Management of Calving. 327 



For syringing the vagina, stir a pound of chloride of lime 

 in two gallons of water, and when it has settled pour off the 

 clear fluid, for use. Or, pour a gallon of boiling water on a 

 pint of clean wood tar, stir and let it settle. Either of these 

 wall prove a cheap and excellent cleansing wash. A pint or 

 two should be thrown up twice a day. 



Instead of constipation, some cows after calving are 

 troubled with a relaxed condition of the bowels, with con- 

 stant diarrhea, which prevents them from promptly regaininj^ 

 strength. For this condition Mr. Finley Dun recommends 

 one of the following astringent, anodyne drenches, as among 

 the best that could be selected : — 



No. 370. Powdered catechu, ' 2 drachms. 



ginger, 1 oz. 



Sulphuric acid, 80 drops. 



Laudanum, 1 oz. 



Give in a quart of gruel, ale, or weak whisky and water. 



No. 371. Powdered ginger, 



Bicarbonate of soda, 



Laudanum, 



Decoction of oak bark^ of each, 1 oz. 



Give several times a day, in gruel or ale. 



Half this dose suffices for six months' calves, in similar 

 conditions of the bowels. 



MANAGEMEirr OF THE MILZ. 



The management of the secretion of the milk divides it- 

 self into the three subjects :— the means of drying it up 

 when the cow is about to calve, or is to be fattened ; the 

 means of increasing the supply when it is deficient; and its 

 improvement when in an unhealthy condition. 



1. To dry the milk. 



The average period before calving at which a cow should 

 be allowed to go dry is about six weeks. Poor and weak 



