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the animal may still take its milk, it does not thrive, and finally it dies 

 (worn out) from exhaustion, the post-mortem revealing large numbers of 

 worms in the windpipe. 



545. Treatment for this complaint is not at all tnnes satisfactory. 

 The affected animals should have good warm well ventilated boxes, and 

 clean dry beds. Turpentine, in dessert-spoonful doses, in a teacupful 

 of linseed oil and milk, given every third day, answers as well as any- 

 thing. At the same time the system should be kept up as far as 

 possible, by giving linseed jelly or well-boiled gruel, made of equal 

 parts of oat and barley meals, and milk, supplementing it with a 

 mixture of crushed oats, cake, bran, and a little salt. Fumigation, 

 with chlorine or sulphur fumes, is sometimes resorted to, but I think 

 iodine fumes are more beneficial. For the purpose of fumigation, 

 one drachm of iodine should be placed on a hot brick, and this having 

 been put into a bag, the calf's head should be held in the bag for a few 

 moments. This destroys the worms, but the parasities have to be 

 coughed up afterwards, so that good nursing is still required. In some 

 parts of the country intertracheal injections of a mixture of turpentine, 

 carbolic acid, chloroform, and oil of almonds are resorted to with great 

 success. But the best thing is not to have the complaint at all ; and 

 where the system is carried out of keeping the calves indoors, and 

 giving them cake, corn, bran, and a little salt, until they are twelve 

 months old, it is rarely heard of. Dressing the disease-producing 

 grazing lands in early spring with 10 cwts. crushed rock salt to the 

 acre has a magical effect in preventing the complaint. 



546. Bronchitis. — Young calves, during the winter and early 

 spring months, often suffer from acute bronchitis, with congestion of 

 the lungs. The complaint is most frequently found in badly- ventilated 

 boxes, or " hulls," which have low-lying floors, wet soppy beds, and 

 bad drainage. The symptoms, which much resemble hoose, are more 

 acute, and are generally accompanied by diarrhoea, but no worms are 

 found in the air-passages. The lining membrane, however, of the 

 bronchial tubes is thickened, and the lungs are more or less congested. 

 When first observed, the calves must be removed to better and more 



