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Pauvre. — Or the brittany cow, useful to the sick, and 

 a blessing to the poor. Some few of those useful little 

 cows, have been imported into this country, and i,f all be 

 true which is said in their favor, more of them ought 

 to be imported. They are represented to be hardy, 

 healthy, and can be kept on such food as another cow 

 would starve upon, and they can stand a greater amount 

 of hardship, than any other variety of cows. 



Bronchitis- — This is inflammation of the wind-pipe, 

 and even extending to the lungs themselves. There are 

 every variety or severity seen in this disease, from the 

 simple irritation of the buccal membrane to the intense 

 inflammation terminating in the outpouring of serum 

 from the blood into the cavity of the chest, resulting if 

 the cow be in calf, her abortion, and in others the death 

 of the animal, after a long and lingering hectic fever. 

 Bronchitis, throat and chest diseases in cattle, are insidi- 

 ons and deceptive, for the ox does not, even under the 

 most severe forms of throat and chest diseases, exhibit 

 fever and irritation, loss of appetite, etc., which are 

 shown at once in these diseases, when attacking the 

 horse. Not until the disease has made considerable 

 progress does the ox or the cow show symptoms of dis- 

 ease ; so much is this the case, that I have on several 

 occasions pointed out bronchial and chest disease, in 

 milch cows, whilst the owners failed to see anything 

 wrong. Indeed, this is the great difficulty in the suc- 

 cessful treatment of diseases in neat cattle — not getting, 

 or applying the remedies in early season of the afl*ection. 

 A greater and more strict attention, and observation on 

 the part of farmers and others, is almost imperatively 

 demanded, and more especially should this be the case 

 with dairy people ; for when anything is at once dis- 



