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those diseases which will be greatly beueiited by its proper 

 use. 



(2.) DrARRHCEA IX Calves. — This is a frequent aficc- 

 tion among young calves, and destroys thousands of them 

 every year. 



Cause. Depending upon the character of the milk ; not 

 so much its cpiality as the time and manner of giving it. 

 Thus, calves are not allowed to suck their own mothers; 

 frequently they are not allowed to suck at all, but have 

 to drink the milk out of a bucket, and then it is often 

 cold before they are allowed to have it. The rapidity with 

 which they drink their allowance, which is often too much 

 for them, gorges the stomach and paralyzes the digestive 

 functions. Hence, the white diarrhoea so often seen among 

 young calves. 



Symptoms. The symptoms one would think alike in all 

 animals ; but this is not the case here, or so far as tho 

 diarrhoea of calves is concerned. They have a voracious ap- 

 petite, swelling of the belly with occasional pain, discharges 

 of wind or gas, and white or yellowish-colored excrement 

 or dung, while in some bad cases the true milk is passed 

 unchanged by the action of either stomach or bowels. 



Prevention. This is better than cure, and consists in 

 allowing the calf, until several weeks old, to suck its own 

 mother, not only morning and night, but at least three 

 times in the day, dividing the periods as evenly as possible. 

 Thus, by allowing calves to suck the milk for themselves, 

 paralyzation and gorging the stomach Avith cold milk is 

 avoided, and thereby white diarrhoea prevented. 



Treatment. Give three drachms of carbonate of soda in 



well boiled wheat flour gruel once a day. If this is not 



convenient, give a tablespoonful of common rennet after 



each feed of milk the calf takes ; this will materially aid 



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