HOUSING AND CARE OF SICK ANIMALS. 3d 



usually, when sick, lie quietly upon the side, and the 

 medicine may hence be injected into the mouth with 

 the Medicator, or it may be given in a spoonful of 

 sweet milk, poured in between the jaws, or it may be 

 given them to drink. Care must be taken in giving 

 fluid to hogs, not to forcibly raise the head, as they 

 are thus easily strangled even to death. Dogs may 

 have the medicine in a little sweet milk, or it may 

 be even turned in through the nose. Yet the Medi- 

 cator is an improvement upon all these plans, as it 

 takes up and discharges the proper dose at once. 



N. B. Take off the rubber cap, and cleanse the 

 Medicator when using it for different medicines or 

 specifics . 



Housing and Care of Sick Animals. 



When an animal shows signs of illness, it should 

 be immediately cared for. The horse, unless in cases 

 of Colic, or other slight ailment, when the medicine 

 may be given at once, and his work continued, should 

 be placed in a roomy, convenient and warm stall, 

 well littered, with plenty of dry bedding, and weH 

 blanketed, unless in very warm weather. Cattle, 

 sheep, and hogs, as soon as it is noticed that they 

 are sick, should be separated from the herd or flock, 

 and placed in a comfortable and well-littered and es- 

 pecially dry apartments. This is necessary not only 

 to prevent disease spreading to other stock on the 

 farm, but for the convenience of nursing them, giving 

 them medicines, but also to place them in the very 



