Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1880-01-15
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Horn-AiI and Wolf in the Tail.

Horn-Ail and Wolf in the Tail.
r.. 8. s., Port Clinton, Pa,
Nil Palestine, W. Va, and
all 10 whom these presented
facts may concern: This is the
last time any attention will be
given 10 the following so-called
disease, viz; Horn-ail, hollow
horn, wolf in the tail and tall
rot in cattle. TO all meu who
have a kind Of instructive i'm
pulse to bore the horns Of cattle
and fill the gimlet holes made
with spirits ofturpentine, and TO
slit the tail and bind it up with
old rags and salt i say keep your
gimlets at home and your tall
Sitting knives in your pockets,
or. else lose them where you
viii be sure TO never find them.
These so-called diseases are on
ly symptoms of arrangement Of
ihe animal economy. They are
40 more diseases of the horns
and tail than they are Of the an
imal functions generally. If
there exists an excess or def
cieAcy Of vital acton within the
horns or around their base, there
certainly must be correspond
ing deficiency or excess, as the
case nav be, in some other re-
gion. The COW leech says the
other region is in the tail just a
bove the switch. The so-called
horn-ail and hollow-horn usual
~ accompany common catarrh,
and also the epidemic form of
catarrh. In either Of these at
lacks the horns will feel unnat-
nral to the touch, and rcmarka-
bly, so if there be Il determine
iion of blood TO the head. This
may be easily equalized by
means of stimulating the eXter-
nal surfaces and cxtrcmities, al
The same time administering
anti-spasmodic teas and rcgulat-
ing the diet. The following
anli-spasmodic remedy lisa good
one FOR this purpose: Take one
ounce Of the flowers Of anthems
and inluse them in one quart OF
water: to be given when cool,
sweetened with honey. An
other: Take one or two drachms
of assaletida, and administer
in,-sne quart OF thin oatmeal
cruel. The horns OF cattle will
feel cold and hot alternately
whenever there is an unnatural
distribution OF the blood, and
this may arise from-cxposure,to
bad ventilation in the byre or
cow-house, to cold and storms
out of doors, bad and dccaycd
food, and from compelling the
animals when housed to lie and
wallow in their own filth. In
cases Of this kind slow focal
movements or constipation will
be present, and the conjunctiya
of the eyes will be found upon
examination injected with yell
low fluid, and OF course there
will exist II deficiency Of bile III
the aobmasum or fourth stom-
ach, plainly showing the animal
is laboring uuder arrangement
of the digestives organs. The
COW lcech now comes along and
bores the horns and Sits the
tail to let the arrangement of
the digestive system out. Breed
ers and farmers Throughout this
country, by all means stop the
boring of the horns of your
COWS and oxen and filling the
cavity with turpentinc, and also
stop Sitting the tail and bund-
ling it up with rags and salt.
Endeavor TO promote a heal
Thy action throughout the en-
tire system. OF your cattle
when attacked with derange-
ment of the digestive organs,
with common catarrh and cpl
dcmic catarrh. To stimulate
the digestive organs give the
antispasmodic remedies already
prescribed; TO remove obstruc-
lions give apericnt drenches, as
one pound OF Glauber salts dis
solved in one quart of cold Wa
ter, or fourteen ounces of raw
linseed oil and two drachms Of
powdered Cape aloes thorough
iy mixed, and meet these by in
iections of warm CASTLE soap
suds; lastly, invite a healthy ac-
ton to the surface and extremi-
ties by frequent applications of
stimulating liniments with good
handwriting. Whenever these
indications arc thoroughly and
perseveringly fulfilled horn-ail,
hollow horn, wolf in the tail,
tail-rot, &c, soon disappear and
without the aid of boring or
Sitting.
Farmers cannot be too careful