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This may be repeated, if necessary ; and if the cos- 

 tiveness be not removed, give the following clyster : 



RECIPE No. 25. 



Table salt, four ounces ; 



Warm water, two quarts. 



Observations. — When calves are about a year old, 

 great care must be taken to prevent these inflamma- 

 tory diseases, by keeping them on the barer pastures. 

 This is more effectual than all the medicinal preven- 

 tives. Thousands of calves have been destroyed by 

 forcing them, as it is termed ; that is, by keeping them 

 too well. Moderation in food is particularly essen-; 

 tial. Writers on cattle medicine generally recommend 

 drenching and bleeding, when young stock are turned 

 into good pasture: this is very good advice; but we 

 will give better — keep tlvem out of it; for certainly 

 prevention is much better than cure. Neat cattle at 

 all ages, are, from going too suddenly into good pas- 

 tures, very susceptible of inflammation ; and calves in 

 particular suffer from too hasty a change. They re- 

 quire good feeding, but that feeding must be of the 

 nutritious^ rather than of the succulent^ kind. 



We have thus been very explicit in the treatment 

 and disorders of calves, because we consider that, by 

 care and attention in their early days, a good consti- 

 tution may be secured, and the greater part of the 

 disorders which affect their more mature years, alto- 

 gether prevented. Before we close this part of our 

 subject, however, we have one more remark to make 

 on the treatment of the cow after calving : — 



Some cows, from an abundance of milk, are liable 

 to a swelling of the udder after calving. It is neces- 

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