146 LIVERPOOL VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
week during the first month; but the mere presence of the seton, 
acting as a foreign body, will serve to keep up a little irritation and 
slight suppuration, and so long as this is done, so long shall we 
have the inflammatory action. The seton, however, must not be 
expected to do away with the necessity for good management. 
In the successful rearing of young healthy stock, a careful regu¬ 
lated diet is most essential; a small but regular allowance of 
linseed or oil-cake given daily from the time of weaning is a very 
great help. Good oil-cake ought to contain from 22 to 25 per 
cent, of fibrin-forming material. 
Never at any time should they be allowed to fall back in con¬ 
dition, but without undue forcing they should be kept steadily 
thriving ; they should also be allowed an open shed to run in, to 
protect them from stormy weather, and besides all this it is very 
essential to give them a change of pasture occasionally. 
Every farmer ought to be acquainted with the nature of food 
necessary for the building up of the fine framework of young 
stock. They are very apt to be neglected during a severe winter ; 
when the ground is covered with snow, they may, and may not, get 
their rumen, about half filled once a day with a very inferior 
quality of oat-straw, which in reality contains but very little real 
nourishment, and only a very small quantity of protein compounds; 
sometimes, however, we find oat-straw of a better quality, according 
to the nature of the soil, kind of grain, the variety of the season, 
and the condition when harvested. All these have their influence 
on the nutritive properties of the straw. The same may be said of 
turnips and other roots grown for cattle purposes. 
It is highly essential that the food of young cattle should 
contain a good quantity of phosphates and bone earth, which are 
found in milk, barley, oats and wheat. 
Again there are certain elements required for the production of 
muscles and gelatineous tissues ; beans, peas, and good linseed 
contain these. The above articles of food may be grown of the 
very best quality and cheapest possible rate by the farmer himself, 
instead of being induced (as is often the case by seeing the 
flaming advertisements in our public newspapers) to purchase the 
so-called artificial food for the purpose of fattening our young stock, 
which in reality does not contain anything like the amount of 
nourishment found in what the farmer can supply for himself, at 
about one fourth part of the price asked by these vendors. 
And now, Gentlemen, we have approached that division of our 
subject which is perhaps the most unsatisfactory, viz.: 
The Treatment . 
When the disease is thoroughly established or developed, treat¬ 
ment, in my opinion, is almost worse than useless. This fact is 
well known, not only to the members of our profession, but to the 
farmer himself, consequently our opinion is very rarely attainable. 
The animal affected, to have any chance of a recovery, must be 
