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Show 1 To mend Broken Legs of Animals.. o A correspondent of the Rural New Yorker advises stock-growers not to be in haste to destroy any an iron I tba' may break a leg, for by means. ofplas-ter ofplas-ter of Pari, and some bagging strips, the limb may be set and supported until the fractured bone unites again. His. plan has been, bo1 h with calveB and sheep, to wjn.d the strips of bagging bag-ging about the limb, plaster over with ctilcined plaster mixed to a thin paslo, and other strips wound over ihat and more plaster applied, the leg fastened to splints of wood unVil the vpastei sets. Xh e animal, would limp' aroiind I for a few days on thrre l.ea, but svouldrecover wilhout blemish. |