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a proportionate quantity of good yeast ; let this mass rise 

 as much as it will ; then stir in fine Indian meal till it is so 

 thick as that it can be made into small cakes of the size 

 of a dollar or larger. When the cakes are thus made, dry 

 them in the sun till they are hard, minding to turn them 

 frequency to prevent their moulding, and then lay them by 

 in a dry place, tor tuvure use. 



When you wish to have yeast, take one of these cakes, 

 crumble it to pieces, pour warm water on it, and let it 

 stand in a warm place, and it will soon rise sufficiently to 

 make good yeast. A quantity of these cakes may be thus 

 made at once, which will last tor six months or more. 



YELLOWS. In Neat : cattle this disease is usually called 

 the overflowing of the gall; in Horses, it is called the yd* 

 lows or jaundice. 



See NEAT CATTLE. 



When Horses are troubled with this disorder, it is known 

 by the yellowness of the eyes and of the inside of the mouth. 

 The animal becomes dull and refuses to eat. The fever 

 and the yellowness increase together. His urine is voided 

 with difficulty, and looks red after it has lain some time. 

 The off-side of the belly is sometimes hard and distended. 

 If the disorder be not checked, he becomes frantic. 



In old Horses, when the liver has been long diseased, the 

 cure is hardly practicable, and ends fatally with a wasting 

 diarrhoea; but says Mr. Bartlet, wnen the disease is re- 

 cent, and the Horse young, there is no danger, if the fol- 

 lowing directions are observed : 



First, bleed plentifully and give the laxative clyster, as 

 Horses having this disorder are usually costive ; and the 

 next day give him a purge of an ounce and a half of cream 

 of tartar, half an ounce of Castile-soap, and ten drachms of 

 succotrine aloes. Repeat this two or three times, giving 

 intermediately the following balls and drink : Take Ethiop's 

 mineral, half an ounc^ ; millepedes, the same quantity; 

 Castile-soap, one ounce ; make this into a ball, and give 

 one every day, and'wush it down with a pint of this de- 

 coction: Take madder-root and turmerick, of each four 

 ounces; burdock-root, sliced, half a pound; Monk's rhu- 

 barb, four ounces ; boil the whole in a gallon of forge-water 

 down to three quarts; strain it off and sweeten it with 

 honey. 



Balls of Castile soap and turmerick may also be given for 

 this purpose, three or four ounces a day, and will in most 

 cases succeed in effecting a cure. 



By these means, the disorder generally abates in a week, 

 which may be seen in the alteration cf the Horse's eyes and 



