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CATTLE— DISEASES AND REMEDIES. 



Farmers in general, however, are shame- 

 fully careless here ; and no notice is taken 

 of half the diseases under which their 

 stock of every kind plainly and evidently 

 labor, until they are past all cure. It is 

 also matter of general observation, that 

 a calf that has a considerable tendency 

 to costiveness is slow in getting fat and 

 preparing for the market. 



All cattle are subject to occasional 

 costiveness, and which should be removed 

 as early as in the calf, as being the 

 frequent root of much evil. It is either 

 one of the symptoms of the beast labor- 

 ing under inflammatory fever, or it lays 

 the foundation for inflammatory fever. 

 A purge of Epsom salts, or even of 

 common salt, if the other should not be 

 at hand, will not cost much, and would 

 save the lite of many a beast ; let not the 

 farmer, however, follow up the farrier's 

 practice of giving a cordial drink two or 

 three days after the physic, under the 

 notion of removing flatulence, and pro- 

 moting digestion, and invigorating the 

 system. The fever, of which this cos- 

 tiveness is either the forerunner or the 

 cause, would only be hastened and ag- 

 gravated by this absurd system of stimu- 

 lation. 



CALVES, Hoose in the.— This disease 

 in the adult animal has already been con- 

 sidered; in the calf it assumes different 

 and more aggravated symptoms, and is 

 more speedily connected with consump- 

 tion and death. The moment a calf is 

 observed to cough violently, he should be 

 removed from the pasture, and put under 



tolerably warm shelter and taken care of. 

 A bleeding and a dose of physic, and a 

 fever powder, will then usually restore the 

 animal to perfect health. 



At times the hoose is epidemic among 

 cattle, and hundreds of them die. Prop- 

 er treatment at first will, in the majority 

 of cases, remedy the evil ; but should the 

 animal get rapidly worse, and his cough 

 be peculiarly violent and distressing, care 

 should be taken to examine the first that 

 happens to die, on the farmer's own es- 

 tate, or that of his neighbor, and if the 

 windpipe and the air tubes below should 

 be found filled with the worms which have 

 already been described, recourse should 

 be had to the spirit of turpentine, which 

 will often succeed in destroying them. 

 The principle on which the turpentine 

 acts has been already explained. The 

 Receipt No. 64, Calves, Hoose in, (See 

 Domestic Animals, Medicines for,) 

 will be found a good formula for its ad- 

 ministration to calves from six to twelve 

 months old. 



A cure has also been obtained by the 

 exhibition of half a pint of lime-water; 

 every morning and a table spoonful of 

 salt the same afternoon. The origin of 

 these worms has not yet been satisfacto- 

 rily developed; but it is supposed that 

 the eggs are taken with the water, ab- 

 sorbed by the blood vessels, and thus en- 

 ter the windpipe, where they are hatched j 

 but one thing is certain, that in nine cases 

 out of ten the farmer may attribute all 

 the losses he sustains to neglect of the 

 calf, or premature exposure of him to cold 

 and wet. 



