Baubles, or BARBS, in fa riery, are those small excrescences frequently appearing under the tongue of horses, as well as black cattle : cattle i they are known by two paps, which may be discovered by drawing the tongue aside. Few animals arrive at a considerable age, without being sometimes troubled with this complaint, which seldom proves hurtful, unless the part affected become inflamed by neglect, and the. acrimonious humours there collected should corrode the tongue, and produce such a degree of pain, as to prevent the animal from taking its proper food.

The method of curing this distemper, simply consists in cutting the excrescence close off with a sharp pair of scissars, or a knife, washing the wound several times a day with brandy, or port-wine and vinegar, taking care, however, that no hard food but fresh grass, green herbs, and mashes, be given for several days, till the raw part be healed.

In those eases where black cattle, are subject to a species of barbs, which grow quickly, and hang in the form of fleshy pimples under the tongue, they ought first to be clipt off, as before stated, then properly chafed with garlic and common salt beaten together, and the mouth afterwards gently washed and rubbed with soft linen, dipt in Inkewarm wine, or brandy and water.

But if cows or bullocks happen to lose their appetite, without any external marks of barbies, M. CHOMEL, in his Family Dictionary (See p. 126 of our work), recommends the juice of garlic, or onions, mixed up with sallad-oil, to be introduced into the no3trils, every morning : this simple method, it is asserted, will restore the natural craving for food.