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mark becoinini^ luuleciplierablo. linxnclini'' irons should bo cut 

 out clear and not simply in reliel: on block, also tlicy should liavo 

 iron handles or they will in use be too hot to ensure niccity of 

 manipulation (Bennett). 



Gooernment Branding is on the near side of neck with last two 

 figures of years of purchase ; contract hired camels are branded 

 G. on near side of neck (if only engaged for short time hair 

 merely singed). Figures and letters should bo made three 

 inches long. Throw the camel, form the letters with ordinary 

 branding iron, then deepen the lines with thin small iron ; after- 

 wards dress with 01. Carbolici (Byrne). 



In positions which can be sprinkled with uriue wounds are apt 

 to be aggravated by the acridity of that fluid and the tail must 

 be tied to prevent splashing. Treatment of camel wounds in no 

 respects differs from the methods adopted for other animals, 

 although the Serwans have made it out to be mysterious. Leach 

 gives some simple and practicable measures for such severe 

 bruises, contusions, as result from an animal falling down the 

 khud with its load on, for instance. These comprise fomenta- 

 tions with infusions of neem leaves and poppy heads, and internal 

 administration of alum (4 chtks.) in a pint of sarson-oil in hot 

 weather or til oil in cold ; or 2 chtks. of alum with two seers of 

 milk daily for three days. Another method is to pour through 

 the nostrils karil wood charcoal powder (1 chitk.) in 12 chitaks 

 of mitha tel, daily for two or three days. If maggots be in the 

 wound, cotton dipped in spii'its of turpentine may be stuffed in 

 the wound and the whole plastered over with mud. In emer- 

 gency and when ordinary medicaments are deficient these rough 

 expedients may be resorted to, usually traumatic methods aa 

 adopted in veterinai'y practice in general are best. A poultice 

 of Bilawa, Ak leaves, and Taramera oil together is said to cure 

 wounds extensively invaded by maggots in a few days and in 

 Central Asia the same purpose is accomplished by smearing the 

 wounds with snuff; there the nomads operate with wooden lancets, 

 or having lanced the whole of the affected part they apply a 

 poultice of mutton fat or cliii grass (Byrne). 



Of Galus we meet a considerable variety. At ordinary work 



