Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-02-18

Wiateri is am cGactirg season upon live
stock, not necessarily by any means, but
because of the neglect of their owners.
Cold weakens the vitality Of an animal
very much, and lays a foundation for di-
sease. When spring comes, the effects
OF poor feeding are seen in the gaunt
frames, too weak to rise up; the hide
bound skin; the cough, and the deadly
black leg. We might mention the pre-
valent 'horn ALL" and tail ill.," both
serious disorders, but very wrongly
named, as they are merely the effects Of
general debility, resulting from poor
feeding, and want of care,
Horn ALL" so-called, consists Of 4
feverish condition of the system, and a
low vitality, accompanied by irregul lar
circulation, which produces alternate
heat and chill of the extremities. The
digestive organs are out of order, and
the brain, the center OF the nervous sys-
ten, suffers greatly. The head is in a
condition Of congestion at n time, and
in a state of an9mia at another. The
horns are part of the skull, and the hol-
low cores are lined with a sensitive vas
cular membrane, connected with the
frontal sinuses. When the brain is con-
gested, the whole head is hot, the eyes
weep, the nose is dry, and Of course the
horns appear hot to the touch, being so
closely connected with the skull. But
the disease is not in the horns, or in the
head; it is in the stomach, as any person
can realize whose stomach is out of Or
der, and who has a sick headache"
from a bilious cOndi ion of the system
The remedy is then not to pour turpen-
tin into the ears, or upon the head and
set it on fire, or bore through the horns
into the very sensitive cores, but to re-
licve the stomach and liver, by a liberal
dose OF physic, Il quart of raw linseed
oil, or twenty four ounces of EPSON salts,
and follow it with some comforting
messes of warm bran mash.
Tail H. is another reflex result of q
poor condition of the animal, in which
this extremity suffers. The above re-
marks apply to this case too, and an eX.
cellent remedy is prevention, by good
and generous feeding.
BY and by, when winter is nearly over,
and the young cattle begin to feed on the
dead grass of the first bare spots, or the
first green heritage in wet, warm places,
same will be found limping about, lame
in the shoulder or the hip to-day, and to-
morrow, dead in the field or yard. If
one passes the hand over the skin of the
sick animal, the lame quarter will be
found pulled up and acrackling, rustling
sound will be heard. After death these
spots will be black and bloody, as if the
flesh had been bruised to a jelly. The
liver is soft and rotten, and the spleen is
black, and like clotted blood. This is
anthrax fever; the bloody murrain, or
black quarter, which is the most deadly
disease to cattle. There is NO time for
any remedy; prevention is the only safe.
guard, and just now is the time for this.
Feed the Young animals well. Do not
turn them into the fields to pick up rub
bish. Give a regular dose of a table.
spoonful Of n mixture of one pint of mo.
lasses, four ounces of sulphur, and two
ounces of cream of tartar, every morning
as soon as the weather begins to gel
warm, and give them as much salt as
they will take voluntarily from this time
forward