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out preventing the laxative from operating. When the 

 calf is relieved, feed it carefully for a few days ; .and 

 if its bowels be loose, gruel made of arrow-root, or fine 

 wheaten flour, should be given with a little of the solu- 

 tion of potash, or powdered chalk, in each feed. This 

 should be left off gradually. 



Remarks. — Calves brought up by hand, even if not 

 of delicate, weak constitutions, are liable to all these 

 affections, merely from being improperly fed, that is, 

 from having too much milk at a time, from that milk 

 not being sufficiently fresh, or being in a bad state 

 from a disordered stomach of the cow, she being fed 

 on bad hay or stale grains. An intimate connexion 

 exists between the udder and the cow's stomach, and 

 the milk is very liable to become altered in quality as 

 well as quantity, by feeding her upon bad hay : we 

 cannot, therefore, wonder at this. There is an acid 

 formed in the stomach of the cow, and of all animals, 

 when that organ is weakened in a certain degree, 

 which by irritating the fourth stomach, will disorder 

 one or more of the quarters of the udder, and spoil 

 the milk in that quarter. To cure these disorders is 

 one thing, and requires much trouble ; to prevent them, 

 another, of less trouble, but of infinitely more import- 

 ance. The prevention, then, is simply good, whole- 

 some food, and pure water. In Scotland, particularly, 

 where there is but little grass, and plenty of bad hay, 

 this disease has at times been very prevalent, and 

 proved very destructive. 



II.— DIARRHCEA, OR DYSENTERY. 



This disease attacks young calves from the age of 

 two to six weeks old ; it makes them thin, and some- 



