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current of cold air passing through ; and as dark as possible. 

 The stall ought to be kept clean and dry, and a deep bed of 

 clean straw is of decided advantage. The ox should be first 

 fed the inferior and most perishable roots with his grain and 

 dry forage, and his food should be gradually increased in 

 richness as he advances towards maturity. The food and 

 water should be given three times a day, from thoroughly 

 cleaned mangers or troughs. The animal likes a change of 

 food, in which he should be indulged as often as may be neces- 

 sary. If he refuses his food, a temporary privation, or variety 

 is essential. When the food is changed, he should be mode- 

 rately fed at first, till he becomes accustomed to it, as there is 

 otherwise danger of cloying, which is always injurious. The 

 moment the animal has done feeding, the remainder of the 

 food ought to be at once removed. He then lies down, and 

 if undisturbed, rests quietly till the proper hour induces him 

 again to look for his accustomed rations. Regularity in the 

 time of feeding, is of the utmost consequence. An animal 

 soon becomes habituated to a certain hour, and if it be de- 

 layed beyond this, he is restless and impatient, which are 

 serious obstacles to speedy fattening. 



DISEASES IN CATTLE. 



Our limits preclude more than a bare mention of remedies 

 for some of the most common diseases. 



Ho YEN, OR SWELLING OF THE PAUNCH, is a temporary 

 ailment, caused by eating too freely of uncut and generally 

 wet clover, or other succulent food. The animal gorges the 

 first stomach, with so much food, that its contents cannot be 

 expelled. Inflammation of the membrane takes place, and 

 decomposition of the food soon follows. This is known by 

 the distension of the paunch, and difficulty of breathing, and 

 unless speedily relieved, suffocation and death will ensue. 

 Both sheep and cattle are subject to it. 



REMEDIES.* In its early stages, when not too severe, it 

 has been removed by administering some one of the following 

 remedies. A pint of gin poured down the throat ; from one 

 to two pints of lamp or other oil ; strong brine ; new milk 

 with one fifth its bulk of tar mixed ; an egg shell full of tar 

 forced down the throat, followed by a second, if the first fails ; 

 a table spoonful of volatile spirit of ammonia, diluted with 



* Besides his own experience, the writer has drawn from the N. E. Farmer, the 

 Albany Cultivator, the American Agriculturist, and other reliable American and 

 English works, some of the remedies for diseases herein mentioned. 



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