CATTLE, THEIR DISEASES. 
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In comparing the skeleton of the ox with that of tho horse, we can 
readily perceive the difference in the length of the limb and neck pos- 
sessed by the latter. Speed seems to have been an object at the creation, 
and as the body was elevated the neck needed proportionate length in 
order to feed. The body of the horse corresponds to a square, while 
that of the ox to a long rectangle. The limbs of the ox are straigliter than 
those of the horse, much less speed being demanded. The ribs of the 
former are both longer and larger than those of the latter, greater pro- 
tection with sluggardness of movement being required. In the head of 
the ox we find the two plates or tables noticed in the horse ; in the latter, 
however, they lie close together, while in the former, as in all horned 
animals, there is considerable space between them. This diversity creates 
a number of cells, having bony ridges passing from the inner to the outer 
plate, which secures the firmness of the parts. These cells form roomy 
and strong sockets for the horns. The cavity containing the brain of the 
ox is about one-fourth the size of the other parts of the skull ; the organa 
of mastication and those of smell taking up the remaining portions. In. 
cattle the frontal bonce extend from the nose to the superior ridge of tho 
skull, presenting a flat, irregular surface, totally bare of any muscular or 
fleshy covering. The weapon of defense and offense employed by cattle 
is the horn and nature has securely based it and rendered it effective by 
this expanse of the frontal bone. There is the same division in the 
center of the frontal sinuses as in tho horse, but the perfection of divis- 
ion between the nostrils is wanting. Commencing about half way up tho 
nose, the septum is wanting at the lower part, and the two nostrils are, 
as it were, thrown into one ; the frontal sinuses connect with tho nasal, 
thus forming a continuous cavity from the muzzle to the horn, and from 
one muzzle to the other. In polled cattle the frontal bone holds the 
same situation — reaching from the nasal bones to the parietal ridge — but 
as they were not designed for the base of horns, they narrow off towards 
the poll. The temporal bones in cattle are small, deep in the temporal 
fossa and destitute of the squamous structure. The occipital bone is, 
in the ox, deprived of almost all the importance attached to it in the 
conformation of the horse. The sphemoid and ithmoid bones are in tho 
same relative position, 
IV. Simple and Valuable Medioal Recipes for Cattlo. 
Dr. G. H. Dadd, M.D., V.S., a medical practitioner - of repute, and 
celebrated as a veterinary surgeon, up to the time of his death, some 
fifteen years ago, attributed much of his success to not being bound by 
any rigid rules of practice. Thus he, while having been bred under the 
Allopathic system of medicine, used largely of botanical agents, as ia 
