DISEASES AND TREATMENT OF CATTLE 
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Treatment. — Removing the eye in the early stages of the 
• iisease may effect a cure. This is done as follows: Throw 
and secure the animal; have the head heM solid, and with a 
knife cut around tiie eye and loosen it from the eyelids. Stick 
a small hook into the eye and pull it out as far as you can. 
Take a piece of carriage trimmers' twine and slip it around 
the back part and tie it tight. This will stop the bleeding 
Cut the eye off in front of where the string is tied. Saturate 
a piece of cotton batting with Monsell's solution of iron and 
insert it in the hole formerly occupied by the eye. Take the 
batting out the next day and bathe twice a day with luke- 
warm water and soap ; after bathing apply white lotion. If 
the parts are raw and angry looking touch them with caustic 
])otash every day. This may effect a cure, but in a case 
where it grows again, or where the growth is very bad before 
operating, or the bones diseased, have the animal destroyed 
immediately. 
2. Foreign Substances in the Eye. 
Sometimes chaff, barley-beards or small pieces of stick 
get into the eye and become lodged there. 
Symptoms. — The animal suffers very much. Tears run 
down over the cheek. The eye becomes very much inflamed 
and dim, and if allowed to run on the sight soon becomes 
covered with a white scum. Examine the eye closely and 
find out what is in it. 
Treatment. — In all cases when you find the cause of the 
trouble remove it ; then bathe the eye every day with new 
milk or lukewarm water. Wipe dry and apply, in and around 
the eye every time after bathing, the eye wash. Keep this 
treatment up till better. 
3. Growth on the Haw. 
This is a red growth in the inner corner of the eye, 
caused by some irritation of the haw — a piece of cartilage or 
tough membrane that fits across the inner corner of the eye. 
Symptoms. — At first the eye looks sore and angry in the 
inner corner and runs water freely, followed by a red, angry 
looking growth growing out of the corner. The growth may 
vary from the size of a marble to a small hen's egg. 
Treatment. — Secure the animal by throwing it in the 
same manner as described for castrating bulls. Have the 
