134 THE FARMER'S 



Tar 2 oz. 



Oil of vitriol 1 dr. 



Spirits of ammonia 1 oz. 



Mix all well together. 

 After this operation, and the scurf had fallen 

 off, if there should remain any hardness, and the 

 animal is still lame, the blister may be repeated, 

 which seldom fails to produce a perfect cure. If 

 the animal seems weak in that part, after the above 

 process, which is sometimes the case, the plaister 

 of burgundy pitch, &c. before recommended, will 

 be proper, in order to strengthen it 



Soft Siuellings . 



From bruises and other accidental injulies in 

 getting up and lyingdown, cows are subject to soft 

 or oedematous swellings of the joints, which are 

 without any pain, heat or inflammation. They 

 enlarge often to a considerable size, and yield 

 readily to the pressure of the finger. — Though this 

 complaint is never attended with danger, it is troub- 

 lesome to the animal from its size, and even difficult 

 to remove, if it has been of long continuance. Its 

 management depends on making an opening into 

 the swelling in the first instance, whjch may be 

 done by running a hot iron into the lowest or most 

 depending part of it, making two or three open- 

 ings in this way where the fewest blood vessels are 

 situated; and this operation requires particular cau- 

 tion, that the discharge may gradually come away, 

 and that no vessels may be injured, from the dan- 

 ger of producing an internal hemorrhage, which 

 would occasion a new increase of swelling and in- 

 flammation, instead of lessening the disease. — 

 When the openings into the swelling are properly 



