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carry the infection on our hands to adjoining cows and give 

 it to them. 



Ones. What would you recommend for a disinfectant? 



Ans. There are a number that may be used. We quite gen- 

 erally recommend the use of creolin, a i 1-2 per cent solution. 

 Bathe the outside of the teat in this and inject it into the teat. 



In regard to tuberculosis, if any of your neighbors are 

 alarmed as to whether they have tuberculosis or not, modern 

 methods require that they have the cows tested, and that will 

 settle the question. 



Ques. What is the cause of the swelling of the duct that 

 runs down to the teat ? 



Ans. We get that occasionally, and I do not know of any 

 way that we can guard against it. We sometimes find growths 

 on the side of the duct but just what causes them I do not know. 



Ques. In a bad case of garget would you recommend for 

 one treatment kainite in preference to anything else? 



Ans. No, I would recommend saltpeter. If she was a large 

 cow you might use two ounces at first, and then one ounce twice 

 a day. If it is a bad case, I should give the kainite in combina- 

 tion with the saltpeter. 



Ques. Would you please define the second stage of milk 

 fever? 



Ans. If we are watching a cow carefully, after she calves 

 and has done well, and her appetite has been good, within five 

 or six days if she is a little uneasy, she is stepping about a little, 

 you have the first symptoms of milk fever. Then they may 

 follow quite rapidly. She loses her appetite, her eyes look 

 staring, the secretion of milk is suspended. If we try her we 

 find that she cannot swallow. About that time she goes down, 

 she cannot stand up, and she usually lies with her legs well 

 under her and her head thrown over to the side a little way ; 

 then her legs will be out stiff and her head thrown out against 

 her side, and in that condition she continues until she dies, under 

 the old treatment. But under the new treatment, even if she 

 is stretched out so nearly dead that you can put your finger in 

 her eye and she will not wink, in two hours after the injection 

 of the udder she gets up on to her stomach and in four hours 

 on to her feet, and in ten hours she is eating and drinking and 



