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lowing recipe for hoven cattle, 

 which it assures us will effect a cure 

 for hoven cattle, in the most des- 

 perate cases in half an hour. Take 

 three quarters of a pint of olive oil ; 

 one pint of melted butter, or hog's 

 lard ; give this mixture by means 

 of a horn or bottle, and if it does 

 not produce a favourable change 

 in a quarter of an hour, repeat the 

 same quantity, and walk the ani- 

 mal gently about. For sheep, at- 

 tacked with this malady the dose is 

 from a wine-glass and an half to 

 two glasses. 



Besides these remedies, flexible 

 tubes, and canes, with knobs at 

 their ends, have been used to force 

 a passage from the mouth to the 

 stomach, to let the confined air es- 

 cape upwards from the trunk of the 

 animal affected. Descriptions of 

 these instruments may be seen in 

 the second American edition of the 

 Domestic Encyclopaedia, vol. l.p. 

 409, 410. The following simple 

 remedy we have been assured is 

 effectual. Make about a pint of 

 lie either with hot embers thrown 

 into a sufficient quantity of water, 

 or by dissolving therein about an 

 ounce of pot or pearl ash, and turn 

 it down the throat of the ox or cow 

 affected. A proportionably less 

 quantity will answer for a sheep. 

 This is said to give immediate re- 

 lief by neutralizing the carbonic 

 acid gas in the stomach of the 

 creature, which causes the swel- 

 ling, and other symptoms of the 

 complaint to subside. 



" When oxen are long and hard- 

 ly driven, in muddy roads, particu- 

 larly where the soi! is calcareous, 

 they are liable to a soreness be- 



tween the claws. This will make 

 the beast lame, and, when discov- 

 ered, the part should be cleansed, 

 and healed with some proper oint- 

 ment. Sometimes from inattention 

 to this, the part becomes horny ; 

 in this case the hard parts must be 

 cut away, and the wounded flesh 

 cured. 



" A general indication of health 

 in neatcattle is a moist or wet nose, 

 and when this is found dry it is a 

 certain symptom of disease of some 

 kinder other." Farmer'' s Assistant. 



Hoof Ail, or Hoof Distemper. A 

 writer for the Massachusetts Agri- 

 cultural Repository gives some ac- 

 count of this disorder, vol. 4, p. 

 339, from which we extract the 

 following : — 



" Symptoms. When an animal 

 is at all lame, its foot should be 

 carefully felt. The first indication 

 is usually an uncommon degree of 

 warmth, and a soft and puffed feel 

 of the parts immediately connected 

 with the slit between the hoof, ei- 

 ther before or behind the foot and 

 generallyjust above it. If in the 

 hind foot, and not easily handled, 

 a fullness may generally be per- 

 ceived, by standing behind the ani- 

 mal and carefully comparing the 

 appearance of the two feet, be- 

 tween the dew claws and the hoofs 

 (for it very rarely commences its 

 attack in more than one foot.) In 

 the fore foot it generally swells for- 

 ward ; and in taking up the foot, 

 the slit between the hoofs will have 

 an appearance of dryness, easily 

 distinguishable to a person used to 

 cattle ; and the animal frequently 

 licks the front part of the foot. In- 

 stances often occur of sudden and 



