452 
Bones, brittle, 226; broken, 218. 
Bony enlargements, 227. 
Bone spavin, 228; brief advice, 443. 
Bone, ulceration of, 224. 
Boric acid, 154; uses of, 433. 
Bots in cattle, 335; in horses, 333; in 
sheep, 336. 
Box stall, 122. 
Brands, on neck, 67. 
Brandy, doses of, 432. 
Breaking-cart, 81. 
Breaking colts, 78; puppies, 35. 
Breathing, abnormal, 113. 
Breeding rabbits, 45; young animals, 
197. 
Bridle, blind, 79; open, 7!. 
Broken down, 243. 
Broken wind, 288. 
Bronchitis, 281; brief advice, 443. 
Brushes, for grooming, 21. 
Bulky food, 6. 
Bull neck, 60. 
Bullet eyes, 60. 
Bunches, brief advice, 444. 
Burns and scalds, brief advice, 444. 
Butter of antimony, 433. 
Caked bag, 210. 
Caked udder, brief advice, 444. 
Calomel, doses of, 433. 
Camphor, spirits of, doses, 437. 
Cancer, 171, 306; brief advice, 306. 
Cantharides, 437. 
Caponizing, 187. 
Capped elbow, 172. 
Capped knee, 176. 
Capped hock, 174. 
Carbolic acid, for wounds, 143; strength 
of, 434. 
Care animals need, 16; of swine, 26; of 
young animals, 215. 
Cars, bedding for, 73; ventilation of, 73. 
Castor oil, doses of, 434. 
Casting horses, 146. 
Castration, 181; reasons for, 182; meth- 
ods of, 183. 
Catarrh, 279; acute, 279; chronic, 280. 
Catarrhal conjunctivitis, 311. 
Catching diseases, 356. 
Cats, 36; food for, 40. 
Cattle, age of, 58; bots, 335; drench- 
ing, 130; itch, 324; scab, 320; teeth 
of, 57; ticks, 338. 
Index 
Cattle, special diseases of,— 
Abortion, 376. 
Actinomycosis, 414. 
Big-jaw, 414. 
Blackleg, 364. 
Black quarter, 364. 
Bloating, 261. 
Bots, 335. 
Caked bag, 210. 
Choking, 256. 
Contagious abortion, 376. 
Contagious pleuro-pneumonia, 287. 
Cornstalk disease, 412. 
Cowpox, 387. 
Foot-and-mouth disease, 378. 
Fowls, 304. 
Garget, 211. 
Horn-fly, 331. 
Hoven, 261. 
Impaction of rumen, 260. 
Lead poisoning, 428. 
Mammitis, 210. 
Milk fever, 212. 
Parturient apoplexy, 212. 
Pleuro-pneumonia, 287. 
Quarter ill, 364. 
Scab, 320, 324. 
Sore mouth, 247. 
Southern fever, 372. 
Stone in the bladder, 404. 
Texas fever, 372. 
Tick fever, 372. 
Town-cow disease, 373. 
Tuberculosis, 380. 
Cavies, 46. 
Cement floors for swine, 27. 
Certificate of soundness, 71. 
Change of food, 7. 
Charbon, 362. 
Charcoal, doses of, 434. 
Chickens, broken bones in, 223; cholera, 
397; see, also, Fowls. 
Chloroform, 434. 
Choking, 256; brief advice, 444. 
Chorea, 295. 
Cladothriz actinomyces, 415. 
Clean stables, 3. 
Cleaning wounds, 161. 
Clipping horses, 23. 
Cockleburr poisoning, 421. 
Cenurus cerebralis, 342. 
Coffin-joint lameness, 95. 
Cold abscesses, 166. 
