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Show BEST TREATMENT FOR COLIC Improper Feeding Is Moat Common Ciiuoe of Trouble Physic of Salts or Oil Is Favored. (By L. L. LEWIS, Oklahoma experiment Station.) Colic In horses and cattlo Is from various causes, but Is moro particularly particu-larly duo to BUdden changes in food or to eating moro feed than can bo easily digested by tho animal at that time. Tho amount of food that an animal ani-mal may dlgost at ono tlmo under cortaln conditions may bo entirely too much undor othor conditions. Sinco colic may bo caused by bo many different differ-ent things, no ono remody will provo olfoctlvo In all cases. As a goneral rulo, most of tho colics that aro seen In farm stock aro duo to Improper feeding. In thoso casos tho best general treatmont that might bo usod would bo to glvo as early as pos-Blblo pos-Blblo a physio of salts or oil. To ro-llovo ro-llovo tho pain soon particularly in spasmodic colic, tho safest gonoral troatment that can bo used Is to civo from ono to ono and ono-half ounco of chloral hydrate, dissolved in a pint of water, to which has boon added ono teaspoonful of ground glngor. Do not glvo laudanum in such cases, as It only tends to produco constipation, constipa-tion, and on this account la ono of tho poorest remedies that you can uso. |