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figs. 2 and 3.) When pus forms and points externally, and can not 

 find a free escape by the teat, the spot where it fluctuates must be 

 opened freely with the knife and the cavity injected daily with the car- 

 bolic acid lotion. When the gland becomes hard and indolent it may 

 be rubbed daily with iodiue ointment 1 part, vaseline 6 parts. 



TUMOKS OF THE UDDER. 



As the result of iuflammatiou of the udder it may become the seat of 

 an indurated diseased growth, which may go on growing and seriously 

 interfere with the movement of the hind limbs. If such swellings will 

 not give way in their early stages to treatment by iodino the only re- 

 sort is to cut them out with a knife. As the gland is often implicated 

 and has to be removed, such mares can not in the future suckle their 

 coits, and therefore should uo^^ be bred. 



SORE TEATS, SCABS, CRACKS, WARTS. 



By the act of sucking, especially in cold weather, the teats are sub- 

 ject to abrasions, cracks, and scabs, and as the result of such irritation, 

 or independently, warts sometimes grow and prove troublesome. The 

 warts should be clipped off with sharp scissors and their roots burned 

 with a solid pencil of lunar caustic. This is best done before parturi- 

 tion to secure healing before suckling begins. For sore teats use an 

 ointment of vaseline 1 ounce, balsam of tola 5 grains, and sulphate of 

 zinc 5 grains. 



