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Difficult Deliveries. If the presentation has been right, 

 the usual labor is of short duration, if, however, the 

 pains have begun and persisted for a 

 long time without delivery, some hin- 

 drance to the normal delivery may be 

 suspected, the cause of such unnatural 

 happenings are numerous: may be due 

 to wrong presentation, such as two hind 

 legs and one fore leg coining together; 

 the animal coming upside down, or with 

 the head turned back, excess in volume 

 of the fetus, contraction of the genital 

 passages, enlargement of the head, due 

 to tumors, etc. In such cases the em- 

 ployment of a veterinarian is advisable 

 and profitable, because he is acquainted 

 with the parts, has the proper instru- 

 ments and drugs. The time of calling the 

 professional man should not be left until 

 the dam is exhausted or injured inter- 

 nally from the movements of the fetus; 

 the longer such cases are left the greater 

 the danger of inflammation of the womb 

 or tearing or wounding internally of the 

 dam. If the stockman is sufficiently 

 expert let him bare his arm to the shoul- 

 der, anoint with carbolized oil one part 

 of carbolic acid to ten of* linseed oil- 

 introduce the arm into the passage and 

 endeavor to find the cause of the trouble. If a head and 

 one foreleg are shown fasten ropes (one-fourth inch) on 

 the parts, push them forward into the cavity and then 

 try and get the missing limb, raise it and bring all into 



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