MISCELLANEOUS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 3, 4 January 1896, Page 3 (Supplement)

MISCELLANEOUS.

Young animals nre sometimes alow to drink co\d water. Be patieufc. It does not pay to drive them avcay from the trough before they have satisfied their fchirat. To daveiop muscle and keep up the growth of bone and body it is necessary to give workhorses oats, bran and hay, but to fatten them corn and oil -meal should be given. If there ia a lob of rubbish about the buildings and yards, ib who.ild be cleaned up as soon as poesibie. By this means the premises will be made bo present a neater appearance, and much will bo done to prevent tho multiplication of insecb pests, which seek such material in v?hich bo breed.

Inferior dairy Baib is a poor economy. Only the very finest quality of pure sale should be used. It> should be of a fine, even grain and smooth to the touch, bale is as seneitive as milk to foul taints and odours, and should never be expo-Bed to an atmosphere which ia nob free from all impurities. , Don'b deprive the brood sows of an abundance ot exercise if you would have them farrow a healthy, active, good conatitutioned lifcter. Exercise is as important in keeping the system of the sows regular and healthy as to furnish an abundance ot Co proper kind of foocJ. The best Hucceea at farrowing time is when the sows have had the range of good grass paddocks during the period of gestation in winter. A very large number of the ailments to which piga are eubjocb are either directly or indirectly the reeulb of .indigestion. When digestion becomes impaired, all tno organs of the body acb uneystematicalJy, and perform fcheir functions very imperfectly, while with good digestion, should some organ of the body become diseased, nature !■ the pig's besb doctor and applies the besb remedies, and soon corrects the disorder. The professional pig grower; w a war* of the importance of good digestion in his pigs. Hence he supplies a variety of food, and prepares it in apecial manner to suii) his pigs.

The l Clinica Vetenaria,' an Italian journal, gives the following formula for diarrncea, in calves :—Salol, 2 drachms ; oxide of bismnth, 4 drachma ; carbonate of lime, loz. Mix and divide inio six equal parts or doses, the first two doses to be administered at an interval of two hours, and the other four every four hoars. Each dose is to be given in a glass of camomile infusion, bo which add, if the animal is very bad, half a glass of good wine. A cure is almoefe always obtained in two or three days, and there is no necessity to prolong the treatmenb after this. The remedy has failed only in those canes where ib has been applied too late. The antiseptic washing of the cow's udder is also recommended, and fche disinfection of tho stables. During the treatment the calf should nob be forced to take milk, bnb lefb bo do as ib likes. It may be added thab Dr. Gresswell, in his book on the 'Diseases and Disorders of the Ox,1 says thab perhaps the moßb valuable of all remedies for cases of diarrhoea in calves is galicylate of bismuth in two drachm doses, and he also recommends ■ salicylato of iron for a similar purpose.