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 CHAPTER III. 



ILLUSTRATIVE ANECDOTES. 



THE time for talking about treatment of Hinder- 



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pest is no doubt past. The act for the prevention of 

 curing- sick cattle has rendered all such discussion 

 useless. Still a time may come when it will not be 

 illegal for a man to cure his cow when she catches 

 a cold. So I will say a few words upon the subject. 

 Nature, good food, broad daylight as long- as it 

 lasts, open fields and open air, no matter how cold. 

 This is the only treatment for sick animals that is 

 worth two straws ; and this is the only treatment 

 that never has been practised except in a very few 

 accidental cases. And in those few cases far the 

 majority recovered. 



The following is an extract from a letter I received 

 from a relation of mine last January. 



" There has been such a curious illustration of the wisdom 

 of keeping beasts cool in the plague, that I have been wishing, 

 day after day, to tell you about it. 



" John Farrow, of Alkbro', in Lincolnshire, after having lost 

 every one of a lot he had shut up and kept warm, found another 

 lot beginning to fall ill of the complaint. In moving them from 

 one field to another, one fell into a drain and got considerably 

 chilled, but was observed to go on better from that time. Ob- 

 serving this, and being forbidden by the Inspector to bring the 

 animals along the road up to his buildings, J, Farrow deter- 

 mined to try cool treatment, and with that view, made a sort 

 of slight cover for the beasts with a piece of old rick cloth, just 



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