360 AMERICAN AGRICULTURE. 



and the sheep immediately followed the others to the pasture. 

 A correspondent of the Albany Cultivator asserts, that i a 

 pint of melted lard poured down the throat, will cure blind 

 staggers in 10 minutes. 



ABORTION occurs sometimes, and is usually caused by 

 excessive fright or exertion, and sometimes by severe expo- 

 sure and poor feed. It is seldom fatal, except to the lamb. 

 The uterus is occasionally protruded after lambing. It should 

 be immediately returned, first washing it in warm milk 

 and water, if any dirt adheres to it. For this, the hand only 

 should be used. After rubbing it with lard or oil, hold up 

 the hind legs, and gently replace the protruded parts, then 

 keep the ewe quiet till fully recovered. 



FOR GARGET, OR CAKED BAG. Keep the bag thoroughly 

 drained of milk, for which purpose the lamb is the most 

 efficient. If it is lost, another may be temporarily substitu- 

 ted. Purge freely with Epsom salts, and wash the udder 

 repeatedly with very warm water. If matter forms, it should 

 be opened with the lancet. 



BLEEDING. " Nothing tends so much to the recovery of 

 an animal from a disease in which bleeding is required, as 

 the rapid flow of the blood from a large orifice. Little 

 impression can be make on an acute disease by the slow 

 removal of even a large quantity of blood, as the organs 

 have time to accommodate themselves to the loss, which 

 might, for any good it will do, as well be dispensed with. 

 Either bleed rapidly or not at all. The nearer the com- 

 mencement of an ailment, in which you employ bleeding, 

 the operation is resorted to, the greater the chance of its 

 doing good. Bleeding by nicking the under surface of the 

 tail, does very well where no great deal of blood is required, 

 but it is not to be thought of if the veins of the face or 

 neck can possibly be opened. These are to be taken in 

 preference to a vein on the leg, as they are much more 

 readily got at. The facial vein commences by small branch- 

 es on the side of the face, and runs downwards and back- 

 wards to the base of the jaw, where it may be felt within 

 two inches of the angle, or opposite the middle grinding 

 tooth. It is here that the orifice must be made; the thumb 

 of the left hand being held against the vein, so as to prevent 

 the flow of blood towards the heart will make it rise. Some 

 prefer opening the jugular vein, which commences behind 

 the eye and runs down the side of the neck. This vessel is, 

 however, more difficult to open that the former, being better 



