DISEASES IN CATTLE. Hoven, or Swelling of the Paunch, Is a temporary ailment, caused by eating too freely of fresh and generally wet clover, or other succulent food. The animal gorges the first stomach with so much food, that its contents cannot be expelled. Inflammation of the membrane takes place, and decomposition of the food soon follows. This is known by the distension of the paunch, and difficulty of breathing, and unless speedily relieved, suffocation and death will ensue. Both sheep and cattle are subject to it. _Remedies._[1]--In its early stages, when not too severe, it has been removed by administering some one of the following remedies. A pint of gin poured down the throat. From one to two pints of lamp or other oil. Strong brine. New milk with one-fifth its bulk of tar mixed. An egg-shell full of tar forced down the throat, followed by a second, if the first fails. A tablespoonful of volatile spirit of ammonia, diluted with water. A wine-glass full of powder, mixed with cold lard and forced in balls into the stomach. A teaspoonful of unslaked lime dissolved in a pint of warm water, shaken and given immediately. A pint of tolerably strong lye. [1] Besides his own experience, the writer has drawn from the N. E. Farmer, the Albany Cultivator, the American Agriculturist, and other reliable American and English works, some of the remedies for diseases herein mentioned. The Proper Mode of giving the above Remedies Is for a person to hold the horn and cartilage of the nose, while another seizes and draws out the tongue as far as possible, when the medicine is thrust below the root of the tongue. If liquid, it must be inserted by the use of a bottle. _The probang_ is used when the former remedies are ineffectual. This consists of a tarred rope, or a flexible whip-stalk, three-fourths of an inch in diameter, with a swab or bulbous end. Two persons hold the head of the animal, so as to keep the mouth in a line with the throat, while a third forces it into the stomach, when the gas finds a passage out. A stiff leather tube with a lead nozzle pierced with holes, is best for insertion, through which the gas will readily escape. Some one of the above purgatives should be given after the bloat has subsided, and careful feeding for some days must be observed. Light gruels are best for allaying inflammation, and restoring the tone of the stomach. When no other means are available, the paunch may be tapped with a sharp penknife, plunging it 1½ inches forward of the hip bone, towards the last rib in the left side. If the hole fills up, put in a large goose-quill tube, which to prevent slipping into the wound, may remain attached to the feather, and the air can escape through a large hole in the upper end.