The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1878-05-29
Loss ofCud.

iiidoAO1' Ci many oO-SoliOu SA0oAC
doctors and stock owners suppose
that if they can only restore the cud
the trouble will end, and the animal
will speedily recover but the restor-
alton of the cud alone will not always
prove effective. One says thrust a
red herring down the throat of your
COW. Another says thrust down a
chunk ofraw beef; others recommend
raw pork, raw ham, flour balls well
impregnated with red or black pep
per, or the cud from healthy COW.
This is all nonsense. The loss of cud
is nothing more or less than symp-
tom of deranged digestive function,
and of other organs sympathetically
associated with it. Such materials
may, for the time being, arti6cially
arouse the digestive organs and create
an unnatural appetite, but the results
are, irritation on the mucous surface
Of the various compartments of the
stomach an unusual abundance of
blood is thrown into the walls of the
stomach, the circulation of the blood
is greatly disturbed and. quickened,
the gastric fluid flows spontaneously,
and the digestive function becomes
excited. By repeating the practice
of administering the above named
materials, the power of the stomach
becomes greatly enfeebled its action
quickened at the expenditure of pow
er, because all unnatural excitement
Of natural function is necessarily
followed by corresponding depres-
sion. The animal may be laboring
under an acute attact of disease of
some highly sensitive organ, when
food would be totally inadmissible--
or, in other words, the stomach may
be overburdened and wholly unable
to digest the huge mass or bulk al
ready occupying that organ and there
fore requires rest as any other organ
of the animal system would after
long continued labor or action. In
very many instances the stomach
Graves no food whatever, because it
is not in proper condition and can.
not digest it, and to create spas
modic and artificial appetite by the
aid of stimulating and irritating ma
terials is mischievous.
Whenever an animal is suffering
with an attact of disease there will be
generally developed partial or totally
impaired appetite (loss of the cud.)
This last mentioned function is sus-
pended in consequence of the atten-
ton of the animal being drawn from
it by its suffering. Before any sue
cesful treatment can be prescribed it
is necessary to ascertain the primary
causes of this suspension of second
mastication manifested in your COW.
Then | will be able to practically
adapt the treatment to the true nature
of that cause and remove it. | am
unable to make a diagnosis of the
primary cause from the obscure state
ment you make. The general pri-
mary causes, however, of suspended
Illumination are, compelling bovine
animals to subsist on innutritious diet,
thereby overtaxing their digestive
powers, and this function suffers par
tial paralysis from feeding to large
quantities of highly nutritious diet
when preparing for the SHAMELESS or
general market; piling on the adipose,
or fat, and in the mean time depriy-
ing the animals of pure wholesome
air and proper exercise, and, lastly,
from neglect in the barn and dairy
management of milch cows Attacks
Of disease in nine cases out Of ten are
the results of violating the laws of
nature. | can only prescribe the
treatment for this case of your COW
upon general principles. Give your
COW a drench composed of eight
ounces of Glauber salts, two drachms
each of finely pulverized gentian root
and African ginger Incorporate this
until the salts is dissolved in one pint
of warm water. Then drencn slowly
down the throat with common but
smooth necked, champagne bottle.--
Repeat the drench three or four times
allowing four days to intervene be-
tween each dose. Report results Of
treatment after giving it thorough
trial. s
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