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a light one. The diseased parts of the udder should be 

 rubbed with the following ointment : 



Soft soap, one pound. 



Mercurial ointment, one ounce. 



Camphor, melted with alcohol, one ounce ; rubbed well 

 together. 



During the whole progress of the disease, the bowels 

 should be kept loose with the epsom salt purge. 



THE HOOVE, HOVEN, OR BLOWN. 



CAUSES. Sudden change of pasture, from a poor to a 

 rich one. Too many turnips, too much clover, etc., etc., 

 etc. 



SYMPTOMS. The beast swells ; breathing hard ; much 

 pain. Difficulty of breathing, and swelling increase. 



TREATMENT. Medicine is of but little use. Do not 

 drive the animal about ; be very particular on this point. 

 Some people plunge a lancet, or a small pocket-knife into 

 the animal, midway between the haunch bone and the 

 last rib. This is called a good remedy. The wound is 

 left open a day or two to suffer the gas to escape. 



To PREVENT HOVEN. At times when cattle are par- 

 ticularly liable to hoven, on a change of pasture or food ; 

 and early in the spring, and about the time of early frost 

 in the autumn, take a bushel of fine wood ashes and a 

 bushel of common salt ; mix and use in the usual man- 

 ner of salting cattle. Use this mixture for a few days. 

 This is a capital preventive. 



INFLAMMATION OF THE BOWELS. 



SYMPTOMS. The animal is uneasy, getting up and 

 lying down often ; strikes his belly with his hind feet ; 

 bowels costive the dung, if any is voided, is hard and 



