190 Dairy Management. 



At noon I give gruel, with addition of a little sugar only. The 

 doses of treacle and sulphur are modified so as to keep the bowels 

 moderately open. It will be observed that I give Epsom-salts as 

 the first dose, on account of their quick action, but afterwards I 

 prefer treacle with sulphur. 1 he patient requires watching with 

 the greatest care. The sick room ought to be well ventilated at 

 the top, but kept warm day and night ; a depression of tempe- 

 rature or a draught has been observed to disturb the breathing. 

 When the feverish symptoms have abated I give oatmeal instead 

 of Indian-meal in the gruel. I continue the cocoa olein in the 

 gruel throughout, with doses of ^ oz. to 1 oz. sweet nitre, and 3 

 to 4 oz. of flour of sulphur. In several cases, when the pulse 

 has become feeble, and below 60 beats per minute, accompanied 

 by weakness and languor, I have given a wine-glass full of brandy 

 in the morning's and evening's gruel with apparent advantage. 

 The attendant is instructed to offer the animal change of food — 

 brewer's grains, bran-mash, a little hay, grass, green rape plant, 

 or other palatable material. It is encouraging to find the animal 

 begin to eat and make its selection of food. 



Since I used the precise treatment I have described, upwards 

 of twenty in succession have recovered. In this number I include 

 those belonging to my neighbours 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 action of 

 the skin is stimulated ; the animals continue to lick themselves 

 with little intermission throughout ; they likewise retain or other- 

 wise resume their cud, under conditions I should not have ex- 

 pected ; 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 weioht 1^ cwt. to 1| cwt. A consider- 

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

 purgative medicines. The milk cows, whilst suffering, have 

 reduced 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 and Co.'s candle 

 manufactory expressly for cattle, being lower in price than Avhat 

 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 

 weeks after this they became affected with pleuro-pneumonia, 

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



