DAIRY MEe;TING. I5I 



the cow of milk fever but she had the garget right away. That 

 was because he did not disinfect the device. Use hot water if 

 you have not carbolized oil. Some advise bi-chloride of mercury. 

 I have no objection to that, but the farmer does not always have 

 that on hand and it is not a safe thing to have around; conse- 

 quently I will say it is not necessary to have it. Let the veter- 

 inary profession use these active poisons. Carbolic acid the 

 man can learn the nature of, and he can keep it away from the 

 family and learn not to take it himself. We advise that in pref- 

 erence to the other, to put into non-professional hands. There 

 are other things which can be used, but carbolic acid is the sim- 

 plest and so we advise it. I do not always use it myself. 



Ones. What do you think of carbolic acid as a preventive 

 for abortion? 



Ans. I think everything of it where I have reason to believe 

 that germ abortion exists. My experience i differs somewhat 

 from that of some of our scientific men. It has been claimed 

 that it is an utter impossibility to give any drug through the 

 mouth that will enter the blood, of sufficient virulence to destroy 

 a germ. That has been asserted, and I think it is today the pop- 

 ular belief among scientific men. And yet for the past four or 

 five years, more than at any other time, I have been recommend- 

 ing giving to a cow, where there was reason to believe there were 

 infected germs in her body which would cause abortion at 5, 6 

 or 8 months, as the case might be, 25 drops of the carbolic acid 

 prepared by a druggist, at about the third month. The druggist 

 will liquefy it by mixing with water or glycerine. Give this dose 

 daily by first putting it in a half pint of water and using the 

 water to wet a feed of bran with, for two or three weeks, some- 

 times as long as a month, then skip a week or two. In that way 

 I am well satisfied that we have aided in the eradication of this 

 trouble. Of course this was supplemented by cleanliness and 

 disinfectants. 



1 am well convinced, although I could not prove it, that when 

 we get right down to practice, we can give carbolic acid and per- 

 haps other things, in sufficient strength to prevent the multiply- 

 ing of the germs if it will not kill them. Hence I say carbolic 

 acid can be given safely if it is given properly. 



Ones. Would it be all right to put an ounce of the crystals in 

 a quart bottle of water and give the cows a big teaspoonful ? 



