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with entire change of food, as, for instance, removal to old 

 sainfoin in an upland district. Quarter-ill is another 

 disease of young animals, producing almost sudden death, 

 often owing to sudden change of food or exposure to cold. 

 It is best prevented by uniform treatment as to feeding, and 

 warm and comfortable housing. Hoven, in which the 

 stomach is distended by the gases produced during 

 imperfect digestion, is the consequence of greedy or rapid 

 feeding on succulent food. An ounce of hartshorn in a 

 pint of water will greatly relieve ; if not, the left flank is 

 sometimes stabbed downwards between the hip bone and 

 rib, and the gases liberated a "trochar," leaving a 

 " canula " in the wound allowing the passage of the gas, 

 being used for the purpose. Purging in calves is generally 

 treated by a dram or two of carbonate of soda given 

 in warm milk, which helps to dissolve the indigestible 

 curd in the stomach. Two ounces of mutton fat dis- 

 solved in a quart of warm milk is sometimes given to 

 a calf thus affected, with good effect; in cows, chalk 

 and opium are the remedies. Redwater is a disease 

 of the liver, accompanied by scouring, and dark-coloured 

 urine ; the medicine should contain calomel and Epsom 

 salts. The drop after calving, a paralysis, is to be pre- 

 vented by allowing the cow sufficient exercise, and keeping 

 her in good health before calving. The foot and mouth 

 disease is accompanied by sore feet and blistered mouth. 

 The mouth should be washed with alum- water and treacle, 

 and the cows should be carefully nursed, and fed if neces- 

 sary on linseed mashes, gruel, and other soft food. Pleuro- 

 pneumonia, an infectious disease of the lungs, may possibly 

 be cured if taken at the earliest symptom, commencing as 

 it generally does with " a little short cough, and staring 



