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ANIMAL MANAGEMENT. 



meal are the best, and should be kept wet and not allowed to dry on the 

 place to which they are applied. A cloth filled with tow or hay and kept 

 wet and warm will answer the purpose, or simple fomentation, which is 

 cleaner, when it can be applied. 



Df'oiching. — Use a small horn or bottle with a leather-covered neck. 

 Raise the head by placing the loop of a twitch in the mouth as a support 

 (not on the lip), and do not pour down more than the horse can swallow 

 at a time. If the animal coughs, lower the head immediately. 



Balling. — Take the tongue in the left hand, but do not pull on it 

 violently, turn it upwards so that it opens the mouth, and push the ball as 

 far as possible over the root of the tongue. Stand at the side and not 

 straight in front of the horse, and do the whole thing as quietly and 

 quickly as possible. After delivering the ball, watch the left side of the 

 neck to see it swallowed, and if the animal does not swallow quickly, 

 give a mouthful of water or green stuff to induce it to do so. 



E?ie?nas, clysters. — Should be copious to be effectual. For colic cases 

 they may be given cold, but for all other cases they should be about 

 blood heat. This may be easily judged by placing the arm in the water, 

 which should feel very slightly warm. Oil or grease the enema nozzle so 

 that it will enter the bowel easily. 



General Measures for Dealing with Contagious 

 Diseases. 



Segregation. — The animals should be divided into three groups, 

 i.e.^ affected, suspected and healthy. The suspected should 

 include all those which have been in contact with the diseased, 

 although they may not present any suspicious symptoms at the 

 time. Attendants, watering, and feeding arrangements and all 

 gear should be included in this separation and should be kept 

 separate until the outbreak is over. The distance between the 

 different groups should, if possible, be sufficiently far to prevent 

 any chance communication between them, or when military 

 considerations restrict the space at disposal, fencing of some 

 sort should enclose each group, and if there is a prevailing 

 wind the healthy should be placed to windward and the 

 suspected and affected to leeward in the order named. Once 

 an animal is placed in the affected group it should remain there 

 till all danger is over, and on no account be replaced among the 

 healthy, although it may perhaps have been moved in error in 

 the first instance. 



