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a piece of alum the size of a ben's egg in a bucket of water, which would cure 

 it. He tried it, and it did cure it. Why should it not again, aud cattle as well 

 as colts? 1 would try it, if the above ever failed, or one of the following: 



Diarrhcsa of Cattle, Remedy.— Another writer says: "Three pecks 

 of boiled potatoes, fed in the day, in 3 messes, warm, is an excellent remedy for 

 dian'hcea in cattle." 



Scours in Cattle, Remedy. — Mr. James Door, of Dorchester, Mass., 

 recommends fine wheat flour as a cure for scours in cattle. He says, *' Take 

 1 qt. of the finest flour, mix smoothly with water, making it just thick enough 

 to run, and administer at one dose. A second dose may be necessary, but one 

 is generally sufficient for a cure." 



Remarks. — The author knows a rather thick milk porridge, given warm, is 

 good for " looseness " of persons. Why not good for cattle? I should prefer 

 it warm to cold, as this gentleman uses it, as I understand him. It may be good 

 enough cold, but warmth will not make it less valuable, I am sure. 



I. Kicking Cows, to Make Stand Quiet.— A dairyman who has 

 been troubled with the kicking of young cows, and who has found a plan to 

 prevent it while milking, makes it public through the New York Tribune, and 

 seeing at a glance that it must be a success, I give it a place. He says: 



" If cows kick, tie their legs together, I find it much better for myself 

 and for the discipline of the cows to iet the rope hold them than it is to tiy to 

 hold them myself. They soon learn that the rope can hold them; they also soon 

 learn that man cannot hold them ^\ithout a rope. The rope I use is 6 or 7 feet 

 long, and has a loop on one end. I put it around the right log above the gam- 

 brel, through the loop, and draw it tight enough to keep it from dropping down, 

 then behind the left leg and take a turn once around it (like a figure 8), then 

 around both legs, then between the legs, around the rope that crosses in front and 

 back of the legs, in such a way as to'draw them as near together as desirable, 

 then make fast. It is not necessary to draw the rope tight enough to hurt the 

 cow if she stands still. It matters not how hard or how long she tries to get 

 away from the rope; it will stay there and it will liold her legs very near to each 

 other so she cannot kick, and however hard she may pull on the rope, the part 

 that is on the inside of one leg being on with a slip-noose, that on the other with 

 a round turn, as soon as she stops struggling and the rope is slack they do not 

 stop the circulation of the blood. I am particular in telling how I put the rope 

 on when I need to tie a kicking cow, because it is the only way I have ever seen 

 that will hold every time and not get tight enough to stop the circulation." 



II. Another dairyman takes the following plan to prevent cows from kick- 

 ing when being milked. He says: " Before sitting down to milk I put a ' snap * 

 attached to the end of a small rope into her nose and tie the rope to a pin put 

 into the scaffold girt over the manger, slightly elevating her nose, and she 

 stands as quietly while she is milked as the most gentle cow in the stable."— 

 American Cultivator. 



Bemarks. — I have not a doubt but what either of these plans will secure the 

 cow against kicking — they have something else to think of. On the same prin- 

 ciple that the cord in the mouth of a vicious horse carried up over the head and 

 enclosing an ear tightly enables the blacksmith to shoe him without trouble, 

 "Which see. 



