DISEASES AND TREATMENT OF CATTLE. 287 



FOREIGN SUBSTANCES IN THE EYB. 



Sometimes chaff, barley-beards or small pieces of stick fet 

 into the eye and become lodg^ed there. 



Symptoms. — The animal suffers very much ; tears run down 

 3ver the cheek ; the eye becomes very much inflamed and dim, and 

 ii allowed to run on the sight will soon become covered with a 

 v^hite scum. If you catch the animal and examine the eye closely 

 you will find out what is in it. 



Treatment. — In all cases catch the animal and examine the 

 sye closely, and when you find out the cause of the trouble remove 

 I, then bathe the eye every day with new milk or luke warm 

 '■Hier; wipe dry and apply, in and around the eye every time after 

 bathing, the eye wash mentioned in the receipts at the back of 

 his book. Keep this treatment up till the eye is better. 

 A GROWTH ON THE HAW OF THE EYE. 



This is a red growth in the inaier corner of the eye, caused by 

 -ome irritation of the haw of the eye, which is a piece of cartilage 

 or toug-h membrane that fits across the inner corner of the eye. 



Symptoms. — At first the eye looks sore and angry in the inner 

 jorner and runs water freely, afterwards followed by the red, 

 ingry looking growth growing out of the corner of the eye. The 

 growth may vary from th* size of a mai'ble to a small hen's egg. 



Treatment. — Secure the animal by throwing it the same as 

 nentioned for castrating bulls. Have the head held firmly on the 

 ground, take hold of the growth with a small hook, or anything 

 hat you can hold it with ; pull the growth out of the eye far 

 snough to get under it with a pair of scissors and clip it off ; there 

 s usually very little bleeding or trouble with it afterward ; bathe 

 he eye with new milk once a day, wipe dry and apply the eye 

 A'ash. 



SORE OR INFLAMED BTBS Of CATTLB. 



Causes. — From getting cold in the eyee or from an Injury. 



Symptoms. — Tears run freely, and the eyee are very weak and 

 red looking, and if not relieved a scum soon forms over the light 

 af the eye. 



Treatment. — Bathe well twice a day with new milk or luke 

 warm water, and each time after bathing wipe dry and apply the 

 eye wash. 



CATARACT OF THE EYE IN CATTLE. 



This is very rarely met with in cattle, and for information re- 

 garding it look up cataract of the eye in borsea, for the causea, 

 symptoms and treatment are the 



