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time; and every morning and evening for three or 

 four days, may take one of the above drenches. 



Sheep are liable to a similar disease, and may be 

 relieved by the same remedies. The instrument, how- 

 ever, employed for sheep, need not be more than three 

 feet in length : it should also be smaller and more 

 flexible. It has been said that a common cart whip, 

 may on emergencies, be made to answer the purpose, 

 if used with dexterity. 



Any one, unaccustomed to handle cattle, would find 

 some difficulty in using Mr. Eager's instrument ; but 

 if the horn be held firmly with the left hand, and the 

 part which divides the nostrils be grasped firmly with 

 the right hand, the animal will generally submit quietly 

 to the operator. 



GRIPES, OR FLATULENT COLIC. 



Tntfe disease, in horned cattle, is generally the eflfect 

 of costiveness, or a retention of food in the third sto. 

 mach- 



Sometimes, however, it happens, when the bowels 

 are in a lax, or natural state. Cows that are fed upon 

 grains are very liable to this complaint ; such, also, as 

 are kept upon dry food are often attacked by it. When 

 colic takes place, independent of costiveness, it is 

 generally occasioned by feeding greedily upon fresh 

 succulent grass, or by drinking cold water when heated 

 by exercise, and comes on rather suddenly ; but when 

 it is caused by costiveness, the attack is generally more 

 gradual. 



The symptoms are at first, an appearance of rest- 

 lessness in the animal, often lying down, groaning, or 

 striking against the belly with the hind feet or horns. 

 The body is often swollen, which is most observable 



