478 HANDY-BOOK OF HUSBANDET. 



" in serious consequences. A hollow tube is best, and if the ob- 

 *' ject is passed on into the paunch, the tube should remain a short 

 '' time, to permit the gas to escape. In case the animal is very 

 " badly swelled, the dose of chloride of lime, or ammonia, should 

 " be given, as for the hoove, after the obstruction is removed. 



*' Care should be taken, after the obstruction is removed, to 

 " allow no solid food for some days." 



Foul in the Foot^ Red-Water^ Hoose^ Inflammation of the Glands^ 

 Inflammation of the Lungs^ Diarrhea^ Dysentery^ Mange^ Lice^ 

 Warbles, Loss of Cud, Constipation, and Diseases of Calves, are 

 treated at length in Mr. Flint's work. 



.Abortion, which seems to assume almost the character of a con- 

 tagious disease in many dairy districts, has thus far baffled every 

 attempt, either to detect its cause, or prevent its recurrence ; but 

 it is to be hoped that Dr. Dalton's Commission of the New York 

 State Agricultural Society will be able, as the result of their labors, 

 to throw some light on the question. 



Happily it is not necessary in an American work to discuss the 

 dreaded question of the Rinderpest, which has, within the past few 

 years, decimated the herds of Europe. It seems to have been 

 finally removed from all of those countries into which its appear- 

 ance introduced so much suffering ; and it is to be hoped that it 

 will be many years before even so slight danger of the infection 

 of American cattle as we have just passed will recur. 



The Texas cattle disease, which has recently shown itself 

 in American herds, does not promise, under the vigorous treat- 

 ment that it has received, to become a nationally serious question. 

 But it behooves all farmers to attend carefully to the facts with 

 which its development is attended, and to join unflinchingly in 

 any attempt to prevent its extension, wherever it gets a foothold. 



SHEEP. 



On the subject of the diseases of sheep, Dr. Henry S. Ran- 

 dall,* the most voluminous and the most practical American 

 writer upon sheep-raising, wool-growing, etc., says, — 



* The Practical Shepherd. D. D. T. Moore. Rochester, N. Y., 1864. 



