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by good care not mucli time or loss will have been in- 

 curred, by so anticipating the disease. The milk of 

 cows affected with this disease is poison. 



Calves — By drinking the milk of cows with this dis- 

 ease, perish in great numbers. 



Symptoms. — Difficulty in swallowing, cough and saliva 

 driveling from the mouth. The whole accompanied by 

 fever, and frequently ending in death. 



Eye Diseases. — The cow is not so often the subject 

 of disease of the eye, as horses are. There is how- 

 ever, one disease of the eye which cows are often affected 

 with, namely : cancer of the eye, which can not be cured,, 

 but will ultimately destroy the eye altogether. For 

 other diseases of the eye, see Eye Diseases in part first 

 of the book. 



Falling Sickness. — (See Milk Fever.) 



Falling of the Womb, — Or Calf Bed— Reed, etc. 

 This deviation from the normal or healthy condition, is a 

 great trouble to the fanner and breeder. 



Caus^. — ^Relaxation of the horns or ligaments of the 

 womb from a weak and relaxed habit of the body, accom- 

 panied by debility. 



Prevention. — ^Immediately after calving, apply a truss 

 or pad to the mouth of the vagina, and secure it in the 

 following manner : put a large horse collar on the cow's 

 neck ; one surcingle round the body of the cow, behind 

 the fore legs, and another in front of the udder and hind 

 legs. This being done, attach a small soft rope to each 

 side of the colar, and brincr them alongr each side of the 

 back bone, and give them a hitch round the fore surcin- 

 gle, and the same on the hind one ; then bring the ropes 

 close together under the tail, and place the pad over the 



