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few hours after birth, and is followed later by soft but 

 firmer faces of a bright yellow color. If it is plain that 

 the first mass is not clearing out of the kid's intestines, 

 use an enema of warm, soapy water, using the smallest 

 tube, and working with the greatest gentleness. Nor- 

 mally a new born kid, properly dried, well bedded in a 

 dry, warm box, and fed a proper allowance of its own 

 mother's milk, will not make any sound at all, except a 

 vigorous and imperative demand for more food at rea- 

 sonable intervals. The wail of a suffering kid is of quite 

 a different sort and cannot be mistaken. 



Diarrhoea or Scours. — A new born kid will some- 

 times be afflicted with " wliite scours," caused by an in- 

 fection from the mother. This disease is likely to be 

 fatal, but prompt measures may save the little creature. 

 It must be at once removed from the mother, and must 

 be kept quite warm and clean and dry. Give one tea- 

 spoonful castor oil and three drops peppermint. Brown 

 some white flour in a pan until quite brown without 

 burning, mix to a thin paste with milk, and bring to 

 the boiling point. Feed it to the kid quite warm with a 

 spoon, one or two spoonfuls only at a time, every hour or 

 so. Dissolve a tablet of the sulphocarbolate in half a cup 

 of water, and administer a teaspoonful warm every two 

 hours. If available, use Calf Scour Vaccine, according 

 to directions. A kid afflicted with this disease either dies 



