The Farmer's Own Book: A treatise on the numerous diseases of the horse: with an explanation of their symptoms, and the course of treatment to be pursued; also a treatise on the diseases of horned cattleKoogle, J. D.
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The Farmer's Own Book: A treatise on the numerous diseases of the horse: with an explanation of their symptoms, and the course of treatment to be pursued; also a treatise on the diseases of horned cattle
RECEIPT:--Take two tablespoonsful Rappee Snuff, 1 gill Vinegar, 1 gill
Sweet Milk. Mix well and give as a drench. This has been thoroughly tried
and relieved nineteen cases out of twenty; it is simple and worthy of
attention. No time should be lost in this disease; what you can do must
be done at once, or not at all.
PREVENTATIVES:--Every Farmer should adopt the rule, to feed his cattle
the following:
Every morning, take 1 pint air slacked lime, 1 pint ground alum salt--mix
well and feed with offal. Every particle of the lime should be slacked.
Adopt this rule and you will have little or no trouble with your cattle.
Dose from 1 to 2 tablespoonsful every morning, in offal before turning
into pasture. Another preventative:--Take ashes, air slacked lime, and
ground alum salt, equal portions, and feed every morning, or if you have
not the lime, the salt and ashes will do well.
CHOKING.
Cattle are extremely liable to become choked on turnips, roots, apples,
potatoes.
REMEDY:--Give ½ pint of oil, which will lubricate the passage, then run
gag, or tube, or rod, with a knob at the end, down the throat; this
should be done carefully, so as not to injure the parts. Should you not
give relief by this means, find the position, or place where the apple,
or turnip has lodged. This may be done by pressing carefully along down
the throat; place a block on the one side of the object, then strike a
right smart blow with a mallet, or billet of wood, sufficient to crush
the apple or object to pieces, which will instantly be blown out, and the
animal relieved.
POISONS.
Little can be done in this, unless you have a pump, so as to extract the
poison from the stomach, then follow with physics.
EMBROCATION FOR BITE OF VIPER.
Take hartshorn, spirits camphor, olive oil, equal quantities--mix and rub
the wound, and neighboring parts well, morning and night.
One pint whiskey, 1 ounce hartshorn, 1 oz. spirits camphor, ½ pint warm
water should be given to the animal.
WOUNDS.
The first thing is to clean the wound from all dirt and gravel. A good
fomentation with warm water will effect this. If the wound is much
lacerated, or punctured, we must bring them neatly together. If any
portions so torn as to prevent its from doing this completely, they
should be removed with a knife, or sharp scissors; then the edges brought
together by means of passing a needle and strong waxed twine deeply
through them, making two, three or more stitches, half inch from each
other. Then apply the tincture of myrrh and aloes, and bandage tolerably
firm, not so much so as to prevent the circulation. If there should be
proud flesh, the wound must be cleansed with a strong solution of blue
vitriol, and then dressed with the tincture. All wounds should be first
well cleansed, before applying anything on them.
ANGLE BERRIES OR WARTS.
These are little warty tumors, growing on various parts of the skin, and
sometimes on the teats.
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