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r<3Commended in English books, as conducing to 

 the speedy fattening of cattle. 



Cattle are apt to be hoven or swollen in conse- 

 quence of having eaten too much green succulent 

 food. The common remedy for this disorder has 

 been to stab the infected amimal with a pen knife 

 or other sharp instrument, under the short rids, and 

 put into the orifice a tube of ivory, elder, a quill, 

 or something of the kind, to give vent to the con- 

 fined air. The wound is then dressed with some 

 sort of adhesive plaster, and thus, in general the 

 cure is easily effected. — This, however, is a rough 

 and dangerous remedy, and we therefore give place 

 to others mora safe and gentle. 



The 33d volume of the Annals of Agriculture 

 announces the following recipe for hoven cattle, 

 which it assures us will effect a cure for hoven cat- 

 tle, in the most desperate cases in half an hour. 

 Take three quarters of a pint of olive oil; one 

 pint of melted butter, or hog's lard; give this mix- 

 ture by means of a horn or bottle, and if it does 

 not produce a favourable c'^ange in a quarter of an 

 hour, repeat the same quantity, and walk the animal 

 gently about. For sheep, attacked with this mal- 

 ady the dose is from a wine-glass and a half to two 

 glasses. 



Besides these remedies, flexible tubes, and canes, 

 with knobs at their ends, have been used to force 

 a passage from the mouth to the stomach, to let the 

 confined air escape upwards from the trunk of the 

 animal afi!ected. Descriptions of these instruments 

 may be seen in the second American edition of the 

 Domestic Encyclopaedia, volume I. p. 409. 410. 

 The following simple remedy we have been assured 

 is effectual. Make about a pint of lie either with 



