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3. When an individual is provided with a small rubber hose, 

 a cure can be very readily effected by inserting this through the 

 inouth into the stomach. 



Spanish Fever. 



Stockmen in the State of Texas pronounce the following a 

 successful remedy for the cure of this disease: One-half pint of 

 castor-oil, two ounces of sweet spirits of nitre, and fifteen drops of 

 croton-oil, to be taken at one dose, as a drench, and to be repeated 

 daily. One dose usually is sufficient to check the fever. 



After-Births. 



Browned or parched oats, fed before and after calving, is said 

 to prevent trouble that the cow may otherwise have in voiding the 

 after-birth. 



Bronchitis. 



Bronchitis consists in a thickening of the fibrous and mucous 

 surfaces of the trachea. The disease is indicated by a dry, husky, 

 wheezing cough, laborious breathing, hot breath and dry tongue. 



Apply to the throat warm poultices of slippery elm or flaxseed, 

 on the surface of which sprinkle powdered lobelia, moderately 

 warm; if they are too hot they will prove injurious. Administer 

 the following drink: Powdered liquorice, one ounce; powdered 

 elecampane, one-half ounce; slippery elm, one ounce; boiling water 

 sufficient to make it of the consistency of thin gruel. If there is 

 difficulty in breathing, add half a teaspoonful of lobelia to the 

 above, and repeat the dose night and morning. Linseed or marsh- 

 mallow tea is good in this disease. The animal should be comfort- 

 ably housed, and the legs kept warm by friction with coarse straw. 



Inflammation of the Throat. 



In many cases, if attended to immediately, nothing more will 

 be necessary than to confine the animal to a light diet, give fre- 

 quent drinks of linseed tea, and supply warmth and moisture 

 locally by a slippery-elm poultice, which can be kept in close con- 

 tact with the throat if secured to the horns. 



SHEEP. 



CARE OF SHEEP AND LAMBS. 



Keep sheep dry under foot. This is even more necessary than 

 roofing them. Furnish them an ample supply of water during the 



