CATTLE— CARE AND MANAGEMENT. 



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COWS, Foot-rot in. — This disease 

 makes its appearance sometimes between 

 the claws of the foot, often in the heel, 

 and extending up the leg, causes extreme 

 lameness, loss of flesh and loss of milk. 

 It often runs through a whole dairy, and 

 its appearance is becoming every year 

 more common. Make an ointment of 

 lard and red precipitate, one part of the 

 latter to four of the former, to be applied 

 to the affected parts and rubbed in ; or in 

 bad cases, when the disease is in the heel 

 and upon the leg, worked in by holding a 

 hot iron near the foot. The foot should 

 be cleaned before the application, by 

 washing well with soap and soft water. 

 One application, if thorough, will gener- 

 ally effect a cure ; but if all parts are not 

 reached by the ointment, a second applica- 

 tion should be made in forty-eight hours. 



CATTLE, Pleuropneumonia, Cure of.— 

 Sir W. Miles writes to the Wincanton Bet- 

 ty Sessions, Somerset county, in England, 

 that after having had the pleuro-pneumo- 

 nia in his herd for nearly eighteen months, 

 he has arrested its progress by causing the 

 herd to inhale carbolic acid night and 

 morning, which stopped the disease. The 

 acid was mixed with water, and sprinkled 

 with a watering pot on saw-dust, put un- 

 der the fore feet of the cattle when tied 

 up. Cures are also reported by causing 

 the cattle to inhale the fumes ef sulphur. 



COW, to Dry of Her Milk.— It is often 

 necessary to dry up the milk when cows 

 are wanted speedily to fatten, and this is 

 now and then found to be a difficult mat- 

 ter, especially with large and gross beasts. 

 If the flow of milk is suffered to con- 

 tinue it may overload the udder, and pro- 

 duce inflammation of it, or garget, or gen- 

 eral fever, or inflammation of the lungs, 

 or foul in the foot. 



The best time to dry the cows is very 

 early in the spring, when they are eating 

 dry meat. A good dose of physic, fol- 

 lowed by mild astringent drinks, will 

 usually settle the business, especially if 

 she is moderately bled before the physic 

 is given. Alum in the form of whey (see 

 Alum Whey, No. 19), or dissolved in 

 water, will be the most effectual, as well 

 as the safest astringent. Six drachms will 

 be the medium dose. The cow may be 

 milked clean when the astringent is 

 given, and then turned on some dry up- 

 land pasture. 



Two days afterwards she should be ex- 

 amined, and if the udder is not overload- 

 ed, nor hard nor hot, the milking may be 

 discontinued; but if the udder is hard 

 and full, and especially if it is hot, 

 she should be fetched home, cleanly 

 milked, and another astringent drink 

 given. The third drink, if it is necessary 

 to give one, should be en aperient one, 

 and after that the Diuretic Drink, No. 

 26, every second day. 



The milking should only be resorted to 

 if the state of the udder absolutely re- 

 quires it, for every act of milking is but 

 encouraging the secretion of milk. 



COWS, Holding Back the Milk.— Lay- 

 ing a wet rag on the back of the cow 

 that holds back her milk is a very good 

 remedy. Another writer says a weight 

 laid on the back — as a bag of earth or 

 sand, or a chain in the bag — will make her 

 give her milk. As all the remedies in 

 vogue for the vice relate to an applica- 

 tion to the back there may be something 

 in it. 



CATTLE, the Mange. — Mange may be 

 generated either from excitement of the 

 skin itself, or through the medium of that 

 sympathetic influence which is known to 

 exist between the skin and organs of di- 

 gestion. We have it, appears to me, an 

 excellent illustration of this in the case of 

 mange supervening upon poverty — a fact 

 too notorious to be disputed, though 

 there may be different ways of theorizing 

 on it. 



Mr. Blanie says: " Mange has three 

 origins — filth, debility and contagion." 



The most effectual application is Mange 

 ointment, No. 54, of which sulphur is the 

 principal ingredient. Some mercurial 

 ointment, however, must be added, but in 

 no great quantity, for cattle will lick them- 

 selves, and salivation may ensue. There 

 is nothing so injurious to the milk, or to 

 the fattening of the beast, as salivation, 

 even in a slight degree. 



This should be well rubbed in with the 

 hand daily, wherever there is mange, the 

 hair being carefully separated where the 

 affected part is covered by it. No possi- 

 ble danger can happen from the pro- 

 longed use of this ointment if the animal 

 is not exposed to severe cold. 



Alterative medicine will materially 

 assist the cure, and may be given without 



