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in concer* to move it, they would soon learn to pull together, 

 and be true to the yoke. Having eaten the grass within 

 reach of their first location, they would of necessity ur.ite 

 their efforts to remove their load to a fresh spot, and would 

 adopt for their motto, united we feed, divided we starve. 



Diseases of Ca.ttle. Our limits will not admit of our be'ng 

 very copious under this, head ; but some of the most common 

 ails to which cattle tLre subject shall be briefly treated of, 

 and the remedies prescribed. 



Cattle are apt to be hoven or sivollen in consequence of 

 having eaten too much gr?en succulent food. The common 

 remedy for this disorder has been to stab the infected animal 

 with a penknife or other sharp instrument under the short 

 ribs, and put into the orifice a tube of ivory, elder, a quill, 

 or something of the kind, to give vent to the confined air. 

 The wound is then dressed with some sort of adhesive plas- 

 ter, such as Burgundy pitch, and thus in gener-il the cure is 

 effected. This, however, according to the Grazier's Qiddej 

 is a bad practice ; a second attack becomes more difficult to 

 cure, as the wound adlieres to the side, and every repetition 

 increases the danger. 



The thirty-third volume oi Young's Annals of Agriculture 

 prescribes the following recipe for hoven cattle, which it 

 states will effect a cure in the most desperate 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 fa- 

 vorable change in a quarter of an hour, repeat the same 

 quantity, and walk the animal gently about. For sheep at- 

 tacked with this malady the dose is from a wine-glass and a 

 half to two wine-glasses. 



The following lemedy for this complaint has also been re- 

 commended. Make about a pint of lye, either with hot em- 

 bers thrown into a sufficient quantity of water, or by dis- 

 solving therein about an ounce of pot or pearl-ash, and turn 

 it down the throat of the ox or cow affected. A propor- 

 tionably less quantity will answer for a sheep. This is said 

 to give immediate relief, by neutralizing the carbonic acid 

 gas in the stomach of the animal, which causes the swelling 

 and other symptoms of the complaint to subside. 



Besides these remedies, flexible tubes and canes, with 

 knobs on their ends, tarred rope, whip handles, Sec, have 

 been used to force a passage from the mouth to the stomach, 

 to let the confined air escape upwards from the trunk of the 



