DIRECTIONS FOR RAISING 

 CATTLE, SHEEP, AND SWINE. 



DISEASES OF HORNED CATTLE. 



INFLAMMATION. 



Inflammation is the most frequent diseased condition 

 to which neat catile are subject. 



External inllanimation is known by the part being 

 swollen, tender^ and holler than in its natural state. In 

 garget or downfall of the udder, which is an inilarnma- 

 tion of one or more quarters of the bag, the afTected parts 

 are swollen, lender, and hot. 



In black-leg, a disease frequent in young cattle, the 

 affected part loses its sensibility, and becomes dark-co- 

 lored, and is said to be mortified. It is then speedily 

 separated, or ought to be separated from the living por- 

 tions around. Mortification is usually the result of vzo- 

 leiit inflammation, by which the texture o-f the part is 

 speedily broken down, and its vitahty destroyed. 



When the inflammation runs high, or continues long, 

 it affects the whole system, and brings on fever. 



The sicelling oi the inflamed part is principally to be 

 ascribed to the increased quantity of blood passing 

 through it. 



Internal Injlaminatinn can be ascertained only by the 

 effect which it produces on the system. Tliere is no in- 

 flammation of any important iut,enial part that is not 

 quickly accompanied by fever; and that fever and the 



