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Out of the first experience with sixty cows, there were thirty- 

 five abortions, and it just ruined that dairy. After I learned that 

 it was a contagious form, and that was what was doing the mis- 

 chief, I went after it and headed it off before it could hurt me ma- 

 terially. 



Later I had a larger dairy and when the sickness attacked it, 

 had eighty cows and twenty-one aborted before I cut it off. Now, 

 as soon as a cow aborts, we do not wait to find out whether it is 

 accidental or anything like that, but we isolate her right away 

 and clean everything up. 



Q. (Audience) Do you sell that cow? 



A. If it is a good cow, I keep her, because I don't know that 

 she is any more likely to abort again than if she had not done so. 

 I have in my dairy now a splendid young Holstein cow that has 

 aborted two years in succession, but she is a fine cow, and I am 

 going to try her again. Perhaps it would be good for us to have 

 Dr. Luckey give us some of his ideas on this subject. I see him 

 back there, come up and give us your ideas, as to the disease and 

 its treatment, especially its treatment, Doctor Luckey. 



Doctor Luckey : The treatment of contagious abortion is one 

 quite inexpensive and simple in its application, and which, if 

 carried out, is almost sure to prove absolutely successful. The 

 dairyman in charge of the Southern Hotel Dairy at St. Louis, had 

 something like one hundred cows, and they all became affected with 

 this trouble, but the year I was there they went through the year 

 with the loss of one calf. 



The treatment consists first in washing the regenerative 

 organs, and the rear parts, and of internal administration, of a 

 solution of carbolic acid. As a wash I would suggest that you use 

 pomanganate of potash, one ounce to eight gallons of water. It is 

 not expensive, is very effective and is probably the best of all 

 washes for this purpose. I will not stop to describe the fountain 

 syringe for internal administration, and all that, which you can 

 devise for yourselves. But I will say, if you want to handle the 

 herd properly, build a place to handle them, by building a chute 

 where you can handle them one at a time. 



I do not favor feeding carbolic acid, for you may have to 

 starve your cows in order to make them eat it, and this will cut 

 down their milk. You can get better results with carbolic acid 

 by using a two per cent solution. That is equal to carbolic acid 

 two parts and water ninety-eight parts. Use pure crystal carboli<*. 

 acid in this proportion, because if you use a weaker solution you 



