DISEASES OF CATTLE. 901 



TREATMENT. Place the animal in a comfortable place; clothe 

 with blankets in winter, to make him comfortable; avoid any 

 sudden changes of food, but carefully and gradually change the 

 food to a better and more digestible variety, if possible; and 

 gradually add a small amount of flaxseed-meal, or corn-meal, to 

 the customary food, and feed him four or five times a day, giv- 

 ing but a small amount at a time. 



Take Sulphate of Iron, 2 ounces. 



Gentian, powdered, 4 ounces. 



Mix. Make into ten powders, and give a powder three 

 times a day. Or, 



Take Saccharated Carbonate of Iron, ... 2 ounces. 

 Cinchona Bark, powdered, . . . . .2 ounces. 



Mix, and make into ten powders ; give a powder three times 

 a day; but if the last is prepared for a cow, twice the amount 

 of cinchona, given in the formula, may be used. 



If a cow's head and horns are affected, anoint the head 

 around the roots of the horns, and in the hollow behind the 

 horns, with Ammoniacal Liniment, for which see Index. 



Hollow-horn. This is a term which is often used to des- 

 ignate some debilitated condition, and catarrh is not unfrequently 

 mistaken for what is called hollow-horn. Anaemia is another 

 condition which is often called hollow-horn. All cows' horns are 

 hollow, but in old cows, or those that are greatly impoverished 

 from disease, exposure, or want of food, the hollow will be 

 larger than in a younger cow, or one better cared for. For treat- 

 ment, see Anaemia and Catarrh. 



Broken Horns. If a horn is only slightly cracked, and 

 not broken off, it may be tied to its place, and allowed to heal, 

 without removing the broken part, by wrapping it tightly with 

 a strong strip of tarred cloth. If it is severely broken, remove 

 the detached part, together with any rough or projecting parts, 

 and apply a tarred cloth to the end of the horn, and wrap an- 

 other tarred cloth around the horn, to keep this in place; or, 

 if the horny part is broken and pulled off, leaving the bone in 

 its place, wrap with a tarred cloth as above, without removing 

 the bone, and a new growth of horn will be produced. In this 



