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teats clean, and handle them as carefully as possible 

 during milking. 



32. Cords. 



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It is well known in most breeding countries, that 



a great many calves die every year, of an unknown 

 disease, with which they are affected very shortly 

 after birth. The common name which this disease 

 receives, in the northern parts of the kingdom, is 

 the cords; and while its fatal and widely extended 

 effects are the subject of just regret, the disease 

 itself is looked on as incurable, and no pains, are 

 taken to investigate its nature, symptoms, and 

 causes, and no remedies suggested, as a cure or pre- 

 ventive. Whatever be its nature, this disease is 

 exceeiiingly dangerous, and so extremely rapid (ter- 

 minating frequently in a night's time), that all 

 means of relief are commonly useless even before it 

 is observed. 



Almost all calves, that are said to have died of 

 . the cords, appear, when they are opened up, exceed- 

 ingly red, and the small leaders, or ligaments, are 

 considerably swelled, and have some resemblance to 

 strings passing through the internal parts, from 

 which probably the disease has its name. Every 

 symptom indicates a considerable degree of plethora, 

 if not a very high degree of inflammation. 



It is commonly observed, that calves are most 

 liable to be affected during the first days, or weeks, 

 after they are calved. If they outlive five or six 

 v/eeks, they are seldom in any danger. 



Calves that suck their mothers, we believe, it will 

 be found, are not so liable to the disease as those 

 who are fed by the hand. 



The greatest number of calves who fall a sacrifice 



, to this disease, if not the whole of them, are those 



\ who are closely confined to the house from their 



birth, without ever being exposed to the free open 



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