226 DISEASES OF AN MALS. 



KICKING AND REFRACTORY COWS 



Place a kicking cow in a stall, with a beam jvei 

 bead ; fix a rope round her horns, throw it over the 

 beam, and pull away till her head is pretty well ele- 

 vated, but not so as to injure her. In this position she 

 cannot kick, and will give down her milk. If a cow be 

 refractory, tie her to some place so that you can rub her 

 all over ; then salt her from your hand ; feed her from 

 your hand, on half feed, and in three days you may dc 

 as you please with her. 



TO CAUSE A COW TO GIVE DOWN HER 

 MILK. 



Sometimes cows refuse to give down their milk, foi 

 days together, from the loss of their calves, contrariness, 

 or other cause. This is liable to injure their health 

 Deal gently with them, and sit down and perform the 

 operation upon the teats precisely as though the milk 

 llowed. Persevere, and it will come after a while. In 

 this way, a boy nine years old milked cows which others 

 could not. It is doubtless an effort of the cow to hold 

 up her milk, which soon tires, and she yields to nature 

 after a short restraint. 



FOR COWS DRYING UP SUDDENLY. 



A cow that dried up suddenly produced a return of 

 milk in a short time after administering an ounce of 

 saltpetre in a quart of meal. Diuretics tend to a flow 

 of milk. 



Another. Give to the cow, two or three mornings in 

 succession, two cubic inches of garget root, [see page 

 199,'J cut up fine. It is said to be effectual. 



Another. Put a young calf to the cow; and as an 

 auxiliary to any other means that may be used, feed 

 with grass, green corn, roots, apples, melons, pumpkins 

 or other succulent food that tends to a flow of milk. 



