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with their drink in the same way. You need 

 hardly be told that these doses must be reduced 

 one half, when you have to treat a calf or a 

 heifer, and that the same diminution will hold 

 good, in their cases, for all other medicaments. 

 The use of these anti- contagious drinks is of 

 the highest importance; I recommend you 

 earnestly to study their effects, and to continue 

 them even after the distem2)er shall have broken 

 out. 



These drinks having no disagreeable taste, 

 the cattle take to them in general ; should the 

 contrary be the case, give them in a bottle as 

 all men who are cattle owners know how 

 to do. 



If the health of any of these animals among 

 which the outbreak of the typhus is appre- 

 hended should seem below the standard, you 

 must apply a purgative to those whose bowels 

 do not operate well, and even have recourse 

 to bleeding in exceptional cases. 



During the absence of those cattle which are 

 undergoing the preventive treatment, let the 

 hygienic conditions of their stalls and sheds be 

 looked to ; for no circumstance must be over- 

 looked or neglected if we hope to withstand 



