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Put me whole into a pitcher, and pour upon it a pint of boiling 

 water ; cover it down, and give it when new-milk warm. This 

 is sufficient for a calf about six weeks old. 



Remarks. — The time of change of diet with calves 

 is a critical and trying period : care should, therefore, 

 be taken to change it very little for the first fortnight; 

 and in every subsequent change to inure it by de- 

 grees : or a dysentery may be expected, which if not 

 timely checked, will inevitably prove fatal. 



III.— COSTIVENESS, OR OBSTRUCTION IN 

 THE BOWELS. 



Calves are liable to this complaint from the .first 

 moment of their birth ; and also at every subsequent 

 stage ; in every one of which its life is in danger, un- 

 less timely relief be given. 



Cause. — Not allowing the calf to suck the first milk 

 from the mother ; or the mother being fed upon too 

 dry meat, will induce this complaint in the first few 

 weeks of the calf's existence ; but in a more advanced 

 age, it may result from improper feeding, exposure to 

 damp, change of diet, or labouring under some latent 

 internal disease. 



Symptoms. — In very young calves, not bemg able 

 to dung, or even sometimes to void urine ; they cease 

 to suck, stamp, with their hind feet, become short- 

 breathed, and generally die in a short time. In older 

 calves, nearly the same symptoms occur ; which, if 

 not timely checked, resolve into inflammation, the 

 complaint becomes more serious, and terminates 

 fatally. 



