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If toward the close of her milking season. Still I can see no objection to the 

 dry meal, even if the ointment is used. 



Ointment for Swelled Bags, or Udders of Cows.— Sweet oil, 4 

 ozs.; pulverized camphor gum, 1 oz. Dissolve over a slow fire, and rub in 

 well 3 or 3 times daily. The author thinks the ointment for drying off cows, 

 above, fully equal, if not even better, than this camphorated-oil, although only 

 swelling is to be remedied here, which generally arrives from colds. 



Choked Cattle, Slire Remedy. — J. B. J. in Counti'y OentUman speak- 

 ing of choked cattle, says: "The following recipe ought to be printed twice 

 every year, as it is a sure remedy: Take of fine-cut chewing tobacco enough to 

 make a ball the size of a hen's egg, dampen it with molasses so it adheres 

 closely; elevate the animal's head, pull out the tongue and crowd the ball as far 

 down the throat as possible. In 15 minutes it will cause sickness and vomiting, 

 relaxing the muscles, so that the potatoe or whatever may be choking it will be 

 thrown up." 



Remarks. — It is an almost absolute certainty that the tobacco will cause the 

 relaxing of the muscles and consequent throwing up of the contents of the 

 stomach, and a cure is just as certain as a relaxation. The laying of moist- 

 ened tobacco upon a person's stomach with lock-jaw, has relaxed them, and 

 saved the patient. It must not be kept on so long, however, as to cause deathly 

 sickness. 



To Cure Foul Flesh or Sores Upon Stock.— C. Becker, of Bloom- 

 ville, N. Y., writes one of the Rural's: "I have been in the habit for 35 

 years of using oil of vitriol (sulphuric acid) and water in all cases of bad flesh, 

 and never knew failure. Put 1 teaspoonful of the vitriol in i^ teacupful 

 of water, cleanse out the sore with a soft rope, or otherwise make a swab by 

 tying a piece of cloth on the end of a stick, saturate the aflBicted part well with 

 the wash and I never knew it to fail by two washings." 



Remarks. — It would, most undoubtedly, prove as valuable for foot-rot in 

 sheep, as for foul sores. 



To Cure Fleshy Tumors Upon Cows or Calves.— Bin-iodide of 

 mercury, 1 dr. ; cosmoline, or vaseline, 2 ozs. ; thoroughly mixed and well rub- 

 bed upon the tumors." — Dr. Home in Michigan Farmer. 



RemAirks. — For directions how to continue it [see Spavin to Cure Lameness], 

 It is from the same veterinarian, but he prefers the bin-iodide here, to the iodide 

 as used on spavins. 



Hoven or Bloat in Stock— Prevention and Cure.— O. J. L. of Mod- 

 est Town (a very appropriate name for a place where the men are so modest 

 they dare not give their name when reporting for an agricultural paper on the 

 above disease), Va., made a report of the death of a cow and calf to one of the 

 the farm papers, I think the Farm and Fireside, to which the veterinary surgeon 

 A. T. Wilson, made the following sensible answer: " Your cow and calf both 

 died from hoven or bloat, a very common result of injudiciously turning cattle 

 into a rich clover patch. To prevent bloat, turn them in for an hour or so 

 eveiy day for a week until they get used to it. To cure bloat, when seen ia 



