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HOW TO MAKE GINGER BEER. 
drink that is given to the cow when thus diseased. 
Nothing cold should be allowed to he taken into 
the stomach, and the diet should consist of warm 
mashes, or Indian-meal gruel, and the lightest 
kinds of food, which should sparingly be given, at 
the same time. Even when the recovery takes 
place, the same caution should be observed both 
with respect to the food and drink ; for when the 
appetite returns, the animal will be very apt to 
overload her stomach, which, being still weak, may 
be unable to throw it off, if left to her own will in 
taking it. 
Inflammation of the Third Stomach .—This disease 
is equally frequent as that of the first stomach, and 
is commonly known by the names of “ maw,” “ far- 
dal bound,” and “ lakeburn.” It is attended with 
great danger, if proper steps are not taken to re¬ 
move it before it gains ground. No time, therefore, 
should be lost to give the animal relief and check 
its progress. It is most prevalent in dry summers, 
and in the latter part of the year. 
Several causes give origin to this complaint, the 
most frequent of which is the cow not having a 
sufficient quantity of water to drink, as happens in 
time of drought, when cattle are at grass, and the 
springs and streams are nearly dry. Hence the food 
is imperfectly prepared for digestion ; and besides 
this, the water drunk is often of a bad quality, from 
the habit cows have of standing in the water to 
cool themselves, where they stale and dung, and 
thus render it unwholesome. Their food, in con¬ 
sequence of wanting proper dilution, becomes so 
very dry, that on entering the third stomach (which 
is of a particular structure, divided into folds), it 
clogs up the folds, and, by stagnation, turns hard 
and black, forming a kind of cake betwixt each 
fold, which never fails to produce inflammation. 
Besides this cause, the disease may also proceed 
from poor pasturage, either from the produce of the 
land being naturally so, or the animal being too 
long on it at a late season of the year, when it can¬ 
not afford an adequate supply of digestible nourish¬ 
ment. The same effect may also arise from the 
animal eating astringent matter, such as sumach, 
oak leaves, &c. 
The symptoms of this malady are a loss of milk, 
with little or no appetite y a fullness of the body 
may also be perceived, and a purging takes place, 
but only in small quantities at a time, of a dark 
color, and of a disagreeable smell. When made to 
walk, or turn suddenly round, the animal will 
groan, and betray much uneasiness; a cough some¬ 
times ensues; the least exercise fatigues and occa¬ 
sions a shaking of the flank ; the extremities of the 
ears and legs feel cold ; and as the disease increases 
there comes on a difficulty of breathing, with a 
quick pulse, and apparently much restlessness. 
When fatal, this malady terminates in mortification. 
In order to stop the progress of this disease, the 
first point will be to bleed as early as possible, to 
the extent of a pint and a half to a quart, according 
to the violence of the symptoms, and the strength 
of the animal; and if in very high condition, from 
two to three quarts will not be too much. Indeed, 
in certain cases of high inflammation, and much 
quickness of the pulse, four or five quarts have 
been taken with advantage in mitigating the disease. 
In all cases of active inflammation, it is to be ob¬ 
served, that one large bleeding will do more service, 
and check the disease at once, than a number oi 
small ones. These bleedings are to be repeated 
once every twelve or fourteen hours, the necessity 
of which will be judged of by the violent symp¬ 
toms of inflammation continuing unabated. The re¬ 
petition of bleeding, however, should never be to 
the same extent as at first. This practice is to be 
succeeded by the following mixture, to be given to 
the animal at one dose, in two quarts of water gruel 
with a pint of molasses:— 
Flour of sulphur, 12 oz.; camphor, 1| drachms; 
nitre, 1| oz. ; anise seed and cumin seed, § oz. each. 
In two hours after the drink is administered, a 
pint of linseed oil is to be given in one quart of 
strong decoction of camomile flowers, in which one 
ounce of gum Arabic has been dissolved. This will 
more powerfully assist the operation of the other 
medicines, and will be a means of dislodging the 
hard aliment from the folds of the stomach. The 
operation of the medicine is generally in twelve 
hours after it is given ; sometimes it is as early as 
seven or eight hours. 
Of all medicines, purgatives are best suited to re¬ 
move this disease, by their operating upon its cause, 
which is a retention of dry food in the folds of the 
stomach ; and in cases of dissection, the first sto¬ 
mach is always found very full, from the circum¬ 
stance of there being no digestion nor passage 
through the other. Clysters, in this disease, have 
no effect, as the cause is too distant for their ope¬ 
ration. 
The first marks of the medicine being successful, 
is its bringing away pieces of black, caked matter ; 
their thickness being generally about that of a half 
dollar. This appearance indicates certain recovery, 
if, at the same time, the animal seems inclined to 
drink. After the operation of the purgatives, the 
following medicine may be administered : — 
Epsom salts, 3 oz. ; nitre, valerian, and gentian, 
each, | oz.; gum myrrh, ginger, and long pepper, 
each, 3 drachms. 
To be given in a pint and a half of camomile tea 
and a pint of ale for one dose, which may be re¬ 
peated once a day, or once every other day. In the 
above prescription the salts are used in a small 
quantity, to keep the body laxative; and the other 
materials will give tone to the stomach, and will 
enable it to throw off’ the remaining part of the in¬ 
digestible food which overloads it. 
After this, the food and drink of the cow should 
be the same as recommended for the after-treatment 
of the inflammation of the first stomach; namely, 
to avoid giving anything cold, at the same tune, 
making use of diluent dnnks. 
How to Make Ginger Beer. —Take lump 
sugar (moist brown sugar will do), 1 lb. ; bruised 
ginger, from which the dust has been sifted, % oz.; 
cream of tartar, | oz.; and one lemon, sliced. 
Pour on them one gallon of boiling water; cover 
up and macerate, until barely lukewarm; then 
strain and add 2 oz. of yeast. Let the whole work 
for two to four days, according to the state of the 
weather; skim the liquid, strain it through a clean 
flannel, bottle off, and wire down the corks. 
