CATTLE AND THEIR DISEASES
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tity of tallow, because she feeds freely, and when dry the food which went to make milk is converted into fat and flesh. But there is no breed of cows with which gentle gentleness of
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the production of very rich milk and cream, but till within the last twenty-five or thirty years they were comparatively coarse, ugly, and ill-shaped. Improvements have been very mark
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ourteen quarts of milk a day; and the largest sized from eighteen to twenty-six quarts a day, and even more. Just after calving, if arrived at maturity and fed with good, wholesome, m
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they are fed with grains, tares, and cabbages, and a proportion of rowen, or second-cut hay. They are supplied regularly until they are turned out to grass, when they pass the whole
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tive qualities. Every farmer knows the milk-producing properties of rowen, or second crop, which is generally cut before it ripens. No operation on the farm is of greater importance
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them to give as great a flow of milk as any hay, unless it be good rowen. INDIAN CORN makes an exceedingly valuable fodder, both as a means of carrying a herd of milch cows through
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n may be furnished with good-sized ventilators on the top, for every twenty-five feet of its length, and with wooden tubes leading from the cellar to the top. There should also be wi
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rom two to two and a half quarts of new milk each meal, twice in the twenty-four hours. Some never give them any other food when young except milk, lessening the quantity when the cal
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and the sirloin, the very favorite cuts,--which always command from twenty to twenty-five per cent. more than any other part of the ox,--are just those parts on which the largest qua
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from Russia. Ox-tallow consists of seventy-six parts of stearine and twenty-four of oleine, out of one hundred parts. The _horns_ of oxen are used for many purposes. The horn consist
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hen give drachm doses of the extract of belladonna; give no food for twenty-four or forty-eight hours, according to circumstances. Bleeding, if done early, is often beneficial. Counte
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together; or give one pint of linseed-oil, to which add from ten to twenty drops of castor-oil. If the bowels are not open in twenty-four hours, give four ounces of sulphate of magne
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sq., of Bordentown, New Jersey. After she had been in labor for some twenty hours, he was called upon to see her. Upon inquiry, he found that several persons had been trying, without
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er been exposed to a similar influence. Of these forty-six animals, twenty were experimented on at Pomeraye, two at Charentonneau, thirteen at Alfort, and eleven, in the fourth exper
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d from Belmont. Mr. Curtis Stoddard, a young man of North Brookfield, went down, the very last of June, last year, and purchased three calves of Mr. Chenery, of Belmont. He brought th
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for the formation of the cyst or pus. In Mr. Needham's herd, about twenty-eight days intervened between the first and second case of disease, instead of about fourteen, as in Mr. Ol
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der and haunch; the animal totters, falls and dies in from twelve to twenty-four hours. _Treatment._--Early bleeding is requisite here, to be followed by active purgatives; after whi
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e accidental productions met with among cattle, with the exception of wens, a certain kind of indurated tumor, chiefly situated about the head and throat, has abounded most in my prac
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n during the operation; but this derangement generally ceases within twenty-four hours. Should the contrary occur, administer one or two sudorific draughts, such as wine, warm cider,
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Transcriber's Note:
Summarized here are the corrections applied to the text.
List of Illustrations:
"Frolicksome" was spelled "Frolicsome" as opposed to the illustration
In color, the pure Ayrshires are generally red
"Ayrshires" was printed as "Aryshires"
Some packers put
meat in a copper which is rendered air-tight
"meat" was printed as "meal"
The principal substances of which _glue_ is made
"substances" was printed as "subtances"
degeneracy of acute into chronic dysentery
"disentery" was printed as "dystentery"
It most frequently
occurs in dry, hot weather.
"frequently" was printed as "freqently"
acquired additional deleterious agency
"acquired" was printed as "accquired"
and have found the spur in the hay wherever the
disease is found.
"disease" was printed as "diesase"
differing from like phenomena by other causes
"phenomena" was printed as "phenonema"
until this singular
phenomenon is clearly accounted for
"phenomenon" was printed as "phenonemon"
embryotomy was
in this instance employed
"embryotomy" was printed as "emrbyotomy"
The diseased lungs
sometimes attain inordinate weight.
"diseased" was printed as "direased"
supported by alcoholic
stimulants.
"alcoholic" was printed as "alcholic"
When cut into, it did
not present the red, mottled, organized appearance of those
cases with air-tight cysts.
"present" was printed as "prevent"
It comprehended
one of the parotid glands
"comprehended" was printed as "comprehened"
drawn tightly to the posterior ring, by a simple
bow-knot.
"knot" was printed as "not"
must be supplied by alcolized
water
"alcolized" was printed as "alcotized"
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