Calves are often subject to diarrhoea when sucking or weaning. The certain remedy is to lessen the usual food and give two or three glasses of port wine and a piece of opium about the size of a pea. If necessary, you may repeat the dose the next day, and continue it till cured. Should the griping return, alter their food and relieve as before.

Young men and lads who show that they are kindly disposed and feel an interest in stock should alone be entrusted with feeding and attending to young animals. Food given them either too hot or too cold would prove very disastrous.

A disease known as garget in weaned calves arises from exposure to cold, or lying on damp ground and the want of nourishing food, and is fearfully infectious. The blood chills and mortification soon follows, unless in the early symptoms a seton in the dewlap and good nursing should restore the system to healthy action'.

Foot And Month Disease

This is generally discovered by cattle foaming at their mouths, becoming lame and refusing to eat their food. This complaint appears to be brought on by a slow fever. When it first appears, give each animal a pound of common salt with half a pound of Epsom salts in a quart of water, well dissolved, or for a large animal, three quarters of a pound of the latter. The next day give to each, two drms. of Chloride of Potash in their water, and continue it every day till they are well. Their mouths and feet should be washed twice a day with a solution of Blue Vitriol, one ounce to a gallon of water.