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such a capacious udder, that it is almost impossible for those 

 cows to even walk. When the udder is distended they cannot 

 walk in comfort, and are bruising it continually. If a small boy 

 and dog- are sent after them, there will be an injury inflicted. 

 We all know that a cow narrow across the huckle, with a 

 dependent or swinging udder, is particularly subject to that 

 trouble. With that shape of the udder, even lying down in a 

 stall mav injure it. If the udder goes over the edge of the drop, 

 when the platform is a little short, or comes in contact with the 

 cold earth or a hard substance, a little inflammation will be pro- 

 duced. That cow is a very abnormal beast, and that udder is 

 a very abnormal udder. We can obviate this quite largely in our 

 breeding, but when we have it, we have to do the best we can. 

 If we do not get a gargety condition, there is a little blood in the 

 milk that comes largely from the pressing from distention of the 

 udder, through irregular milking. These are not really diseases. 

 A little blood can get into the milk of the cow and really not be 

 of any serious injury. But you should do the best you can to 

 prevent this trouble. Again, there are cases with well formed 

 udders where there is what we call a gargety condition. The 

 cow will perhaps be giving a little thick, lumpy milk. There 

 may be a little temporary inflammation in the udder. The udder 

 is sometimes tuberculous, but not all cases of hardening of the 

 udder are caused by tuberculosis, only a very small per cent. It 

 conies from injury; a little abscess caused by a little inflamma- 

 tion, and for the time being the secretion of milk is not as it 

 should be and there is a little blocking up, and from that cause 

 a little bit of purulent discharge. As a remedy for this, tea- 

 spoonful doses of the fluid extract of pokeroot given two or three 

 times a day, and the application of hot water will usually be 

 effective. There is something invented better than that. If we 

 could get at the real seat of the injury and wash it out inside as 

 we could wash it outside, we should accomplish more than we 

 are doing. There are men who are studying on this, and it is 

 with pleasure that I will show to you, after we are through with 

 the meeting, a very simple device that every farmer should have. 

 It is what we call an udder syringe. With that we can wash out 

 the udder of the cow and get rid of these purulent formations 

 that come from bruising or other causes. This was sent to me 



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