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to children, are “ cholera” in the summer, and “ croup” it 
the winter. : 
ur sheep are subject to bowel complaints of several 
Kinds, mostly of a putrid nature. These disorders are usu- 
ally produced by improper diet, and by sleeping on w 
ground with their fleeces full of rain water. 'This latter 
cause also produces violent coughs, and sometimes real con- 
sumptions. The best preventatives for these disorders are, 
furnishing them dry and airy lodgings, and giving wood 
ashes and tar mixed with their salt. 
Our horned cattle are subject to the bloody murrain, to 
obstructions in the viscera and “bowels, like colic; to the 
“hollow horn,” and to poison from eating “buck eye” and 
Jaurel. Our cows, that drop their calves after the warm 
weather commences, are particularly subject to bloody mur- 
rain. The best and almost certain remedy for this disorder, 
is giving them freely of alkalies. Pearlash, or the lye of 
wood ashes, diluted with water and mixed with their food, or 
poured down their throats with a bottle, has been known to 
effect a cure after the animal was so much reduced as to be 
unable to stand. The cattle themselves, even where they 
= plenty of salt, are fond of licking the ashes which are 
that alkalies are necessary to the preservation of their health, 
or for preventing diseases. So well convinced of this are 
some of our farmers, that they are in the habit of mixing 
readily as they would clear salt. 
n the summer and autumn of the year 1813, a number of 
cattle in this county were attacked with a disease, which, 5° 
as I have been able to learn, was entirely new. The 
d er first commenced with an inclination to frequently 
lick or rub some part of the body. This was gener 
neck covered with blood; and after they were so much eX- 
hansted as to be unable to stand, they would continue to rub, 
until the earth was torn up in a circle around them, and one 
