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all this time be assiduously drawn) prove mingled with blood 

 and matter, the liniment should be discontinued, and the 

 foUowmg ointment rubbed in instead : — 



Iodide of lead a quarter of a pound. 



Good lard two pounds. 



If, how^ever, all our efforts should fail, and the milk 

 should entirely cease, and a thin watery exudation drop 

 from the teat ; the veins upon the diseased quarter become 

 small and hard ; the part changing to a white or blueish 

 aspect, and at the same time feeling cold, a free incision, 

 the whole length of the udder, immediately over the place 

 thus affected should be made, and the mortified quarter 

 allowed to drop out. The wound, and the vacancy left, 

 may be dressed w^ith chloride of zinc and water, of the 

 strength of two scruples of the salt to the pint, and it will 

 heal speedier than would be imagined. 



Sometimes the gland suppurates ; abscesses are formed ; 

 when these point or come with a slight protuberance to the 

 surface, and are soft to the touch, when such is the case, 

 the abscesses should be opened by plunging a sharp pointed 

 lancet into the centre of the forward point, and cutting- 

 outward. 



After the cow has lost a quarter she requires supporting 

 with nourishing food and tonics. She will afterwards tax 

 the best care that can be given. 



One means of preventing garget is to thoroughly draw 

 the udder every night and morning, no matter whether the 

 cow give much milk or little, whether she be fattening, on 

 the eve of parturition, or in any other condition. 



Another preventive is, never to allow a stranger to at- 

 tempt the milking. Cows have a strange power of with- 

 holding the greater portion of the meal of milk, when one, 

 to whose presence they are unaccustomed, attempts to draw 

 them. At all events, observe the dispositions of the animals 

 in your shed, and never permit a stranger to attempt the 

 milking of a cow which has a nervous, excitable, or easily 

 alarmed constitution. 



