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CATTLE—DISEASES AND REMEDIES. 



crator will be justified in enlarging the 

 opening so as to admit the hand, and 

 gradually take out the greater part of the 

 undigested food. The edges of the 

 wound should then be brought together 

 and held by two or three stitches, the 

 divided skin and the wall of the paunch 

 being included in each stitch. 



There is one thing that should not be 

 omitted, and that is, the attempt 

 two or three times every day, to 

 bring back the milk, by diligently strok- 

 ing the teats. As the drying up ot the 

 milk is the earliest symptoms of the at- 

 tack of the disease, so the return of it is 

 the happiest promise of recovery. 



If the cow does not get up on the 

 third or fourth day, there is but little 

 chance that she ever will. The case, 

 however, should not be abandoned, for 

 she has done well even after the four- 

 teenth day. 



If the udder is hard. and knotty the 

 Camphorated Oil, No. n, should be 

 well rubbed over it twice a day ; and if it 

 is very hot and tender, fomentations of 

 warm water should be used, but no cold 

 lotion is admissable in such a case. 



As the cow is frequently unwilling, and 

 sometimes unable, to take sufficient nu- 

 triment herself, some nutritious food 

 should be horned in ; and there is noth- 

 ing better than good thick gruel. Two 

 or three quarts given four times every day 

 will be enough. All sweet things, which 

 farmers are so apt to give, should be 

 omitted ; the food in the paunch is suffi- 

 ciently ready to ferment, without giving 

 any sugar. 



A cow laboring under milk fever should 

 scarcely ever be left. She naturally gets 

 very tired of coughing so long, and some- 

 times attempts to shift herself, and would 

 get sadly bruised if assistance were not 

 afforded; besides which, in the early 

 stage of the disease, and occasionally 

 afterwards there is some affection of the 

 brain, and the animal is half unconscious 

 of what she does, and would beat herself 

 dangerously about if care were not taken 

 of her. 



We must again repeat, that prevention is 

 better than cure ; and that the best pre- 

 ventive of milk fever is not to let her be 

 . i too high condition, but to take four or 

 i.ve quarts of blood from her, and give 



her a physic drink eight or ten days before 

 the expected time of calving. 



COWS, Milk Mirror in. — The Milk 

 Mirror of Guenon is the upward-growing 

 hair on the back part of the under and 

 the inside of the hind legs. An examina- 

 tion of any cow will show that the line 

 where the hair meets the downward- 

 growing hair of the immediately adjacent 

 parts of the body, is well defined by what 

 is called a " quirl," and the hair included 

 within the quirl, and covered by the up* 

 ward-growing hair, is the Milk Mirror. 

 The shape of the mirror is very different 

 in different races, and generally assumes: 

 one of two or three different forms. As 

 a general rule, the size of the mirror bears 

 a pretty constant proportion to the amount 

 of the yield of milk, and constitutes per- 

 haps the simplest indication of the gen- 

 eral dairy qualities of any individual 

 animal. 



The great value of Guenon's system 

 depends on the fact that in calves which, 

 neither by the texture of their hides nor 

 the conformation of their bodies, nor, in- 

 deed, by any of the general marks on 

 which we depend in the selection of dairy 

 animals, give an indication of their future 

 milking qualities, it is possible by a sole 

 dependence on the character of the 

 escutcheon to predict with considerable 

 certainty their future usefulness for the 

 dairy. 



CATTLE, Colic in. — Colic is occasioned 

 by a want of physiological power in the 

 organs of digestion, so that the food, in- 

 stead of undergoing a chemico-vital pro- 

 cess, runs into fermentation, by which 

 process carbonic acid gas is evolved. 



Symptoms. — The animal is evidently 

 in pain, and appears very restless; it 

 occasionally turns its head, with an 

 anxious gaze, to the left side, which seems 

 to be distended more than the right; 

 there is an occasional discharge of gas 

 from the mouth and anus. 



Treatment. — Give the following car- 

 minative : 



Powdered aniseed, half a teaspoonful, 



" cinnamon, " " 



To be given in a quart of spearmint tea, and 

 repeated if necessary. 



CATTLE, Vermin on. — See Cattle, 

 Mange. 

 CATTLE, Warbles. — See Cattle,. 



Mange. 



