242 CURIOUS EXPERIMENT. 



half malt and half fine pollard, warm, are excellent 

 cordial medicines for cows. In general, these useful 

 animals will rarely be troubled with disease, if con- 

 stantly fed with a sufficiency of proper and nourish- 

 ing food, and well sheltered during the winter sea- 

 son from wet and cold, and from the effects of those 

 atmospheric vicissitudes, to which our climate is so 

 peculiarly liable. 



Some exceptions, however, may be made with re- 

 spect to preternatural cases in CALVING, arising either 

 from constitutional defects or accidents. But I do 

 not profess, in this small treatise, to engage, except 

 cursorily, with the extensive subjects of veterinary 

 medicine and surgery ; with respect to the latter 

 particularly, I refer the reader to Mr. Skellet's really 

 practical work. In all difficult cases, more especially 

 of parturition, immediate recourse should be had to 

 an experienced practitioner, instead of trusting to the 

 rude and unskilful efforts of servants, by which 

 many a cow and calf have been lost. 



The following curious experiment proved suc- 

 cessful, some years ago. One of the fore-legs of a 

 cow, the property of Mr. Little, of Herseford, Corn- 

 wall, being accidentally broken, and he being un- 

 willing to kill the animal, caused the leg to be ampu- 

 tated immediately below the knee joint. The wound 

 being perfectly healed, a pad and wooden leg were 

 braced upon the part, by which the cow was enabled 

 to walk about, lie down, and rise with facility. 



Imported into Liverpool from Ireland, during the 

 year 1829, (the number short, by five weeks being 

 omitted,) cows 45,541. Calves 10,&58. Liverpool 

 Mercury. 



