DOSING SICK CATTLE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20690, 9 October 1930, Page 20

DOSING SICK CATTLE.

CARE NEEDED WITH LIQUIDS. Liquid medicines aro usually administered to cattle by means of a bottle, unless the dose is such as may be {jiven in a bran mash, or in a small pail of luke warm water with a handful of meal or bran on top. There is less danger in giving a cow a bottie of linseed oil, as a rule, than a bottle of dissolved salts, because the oil runs more slowly. Too hasty action on the part of the man who is administering tho dose is always liable to choke tho animal. The cow is taken by the nose, the head held up, and (lie neck of the bottle inserted at the side (if I lie mouth, and as far back as possible, taking care I hat tho mouth of the boftie is riot obstructed by the animal's tongue. Tho tongue; of course, should be free, for it is mainly by the muscular movements of this organ that, the entrance to the windpipe is closed during the passage of food or liquid into the gullet,.

if the medicine is of an irritant character, the introduction of the smallest quantity into I lie air passage my result in serious injury. If coughing is started, the animal must lie allowed 'to clear ils throat, and windpipe before I lie rest of tho dose is given. Some medicines may bo given in the form ol fi ball or tube, as to a horse. In (his <ase the operator should wear a leather glove on the hand ]1111. into thn animal's mouth to avoid scratches from (lie teeth If Iho ball is well coaled with linseed oil. and put well bark nn the root of I lie tongue, il will lie swallowed with liltlo trouble SUIVmiKANKAN CLOYKK. Experiments that were lately made near Tumhorumha, New South Wales, indicate that subterranean clover is about to play a big part in tho control (if St. .John's wort,, one of tho most persistent weeds, according to a writer in the Melbourne Loader. Last year, Mr. 0. 0. Tlartlett, agricultural instructor for the district, established a two-acre plot of clover on the property of Mr. R. V. Savage, on the 'Maims area, which has long been a centre of heavy infestation. The plot,, which carried a thick growth of Ihe weed, was ploughed and harrowed, and then sown on March 13. with 81b. of clover per acre. A hundredweight of superphosphate pel acre was sown with the seed. Where the subterranean clover has taken a good hold there is •earccly a plant of wort to bo found.