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in his Diftrefs, little dreaming of what ill Confequence this freindly 
Ad was about to prove to himfelf : for, being fo many Hours con- 
verfanc with the difeafed Cows, fo much of the infectious Effluvia ad- 
her’d to his Clothes, that, as he was walking home, which was about 
a Mile and half, his Way lying thro’ a Field in which feveralof his 
own Cows were feeding, he no fooner enter’d the Field, but the Cat- 
tle all left ofF their Grazing, ran to the farther End of the Field fnort- 
ing and flinging up their Nofes, ihewing the greateft Uneafinefs at 
their Mafter’s Approach, and endeavouring, as much as poflibly they 
could, to avoid him, as tho’ they fmelt fomething very difagreeable ; 
and fo indeed it proved to them, for the very next Day many of them 
fell Tick, and died in a few Days. 
A certain Cow- keeper in Tot hill Fields, IVeJlminJler , had 30 Cows, 
out of which Number 4 only have furvived; 2 never took the Infec- 
tion, one had it and recovered ; and he allured me, that one had the 
Diftemper four feveral times ; for that, as foon as fhe was well for a 
Week or ten Days, (he relapfed, and went thro* all the Stages of the 
Dlfeafe, but now continues well. 
In St. James's Park are kept feventeenCows,of which Number four 
were bought in new at IVelfh-Fair ; out of thefe eleven are dead • 
Jour never had the Diftemper, and two recovered from ir. Thefe 
are the Cows which were fo plentifully blooded, mention’d in my 
former Paper, N°. 477. p.552. and one of them, then Paid to be 
very big with Calf, being recovered, went the proper Time, 
had a living Calf, and is well and thrives : Indeed they knock’d the 
Calf on the Head, becaufe they wanted the Milk. 
I am informed, that a Farmer at Little Chelfea , who had but ten 
Cows, has not had any fall fick, tho’ his Neighbours had Cows flek all 
around him. His Management was, not to let any of his Cattle have 
any Communication with his Neighbours; to keep them within 
Doors, littered like Horfes with clean Straw ; to feed them with good 
Hay, and give them Plenty of clean Water to drink; to turn them 
out every Day at Noon into his Yard to air themfelves; and, in the 
mean time, to clean out the Cow-houfe carefully ; removing all the 
Litter, wafhing the Pavement clean with a Birch-broom, laying clean 
fitter, and keeping them warm a nights. 
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