338 THE IMPROVED ART OF FARRIERY. 



For a Looseness, or Bloody Flux. 



Take some sloes, boil them in a little water, and 

 add some powdered chalk, and a little quantity of 

 whitning to it, and put it when cold into the water 

 the cows drink 



WINTER FATTENING IN THE STALLS AND 

 OTHER PLACES; OR, STALL FEEDING 

 NEAT CATTLE 



This is the practice of fattening cattle in the winter 

 season on different sorts of moist and dry substances, 

 instead of grass. It was formerly a disputed point, 

 whether such stock could ever be advantageously 

 fattened when tied up or fastened in stalls or other 

 places ; but numerous tacts, the results of extensive 

 trials, have now most satisfactorily, and in the fullest 

 manner, proved that it is the best and most beneficial 

 method that can be had recourse to for the purpose at 

 that time of the year ; and that from the great utility 

 of it, some practice of the same, or a similar kind, 

 should even be more resorted to in the summer keep- 

 ing of cattle than has yet been the case, as has been 

 shown in the preceding section. 



In this sort of fattening, great care and attention is 

 necessary in many respects, as will be fully described 

 hereafter; but the most convenient, least wasteful, 

 and the best method of forwarding the condition 

 of the beasts, and completing the business, is, most 

 probably, that of not wholly confining them to the 

 stalls or houses, but letting them out occasionally. 

 For instance, when the weather is suitable, they should 



