142 THE JERSEY, ALDERNEY AND GUERNSEY COW. 



management, I have never had one occasion to give a 

 single drench My system is to give the cow a warm 

 bran-mash with plenty of chilled water, not too warm, 

 which treatment has always proved successful. 



If the cow, after calving, should not milk down well, 

 the udder should be fomented with warm water. 



In a small practical work of this nature it would be 

 useless to enter at length upon the diseases of cows , a 

 few hints will be much better than a dry dissertation. 

 No information that could be here imparted would be 

 of any use in the absence of experience. It will be only 

 necessary, therefore, to give some account of the symp- 

 toms that usually indicate disease either in existence or 

 in embryo. 



The first symptom usually is the shrinking of the 

 milk ; the second symptom is a rough and staring ap- 

 pearance of the coat, hollowness of the eyes and a want 

 of moisture at the nose. What is called a chill is easily 

 discovered by pressing with the hand on the back, any- 

 where behind the shoulders, which act will cause the 

 cow to shrink if she is not in good health. 



Nothing but knowledge and experience will justify 

 the attempt to physic the cow without the advice of the 

 veterinary surgeon ; and it must be borne in mind that 

 the object of this little book is to instruct in the man- 

 agement of milch cows alone, and not to enter upon 

 the management and treatment of the various other 

 classes of cows which are kept for a very different pur- 

 pose than the production of milk and butter. 



