THE COW AND THE DAIRY. 



Should the fever continue after the purging drench, the following fever drench must be given 

 night and morning : 



Tartar emetic, 1 drachm; Nitre, 4 drachms. 



Mix and give in a quart of warm gruel. 



CLEANSING. The after-birth or placenta should be discharged soon after 

 the period of calving ; in case tins is delayed, a dose of physic may be administered, composed of 

 one pound of Epsom salts, and two drachms of ginger in some warm water or warm gruel. 

 Leave the Calf with the Cow for some time after it is born. 

 The following cleansing drink may be given with advantage : 



Cummin seed powder, 2 ounces ; Sulphur, 2 ounces ; 



Bay berries powdered, 1 ounce ; Turmeric. 1 ounce. 



Boil these together for ten minutes, and give the drink when cool in some gruel. 



CLYSTERS. Clysters are medicines introduced (commonly by a syringe) into 

 the rectum of animals. The composition of the most common is as follows : 



Clyster for Cows. 



Epsom salts, 1 pound ; Linseed oil, 8 ounces ; Water, 3 or 4 quarts, 

 useful to assist the operation of physic drenches. 



CUD, LOSS OF Is not a disease of itself, but is usually a symptom of vari 

 ous disorders. The following drink may be given in cases of loss of cud, when no indication of 

 any particular disorder is apparent: 



Epsom salts, J pound ; Carraway seeds, powdered, 1 ounce; 



Gentian, powdered, J ounce ; Ginger, powdered, 2 drachms. 



Mix, and give in warm gruel. 



Rumination is requisite in order to keep an ox in health. A little straw or hay is accordingly 

 necessary to enable it to chew the cud. We know a case in which barley-meal and boileo pota 

 toes were given to Cows without hay or straw. Constipation resulted, and the cattle nearly per 

 ished from the ignorance of the feeder. 



DIARRHCEA Is the excessive discharge of faecal matter. It arises from va 

 rious causes, as from too much opening physic, poisonous plants, bad treatment, foul water, or 

 from some peculiar state of the atmosphere. This may be treated as follows : First g-ive an ape- 

 rieut either one pint of linseed oil, or, in a quart of water 



E psom salts, pound ; Powderea ginger, 2 drachms. Mix for a dose. 

 Afterward give the following astringent : 



Prepared chalk, 1 ounce ; Powdered opium, drachm , 



Powdered catechu, 3 drachms ; Powdered ginger, 2 drachms. 



Mix. and give in a quart of warm gruel. 



FLOODING Is a discharge of blood from the uterus of the Cow, after calv 

 ing. The only remedy is to apply cold to the loins : if in warm weather, a pound of saltpetre dis 

 solved in a gallon of water will produce a very cold solution. If ice can be procured, equal parts 

 of snow and ice, say equal parts of each, will produce a very intense cold. If the flooding still 

 continues, raise the Cow s hind pai ts, give two drachms of opium every hcrur, keep the patient 

 quiet, take away her Calf. 



GARGET Arises from the inflamed and hardened state of the internal sub 

 stance of the udder of Cows. This is a complaint which is very apt to arise in young Cows, In 

 the early stages of it, the best remedy is to allow her Calf to suckle, and rub about her udder. If 

 this does not effect a cure, then it is generally necessary to take away a little blood, and after 

 ward to give the following drench : 



Epsom salts, 1 pound ; Aniseed powdered, 1 ounce ; Warm water, 3 pints. 

 The udder to be bathed with hot water three times a day. and after each bathing to be well 

 rubbed with the following ointment : 



Yellow basilicon, 4 ounces ; Camphor, 1 ounce, rubbed down with a little spirits of wine , 

 Strong mercurial ointment, 2 ounces; Soft soap, 16 ounces. Rub these well together. 

 In very obstinate cases I have found the following successful : 



Hydriodate of potash, 1 drachm, rubbed into very fine powder and mixed with 1 ounce of 

 spermaceti ointment. 



After bathing with hot water, a piece of the size of a small nutmeg should be well rubbed in, 

 nisfht and morning. 



&quot;KICKS, AND OTHER BRUISES. Foment the parts copiously and frequent 

 ly for some time with hot water ; if the skin is broken, apply the following tincture : 



Friar s balsam, 2 ounces; Tincture of aloes and myrrh, 2 ounces. Mix for use. 



MISCARRIAGE. The usual period of gestation in a Cow is two hundred 



and seventy days, or nine calendar months ; but there is much variation in the time of the Cow 

 being with calf. According to M. Tessier, in eleven hundred and thirty-one Cows upon which his 

 observations were made, the shortest period was two hundred and forty, and the longest three 

 hundred and twenty-onebeing a variation of eighty-one days ; or. reckoning from nine months, 

 fifty-one days over, and thirty-one days under. Of five hundred and seventy-five Cows^he found 

 twenty-one calved between the two hundred and fortieth and two haadred and seventieth day ; 

 five hundred oud forty-four between the two hundred and seventieth and two hundred and ninety- 

 ninth, and ten between the two hundred and ninety-ninth and three hundred and wenty-first 

 day. It has boen remarked that the Cow goes longer with a bull calf than with a cow calf. Of 

 seven hundred and sixty-four Cows, noted by Lord Spencer (Jour. Royal Agri. Soc., vol. i., p. 

 165), two hundred and twenty days was the shortest period when a live calf was produced, and | 

 two hundred and forty-two days the shortest period when the calf was reared ; three hundred | 

 and thirteen days was the longest period he remarked a Cow to be in calf; three hundred and , 



