be avoided, as other cattle
will eat the leaves without injury. When a cow has been milked for
several years, and begins to grow old, the most advantageous way is to
make her dry. To effect this, bruise six ounces of white rosin, and
dissolve it in a quart of water. The cow having been housed, should then
be bled and milked; and after the mixture has been administered, she
should be turned into good grass. She is no longer to be milked, but
fattened on rich vegetables. Cows intended for breeding, should be
carefully selected from those which give plenty of milk. During three
months previously to calving, if in the spring, they should be turned
into sweet grass; or if it happen in the winter, they ought to be well
fed with the best hay. The day and night after they have calved, they
should be kept in the house, and lukewarm water only allowed for their
drink. They may be turned out the next day, if the weather be warm, but
regularly taken in for three or four successive nights; or if the
weather be damp and cold, it is better to girt them round with sacking,
or keep them wholly within. Cows thus housed should be kept in every
night, till the morning cold is dissipated, and a draught of warm water
given them previously to their going to the field. If the udder of a
milking cow becomes hard and painful, it should be fomented with warm
water and rubbed with a gentle hand. Or if the teats are sore, they
should be soaked in warm water twice a day; and either be dressed with
soft ointment, or done with spirits and water. If the former, great
cleanliness is necessary: the milk at these times is best given to the
pigs. Or if a cow be injured by a blow or wound, the part affected
should be suppled several times a day with fresh butter; or a salve
prepared of one ounce of Castile soap dissolved in a pint and a half of
fresh milk over a slow fire, stirring it constantly, to form a complete
mixture. But if the wound should turn to an obstinate ulcer, take
Castile soap, gum ammoniac, gum galbanum, and extract of hemlock, each
one ounce; form them into eight boluses, and administer one of them
every morning and evening. To prevent cows from sucking their own milk,
as some of them are apt to do, rub the teats frequently with strong
rancid cheese, which will prove an effectual remedy.

COW HEELS. These are very nutricious, and may be variously dressed. The
common way is to boil, and serve them in a napkin, with melted butter,
mustard