An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles encyclopdiaofa01loud Year: 1831 1364 ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AGRICULTURE, first additional the field.
An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles encyclopdiaofa01loud Year: 1831 1364 ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AGRICULTURE, first additional the field. He can frequently examine the skins of the cattle, and give immediate notice of any erup- tion ; for cattle, after being a month or six weeks on turnips, get very itchy in the skin, the violent rubbing of which often causes ulcerated spots to break out, but which can easily enough be cured at first, by an application of a decoction of tobacco, with a little spirit of tar. He should rub those parts of the body which they cannot easily get at to lick with an old currycomb, and scrape off any dung that may adhere to the hair in the hinder and under parts of the body, with a large blunt knife ; and this attention is more necessary at the beginning of the season than afterwards, as the freshness of the stems, and the juiciness of the roots of the turnips, and the greediness which all cattle evince for them at first, often cause a looseness in their bowels. He should observe the first indication of lice in their skins in the early part of the spring, when these may be easily destroyed, by applying to the affected parts a solution of mercurial ointment; but, if neglected, they will cause much uneasiness to the cattle, making their hair peel off, and exposing to view an unsightly skin ; and he may handle them frequently on every part of their body, as they are very fond of being handled when they are rising in condition ; and it is also serviceable to familiarise them with man; as c
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