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look at the end of the teat, and he will find a blister. And then 

 if he will give it attention then and there, he will head off the 

 trouble. Sponge it off with a 2 per cent carbolic acid solution 

 and as he does not know but it has already worked up into the 

 teat, he must stop it there or it will destroy it. Every farmer 

 should have at least a little ten cent glass teat syringe. A man 

 can have the carbolized oil and this little syringe, and then after 

 he is through milking, for fear that little germ may have already 

 started up the milk channel, he should inject about a teaspoonful 

 of the oil right up the teat and milk it out again. This greases 

 over the milk channel and the germ cannot climb up. Of course 

 you want a syringe with a small nozzle. It is not necessary to 

 have a long pipe to it ; half an inch is plenty long enough, and 

 you want to use only a little of the oil. 



There is another feature of this trouble, it will go through a 

 herd. It is contagious, it is infectious, and it is carried many 

 times, unconsciously, by the milker himself. He milks a cow 

 that has this disease, then sits down and milks another cow, and 

 the result is that he has carried the germ on his own hands, the 

 very best way it can be carried. Realize it is the unseen things 

 that are the dangerous things in this world. We cannot see the 

 germ, but we must realize and believe that it is there just the 

 same. After we have handled a cow that is diseased with this 

 germ garget, we should thoroughly wash our hands and dry 

 them before milking another cow. Let us go a little bit further. 

 You realize that an infectious germ is there. You cannot see it 

 but you know the fact. One cow has it and you do not know but 

 the others have. Let us be safe. There is no harm in using, with 

 all of the cows, a Httle carbolized oil on the teat once a day. I 

 have known a man to lose 22 cows out of a herd of 30, simply by 

 carrying the disease. If he had simply known the nature of the 

 disease and the remedy I have suggested, he could have been 

 his own cow doctor and prevented its spread. But do not neglect 

 the very first teat that shows the trouble. Make it the business 

 of the day to go to the drug store and get the carbolic acid and 

 the oil and the syringe. One to ten is the strength in using it ; in- 

 ject it up into the teat and milk it out. You may not save the case 

 if the teat has become hot and tense and it is almost impossible to 

 get the milk out of it. I never knew of a case being cured after 

 the udder became tense and hard. Another important thing, — 



