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Show ONE TREATMENT FOR HEAVES Disease Is Incurable, but May Be Palliated by Feeding Easily Digested Di-gested Nutritive Food. (By DK. J. H. STANDISH, Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture.) Repeated ' gorging of the stomach with food or water, and often both, is the cause of heaves. The symptoms symp-toms are deep breathing, evidenced by the expanding nostrils and double lifting of the flanks, both of which are increased if the animal is forced up a grade at" a fast trot or gallop when the stomach is distended with food or water; generally, also, a hacking hack-ing cough, mostly in the morning. The disease is incurable, but may be palliated by feeding easily digested nutritive food in small quantities. Give such food as early cut, well cured, clean timothy hay, preferably dampened damp-ened with weak lime water, oats, wheat bran, flax seed ground, and in winter roots, carrots, turnips, mangels or sugar beets; the oats to be boiled twice a week. Give four drams of ginger and two drams of baking soda in the food at night, or oil of tar in dessert spoonful doses. In some cases, better results are secured by alternating these daily or -weekly, and in some cases are benefited by four to ten grain doses of white arsenic once a day. But care in feeding and watering water-ing is necessary in any treatment. Oat straw, if early cut and well cured, is often preferable to hay. In either case, shake the hay or straw to remove re-move all dust. |