The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1904-08-12

| OF head are alike Interested, the al
ference being only in degree. Often
us the necessity occurs, and simple
as the procedure may be, it often is
| the occasion of great Inconvenience ;
so great that many an animal re-
mains i'll poor health and many an
other is allowed to die, simply be-
cause of the usual difficulty and fire.
quent impossibility, under common
methods of practice, to administer
| the needed remedy.
Range animals, which are entirely
unused to being handled, offer the
greatest difficulties, but even the
| family COW is 50 suspicious, and pos
scsses senses so accute that the Civ
! ing of large and disagreeable doses
is attended by serious difficulty.
The ideal medicine is that which
may be administered in food or
drink without exciting Objection on
| the part of the animal for which the
dose is intended. For such forms of
medicine salt forms IL most satisfac'
tory medium. Indeed for range
stock this is practically the only
feasible way for giving medicine, eX-
ccpt in very critical cases, rs ii is
the only means available without
catching and Gorcibly administering
the material. A good illustration Of
this form of administration is the
case of the small quantities of sui
phate of iron and Stacked lime found
SO salutary in curing "Salt-sick. v
Animals either confined or ranging
will readily take these simple, and
so nearly tasteless, substances with a
little salt
The two great difficulties to the
satisfactory and frequent admins
tration of medicine result from the
large doses and disagreeable taste of
most OF the substances used. Take
gypsum salts one of the most COM
mon forms Of physic, as an illustra-
tion of the difficulty. No animal
can possibly be induced to swallow
the nauseating stuff except under
fUrclble cOmpulsiOn. The common
| dose of Id. for II COW is quantity
so large as to necesSltate long contln-
ued swallowing. One or two pints
Of water are the usual medium for
administration. A quart bottle, two
men and a fight usually suffice to
trickle some of the stuff down the
up-stretched gullet, and slobber the
balance over the persons making the
attack. One dose Is ABOUT al Ihe
average man Will attempt III ne mas
had opportunity to attend church
and undergo moral publication; and
the daily, or Oftener, doses recon-
Imended are seldom accomplished.
The correction for all this trouble,
and lack OF administering Is OFTEN
simple enough, FIRST the most con-
centrated materials possible snoulu
be selected for the dose second
solids instead OF ilqulds shouia De
used. Never dissolve any hleulcihe
for an animal. The SOLID material
ground into II powder, Is by lar the
most convenient ana sure actlhg
form of administration II large
quantities of water are also needed,
give the solid medicine ana then leu
the animal drink the water clear
When 10 drains OF aloes or ~ drops
of CrOton oil are tull dose OF physlc
for II COW, there Is seldom excuse lor
the enormous doses oil salls So Ire
quently resorted to,
The form OF administration may
be as much slmplifled as the cllafac'
ter of the materials to be used. SUP
stitute the pill, i'll effect, Tor the
| "drench.' An ordinary dose OF pow
dered material may conveniently be
wrapped in a piece Of tissue paper.
Wrapping this again III corn shucks
makes IA most satisfactory meul'llil
for administering. Making INTO
ball, or oblOng pill, by kneadlnS WIN
bread moistened with little syrup,
is Il most convenient form Tor giving
most materials. Several doses may
be made up at a time ready Tor use.
After the form of giving the medl-
cine has been settled, the method OF
giving is to be DECIDED on. The
change of form makes the method,
OF way of giving, comparatively SIM
pie. One man may easily admins
ter to the average horse or cow Ihe
latter is the easier animal, because
of the lower position of the head,
and the absence of front teeth on the
upper jaw. Use Il halter, or with
niece of rope make nose halter, by
passing the rope around the neck ana
giving it Il half hitch around the
nose. This loop around the nose
must be tight and not slip. Slip the
left hand through this nose loop.
You can now hold the head of any
ordinary animal. Take the pill, or
package of medicine, in the right
hand and force it into the side of
/ the mouth, pOking 1t back AS lar as
the base OF the tongue, making we
T T%, is no nossibilitv of being bit
tam NV - COW. Hold the head up II
, mo- and the dose is down.
The horse mnst be handled slight
lv ditfaramt hpcause of his bling
rSs,nt 18th Have him backed
nrainst - fence or wall. by means of
" hnitar. SEIZE his tongue in the
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