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those belonging to my neighbors who have used the same means 

 under my advice and direction. 



The time the cattle have been unwell, has ordinarily varied 

 from 14 to 21 days; some have exceeded this. The healthy ac- 

 tion of the skin is stimulated ; the animals continue to lick them- 

 selves with little intermission throughout; they likewise retain, 

 or otherwise resume their cud, under conditions I should not 

 have expected; frequently, when supplied only with the gruel 

 and its ingredients, with not more than a pound or two of hay 

 per day, I have observed them cudding. 



They have lost in live weight IJ cwt. to 1| cwt. A conside- 

 rable portion of this will doubtless be in bulk from the use of the 

 purgative medicines. The milk cows, whilst suffering, have re- 

 duced their yield of milk from 2 to 4 quarts per day; but on 

 recovery, have almost wholly regained their former quantity. In 

 no instance have I found a greater diminution than what might 

 have been expected from the loss of condition and of time. 



The cocoa olein is prepared in Messrs. Price & Go's candle 

 manufactory expressly for cattle, being lower in price than what 

 is used by medical practitioners. 



In a conversation with Mr. Garnett, of Clitheroe, I learnt that 

 some time ago he purchased eight or ten polled Galloways from a 

 lot of 50 which were exposed in a market for sale. Nine weeki 

 after this they became affected with pleuro- pneumonia, froru 

 which he lost the greater part of them. He afterwards learnt 

 from the dealer from whom he bought them, that the remainder of 

 the herd of 50, which were sold to six or eight parties who resided 

 at a distance from each other, were also affected with the disease 

 in the same week and with the like result. 



From this, to which numerous instances similar in character 

 may be added, we may infer that the origin of the disease is some- 

 what remote. The 50 Galloways being nearly the same age would 

 have been purchased from various breeders, and sent together 

 from Galloway to Clitheroe, a distance of 150 miles. It seems 

 not improbable that from exposure to a sudden change of temper- 

 ature to which they were subjected after they had been collected 

 together by the dealer, the process of respiration has been im-, 

 peded, by which some impurity of the blood is engendered, which 



