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FARMER'S CYCLOPEDIA OF LIVE STOCK 



had excellent results from spraying cat- 

 tle with a 25 per cent mixture of crude 

 oil in water. 



Corn stalk disease affects cattle and 

 sometimes horses and sheep. The cause 

 of the disease is not known. The symp- 

 toms are digestive disturbances, accom- 

 panied with delirium and unconscious- 

 ness and death commonly occurs within 

 24 hours. The disease has been supposed 

 by some to be due to corn smut, to the 

 Burrill disease of corn, to some poison 

 like nitrate of potash contained in the 

 corn and to various other conditions of 

 corn. Recently, certain investigators 

 have claimed that corn stalk disease is 



may be adopted for ulcerated sore mouth 

 and sore throat. If cattle become choked 

 with some solid food material, the ob- 

 struction may be crushed by the hand, 

 if not too hard, or forced on into the 

 stomach by pressure; or, if this is im- 

 possible, the probang may be used as 

 recommended in Diseases of the Horse. 

 Bloat in cattle is a very common 

 trouble, especially after eating green 

 alfalfa or clover. If observed in its 

 first stages, this trouble may be checked 

 by large doses of soda or melted lard; 

 otherwise it may be necessary to punc- 

 ture the stomach by means of a knife 

 or a trocar and canula. Tbe point for 



Fig. TO DIPPING CATTLE FOR MANGE 



only one form of hemorrhagic septi- 

 cemia. At times chemical analysis 

 shows a large amount of nitrate of pot- 

 ash in corn and occasionally corn smut 

 may be harmful, but some experiments 

 have shown it to be quite inert. This 

 disease needs further investigation. 



DISEASES OF THE DIGESTIVE OR- 

 GANS 



Wounds in the mouth which lead to 

 sore mouth may best be treated with an- 

 tiseptic washes, such as permanganate 

 of potash at the rate of 1 dram in a 

 pint of water, or with a 1 per cent so- 

 lution of creolm. A similar treatment 



puncturing is located equally distant 

 from the last rib, the hip bone and the 

 transverse process of the vertebras on 

 the left side. At th ; s point the stomach 

 is united with the body wall and no 

 danger attends the operation. The 

 canula may be left in until all the gas 

 has escaped, after which soda or am- 

 monia may be administered to prevent 

 further fermentation, 



Loss of cud — Whenever cattle are seri- 

 ously sick, they stop chewing the cud 

 and for this reason the notion com- 

 monly prevails that they have lost the 

 cud. There is no such thing as loss of 

 end, in the ordinary sense, but if cattle 



