THE EMIGRANT S HAND-BOOK. 



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And yet another valuable remedy for hydrophobia, the 

 bite of rattlesnakes, chunk-head, or pilo snake, spider, 

 etc. Take a white onion, cut it across the grain into four 

 equal parts ; sprinkle fine salt on the onion, and apply it 

 by bandages to the wound as soon as possible after being 

 bitten by dog, snake, or spider, and the poison will run 

 up into the onion ; repeat every half hour with a new 

 piece, or until there is no discoloring of poison in the 

 onion, and the poison extracted. Then a healing plaster 

 may be used, and the wound healed. 



TO MEASURE CATTLE. 



In ascertaining the weight by admeasurement, the girth 

 is taken by passing a cord just behind the shoulder-blade 

 and under the fore-legs : this gives the circumference, 

 and the length is taken along the back from the foremost 

 corner of the blade-bone of the shoulder, in a straight 

 line to the hindmost point of the rump. (See engraving 

 below.) 



