240 ANECDOTE THE DISEASES OF COWS. 



the fact of these ruinous effects, by the acknow- 

 ledgement that no cow can endure them beyond a 

 twelvemonth ; after which it is necessary to change 

 the stock, their legs being swoln, their feet sore or 

 foundered, and their flesh and milk greatly reduced. 

 A pamphlet was published upwards of twenty years 

 since, on this subject ; but the practice has never 

 been in repute, nor probably ever will be. I have 

 already noted my experience of the falling off in the 

 cow, of her quantity of milk, in consequence of con- 

 finement. In the case of a deficient quantity of 

 herbage for the number of cows, it is most profitable 

 to cut it green for them, at the same time, allowing 

 them to remain abroad their due time, either upon 

 the mown lands, or a common. 



A person resident at Scawby, near Brigg, pur- 

 chased a cow, for which he paid twelve guineas : he 

 kept her twelve years, in which time she bore twelve 

 calves ; all of them were carefully reared, and sold 

 at the times' prices, and as a remarkable circum- 

 stance, he sold her at last for the same price she at 

 first cost him. 



THE DISEASES OF COWS. 



The chief of these are scouring, the hoose, or 

 chronic cough, foul in the foot, loss of cud, yellows, 

 black and red water, clue-bound, milk fever, wither- 

 ing. With respect to the above, and other diseases 

 to which cows and calves may be subject, the best 

 advice in my power to give to the reader, is the 

 PREVENTION of them, which is, nine times out often, 

 possible, and even easy, to those who possess the 



