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be found on one farm while others in the same neighbourhood 
were free. Those who have studied the disease have no 
difficulty in detecting the symptoms, which are in the early 
stage a slight cough, laboured , breathing, dry hide, watery 
eyes and hot muzzle ; in milk cows stoppage of the lacteal 
flow. ‘hese signs sometimes disappear for a time, returning 
with increased force, breathing becomes more laboured, cough 
more painful, the animal moves unwillingly, the appetite is 
impaired, and rumination ceases. In the last stage respiration 
is short and painful, the cough more painful and deep, the 
eyes become glassy, and the animal dies from suffocation. 
Many remedies have been tried, the most efficacious being 
the vapour bath and cayenne pepper freely administered. 
The best way to vapour-bath a cow is by means of a large box 
(such as those in use for shipping horses), with a tight-fitting 
door. Shut the animal in the box, keep the head out, have 
the box perforated below, introduce steam by means of a 
tube from a boiler. As this cannot always be managed the 
next best remedy is the wet sheet packed as described for 
milk fever. Give cayenne pepper and pleurisy powder freely, 
and nourishing feed 
CLEANING COWS AFTER CALVING, 
Drench with a teaspoonful of cayenne pepper and two 
tablespoonfuls of composition ; mix with water, and give in a 
lemonade bottle. 
To Heat Wounps 1n Horses AND CATTLE.— 
Wash with a decoction of marigolds, and apply the healing 
ointment, or— 
EG REAIELE.» 620 2 cn ceuténe OF Sy Ceres GA . One ounce. 
CRLOGUOUNOIO xb )s¢ buen y vod eet gee Half drachm. 
Mix, and rub in. Here is another remedy, which may be 
called 
THE SMOKE CURE. 
For painful wounds nothing can be more beneficial than 
smoke. A short article on this useful remedy appeared in the 
‘* Health Column” of the Ofago Witness of May 11th, 1888, 
