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importance, and often more, than tlie internal remedies. After 

 recovery has commenced, good gruel, mashes, etc., should be 

 furnished, always warm. Cows and cattle are subject to fevers 

 of greater or less intensity, but all requiring prompt treatment. 



Symptoms of Simple Fever. Nose dry and hot ; rumina- 

 tion dull ; breathing quickened ; horns hot ; feet and limbs often 

 cold ; bowels usually constipated. Salts and molasses, with a 

 continued use of wet blankets, will usually relieve fever at this 

 stage; but if symptomatic fever ensues, and the above symp- 

 toms become aggravated, the eyes red and staring, the animal 

 uneasy, and in such distress as to moan frequenth', one quarter 

 of a pound of sulphur and half an ounce of ginger must be 

 added to the above dose. In both cases soapsuds injections 

 will assist in relieving the bowels. Typhoid fever is usually 

 accompanied with some diarrhoea. No salts or other physic 

 should be given in this case, but the water treatment must be 

 used rigorously, and red pepper or ginger given in gruel ; one 

 quarter of an ounce of each, or half an ounce of one in oatmeal 

 gruel is the proper method of administering it. 



These fevers cause heat in the horns, called by some " horn- 

 ail," " horn distemper," etc., and such resort to boring the horns. 

 Now this is all folly. There can be no disease of the horns ; it 

 is only the result of fever and inflammation elsewhere. When 

 the cause is removed, the " horn-ail" will also disappear, and not 

 till then. 



Loss of the cud is a symptom of indigestion. Give a slight 

 dose of salts and molasses with a little ginger and sulphur. 



Operations. Castrating. We quote from "Allen on 

 Cattle." " First grasp the scrotum in the left hand, and bring 

 the testicles down to the foot of the bag ; then with the other 

 hand and a sharp small knife cut a perpendicular slit in the rear 

 of each testicle, close to the bottom, a^d long enough for the 



