YELLOWS. For yellows in horses see Jaun dice. In cattle the disease is much similar, and produced by congestion and inflammation of the liver. Over-feeding with rich and heating food, sudden changes in the weather, excessive milk ing, are the principal causes. The animal ceases to ruminate is dull, languid, hide-bound and has a staring, unhealthy coat of hair. The whites of the eyes and inside of the mouth, will be of a dirty yellow color. The bowels may be costive or there may be scouring, accompanied with a fcetid odor. Iu cows the secretion of milk also quickly fails. The first thing is change of diet, to plain, sweet, nutritious food. The grooming should be of the best and the comfort of the ani mal in every way cared for. Give the following as a laxative and tonic: one half ounce each of powdered sugar and of aloes, one ounce each of Castile soap,scraped fine, and of powdered Peru vian bark, mix in a pint of water and give one of the doses every three or four days as the animal may seem to need it. This is for the dis ease as brought about by ordinary causes. If
this doos not give relief and, if in addition to a yellow skin and jaundiced eye, there is loss of appetite, incessant thirst, hard and rapid pulse and heaving of the flanks; if the ears are alter nately hot and cold, if the urine turns to a trans parent, red, yellow or brown,give the following: two ounces laudanum, twenty drops of croton oil, and one pound of sulphate of magnesia, in a quart of linseed tea; hasten the action of the dose by mashes, or something of that kind, turn the animal out to grass, and repeat the dose if the bowels again become costive, and the evacu ations are passed in hard dark balls.
YELLOW The weed Thlaspi eampe*. Ire, false flax, mithridate mustard, a cruciferous annual with mustard-flavored pods, which abounds in flax fields, and is very troublesome It can only be avoided by screening the flax seed carefully, and omitting the cultivation of flax for a season, introducing cleaning or hoed crops instead.