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then dressed with some sort of adhesive plaster, and 

 thus, in general the cure is easily effected. This, 

 however, is a rough and dangerous remedy, and we 

 therefore give place to others more safe and gentle. 



The 23d volume of the Annals of Agriculture an- 

 nounces the following recipe for hoven cattle, which it 

 assures us will effect a cure for hoven cattle, in the 

 most desperate cases in half an hour. Take three 

 quarters of a pint of olive oil ; one pint of melted 

 butter, or hog's lard ; give this mixture by means of 

 a horn or bottle, and if it does not produce a favoura- 

 ble change in a quarter of an hour, repeat the same 

 quantity, and walk the animal gently about. For 

 sheep, attacked with this malady the dose is from a 

 wine-glass and a half to two glasses. 



Besides these remedies, flexible tubes, and canes, 

 with knobs at their ends, have been used to force a 

 passage from the mouth to the stomach, to let the 

 confined air escape upwards from the trunk of the 

 animal affected. Descriptions of these instruments 

 may be seen in the second American edition of the 

 Domestic Encyclopasdia, volume I. pp. 409, 410. The 

 following simple remedy we have been assured is ef- 

 fectual. Make about a pint of lye either with hot em- 

 bers thrown into a sufficient quantity of water, or by 

 dissolving therein about an ounce of pot or pearl ash, 

 and turn it down the throat of the ox or cow affected. 

 A proportionably less quantity will answer for a sheep. 

 This is said to give immediate relief by neutralizing 

 the carbonic acid gas in the stomach of the creature, 

 which causes the swelling, and other symptoms of the 

 complaint to subside. 



When oxen are long and hardly driven, in muddy 

 roads, particularly where the soil is calcareous, they 

 are liable to soreness between the claws. This will 



