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uterus in those animals. If the presentation has been 

 right, the usual labor is of short duration, if, however, 

 the pains have begun and persisted for 

 a long time without delivery, some hin- 

 drance to the normal delivery may be 

 suspected, the cause of such unnatural 

 happenings are numerous; may be due 

 to wrong presentation, such as two hind 

 legs and one fore leg coming together; 

 the animal coming upside down, or with 

 the head turned back, excess in volume 

 of the fetus, contraction of the genital 

 passages, enlargement of the head, due 

 to tumors, etc. In such cases the em- 

 ployment of a veterinarian is advisable 

 and profitable, because he is acquainted 

 with the parts, has the proper instru- 

 ments and drugs. The time of calling the 

 professional man should not be left until 

 the dam is exhausted or injured in- 

 ternally from the movements of the 

 fetus; the longer such cases are left the 

 greater the danger of inflammation of 

 the womb or tearing or wounding in- 

 ternally of the dam. If the stockman 

 is sufficiently expert let him bare his 

 arm to the shoulder, anoint with car- 

 bolized oil — one part of carbolic acid 

 to ten of linseed oil — introduce the arm into the 

 passage and endeavor to find the cause of the trouble. 

 If a head and one foreleg are shown fasten ropes 



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