Cattle with Dropsical Swellings.

Southland Times, Issue 9164, 12 March 1886, Page 4

Cattle with Dropsical Swellings.

A corre«pondeot of the N.B. Agriculturist Bays : — Three of my six-qnarter-old Ayrshire cattle are affected with dropsical swellings alone the side* of the riba a^d belly. They are dull, bat take their food well enough. Are fed on turnipß and fresh oat straw, and have a run out during the day on rongb p&iture. This is Ihe first case of the kind I have ever seen, . Eighteen cattle of the same age were pastured on two different fields during BUTntner, nine in each fieW. The three affected were grazed in & field where the water supply was very low for lonse time during summer, ard rather stagnant. lam in tae belief that this may ba?e affected their kidneys. lam giving them a decoction of broom along wiih creas of tartar and sareet spirit of aitie, ia oii-cake gruel, and applying janstard and turpentine outwardly ; but the awellinga do not ks*en. What treatment would yon r-jee mmend ? £Anac-raifl or bloodlaisaees cUten depends Bpon poof fi-sdlngof laapnrs, etggoaiJt wster, and is the Dsaal cause of saoh dropsical sws-1* lings, especially when ihsy appear {rradaaiiy Sao resist giliEa treatac-nt. each a^ you have adopted, to Increase the s«*ivity c£ the bowels, fcldaeys, aad rMo-. It i«, however, the biocd, not the kitkejßi that is at fault, Another olaea of swslhsgs, more sudden ia !heU appaarancs and disappearance, o:o«r injeunsr Cit tie, aad uaaally result from gastric do« taugfctneat, Your young ani coals appear to bs fairiy vigorous, and in the first instßoce, It will be well to give them half a pound of Epsom salt, wi h the szvae quantity of treacle, in abiat forty ounces of tepl i water, You may continue a daily drench of a cotipie of ounces of sweet spirit of nitre, with an Ounce cream of tartar, to which may be added 6n ounce of Epsom salt. When *be physic sets, a drachm of iron sulpha' e sh)Dld bo given, mixed in a mash or with ground lin. seed cak«, ffbich is itself a va'uabla it raodj in these oases, if thia treatment does no: io. ten days disperse the swellings, pursue a more energetic stimslant and tonio treatment, and give ni"ht and morning some sucb Hrer.ch &*. two ounces of whi.-ky, an ounce of powd ■ ed gentian, end s drachm of irou sulpaaie, ia a pint of grnel or ale. The outward application of mu-taxd and tu^ntiaa is of so avail, — Vet. id) i — —www aag^aeai—