LACERATION OF THE VAGINA OF A COW. 511 
entirely for green food, without growing seed or making hay, 
I have seldom had less than seven crops during the year, and 
I have had ten, each weighing from six to twenty tons to the 
acre. The same results will follow to others using the same 
means with the same plant. Grass sown in August will 
produce a crop in an ordinary autumn in November, another 
in February or early in March, in six weeks a third, in five 
weeks a fourth, in three weeks a fifth, and in three weeks 
more a sixth. These two last, grown with a high tempera- 
ture, may be the two largest crops of the year, perhaps a 
yard high and thick upon the ground, after which they will 
require more time, and the crop becomes lighter as the 
temperature falls with the approach of winter, going from 
three to five weeks, six weeks, and eight weeks, according to 
the weather and the attention paid to it. Watering the same 
day the grass is cut is the only mode to obtain the largest 
amount of produce. If deferred till to-morrow, which occa- 
sionally never comes, two, three, and often seven days are 
lost” 
EXTENSIVE LACERATION OE THE YAGINA OF A COW. 
RECOVERY. 
Mr. J. W. Maw, veterinary student, has sent us the fol- 
lowing particulars relating to a case of wilful laceration of 
the vagina, and contiguous parts a cow : 
Mr. Crosby, who is in practice at Thornton Pickering, 
Yorkshire, as a veterinary surgeon, was called a short time 
ago to attend a milch cow which presented symptoms of 
colic. On his visiting her, he observed a piece of stick about 
three inches long protruding from the vagina, and on re- 
moving it he found that it Was about a yard in length, and 
had been thrust through the vagina and likewise the rectum 
into the abdomen. 
Previous to its removal the cow did not evince such 
symptoms as one would have been led to expect in an 
animal suffering from such a severe injury. There was but 
little external haemorrhage, the symptoms upon the whole 
rather indicating that internal haemorrhage was going on. 
Anodynes were administered, and quietude enjoined. 
No inflammatory symptoms supervened, and in the course 
cf ten days or a fortnight the animal had recovered. 
The atrocious act is supposed to have been perpetrated by 
some gipsies, who were located near the place at the time, 
from their going in the following morning to beg the carcase, 
thinking, probably, that the poor animal was dead. 
