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clean, and preserved from flies and other insects. Dr Dicksonrecommends to anoint the udder twice every day, with cam-phor and blue ointment, giving half a dram or more of calo-mel in warm beer, for three or four mornings, if the diseasebe violent. Sore teats may be prevented or cured by washingthem with butter-milk, or salt and water, every time the cowis milked; and after being well dried, they may be anointedwith hogs-lard, or sweet oil.

When cattle are fed on wet clover or other succulent herbage,they sometimes swell very much, and perish, unless speedily re-ilieved. This is called hoving, or heaving , and is occasioned bythe confinement of the gases generated in the stomach by thefermentation of the food. To give a free vent to these, thegut may be cleared of the hard excrements which impedethe passage, by injections, or by forcing into the stomach tar,nitre, brandy, &c. The air may also be drawn off by meansof a cane, leathern tube, or thick rope put down the animal’sthroat. The most common and speedy remedy is tapping,or making an incision between the hook-bones and the ribs,and inserting the barrel of a quill in the hole for a few days.The greatest danger of this disorder is, when cattle are firstput on succulent food, particularly on red clover, in a dewymorning; and the best preventive is, to keep them from it tillthe dew has evaporated, and not to allow them afterwardsto remain too long at a time. The same precaution shouldbe used when they are fed on cut clover in the house, espe-cially for a few days at first. Cattle feeding on turnips orPotatoes, are sometimes in danger of being choked by pieces°f them sticking in the throat. The leathern tube alreadyMentioned, must be again applied here to remove the ob-struction. The best preventive, when cattle are confined tothe stake, is not to suffer them to raise their heads too high,at 'd this can be easily guarded against by the manner in'"'hich they are chained.