226 DISEASES OF ANMALS. 



KICKING AND REFRACTORY COWS. 



Place a kicking cow in a stall, with a beT,m over 

 head; fix a rope round her horns, throw it over the 

 beam, and pull away till her head is pretty well ele- 

 vated, but not so as to injure her. In this position she 

 cannot kick, and will give down her milk. If a cow be 

 refractory, tie her to some place so that you can rub her 

 all over ; then salt her from your hand ; feed her from 

 your hand, on half feed, and in three days you may do 

 as you please with her. 



TO CAUSE A COW TO GIVE DOWN HER 

 MILK. 



Sometimes cows refuse to give down their milk, for 

 days together, from the loss of their calves, contrariness, 

 or other cause. This is liable to injure their health 

 Deal gently with them, and sit down and perform the 

 operation upon the teats precisely as though the milk 

 flowed. Persevere, and it will come after a while. In 

 this way, a boy nine years old milked cows which others 

 could not. It is doubtless an effort of the cow to hold 

 up her milk, which soon tires, and she yields to nature 

 after a short restraint. 



FOR COWS DRYING UP SUDDENLY. 



A cow that dried up suddenly produced a return of 

 milk in a short time after administering an ounce of 

 saltpetre in a quart of meal. Diuretics tend to a flow 

 of milk. 



Another. Give to the cow, two or three mornings in 

 succession, two cubic inches of garget root, [see page 

 199,] cut up fine. It is said to be effectual. 



Another. Put a young calf to the cow ; and as an 

 auxiliary to any other means that may be used, feed 

 with grass, green corn, roots, apples, melons, pumpkins, 

 or other succulent food that tends to a flow of milk 



