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half a.n ounce ; ginger, half an ounce , and twenty drops 

 of peppermint ; mix in gruel or water. Avoid cantharides 

 and all powerful stimulants, as dangerous. A further aid 

 is running alone with the bull. She may be in too high 

 condition ; then give gentle physic, moderate feed, and 

 reduce gradually. She may be barren, though often in 

 season, and taken to the male. The excitement may be. 

 insufficient ; then feed better, as above ; or it may be too 

 great ; then let her take the male towards the close of her 

 season, when it is abating. Bleeding freely is good. A 

 heifer was driven often without effect. Then, on taking 

 the male, twelve or fifteen pailfuls of cold water were 

 poured on her immediately. It succeeded. It was a 

 single case, but seems founded on philosophy. Drive 

 the cow from the male immediately, not allowing her to 

 stop to dung or urinate, nor to come near other animals, 

 till her season is past. When in season, give her milk 

 to the pigs. 



BROKEN HORNS. 



Joseph Frost, Esq., of Elliot, Me., says, in the "Boston 

 Cultivator:" "We see cattle with broken horns, which 

 may be easily replaced, if proper means are seasonably 

 adopted. We had a cow that broke her horn ; it came 

 off by the hair, and the core or pith of the horn came off 

 about three inches from the head. We replaced the 

 horn, and tarred a strip of cotton cloth, and wound it 

 around the horn by the head, and then corded and stayed 

 the lame horn to the well one. It grew on and remained. 



" We have a cow that broke her horn two years ago, 

 and it was free from the head an hour. We replaced it, 

 and the horn shows no appearance of having been in- 

 jured. When cattle have their horns broken down, or 

 what farmers generally call droop horns, they may be 

 replaced, and fixed properly by an iron, shaped in the 

 natural position of the horn, and fastened to the head 

 and well horn. The tarred bandage should be applied 

 to the wound. In all cases the animal should be placed 

 in a situation to prevent the lame horn coming in con- 

 tact with anything." 



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