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meal. Work when stomach is not distended with food. Hay should 
not be fed at noon. Limewater for wetting the food is desirable. 
Once or twice a week raw linseed oil in a bran mash is recommended 
for keeping open the bowels. 
10. Hollow horn.—The horn is not hollow, and never is. 
The old quack method of boring a hole in the horn with 
a gimlet and squirting turpentine into the orifice is both 
cruel and ridiculous. If the temperature of the horn is 
low, it is because of the general poverty of the blood of 
the animal. The most common symptoms are general 
debility, scanty flesh, scurvy coat and coarse hair. The 
appetite is also irregular and at times greedy. Treatment 
is in line of better food to improve and tone up the sys- 
tem. If lice are found they must be destroyed by disin- 
fectants or washes. 
11. Lice—Farm animals, especially those housed in 
stables more or less infested with insects and rats, are 
commonly troubled 
with lice. Animals in \\\\ 
good health resist the 
insects, but those 
already in a non- 
thrifty condition do 
not fare so well. Lice 
annoy farm stock by 
biting the skin, suck- 
ing the blood and 
causing irritation. 
infestation, as a rule, CaTTLe BATH TuB 
takes place in filthy quar- Permanent tank used for dipping for treatment 
ters, and the best means of lice and mange. 
of disinfecting such places 
is by the use of a spray of kerosene. One of the best means 
of applying to hogs consists in rubbing posts, which are con- 
stantly smeared with kerosene and grease. In this way the hogs 
are induced to treat themselves. Infected hogs may also be treated 
by pouring the kerosene directly over the infested parts—the neck, 
