200 THE FARMER'S AND 



animal should be costive, either of the following clysters 

 is to be given : 



Take a handful of camomile flowers, two handsful of 

 flax-seed ; boil them in two quarts of water, strain them, 

 and add eight ounces of linseed oil and three table-spoons- 

 ful of common salt. This clyster is to be applied by 

 means of a syringe. 



Should these articles not be at hand, take one quart of 

 wheat bran, pour two quarts of boiling water on it, strain 

 and add eight ounces of flax-seed oil, and two ounces of 

 common salt. This clyster is to be lukewarm when ap- 

 plied to the rectum, or straight-gut, by the means of a 

 syringe or a fit funnel. 



MURRAIN. 



A correspondent of the New-Genesee Farmer recom- 

 mends ashes to be given to stock as a preventive of mur- 

 rain. Wm. Wallace, of Barcelona, Ohio, says he thinks 

 saltpetre much better says a piece about the size of a 

 large kernel of corn should be given once a week. A 

 neighbor of his has used this mode of prevention for twenty 

 years, with almost entire success. 



He further says, " When cattle are attacked with this 

 deadly disease, I would recommend giving them, say, two 

 ounces of gum gamboge, dissolved. This is a powerful 

 physic ; and it is very necessary to get something to pass 

 the animal. I believe that the dry murrain, always 

 precedes the bloody murrain, and is the cause of this last 

 and most fatal disorder, which is often quite prevalent in 

 the Western country." 



HOW TO ASCERTAIN THE AGE OF NEAT CATTLE 



BY THE TEETH. The calf is usually born with two fore 

 or cutting teeth, and at a month old, the whole eight are 



