The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-04-21
Diseases and their Remedies.

can Stock JOlTndl:
BoTs OR CoLIC IN HoRsEs.-Fill an or
binary Junk bottle half full OF molasses;
then fill with sweet milk; shake well,
and drench follow the above, in about
an hour, with a bottle of strong sage
tea, made of our ordinary garden sage !;
next day give the horse a feed of rough
rice, and the next day the dead bots
will come out with the rice. My theory
is that, the milk and molasses being
sweeter than blood the bots turn loose
to eat it. The sage tea will kill them,
and it is the only thing ! ever heard of
that will do it, without injury to the
horse. The rice will cut out the dead
bots better than salts in fact, if you
will give horses a feed of rough rice
every two weeks, do not think there
is the least danger from bots at least,
such is my experience. AS proof Of
what have written, get two sage
leaves, dip them in hot water, lay one
down, put lively bot on it, then cover
stantly. Sage tea have also found very
beneficial in collie, and is perfectly harm
less, if it does no good.
ABORTION IN Cows.-Arrest of the nu-
triton of the fntus from weakness or
low feeding on the part of the COW, or
from the occurrence of state of fever
or inflammation, which checks the
secretion for the nourishment of the
calf, as it does all others in the body.
sometimes causes premature expulsion
of the progeny. Bad odors have proved
equally noxious. Thus, few years ago,
abortion was banished from a farm in
this county by draining a pool of liquid
manure. The draining of wet or marshy
lands, and the removal of stagnant
pools containing decomposed organic
matter, from which the COWS were &C.
customed to drink, have equally put n
stop to it. Some cases have been traced
to the fntid discharges from unhealthy
wounds. and others TO the close, sitting
air of the cow-house. loaded with putrid
carnations from the lungs. skin. dung
and urine of the cows. Remove the
cause. and the COWS will cease to abort.
MURRAIN IN CATTLE.-Common smart
weed. prepared as follows: Take what
can be pressed with the hand into a
common pail or bucket put this TO one
or one half bucket of water boil brisl<ly
one hour strain clear. Take syringe
holding one and half gallons, and in
.ject into the bowels, blood-warm, by the
rectum. With me this is a certain cure,
and seldom more than one injection is
required. My syringe is Of tin, and, with
the follower, cost 500,
Hoe CnoLERA.-Dissolve thoroughly
one pound of copperas in three gallons
Of warm water, and apply the wash about
milk warm to the affected animal, by
dipping into the solution or rubbing up
ON it until the skin is thoroughly wet.
Whenever the skin Of hog begins to
look rough and scaly or Of dark red
color, apply the wash Immediately.
Don't wait until the more alarming
symptoms Vomiting and purging) set
ill., Apply the wash every day until the
scales are removed.
BLACK TEETH IN HoGs.-Black teeth
in hogs jaws seems to be diseased or
partially rotten and to act in some way
or other, just as injurious upon the
hogs appetite and health. rs the tooth
ache does upon the human body.
Whether the black teeth in hogs Jaw,
ache and render him feverish and fret
full, and disposed to lose his appetite
and his flesh and get poor and stay
poor, | am not prepared to say, but as
toothache has a strong tendency to pro-
duce this result in man, it is fair to pre-
sumo that such teeth in hogs will ache
and produce the same effect in the case
Of hogs and other domestic animals that
they do in man. We would advise YOU
10 remove them. This is the best, and
perhaps the only cure for the black tooth
disease in hogs. And it surely is not
any more "cruel'' to have such teeth
extracted from or knocked out of a
hogs jaw, than it is to have our own or
children's rotten and aching teeth pull
ed out of our or their heads by regu-
lar dentist, or by any other person who
can do it for us.
THUMBS IN SwINE.-The thumps is
sort of palpitation, caused by suflocation
OF the lungs, which arises either from
being kept in damp foul air, or by the
hogs everything the pigs. by piling upon
each other in close beds. If the beds be
in fine dust, as hogs beds are apt to be,
1t Is an aggravation of the trouble. As
TO remedy prevention is the only sure
cure, by furnishing comfortable quar-
tiers in clean bedding and plenty of
room. After the thumps have fairly
set in, there is little hope of saving the
pig, but il can sometimes be done by
placing the animals so affected, in com
Portable quarters by themselves, and
feeding them on corn meal wet with
milk, and pretty well dosed with sui.
phur.
Sows EATING PIGs.-Young sows will
sometimes eat their offspring, from Co.'S
tiveness, which may be prevented by
feeding some laxative food, and rubbing
the backs Of the pigs with an infusion
OF aloes; or raw salt pork, given to the
mother, will prevent her from eating
her pigs. | have given it to them with
success after they had eaten one or two
of their pigs.
MATURING LAND.-C. F. Lincoln, i'm
the Ns,y EnoL,,,J E,1r,oor praconts tI,a