VE – WA

Constipation in Birds.— Give a few drops on sugar in cage once daily. Diarrhoea.— Give few drops on lump of sugar once daily. Mocking-Bird Food.— Mix and reduce to a coarse powder. Foods for Red Birds.— Mix and grind to a coarse powder. Canary-Bird Food.— Bird Tonic.— Put a piece size of pea in cage daily. Tonic.— I.—Put a few drops on lump of sugar in cage daily. II.—Put a few drops on lump of sugar in the cage daily. Antiseptic Wash for Cage Birds.— Add 1 or 2 teaspoonfuls to the bath water and allow the birds to use it, when it will quickly destroy all parasites or germs in the feathers. To wash out the cages, use a mixture of 1 tablespoonful in a pint of hot water. Mixed Bird Seed.— Blistering.— Tincture cantharides, 1 ounce; camphorated oil, 1/2 ounce. Apply a portion with friction 3 times a day until a blister shows. As it subsides apply again. Horse-Colic Remedy.— I.—In making a horse-colic remedy containing tincture of opium, ether and chloroform, to be given in tablespoonful doses, apportion the ingredients about equally, and mix the dose with a pint of water. Other formulas are: II.—Give in one dose and repeat in an hour if necessary. Condition Powders.— I.—Sulphur, 2 pounds; Glauber salts, 1 pound; black antimony, 1/2 pound; powdered blood-root, 4 ounces; copperas, 1/2 pound; rosin, 1/2 pound; asafetida, 2 ounces; saltpeter, 1/2 pound. Powder and mix well. II.—Gentian, 4 ounces; potassium nitrate, 1 ounce; sulphur, 4 ounces; ginger (African), 4 ounces; antimony, 4 ounces; rosin, 2 ounces; Fœnugreek, 2 ounces; capsicum, 2 ounces; serpentaria, 2 ounces; sodium sulphate, 9 ounces; flaxseed meal, 16 ounces. All ingredients in fine powder. Dose: 1 tablespoonful in feed twice a day. Veterinary Dose Table.— For a colt 1 month old give 1/24 of the full dose; 3 months old, 1/12; 6 months old, 1/8; 1 year old, 1/6; 2 years old, 1/4; 3 years old, 1/2. Fluids for cattle usually the same dose as for the horse. Solids for cattle usually 1 1/2 times the dose for the horse.