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With respect to the scouring, or diarrhoea in calves, 

 which is not an unfrequent complaint, a different treat- 

 ment is to be pursued. They may generally be cured 

 by the following drink, given morning and evening : 



Take of the above starch mixture, 1 pint ; 

 Powdered chalk, or what is called prepared 



chalk, 3 drams ; 



Powdered ginger, 1 dram ; 



Tincture of opium, 1 dram. 

 Mix. 



Lambs are subject to a similar disease, and may be 

 cured by the same means, only lessening the dose. 



In the diarrhoea, which arises from exhausting s^ 

 cow by constant milking, when she is not sufficiently 

 fed, or is supplied with food of a bad quality, the 

 remedy is sufficiently obvious. But, in this case, it 

 too often happens, that the constitution is worn out, 

 before it is thought necessary to alter the poor ani- 

 mal's condition. Whenever this change is made it 

 must not be done too hastily, as other diseases might 

 thereby be produced. 



When the scouring has ceased, the cow should be 

 brought back to her usual state gradually. At first 

 she should be turned out for a few hours in some dry 

 pasture, when the weather is favourable ; and her drink 

 should be given less warm. This precaution is highly 

 necessary, as the affected parts do not immediately re- 

 cover their strength after the scouring has ceased. 



The Complete Grazier directs that the beast taken 

 with this disease should be immediately housed and put 

 to dry food, which treatment, in the earlier stages of 

 the disorder, will, generally, effect a cure. Should 

 this, however, fail, it is advised, in that work, to boil 

 a pound of mutton suet in three quarts of milk, till the 

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