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TO SAVE HORSES AT FIRES. 



Blindfold them so that they cannot see the fire, and 

 you may lead them out without any difficulty. Other- 

 wise it cannot be done, as has been often proved. 



TO PREVENT HORSES FEET FROM BALL- 

 ING WITH SNOW. 



Cleani^the feet and rub the inside well with soft soap. 

 This is simple and effectual. 



DISEASES 



PECULIAR TO 



NEAT CATTLE. 



Before we enter into a minute detail of the cause.«, 

 symptoms, and cure of diseases generally, it will be 

 very useful to say a word or two on their prevention^ 

 and at the same time throw in a few ideas on a subject 

 that ought to be well understood, namely, the causing 

 or engendering in neat cattle a pre- disposition to dis- 

 ease. 



The prevention of disease in cattle is an easier task 

 than many people imagine. It consists in nothing more 

 than taking care, while they are young, that they 

 have good food, in moderate, but sufficient quantities; 

 a due allowance of pure and wholesome water ; to be 

 kept clean and free from impurities both of the stable 

 and field ; to be protected from damp and unwhole- 

 some influences ; and to be allowed moderate and free 

 exercite. All this is very simple — it is merely taking 

 nature for a guide, and following implicitly her dic- 

 tates. A sound constitution will thus be formed, and 

 geneaal good health preserved. 



A contrary practice, of slighting them when young, 

 or of feeding them ind:scrimina*ely ; of suffering them 

 to drink excessively, cr of drinking standing and im- 

 pure water ; of allowing them to remain dirty in their 

 coats and stables ; of subjecting them to all weathers 

 and influences ; and of restraining them in their ex- 

 ercise ; all> or any of these practices weakea their 



