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times swelling is induced, which cause closure in the 

 channel of the teat. Warts are to be removed by a pair 

 of sharp scissors. 



Fourth. Sore teats are cured bj the simple ointment, 

 one ounce, and one drachm of the rust of copper, com- 

 monly called verdigris, added to it. 



Teeth Diseased. — Diseases of the teeth of cattle are 

 not so common as in horses. However, I have seen cases 

 of a diseased tooth in cows, causing a bony enlargement 

 on the lower jaw, and subsequent fistulous opening, and 

 discharges running from it. When disease of the roots of 

 the upper teeth takes place, it is accompanied with a bad 

 smelling discharge from the nostril on the side on which 

 the diseased tooth is. 



Texan Fever. — This is a disease accompanied with 

 sympathetic fever, and is not confined to Texas alone, 

 for we see it more or less every year in the Eastern and 

 Middle States, showing itself at the close of the summer 

 months to the end of autumn. Texan fever is nothing 

 more than the Fardle Bound of the European writers — 

 impaction of the manyplus with withered and dried grass 

 and herbage containing no moisture whatever: the sto- 

 mach refuses to digest it. Heat, dryness and fever of 

 the system is thus set up, with all their attendant conse- 

 quences. 



Treatment. — Large doses of epsom or glauber salts, 

 dissolved in great quantities Q,f molasses water. If no 

 relief follows in twenty-four hours, repeat the dose again, 

 bearing in mind all the while that great quantities of fluid 

 or cold water is a means to overcome the dry condition 

 of the impacted stomach. Indeed, the cure has a good 

 deal of a mechanical nature about it, for by large 

 drenches of water with the salts, do not only assist their 



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