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in this cafe, they would think lefs of the trouble 

 of prevention. Inflead of fuppling the teat 

 with warm milk as ufual, which moft probably 

 goes, filth and all into the pail, order a bowl 

 of warm water for the purpofe. After milking, 

 ufe the mixture ordered for chafing. Avoid 

 all greafy applications if poiTible ; if not, ufe 

 elder ointment, or goofe-greafe, with a little 

 cerufe mixed. In feven or eight days, the teats 

 will be whole, and cteanlinefs may preferve 

 them fo. 



Cows are much more liable to danc^er in 

 parturition, than other brute animals, and their 

 bodies at that time are exceedingly acceffible 

 to the impreffion of cold air. Warm fhelter, if 

 the weather be cold or wet. Comfortable 

 mafhes, with gruel, and a quart of warm ale. If 

 cold be already taken, mix the fizeof a pigeon's 

 egg of cordial ball, in the gruel ; if that be not 

 at hand, anifeed, half an ounce, in powder ; 

 two tea fpoons of powdered ginger ; treacle, 

 and the decoftion of a handful of juniper ber- 

 ries. Keep the cow within till well. 



Watch, and put the afterburden, or cleaning, 

 out of the cow's reach, as their devouring it is 

 fometimes attended with nearly as bad effe6ls 

 as its retention: this laft, I have fometimes 

 feen attended with fatal effe61s ; and upon dif- 

 fe6lion, the part remaining, has been found in 

 a putrid flate. The beaft more ufually lingers 



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