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tion of the eighth month, and the fifth at the end of the year, 

 about which time the first molar is shed. The second is dis- 

 placed at the end of the second year, and so with the rest, at 

 intervals of a year; but the sixth molar, which is from the 

 beginning a permanent tooth, does not appear until the sixth 

 year." 



DISEASES, TREATMENT, AND CURES. 



Having passed through the various topics of breed, and man- 

 agement, we cannot well conclude our work without treating 

 somewhat of diseases, and their remedies. Cattle Farriery is a 

 profession of itself, and when diseases take a distinct and malig- 

 nant type, few men, except experts in ascertaining their character 

 and applying their remedies, should undertake their treatment, 

 wherever it be possible to command their services. In America 

 we have few professed cattle farriers almost every farmer 

 being, more or less, his own physician in that line, so far as local 

 diseases, and the popular remedies for them, are concerned, or 

 usually sought. 



As to these remedies, but little is scientifically understood 

 among the mass of our farmers. Father teaches what he knows 

 to son, or neighbor imparts his knowledge to neighbor, and so 

 the thing goes, partly by observation, some by tradition, and a 

 good deal by guess work. We need schools of cattle farriery, 

 where the subject of anatomy, and diseases, are taught scientifi- 

 cally, as surgery and medicine are, when applied to the human 

 system. Yet, under proper treatment when in health, our neat 

 stock are liable to so few diseases that a profession of the kind, 

 we fear, would prove but a scanty occupation. 



We have consulted several medical works on cattle diseases, 

 and, like those works on human disorders, they differ much ; in 

 many things they are contradictory, and perhaps, in due justice 

 to the subject, we should dismiss it by a reference to such authori- 

 ties as Youatt, Dadd, and others, who have written and pub- 



