VETERINARY QUERIES.
[Answered by a duly qualified Veterinary Surgeon. Queries must be received by SATURDAY night to enaara reply in the succeeding issue.] Horse.—Not having had an opportunity of examining your hors© when alive, nor having a post mortem examination, it would be impossible to say what was the cause of his trouble. it. C., Milton. —Cow ailing i Perhaps something in tlie pasture or feed may have affected your cow. Give a purgative in the first instance, either two pints of raw linseed oil or fib of Epsom salts and Jib of common salt mixed with a tablespoonfnl of powdered ginger added, the whole to be given in a couple of quarts of water or thin, gruel. See that the salts are properly dissolved before administering the . drench. Feed on sloppy bran mashes, mixing in the morning and evening mash a tablesponful of baking soda and a dessertspoonful of powdered gentian and a large pinch of powdered ginger. This may be continued for a fortnight or so; a little oaten hay may also be fed, and see that she has no access to bones or bone manure in her pasture.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3197, 23 June 1915, Page 47
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191VETERINARY QUERIES. Otago Witness, Issue 3197, 23 June 1915, Page 47
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