Domestic Animals: History and description of the horse, mule, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry and farm dogs; with directions for their management, breeding, crossing, rearing, feeding, and preparation for a profitable market; also their diseases and remedies. Together with full directions for the management of the dairy.Allen, Richard Lamb
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Domestic Animals: History and description of the horse, mule, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry and farm dogs; with directions for their management, breeding, crossing, rearing, feeding, and preparation for a profitable market; also their diseases and remedies. Together with full directions for the management of the dairy.
Allen, Richard Lamb
Domestic animals
May be removed by simmering the bark of the root of bitter-sweet in
lard, till it becomes very yellow. When cool, apply it to the swollen
udder once in 8 or 10 hours; or wash it several times a day in cold
water.
A pint of horseradish, fed once a day, cut up with potatoes or meal, is
useful for the same purpose.
This is also a tonic, helps the appetite, and is good for oxen subject
to heat.
Garget
Is a more intense degree of inflammation than exists in caked bag and
sore, swollen teats, and shows itself in hard bunches on the udder.
The cow should be bled, and take a large dose of physic; then wash the
udder as in caked bag.
Repeated doses of sulphur is a good remedy.
Garget, or scoke root, given of the size of a large finger, grated and
fed in their food, is a general application with farmers. The garget
plant grows from three to six feet high, with a purple stalk, and
strings of berries hanging down between the branches.
Sore Teats
May be healed by rubbing with goose oil, cream, new milk; or make the
same applications for it as for caked bag. The bag and teats should be
well cleansed with warm soft water, if to be followed by any ointment.
The following application is recommended by Youatt: One ounce of yellow
wax and three of lard; melt together, and when cooling, rub in one
quarter ounce of sugar of lead, and a drachm of alum finely powdered.
Warts
Are of two kinds; the first, on the outer skin, may be removed by
rubbing with camphorated olive oil. The others penetrate into the flesh,
and may be removed by a ligature of fine twine, or silk, or india-rubber
drawn into a string, and tied tightly around the wart, which falls off
in a few days.
_Remedies._--Nitrate of silver, (lunar caustic,) applied to the wart,
will remove it, but it produces a sore.
Apply a strong wash of alum.
Rub with the juice of milk-weed.
Poultice with grated carrot.
Cut off the wart with sharp scissors, when the cow is dry. It will bleed
little, and soon heal.
Sore Necks on Working Oxen.
These occur when worked in wet weather, or with bad yokes. The _remedy_
is, rub with a healing application. The _preventive_ is, good yokes; the
application of grease; or a decoction of white or yellow oak bark
applied to the affected parts. Or, a better preventive is a canvass or
leather cap to protect the neck entirely from the storm.
The Bite of Poisonous Snakes
May be cured by shaking together equal parts of olive oil and hartshorn,
and rubbing the wound and adjacent parts three or four times a day. For
a full-grown animal, one quart of olive oil and an ounce of hartshorn
should be administered internally, in addition to the above.
For Stings of Bees, Hornets, &c.
Apply warm vinegar and salt, rubbing the parts thoroughly.
For a Forming Tumor.
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