142 



extensive mountain and hill ranges, lump rock salt placed on various 

 parts of the pastures will be found to have a very beneficial effect. 

 Treatment : as the disease runs its course so rapidly there is little or 

 no chance for medical treatment ; if, however, the case should be 

 noticed early on, then three to five drachms of hyposulphite of soda 

 dissolved in half a pint of warm water, to which may be added 5 to 15 

 drops pure carbolic acid, and one to two teaspoonfuls of essence of 

 ginger can be given, and repeated in four hours if necessary. 



331. Mesenteric Disease. — The mesentery, or net — particularly 

 in well-bred cattle — is often the seat of abscesses, or tumours, of a 

 inbcrcular nature — and such animals go under the name of Clyevs, Piners, 

 S'C. The skin has a dirty yellow, scurfy appearance, very tight on 

 the body, and hide-bound ; there is also great emaciation and, as a rule, 

 diarrhoea. Little can be done in these cases, medicine having little 

 or no effect. Sometimes, however, on the first appearance of this 

 disease, from 10 to 25 drops of strong sulphuric acid in one pint of 

 cold water, may be serviceable, along with a wineglassful of cod-liver 

 or linseed oil daily. The most profitable plan is to test the animals 

 with tuberculin, and should they re-act, then make away with them. 

 Milk from such animals sliould nevey he sold ov used. 



332. Calves. — As already stated, the fourth stomach is the largest 

 in the calf, on account of the young animal living principally on a 

 milk diet. The first, second, and third compartments are not required 

 to prepare the food until the animal begins to eat hay, or other rough 

 material. The fourth stomach of the calf contains the acid juices (the 

 Rennet, used in cheese-making), which has the property of coagulating 

 milk. This fact is of great importance in the feeding of calves, showing 

 that they should be fed with small quantities and frequently — for the 

 first fortnight, at least. They ought not to be fed less than four or six 

 times a day, although most farmers feed them only twice a day, giving 

 large quantities at once. This practice is much to be condemned, for, 

 as soon as the milk comes in contact with the walls of the stomach, it 

 is coagulated, or curded, this being the first process of digestion. The 

 weak digestion of the calf is quite unfitted for disposing of a large bulk 



