'rfEAT CATTLE. 159° 



Cattle are sometimes poisoned, by eating poisonous plants 

 or being bit with mad dogs. In the latter case, if the wound- 

 ed part be cut away shortly after the bite, and then be kept 

 open for some time, it is thought to be the only effectual rem- 

 edy. It is said that any medicine which is very strongly anti- 

 gpasmodic, if given plentifully, and in proper season, will coun- 

 teract the effects of the bite of mad animals. 



It has been remarked that cattle in a plethoric or state, when- 

 pver fed wi'h rich food, or where too suddenly surfeited with 

 it, are suddenly indisposed and carried off before relief can 

 be given. It is believed, that among the horned race, either 

 plentiful bleeding, or purging, or both will be found a preven- 

 tative, and in mjst instances, a cure of the maladies which 

 are usually most fatal to them from the full habit. 



When oxen are drav/n hardly in muddy roads, especially if 

 the soil is calcairous, they are liable to a soreness between 

 their claws. This will make the beast lame ; and when dis- 

 covered, the part should be cleansed and healed, with some 

 proper ointment. Sometimes from inattention to this, the 

 part becomes horny ; in this case, the hard parts must be cut 

 av.-ay, and the w^ounded flesh cured. 



A general indication of health in neat cattle is a moist or 

 vvet nose, and when this is found dry, it is a certain symptom of 

 disease of some kind or other. 



Cows have some diseases which are peculiar to them. 



It should be kept in mind that the udder of the cow is divid- 

 ed into as many apartments as there are teats, so that if one 

 or more of those is diseased, this does not affeet the rest. The 

 milk of one teat may be good and that of another bad. 



Garget. — The name of this disease denotes any hard swel- 

 ling in the udder. As one remedy, Mr. Deane recommends 

 making a rowel or seton in the dewlap, and inserting therein 

 a piece of the root ofmechoacan, as large as a nut meg, with a 

 string fastened to it, so that it may be drawn out when the 

 cure IS effected ; and this, he says will cause a revulsion of 

 the humor in the udder into the orifice, in the dewlap, where it 

 will be discharged. When the cure is effected, the piece of 

 root IS to be drawn out by the string. Piobably a common 

 rowel placed in the breast, or dewlap, would answer the samar 

 purpose. 



In obstinate cases of ulcerated udders, the Complete Grazier- 



