!j6 BRITISH DAIRYING. 



with sparing quantity of milk for a week or two. A dose of 

 castor oil containing thirty to forty drops of laudanum, repeated 



in six hours' time if the pain 

 and flatulency do not abate ; two 

 or three doses, at intervals of six 

 or eight hours, of Aromatic Bal- 

 sam Oil, in each of which a well- 

 beaten egg has been mixed, each 

 dose of oil consisting of one or 

 two wineglassfuls, according to 

 the age and size of the calf; or, 

 simpler still, a few doses of Day's 

 Black Drink, or of their new, 

 FIG. 39,-FEEDiNG PAIL. special preparation, Rozzinol, 



will put the mischief right. 



Hoove. The presence of parasitic worms bronchial filar ia 

 in the windpipe and in some or other of the bronchial tubes 

 causes harassing irritation, sneezing, and coughing. They 

 usually infest the weaker calves in the autumn of the year, 

 causing diarrhoea and loss of flesh and of appetite. The 

 attack may usually be prevented by housing the calves o'nights 

 in a shed or yard, and not turning them out until the dew is off 

 the grass. I have cured it by pouring a teaspoonful of a mix- 

 ture of spirit of turpentine and olive oil down the upturned 

 nostrils of each calf. This, however, is rough on the calf, and 

 now I would use Day & Sons' " Huskolein," which is not only 

 quicker but milder in action. 



I may say here, speaking from an experience long enough to 

 give value to the opinion, that every dairy and live-stock farmer 

 will be wise if he have by him always a stock of Day & Sons' 

 Red and Black Drinks, Oils, and other preparations which, in 

 a case of emergency, may be literally worth their weight in silver 

 and perhaps even in gold. Of this I am finally convinced, viz., 

 that no farmer of method and foresight, who has proved the 

 usefulness of these medicines, will ever permit himself to run 

 out of them before he sends for more. He simply cannot 

 afford to be without them, and will not be without them once he 



