TO CO-RESPONDENTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 300, 18 December 1895, Page 2

TO CO-RESPONDENTS.

A.C, (Swanson).-Your description of the symp toms is nol full enough to make absolutely euro whethsr the cow ia not suffering from retention of the placenta, or inllammation of thu kidneys, but I believe that the trouolo is simply fceneral weakness. Feed some linseed boiled to a jelly in a bran mash once a day for soveral weeks.

M.W. (Waitnmata).—You hare probably left the matter too long after calving to open tho teat. Had you when it was distended forced the niillc down aft far an possible in the teat, and then inserted a small, smooth wooden ping about, two inches, if the pnasago had not boon blocked for the whole of its length, you TTCild probably have opened it. After removing tho woodori plmr. a quill from the wing of a fowl should bu tiiken and inserted about two inches, caro beinir taken to spiit the end, and bend it over in four piecas, to prevent it slipping in. This should ho left in throo or four days, and on its withdrawal the passage would probably remain open.

G.H.B (VVainku) has a horse which !ias a swaying motion in his hindquarters. When standing in the stall, -willor drops from tho sheath. This is canned from a dursmsrert state of tho nerves of the hindquarters, nlso aflectinK tho neck of the bladder. Give Idr of mix vornica and Idr of sulphate of iron at a dose unco a day in bran mash. Also ptivo 2oz spirits of nitrous ether and loz tincture of buchu at a floso in half-pint cold water once daily; continue the abovofor two or three \veekn.