How to Drench Cattle. 



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self up with the right leg ; to do this the animal should, 

 especially if awkward, be against a wall on its left side. An 

 incautious j)erson may be severely bruised and thrown into 

 the manger by proceeding up to the head of a cow, not get- 

 ting full command of the animal, and presenting his back to 



FIG. 9. — DRENCHING AN OX. 



its hind extremities, with which an ox can strike effectually 

 forwards. 



Sometimes the organs of swallowing are paralysed in cat- 

 tle, as in cases of parturient apoplexy ; at other times there 

 are foreign substances impacted in the gullet. "With the 



