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Caution. Be careful in giving astringent medicines, 

 lest the looseness be checked too suddenly, as this may 

 prove fatal. 



MANGE, SCURF, OR SCAB. 



This is a cutaneous disease, which is very contagious, 

 for as many cows as come in contact with one having 

 the disorder, will be sure to catch it. Its symptoms are 

 a scurf on the external part of the body, which is always 

 attended with an itching. Some say that it is a kind of 

 animalcule, which burrows in the skin. It generally 

 attacks those animals which are low in flesh, and have 

 been fed on poor forage. 



The first step is, to take a currycomb, and gently cur- 

 ry off the scurf. After this, the following application is 

 to be rubbed on the parts affected, which may be repeated 

 every three or four days till a cure is effected ; and it 

 seldom requires more than two or three applications : — 

 Sulphur, one pound ; spirits of turpentine, half a pint ; 

 train oil, enough to make it into a liquid. 



Another. Mix tar and soft soap, and apply it to the 

 parts affected. 



Another. Lard and sulphur, in equal parts j melt, 

 mix, and apply all over the affected parts ; or, in severe 

 cases, all over the animal. [See Itch, in " Swine."] 



CHOKING. 



As cattle are choked with various substances of differ- 

 ent forms, and of different degrees of hardness, and the 

 substance may be high or low in the throat, no one 

 mode nor any definite rules will do in all cases. The 

 operator must judge what is best from the circumstances. 



When the obstruction is at the upper part of the 

 throat, the hand may be run down, through a wheel-box, 

 or piece of wood with a hole in it, put in the mouth, tc 

 prevent being bitten, and the impediment removed; or 

 by placing some gun-powder on the lower part of the 

 tongue, the coughing which follows may throw it out 



When the substance is far down, near the stcmach, i' 



