Management of Cattle. 
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j)urchased at Falkirk fair, and driven direct into West Norfolk. 
A week after their arrival they were divided into three lots. 
Those most forward in condition were put into a straw-yard, and 
fed upon turnips with a small quantity of linseed cake. The 
others were equally divided : one lot was turned into some fresh- 
water marshes upon the coast, and the remainder were driven to 
a grass-farm 14 miles inland. A fortnight after Christmas the 
pleuro broke out, first amongst the forward cattle in the yard, 
and in a very few days afterwards in both the other lots. A 
skilful veterinary surgeon was called in, who tried various reme- 
dies with very little success; and out of the sixty only twenty- 
eight escaped the disease or recovered. Many of the best beasts 
were slaughtered so soon as the symptoms exhibited themselves; 
and from subsequent experience of this fatal malady I do not 
hesitate to advise the use of the knife at once, if the animal be 
anything like beef. Pegging the chest was thought useful to 
some of the poorer cattle ; but a large proportion in each lot fell 
victims to the complaint. 
The chief fact worthy of observation in the above account is, 
that notwithstandmg the almost immediate separation of the 
original drove into three different localities, and the difference of 
their treatment, yet the pleuro appeared in the same form at 
ncirly the same time, and attended with precisely similar symp- 
toms in each of the lots. We must therefore, 1 think, conclude 
that the germ of the disorder had been lurking in their system 
ere they reached their destination, and that whatever may be 
the original cause of the malady, whether it be atmospheric or 
otherwise, it is too often contracted, and has already made deep 
inroad on the constitution before we are aware of its presence, or 
have the opportunity of applying a remedy. Take, again, an- 
other case. In the following autumn thirty more West Highland 
cattle were brought upon the same farm, and about a month after 
their arrival were attacked with pleuro. They were all in low 
condition, and not ready for the butcher, and it was determined 
to try the cold water remedy. The moment a bullock betrayed 
symptoms of the disease he was removed from the pasture, placed 
in a roomy, well ventilated box, and covered with several horse- 
rugs thoroughly saturated with cold water. Over these rugs 
several dry sacks were thrown, and 4 oz. of spirit of nitric ether 
were administered in a quart of cold water. The same dose was 
repeated in half an hour ; and in five or six hours afterwards, the 
wet clothes being removed, plenty of dry warm clothes were put 
on, and allowed to remain for several days. If the symptoms did 
not abate, 2 oz. of the ether were administered every day. The 
only food which the animals were permitted to have was some 
thick gruel^ made by dissolving powdered linseed cake in boiling 
