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The principal cause of this, which is rather bq acci- 

 dent, than a disease, is a disposition in the animal to 

 eat greedily and voraciously, where tempting food 

 offers. The cure may be completed by giving the 

 recipe No. IS, and a bare pfisiure for a while, to re- 

 novate both the appetite and digestive faculties. 

 FOG SICKNESS. 



At the latter end of summer, and in autumn, when 

 the rainy season sets in, the grass generally becomes 

 abundant; and shortly after, the mornings are fiosty. 

 At this season, the digestive faculties, as well as the 

 whole system, are weakened from the effects of the 

 summer heat, the appetite becomes morbid and irreg- 

 ular, and some cattle will then eat voraciously. They 

 then lie down to ruminate, probably when the grass is 

 covered with hoar frost; and this together with the 

 cold and damp of the atmosphere, so depress the 

 strength of the stomachs, as to put a stop to the 

 digestive process. The body then swells, the animal 

 is evidently in great pain, appears stupid, and breathes 

 with difficulty. Such are the cause and symptoms, 

 which so far differ from Hoven. 



Cure, — The thing to be done, is to bleed freely, the 

 habit being at this season generally redundent. The 

 Probang, as used for Hoven and Blown Cattle, should 

 be then employed, and the drench No. 3, may be giv- 

 en ; when this has operated, the cordial drink No. 13 

 or 14, should be administered, and the cure may be 

 considered as effected. Or the following drench may 

 be substituted in this case, if more handy than the 

 other: 



RECIPE No. 19. — Common salt, 10 ounces; mustard, powder- 

 ed, two table spoonsful, or a teaspoonful of ginger ; water, 1 quar^ 

 gin, half pint. Mix, for one dose. 



MEADOW SICKNESS. 

 When cattle are turned into rich meadow pasture 

 some of them are sometimes found suddenly very ill, 

 and appear as if they wanted to vomit. Mr. Bromege, 

 on finding six of his cows ill as above, soon after they 

 had been turned into a rich meadow, he immediately 

 drove them into a bare pasture, in which were a num- 

 ber of mole casts. The sick cows, led by instinct, went 

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