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n. Hoven. — This comes from indigestion, especially from a surfeit of green watery food like young wheat. The stomach swells from the gases evolved during fermentation, and in extreme cases rupture ensues. It is the hovine form of colic, and should be treated the same way. Give the carminative draught, or linseed oil warmed, half a bottle turpentine 2 oz., raw opium 20 grains. Where nothing else is at hand, lime water may be tried. If remedies fail to stop the swelling, and the animal is in absolute danger of bursting, open the paunch with a trochar. The puncture to be made exactly in the centre of the flank between the last rib, the lumber vertebrae, and the ileum ; that is to say, in the centre, at equal distances from the back bone, the last rib, and the big projecting bone above the haunch hone. If you have no trochar, you may relieve a desperate case with a penknife and any kind of tube, the object being to allow the gas to escape. A hollow flexible probang may be passed into the stomach through the mouth for this purpose. Hoven is often followed by a sort of inflammation of the various stomachs. Warm beer or porter and carminatives may be given, in conjunction with mild aperients and stimulants. The following are useful remedies : — l. Aperient. — Iw’elve oz. Epsom salts, 2 drachms pow’dered ginger. 8. Carminative for Cattle or Horses. — In 1 quart country spirit digest for eight days 3 oz. each of ginger, ajwain, and cloves. Dose. — One tumblerful mixed with a very little hot water, in which ^ oz. nitre has been dissolved. 9. Cooling Draught at any time.— One oz. nitre, 4 oz. powdered sulphur, 1 bottle of water. Half at a time. 10 Alterative Powder for Indigestion.— Sulphate of copper 1 oz., Glauber’s salts 1 lb., resin 2 oz., nitre 2 oz. Powder and divide into ten doses. One night and morning. 11. Alterative and Carminative Powder. — Equal quantities of black salt, black pepper, long pepper, and ajwain. Dose —One oz. in the grain. 12. Cleansing Draught at Calving.— Half pint warm beer boiled with ^ oz. ergot of rye. 13. Stimulant Draught for Chills or Colic.— Opium 1 drachm, ginger 2 drachms, allspice 3 drachms, gruel. Or hartshorn 1 oz., ginger 3 drachms, water 1 pint, “ Give in drachms, water 1 pint, or ii6 The Indian Housekeeper and Cook carbonate of ammonia 1 drachm, ginger 1 drachm, in liot beer, liiis is a good powder to iiave ready. U14. Ointment for Sore Teats.— One oz. wax, 2 oz. ghee, 1 drachm alum, 1/2 oz. sugar of lead.15. Ointment for Hardness of the Udder.— This generally comes from chill. Treat as for that, and rub in gently 1 oz. ghee rubbed up with ^ oz. camplior. 16. Astringent Draught for Diarrhoea in Calves.— Quarter oz. prepared chalk and 5 grains of opium in a pint of slightly sweetened rice water, or half pint of beer boiled with 1/2 oz. black pepper. Give 3 oz. of castor oil as a preliminary. 17. Ointment for Scaldhead in Calves. — Plain sulphur ointment, made by mixing equal parts of ghee and powdered sulphur. 18. Aperient for Calves.— Two oz. Epsom salts, 2 drachms ajwain. 19. Linseed Jelly for Calves. — Half-pint measure of bruised linseed, .3 pints water. Boil for ten minutes. Mix with skim milk. 20. Hay or Churri Tea for Calves.— Infuse 2 lbs. chopped hay or churri in 2 gallons of boiling water for two hours. Strain, squeeze, and mix the liquid with the milk. CHAPTER IX HINTS ON POULTRY