Identifier: domesticanimalsh00alle (find matches)
Title: Domestic animals; : history and description of the horse, mule, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry, and farm dogs,
Year: 1858 (1850s)
Authors: Allen, Richard Lamb, 1803-1869 Allen, Richard Lamb, 1803-1869. Compend of American Agriculture
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Publisher: New York, : A.O. Moore
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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r will suffer. Greensugar-maple chips are best for smoke ; next to them are hick-ory, sweet-birch, corn-cobs, white-ash, or beech. The smoke-house is the best place to keep haras till wanted.If removed, they should be kept cool, dry, and free from flies.A canvass-cover for each, saturated with hme, w^hich may beput on with a whitewash brush, is a perfect protection againstflies. When not to be kept long, they may be packed in drysalt, or even in sweet brine, without injury. A common meth-od is to pack in dry oats, baked sawdust, &c. DISEASES OF SWIJNE. Mortifying as the fact may be to human pride, it is never-theless certain, that the mternal arrangements, the viscera,digestive organs, omnivorous propensities, and the cceneraJ PULMONARY AFFECTIONS, ETC. 205 physiological structure of the hog and the bear, more nearlyresemble man, than any other animal. Many of their diseasesmay therefore be expected to be a modification of those of thehuman species, and require a similar treatment
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Skeleton of a Pig A Maxilla inferior, vel posterior; lower jaw.—B Denies; the teeth.—C Ossana.si; the nasal bones.—D Maxilla superior, vel anterior; upper jaw.—E Osfrontis ; the frontal bone.—F Orbiculus ; the orbit or socket of the eye.—G Osoocipitis; the occipital bone.—H Atlas ; the first vertebra of the neck.—I Verte-bra; colli, vel cervicales ; the vertebra^ of the neck—J Vertebras dorsi, vel dorsa-les ; the vertebras of the back.—K Vertebrie luinborum, vel lunjbales ; the verte-bra; of the loins.—L Ossa coccygis ; the bones of the tail.—a Scapula; tlieshoulder-blade.—6 Humerus; the round shoulder-bone.—c Sternum; the breast-bone.—d Ulna ; the elbow.—c Radius ; the bone of the fore-arm.—/ Os navicu-lare ; the navicular bone.—^ Phalanges vel ossa pedis ; the first and second bonesof the foot.—h Phalanges, vel ossa pedis ; the bones of the hoof.—i Pelvis, (ossainnorninata ;) the haunch bones.—j Os femoris; the thigh-bone.—A; Patella; thes

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