294 AMERICAN AGRICULTURE. 



SCOURS, OR DIARRHOEA. A common remedy is to boil the 

 bark of white oak, white pine and beech, and give a strong 

 infusion in bran. If they refuse to eat it, pour it down. 

 The oak is astringent, and the pine and beech is soothing and 

 healing. 



WARBLES are grubs* the egg of which is deposited in the 

 back of cattle by the gad fly* (CEsirus Iwvis.) They are dis- 

 cernable by a protuberance or swelling on the back. They 

 may be pressed out by the thumb and linger ; or burnt out by 

 plunging a hot wire in them ; or a few applications of strong 

 brine will remove them. 



WOUNDS in cattle are readily healed when the animal's 

 blood is in good order, by applying a salve made of 1 oz. 

 green copperas, 2 oz. white vitriol, 2 oz. salt, 2 oz. linseed 

 oil, 8 oz. W. I. molasses. Boil over a slow fire 15 minutes 

 in a pint of urine, and when almost cold, add 1 oz. oil of 

 vitriol, and 4 oz. spirits turpentine. Apply it with a feather 

 to the wound, and cure soon follows. 



MILK, OR PUERPERAL FEVER, is a common disease with 

 cows in high condition at the time of calving. It may, in 

 almost every case be avoided, by keeping them in moderate 

 feed and flesh. Remedy. Bleed freely, say 6 to 10 quarts, 

 according to the circulation of the blood ; then give 1 to li 

 Ibs. of epsom salts, according to the size of the beast, to be 

 repeated in half Ib. doses every six hours, till she purges 

 freely. Injections should always be given when purgatives 

 are tardy in their operation. 



CAKED BAG may be removed by simmering the bark of 

 the root of bitter-sweet in lard, till it becomes very yellow. 

 When cool, apply it to the swollen udder once in 8 or 10 

 hours ; or wash it several times a day in cold water. A pint 

 of horse-radish fed once a day, cut up with potatoes or meal, 

 is useful for the same purpose. It is also a tonic, helps the 

 appetite, and is good for oxen subject to heat. 



GARGET is a more intense degree of inflammation than 

 exists in caked bag, and sore, swollen teats, and shows itself in 

 hard bunches on the udder. The cow should be bled and take 

 a large dose of physic ; then wash the udder as in caked bag. 

 Repeated doses of sulphur is a good remedy. Garget or 

 scoke root given of the size of a large finger, grated and fed 

 in their food, is a general application with farmers. The 

 garget plant grows from three to six feet high, with a purple 

 stalk, and strings of berries hanging down between the 

 branches. 



