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Causes. — From an injury of some kind such as another animal 

 hookingf it; or by striking an animal with a stick or stone while 

 driving them. 



Symptoms. — The affected side of the throat will be swollen 

 and very sore, and the animal will walk about with its head stuck 

 out, and will fall off in condition, for on account of the throat 

 being so sore it is unable to bend its neck down to eat, and it also 

 hurts it to swallow. 



Treatment. — Apply hot poultices to the throat of half linseed 

 meal and bran ; change the poultice every three or four hours to 

 keep it hot, and each time — when you are changing it — rub the 

 gland well with white liniment, this will either check the inflam- 

 mation and bring down the swelling, or if it festers, will bring it 

 to a head, and then if it does not break of its own accord lance it 

 in the softest part. After you have lanced it and let the matter 

 out, poultice every night and apply white lotion before putting the 

 poultice on and after taking it off. While you are treating the 

 animal keep it in the stable and feed it out of a high manger so it 

 will not have to lower its head to eat ; give it plenty of slops and 

 boiled feed, or anything that is easily chewed and swallowed so 

 as to keep its strength up until it gets better. 



CHOKING. 



This is a very common thing among cattle. 



Causes. — From the animal attempting to swallow something 

 that is too large for its throat, such as an apple, potato, slice of 

 turnip, mangel, or carrot, and sometimes from a bone when the 

 animal has a fashion of licking or chewing them, and by mistake 

 it slips down the throat and chokes it. 



Symptoms. — The animal will stop eating, slaver at the mouth, 

 cough, breath heavy, and after a time will become bloated in the 

 paunch, which is noticed at the left side, and if the animal does 

 not soon get reaef it becomes so bloated it will drop down from 

 suffocation and will soon die. Bloating is generally worse when 

 it is an apple or potato, for they act just like a cork in a tube. 



Treatment. — Examine the mouth and throat, or gullet, and 

 see if you can tell what is choking the animal ; also examine along 

 the left side of the neck to try and find out where it is lodged in 

 the tube. If you can feel or see whatever is choking the animal, 

 and you think you can reach it, put a clevis crossways in its 

 mouth and run your hand down the throat and bring it up. If 



