Apply a strong wash of alum.
Rub with the juice of milk-weed.
Poultice with grated carrot.
Cut off the wart with sharp scissors, when the cow is dry. It will bleed little, and soon heal.
Sore Necks on Working Oxen.
These occur when worked in wet weather, or with bad yokes. The remedy is, rub with a healing application. The preventive is, good yokes; the application of grease; or a decoction of white or yellow oak bark applied to the affected parts. Or, a better preventive is a canvass or leather cap to protect the neck entirely from the storm.
The Bite of Poisonous Snakes
May be cured by shaking together equal parts of olive oil and hartshorn, and rubbing the wound and adjacent parts three or four times a day. For a full-grown animal, one quart of olive oil and an ounce of hartshorn should be administered internally, in addition to the above.