., cough, quickness 

 or deepness of respiration, loss of cud, and acceleration of pulse, 

 intermittent warmth and chillness of horns and feet, I proceed at 

 once to bleed till the pulse is sensibly affected : this requires 

 usually 5 or 6 quarts to be taken. I then give — 



Epsom salts 8 oz. 



Sweet spirits of nitre .. .. 1 oz. 



Tartar emetic i drachm. 



Digitahs 2 drachm. 



Flour of sulphur 4 to 6 oz. 



Treacle 10 oz. 



Cocoa olein 6 oz. 



These ingredients are mixed and given in plenty of warm gruel, 

 for which I use my pig food, boiled Indian-meal with about one- 

 fourth proportion of pea-meal. On a renewal of the difficulty of 

 breathing or acceleration of pulse, I repeat the bleeding to a less 

 degree, say 3 quarts, and give likewise the tartar-emetic and 

 digitalis in the gruel. 



I continue to give, morning and evening, in gruel — 



Sweet spirits of nitre ,. .. ^ oz. to 1 oz. 



Flour of sulphur .. .. 4: oz. 



Treacle or sugar 8 oz. 



Cocoa olein 4 to 6 oz. 



