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Title: Farmer and stockbreeder
Year: 1889 (1880s)
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Publisher: London
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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paste can be made andapplied. Colonials, having themselves to dependon, may take the old-fashioned course of the im-mediate application of a blister, and include awide area. This drastic remedy has much torecommend it. The adjacent parts swell soquickly as to contract or altogether occludethe opening; a water cushion is formed betrweenthe skin and the breached capsular ligament,and the pressure within is helpful. Later on theabsofption of the swelling is aided, and anotherblister may be quite the right treatment. Noprobe should be used, and rest should be obtainedby slings during the constitutional disturbancethat follows. In most cases a permanent enlarge-ment is left after the anirrfal recovers themobility of the joint, but he may continue to bea good worker for years. Blistering an injuredmember seems at first sight revolting, but thesuccess of the method fully justifies it and reallyreduces the sum of suffering as calculated over thewhole of the probable period of incapacitation.
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Photo by)Sire, G aiouceater Old Spots Sow, IDEAL iilslake Major.— Winner of l.vt prize Tfere.fnrdshiri: and Worrrstyr nnd 2nd Royal.—Exhibited bfi Mr. A. K. KIlllliniiFOIlD, and sold to Mr. T. L. M.\RTIN, A.SHK WARItKN IIOUSK, liASINdSTOKE (Sport and Orncral.K. KIRUY, FAWLKY, NEAR THE FABMER AND STOCKBREEDER AUOTTST 2, 1920. Position oi Light Horse Breeding WHAT THE SHOWS INDICATE Since the show season commenced I have goneto one important show after anotlier, and I havejiaid particular attention to light liortes. Forone reason I expected to find that they hadsuffered pretty severely. They always do afteru great war. Men leave the stables for the fieldof battle, and no capaljle men come after them,or to be exact, not enough capable men comeafter them to do what it is necessary shouldbe done. Then, naturally, when there is a timeof heavy pressure light mares are not so muchbred from. Something has perforce to heneglected, and as it turns out, it is generallylight horse breeding on

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