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dram and camphor 4 to 6 drops repeated every 4 or 5 hours. This has 

 given me the best results in such bowel troubles. The causes and 

 treatment of ' diarrhea in colls is very similar to dysentery or flux. 

 Boil some white starch till a creamy constituency is obtained and drench 

 the colt with l/^ pint 2 or 3 times daily giving an equal amount with a 

 syringe by the rectum. This will often overcome diarrhea caused by too 

 much or too rich a milk. Reduce the milk supply and follow the starch 

 once daily with 2 tablespoonsful of castor oil containing 5 or 6 drops 

 of turpentine used as a drench. 'Bismuth sub-nitrate may be given in 1 

 to IVij tlram doses or the formulae recommended for scours in calves may 

 be found beneficial for scours in colts. 



DIFFICULT FOALING OR 



(Partuation) 



This more frequently happens when the foal is coming wrong or in 

 mares that are under size for their breed and are bred to a large breed of 

 stciillion. However, it seems the mare has more to do with the size of the 

 foal than the stallion. On ranches little ponies that are the average 

 in size for the breed seem to encounter no particular difficulty when bred 

 to draft stallions. 



Delayed foaling after the operation begins is accompanied with more 

 danger than in the cow since the whole operat'on often consumes less 

 than 10 minutes, under normal conditions in the mare. The foal seldom 

 lives more than 3 or 4 hours after pain begins. 



Assistance to be Given 



First of all turn the mare's head down hill with the hind parts raised 

 for the purpose of pushing the foal back so it may be brought out in 

 proper form. Let the operator lard the hands well. Also the body of 

 the foal if possible. Then determine whether or not the foal has both 

 fore feet and head up ready to come, if he hasn't, push him well back 

 and straighten him out. It is dangerous and very difficult to try to get a 

 foal born improperly presented. Push them away back in the womb and 

 often the colt can be straightened and the foal and mare saved. Do not 

 push while the mare is laboring. Merely hold what you have and push 



