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heat after abortion. The heat again and again returns, but she 

 does not stand to the bulling; and so the season is wasted, while 

 she becomes a perfect nuisance by continually worrying the other 

 cattle. 



"If she should come in calf again during that season, it is 

 very probable that about the same period of utero-gestation, or 

 a Uttle later, she will again abort; or that when she becomes in 

 calf in the following year, the same fatality will attend her. 

 Some say that this disposition to cast her young one, gradually 

 ceases ; that if she does miscarry, it is at a later and still later 

 period of pregnancy ; and that, in about three or four years, she 

 may be depended upon as a tolerably safe breeder ; he, however, 

 would be exceedingly inattentive to his interest, who kept a 

 profitless beast so long. 



"The calf very rarely lives, and in the majority of cases it is 

 born dead, or putrid. If there should appear to be any chance of 

 saving it, it should be washed with warm water, carefully dried, 

 and fed frequently with small quantities of new milk, mixed, 

 according to the apparent weakness of the animal, either with 

 raw eggs or good gruel; while the bowels should, if occasion 

 requires, be opened by means of small doses of castor oil. If 

 any considerable period has to elapse before the natural term of 

 pregnancy would have expired, it will usually be necessary to 

 bring up the little animal entirely by the hand. 



"The treatment of abortion will differ little from that of par- 

 turition. If the farmer has once been tormented by this pest in 

 his dairy, he should carefully watch the approaching symptoms 

 of casting the calf, and as soon as he perceives them, should 

 remove the cow from pasture to a comfortable cowhouse or shed. 

 If the discharge is glairy, but not offensive, he may hope that 

 the calf is not dead ; he will be assured of this by the motion of 

 the foetus, and then it is possible that the abortion may yet be 

 avoided. He should hasten to bleed her, and that copiously, in 

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