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to test, and I have given it a thorough test. You, as farmers, 

 know this fact, — that when a cow out of one quarter begins to 

 give a Httle of that stringy, cheesey milk that is not fit to save, 

 you are pretty well satisfied that about four times out of five that 

 cow will have the garget or lose that teat. So I am glad to show 

 you this simple devise to wash out the udder of the cow. I feel 

 very safe in saying that in at least five cases out of six where the 

 quarter of the udder would otherwise be lost, it can be saved if 

 the farmer himself will use this instrument. He must be his own 

 veterinarian. It would not be policy for him to go to a veterina- 

 rian, as if the veterinarian had to come and wash out the udder 

 twice or thrice a day, as the case might be, it would be rather an 

 expensive job for the man who owned the cow. 



Here is another trouble. Until very recently one of the most 

 serious troubles that we found, with the first class cows, was 

 milk fever, — parturient apoplexy. Many of the farmers mistake 

 it for udder garget. Udder garget is an inflammation of the 

 udder. The other is an incipient trouble which will lead to in- 

 flammation of the udder before we are through with it. Before 

 the discovery of the air treatment it took a good veterinarian to 

 treat this disease, and he was a good veterinarian, if he was 

 called right in the commencement, who could save one cow out 

 of five. But this device, simply pumping sterilized air into the 

 udder, will enable the farmer to save a large per cent of the 

 cases. 



Previous to this a preparatory treatment, the giving of salts, 

 was recommended from the platform, and I have given it 

 through the press ; and I do not want to take it back. I say that 

 if a farmer, about two weeks previous to the expectant birth of 

 the calf, will give the cow a little less ration, if she is an exceed- 

 ingly large milking cow give her about half a ration, and a simple 

 dose of Epsom salts. ^ of a pound for a Jersey and a pound 

 for a Holstein, adding to that as a stimulant a little gentian, and 

 will repeat that every week, the chances are that the cow will not 

 have the trouble. But the farmers do not always know when the 

 cow is coming in, and so I will say that today this is not as nec- 

 essary as it once was. When the discovery was made that air 

 injected into the udder would reduce the inflammation, it was 

 a great boon to the dairymen. I might say, however, that iodide 

 of potash, and even warm water, will work quite well, but the 



