216 TRANSLATIONS FROM CONTINENTAL JOURNALS. 
ON MILK WHICH DOES NOT YIELD BUTTER, AND THE 
MEANS TO REMEDY IT. 
By M. E. Deneubourg, late Veterinary Surgeon to the Government. 
The author calls the attention of those who are chiefly in¬ 
terested in such cases, in which there is no disease of the mam¬ 
mary gland, nor loss of milk, but a want of oleaginous matters 
in the fluid. In the causes of this deficiency of butter-making 
quality, he concludes that there are two principal ones, viz., 
idiosyncrasy and alimentation; but there is another,which can 
be so easily defined, and which occurs in animals that are well 
kept, and whose milk has been previously rich in butter. It is 
to these that the remedy is principally directed. The remedy 
consists in giving the animal two ounces of the sulphuret of 
antimony, with three ounces of coriander seeds, powdered and 
well mixed. This is to be given as a soft bolus, and followed 
by a draught composed of half a pint of vinegar, a pint of 
water, and a handful of common salt, for three successive 
mornings, on an empty stomach. 
This remedy, according to the author, rarely fails, and the 
milk produced some days after its exhibition is found to be 
richer in cream. The first churning yields a larger quantity 
of butter, but the second and the third are still more satis¬ 
factory in their results. 
A letter from a farmer states that he had fourteen cows in 
full milk, from which he obtained very little butter, and that of 
a bad quality. Guided by the statements of M. Deneubourg, 
which had appeared in the Annates Veterinaires, he had sepa¬ 
rately tested the milk of his cows, and found that the bad 
quality of it was owing to one cow’ only, and that the milk 
of the others yielded good and abundant butter. It was 
therefore clearly established that the loss he had so long 
sustained was to be attributed to this cow only. He at once 
administered the remedy recommended by M. Deneubourg, 
which effected a speedy cure. 
Veterinary Annual for 1859. Second Year. 
By M. Vincent Mazurkiewiez, Secretary to the Registrar of the 
Imperial Veterinary School of Alfort. 
This annual contains, besides much useful information of 
another kind— 
