ANIMAL AILMENTS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5408, 27 July 1878, Page 2 (Supplement)

ANIMAL AILMENTS.

CURING SHEEP-WORRYING DOGS. Wrap a narrow strip of sheepskin, that has much wool on it, round the dog’s lower jaw, the wool outward, and fasten it so that ho cannot get rid of it. Put this ou him for a few times daily, and the chances are that bo will become as thoroughly - disgusted as you could wish with every animal whose coat furnishes such odious mouthfuls. RECIPE I’OR HOOP OINTMENT. Either of the following remedies will be found extremely efficacious for your purpose : Take of Barbadoes tar, four parts ; beeswax, three parts ; honey, two parts ; beef suet, four parts ; castor oil, eight parts. Mix and melt together in hot water, hath. Directions for use : the ointment should be applied after the feet have been washed clean and dried. It should be rubbed in with the hand. Both- the coronet and frog, as well as the hoof, will, bo benefited by having a little rubbed into them about once or twice a week. A simple remedy is to take equal parts of Barbodoes tar and English soft soap. Mix and apply witli the hand. EPILEPTIFORM SYMPTOMS IN PIGS. ' Symptoms similar to those of epilepsy are frequently met with in young pigs, and are often due to gastric derangement. It has been found, by experiment, that this condition may be successfully counteracted by the administration of tartar emetic, in emetic doses. Thus, ten grains of this drug, dissolved in two ounces of warm water, may be given to each pig, but never while the animal-is under the influence of one of his fits. A dose of physic, consisting of two to three ounces ■of castor oil, should be given the following day, and the animal should be fed on sloppy food, and have plenty of sour milk, or butter milk. CHEST-FOUNDER, SO CALLED., Kheumatism in the horse is most common in tho fore-quarters. Sometimes one fore extremity, and occasionally both is affected. The following dose may be given night, and morning, ’for a week, and be repeated every other week : One drachm of iodide of potassium, one ounce of sulphuric ether, and half an ounce of cream of tartar. Mix with a pint of cold gruel, and give from a bottle. The joints of the shoulders may be well rubbed every night with soap liniment, in every pint of which may be mixed two ounces of spirit of hartshorn. Change the food frequently. Give comfortable quarters, and keep the animal blanketed. An animal troubled with this complaint should never bo exposed to drafts of cold air, or be out during wet, chilly or stormy weather. VOMITING IN A-HEIFER. Vomiting in ruminants is very rare, and when it occurs is due to derangement of tho digestive organs. The proper treatment in such cases is to clear the intestines of their contents by means of powerful purgatives, with tho addition of stimulants. Dissolve in a quart of warm water one pound of Epsom salts, when cold add thero to half an ounce of carbonate of ammonia and twenty-five drops of croton oil. Shako -the mixture well, and give-in one dose the first thing in the morning, or immediately after tho animal has vomited. Place the heifer where she can got no solid food for a week, and feed only on gruel or sloppy food. If the bowels do not respond to the purgative after ten hours, give a pint of olive oil and an ounce of aromatic spirits of ammonia every three hours until purgation ensues. Then give every morning, during three or four days, two grains of strobnia, dissolved in an ounce of whisky, and mixed with a pint of gruel. She may, then, beside her sloppy food have a small portion of cut grass. After the fourth dose of strychnia has been‘given, give the following day, and twice daily thereafter, four drachms of the diluted aromatic sulphuric acid in a pint of gruel. When tho vomiting shall have ceased, the animal may be given access to grass outdoors. But hay or'any other kind of eoarso and bulky food as au article of diet should bo carefully avoided.