CATTLE. 401 



ointment will keep for moutlis, if new butter, without salt, is 

 used instead of oil ; and for all diseases of the skin in cattle, 

 sheep, or hogs it is the best thing we know of. 



Pleura Pneumonia, Einderpest, Contagious Typhus, 

 and other modifications of the same contagious diseases have 

 from time to time swept off thousands of cattle and are likely 

 to do so again. The symptoms are fetid breath, hot mouth, 

 unnatural heat and redness in the vagina and rectum. Soon the 

 lower lip, on the inside, will be covered with pin-head blisters, 

 and a thick fluid will begin to run from the mouth. The ani- 

 mal will hold its head to one side and have a pitiful look. 

 When discovered, kill every infected animal without a mo- 

 ment's delay, bury all their excrement, and every thing that has 

 been in their stalls. Isolate the rest of the herd, and kill them 

 as fast as a sign of the disease appears. Pui a box of chloride 

 of lime where every animal will have to step in it some time 

 in the day, and see that every one that comes into the yard 

 steps in a box of the same when they go out. 



Hooven is caused by eating too greedily of green food, 

 which, clogging in the stomach, ferments and generates gas, 

 which distends the stomach and often causes death. Give two 

 ounces of ammonia (hartshorn) in a quart of soft water every 

 fifteen minutes. A flexible tube passed down the gullet will 

 often allow some portion of the gas to escape. Cloths wrung 

 out in hot water and applied to the body, and vigorous rubbing 

 with the hand, often assist the work. An injection ot warm 

 soap and water, at short intervals, is also to be recommended. 

 Prompt, vigorous, and persevering measures are to be kept up 

 I until the animal is relieved or dies. But do not add to the 

 load already in the stomach any physic or nauseating doses. 



Lice or Fly Bites should be treated by rubbing grease and 

 Scotch suufl* into the skin. 



