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iirst milk (colostriiiii ) which is hixative iu its action 

 and is conseqnently rcqnired to remove the nieconinm 

 (f(jetal feces) from the alimentary canal of the young. 

 Without it the young- animal is liable to have indiges- 

 tion, constipation or diarrhoea : any one of these condi- 

 tions might favor infection with the germ of dysentery. 



Filthy, dirty milk; sudden changes from whole milk 

 to skim milk, or from skim milk to whole milk, or sweet 

 milk to sour; putting a young calf on a cow far ad- 

 vanced in the period of lactation (milk contaims too 

 much solids) ; adding too much meal to milk or giving 

 too much drv meal or corn to voung calves when the 

 salivary glands are insufficiently develo}>ed to digest 

 the starchy food; gi^'ing cow's milk to the foal without 

 proper dilution or modification; filthy buckets or ud- 

 ders; dam]), filthy, unclean stalls, barns and pens; bad 

 watei- from infected wells, tanks, troughs or vessels; 

 crgotized grasses; mouldy, decaying, irritating vegeta- 

 bles or grains or liays; too much cotton seed or cotton 

 seed meal; allowing colt or calf to suck when dam has 

 been over-heated bv violent exercise; feedinu' voun"- calf 

 or colt only once every twelve hours; feeding too much 

 (over feeding) ; great irregularity in feeding, allowing 

 calf or colt to get very hungry and then rapidly devour- 

 ing a full feed. 



Symptoms. — Some cases begin with constipation; 

 others with soft, soon becoming watery, bowel dis- 

 charges, which may be white like undigested milk, or 

 grayish or yellow in color. At times the calf or colt is 

 restless, with more or less straining to pass feces; appe- 

 tite (stops sucking) is lost; abdomen may become dis- 

 tended or swollen and tender or tucked up (contracted) 

 and tender; feces becomes frothy, bad smelling and 

 sometimes streaked with blood; calf may bellow and 

 slobber: the calf, colt or lamb may become dull,, stupid, 

 weak, emaciated and die in one to three days, or may 

 live one or two weeks and die or make a slow recovery. 



