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Foul in the Foot. Cows and other stock, when fed in low, wet pastures, will 

 often suffer from ulcers or sores, generally appearing first between the claws. This is 

 commonly called foul in the foot, and is analagous to foot-rot in sheep. It is often 

 very painful, causing severe lameness and loss of flesh, and discharges a putrid matter 

 or pus. Sometimes it first appears in the form of a swelling near the top of the hoof, 

 which breaks and discharges foul matter. 



Treatment. If the case has been neglected till the pasterns become swollen and 

 tender, the sore may be thoroughly cleansed out, and dressed with an ointment of 

 sulphate of iron, one ounce; molasses, four ounces; simmered over a slow fire till 

 well mixed. Apply on a piece of cotton batting, and secure upon the parts. If any 

 morbid growth or fungus appear, use equal parts of powdered bloodroot and alum, 

 sprinkled on the sore, and this will usually effect a cure. Some also give a dose of 

 flowers of sulphur, half an ounce; powdered sassafras bark, one ounce; and burdock, 

 two ounces; the whole steeped in a quart of boiling water, and strained when cool; 

 and if the matter still continues to flow from the sore, wash it morning and night 

 with chloride of soda, one ounce; or a tablespoonful of common salt dissolved in a 

 pint of water. 



Flatulent Colic. This disease is generally occasioned by some derangement of 

 the digestive organs, whereby the food, instead of being properly digested, undergoes 

 fermentation, and thus carbolic acid gas, or sulphuretted hydrogen, is evolved. 



Treatment. This species of colic can generally be relieved as follows : Take one 

 ounce of hyposulphite of soda. Dissolve the same in a quart of water. Then add 

 tincture of ginger and tincture of golden seal, of each one ounce. Drench the animal 

 with the same. Clysters of soapsuds, to which a little salt may be added, should be 

 thrown into the rectum occasionally. The belly should be well rubbed with coarse 

 straw; and, in severe cases, rub some mustard, moistened with vinegar, on the lower 

 part of the abdomen. After a lapse of two hours, should the patient appear unre- 

 lieved, a second dose of the colic drench may be given. Generally, however, one 

 dose is sufficient. 



To kill Lice on. Cattle. Treatment. Take one ounce of carbolic acid, one 

 quart soft soap, one and a half gallons water. Mix, and apply. 



Yoke Galls. Treatment. The exciting cause is local irritation, occasioned by 

 the yoke. As soon as an abrasion is discovered on the neck, the animal should be 

 excused from duty for a few days. The abraded part should be lubricated, two or 

 three times daily, with a small quantity of glycerine. In most cases, however, a few 

 applications of tincture of aloes and myrrh will produce a healthy action, and thus 

 restore the parts to soundness. Should there be no abrasion, yet some tumefaction, 

 heat, and tenderness, a cold-water bandage, renewed as occasion seems to require, 

 will, in most cases, have the desired effect. Occasionally the integuments are so 

 bruised as to induce induration (hardening). Local induration in the neck is a mor- 

 bid condition of parts, known to the farriers of old as " sit-fast." The treatment 

 consists in smearing the part with a portion of the following : One-half drachm of 

 iodine, seven drachms of simple ointment, one-half drachm of powdered bloodroot. 

 Mix. A few applications of a portion of the above will have the effect of removing 

 the sit-fast or eschar, when a healthy granulating surface will appear. 



For Hollow Horn. Treatment. Give once a week, in dry feed, sulphate of 

 iron, two drachms; powdered nux vomica, one drachm; powdered gentian, one 

 ounce. 



