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air will permeate the udder and work back. You would think 

 that this was an impossibility, but when I have pumped up the 

 udder as full as I could pump it, and then in a few minutes it 

 would be flaccid, I know that I have pumped the air there and it 

 must have worked back. The farmer who keeps even five cows 

 should have on hand an air syringe, this milk fever device, that 

 is now prepared and put upon the market at a nominal price. A 

 veterinarian cannot be prepared at all times to protect you. A 

 veterinarian may be living in this village and you may live a 

 mile out. He may be one of the best in the whole land, but if 

 you go after him he may be away from home, and perhaps he 

 cannot get to you until it is too late. So it is necessary that a 

 man be prepared himself to treat these common diseases. This 

 little device every farmer should have, and then he is prepared 

 to treat that case of milk fever or that case of garget. He is 

 then a cow doctor sufficiently to combat successfully at least 90 

 per cent of those cases, if he uses this just as soon as he finds out 

 the trouble. 



There is another trouble, — I do not know whether it prevails 

 in Maine but I know that it prevails in New York. You have 

 seen some of it on the Experiment Station farm, where the sani- 

 tary conditions were good. For lack of a better name we will 

 call it a germ garget. It was first believed to be cowpox, and 

 some veterinarians so consider it now, but from what I know of 

 cowpox I cannot agree with them. It begins with little blisters 

 on the side of the teat, which will be very sore. The little blister 

 will break and then there will be a little scab. When I first dis- 

 covered this in the State of New York I thought it was cowpox 

 and said, the animal will get well. But, lo and behold ! she did 

 not. That tiny blister broke, then a little scab came over it and 

 instead of that healing, another little ring of blisters would come 

 around the outside of the scab and then a little matter would' 

 form, and it would continue to spread and spread until one blis- 

 ter not larger than the head of a pin I have known to develop 

 into a spreading ulcer that I could not cover with my hand, and 

 run over the whole udder and destroy it. Something ought to 

 be used in the nature of a germicide. There are several things 

 that will destroy it. I have found nothing better than carbolic 

 acid. Make a two per cent solution, one part of carbolic acid to 

 50 of water, and keep it right on hand, and then use some car- 



