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voidings are normal and all scurf is removed from 

 the tongue. As a tonic for this none is better than 

 a mixture of powdered gentian root, six ounces, 

 powdered golden seal 2 ounces, powdered sulphate 

 of iron 4 ounces, well mixed in i pound of common 

 salt. Give in the feed a tablespoonful in ground 

 oats three times a day, until improvement takes 

 place. Then drop to twice a day and later once a 

 day. In case of the bowels being very loose always 

 give a pint dose of a mixture of castor oil 4 ounces, 

 pure raw linseed oil 12 ounces. Then follow with 

 the tonic powder named. The symptoms in cattle 

 are quite similar to those of the horse, except the 

 bovine's eyes usually discharge some, yet not pro- 

 fusely, and there are frequently puffy swellings be- 

 neath their lower jaws. In case their bowels are 

 abnormally loose, give the oil as for the horse. If 

 constipated give from one to two pounds of 

 Epsom salts at one dose as the physic, with the 

 podophylin added as for the horse, and follow with 

 the same tonic powder. In the case of sheep, which 

 are by nature constipated animals, nothing equals 

 a ten-grain dose of calomel, followed the next day 

 with a four or six-ounce dose of Epsom salts (sul- 

 phate of magnesia), and as sheep are reluctant to 

 eat any tonics in their feed, we are compelled to 

 pour their medicine down them. Mix together 4 

 ounces each of the tincture of gentian, golden seal, 

 ginger and iron, and give a tablespoonful twice a 

 day in a half pint of water. But always give the 

 calomel, as it will clean out the liver of a sheep as 

 no other known agent will. The symptoms are 

 much the same as in cattle. Begin treatment early 

 or success will not follow. 



KIDNEY WORMS.— The hog is mostly affected 

 with these worms, although they have been found 



