HORNED CATTLE. 



ON SETONING, 



The utility of setoning is to create excitement 

 and unload the overloaded vessels in neighboring 

 inflamed parts. The mode of inserting a seton, 

 it is commonly made of horse hair platted to- 

 gether, cord or tape alone or leather, it should 

 be tolerable thick and ten or twelve inches in 

 length. Before inserting the seton it should 

 be dipped or saturated with Turpentine, tincture 

 of Cantharides, or Helebore. The seton now 

 prepared ; an assistant is to hold the animal, 

 while the seton needle with the cord affixed to 

 it is plunged into the upper edge of the brisket 

 or dew lap, and brought out again towards its 

 lower edge. The space between the two openings 

 should be from four to eight inches; the seton 

 is to be secured by fastening a small piece of 

 wood, or tying a large knot at either end of the 

 cord; matter will begin to run the second day, 

 and after that the cord should be drawn back- 

 wards and forwards two or three times a day, 

 in order to irritate the parts, by this means in- 

 crease the discharf>:e. Where a considerable ef- 



