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dejections become whitish like curdled milk, and tinged with 

 blood. The calf usually dies within a week from the attack, 

 sometimes sooner. Natural recovery is very slow and atten- 

 ded with such a weakness of the digestive organs as usually 

 to render the animal valueless. 



Treatment. — Two or three tablespoonfuls of castor oil, 

 according to the age of the calf. Follow in about six hours 

 with laudanum, one teaspoonful, prepared chalk or magnesia, 

 ginger, and tincture of kino, one or two tablespoonfuls of 

 eacli, in two doses, with an interval of six hours. The 

 laudanum, ginger, etc., may be mixed with wheat flour and 

 finely-pulverized charcoal, then moistened and made into a 

 half dozen balls the size of a large hickory nut, and given 

 in two doses. 



Medicine will do little good unless the animal is removed 

 to fresh, clean quarters. The premises should be thoroughly 

 disinfected by the use of carbolic acid or some other disin- 

 fectant, and no other calves should occupy the pens for a 

 considerable period. The fraction of a year between one 

 season's calves and another has been found insufficient to 

 render the pens safe. Cleaning out the pens and supplying 

 a layer of fresh earth answers for the floor, but this will not 

 reach the walls, racks, and fodder, which may be more or less 

 infected. Personal experience some years since taught us the 

 exceeding difficulty of cleansing an infected calf-pen. We 

 advise thorough work at the outset whenever the disease 

 appears. 



HOG CHOLERA 



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has been confined to a few pens, where it has been undoubt- 

 edly introduced from abroad, and has not spread in any 

 locality so as to be general or considered epidemic. 



Most other cases of possibly contagious disease liave been 

 so strictly local as to warrant the opinion that they were the 

 result of local causes, and hence would possess little public 

 interest. 



GLANDERS. 



The Commission have continued to examine, with the aid 

 of competent veterinarians, all suspected cases of glanders 



