DISEASES AND TREATMENT OF CATTLE 399 



Treatment. — Removing the eye in the early stages of the 

 disease may effect a cure. This is done as follows : Throw 

 and secure the animal ; have the head he'd solid, and with a 

 knife cut around the eye and loosen it from the eyelids. Stick 

 a small hook into the eye and pull it out as far as you can. 

 Take a piece of carriage trimmers' twine and slip it around 

 the back part and tie it tight. . This will stop the bleeding. 

 Cut the eye off in front of where the string is tied. Saturate 

 a piece of cotton batting with Monsell's solution of iron and 

 insert it in the hole formerly occupied by the eye. Take the 

 batting out the next day and bathe twice a day with luke- 

 warm water and soap; after bathing apply white lotion. If 

 the parts are raw and angry looking touch them with caustic 

 potash every day. This may effect a cure, but in a case 

 where it grows again, or where the growth is very bad before 

 operating, or the bones diseased, have the animal destroyed 

 immediately. 



2. Foreign Substances in the Eye. 



Sometimes chaff, barley-beards or small pieces of stick 

 get into the eye and become lodged there. 



Symptoms. — The animal suffers very much. Tears run 

 down over the cheek. The eye becomes very much inflamed 

 and dim, and if allowed to run on the sight soon becomes 

 covered with a white scum. Examine the eye closely and 

 find out what is in it. 



Treatment. — In all cases when you find the cause of the 

 trouble remove it ; then bathe the eye every day with new 

 milk or lukewarm water. Wipe dry and apply, in and around 

 the eye every time after bathing, the eye wash. Keep this 

 treatment up till better. 



3. Growth on the Haw. 



This is a red growth in the inner corner of the eye, 

 caused by some irritation of the haw — a piece of cartilage or 

 tough membrane that fits across the inner corner of the eye. 



Symptoms. — At first the eye looks sore and angry in the 

 inner corner and runs water freely, followed by a red, angry 

 looking growth growing out of the corner. The growth may 

 vary from the size of a marble to a small hen's egg. 



Treatment. — Secure the animal by throwing it in the 

 same manner as described for castrating bulls. Have the 



