Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . erus, and the calf taken out. Itis seldom resorted to, for obvious cord is passed around the neck, andtied tight enough to raise the vein, overwhich a fleam is held and struck with theblood-stick. AVhen sufficient blood has beentaken, remove the cord and close the woundwith a twisted (figure 8 ) suture.
Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . erus, and the calf taken out. Itis seldom resorted to, for obvious cord is passed around the neck, andtied tight enough to raise the vein, overwhich a fleam is held and struck with theblood-stick. AVhen sufficient blood has beentaken, remove the cord and close the woundwith a twisted (figure 8 ) suture. The article on Bleeding, in the Horse de-partment, should be read in connection withthe foregoing directioiis. Dehorning cattle: —The best way to do this is to breed them off. Toget rid of the horn,< from those passed beyond the button stage use asaw or a pair of clippers. Under this age, moisten a small piece of causticl)ota&h and apply gently over the coming horn until the skin Alps fromthe tip and the job is done. Bloody Milk:— Mix a pound of epsom salts and a teaspoonful of salt-peter in a quart of warm water and give as a drench. Give a teaspoon-fi;! of .=altpeter in a bran mash every night, bathe the bag with warmual! r md rub in lard and ox IKEPAREl) FOR 15LEl,l>ING. CHAPTER XVIIl. RECIPES FOR CATTLE. As a matter of convenience to the render, to whom time will often beprecious in treating his sick stock, we add this chapter, rccapitulatiug allour prescriptions for cattle. No. 1. No. HEALING LOTION. Sugar of lead, 1 ounce,Carbolic acid, 2 drachmS;Laudaimni, 1 to make 1 pint, three limes a day. ANTISEPTIC LOTION. Carbolic acid, 1 part,Olive oil, 8 parts, three times a day ANTISEPTIC DRENCH. Nitro-muriatic acid, 1 drachm,Bi-chroniate potash, 3 potash, 2 , y^ pint. as one dose two or three timesa dav. No. G. No. No. NO. 4. TONIC POWDER. Copperas, % , a handful, Powder and
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