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distended, then give the udder a thorough massage, rubbing it well. I 

 forgot to mention that all the milk from the udder should be removed 

 before any air is forced into it. Rub the udder thoroughly and that is 

 all there is to it. You do not need to do anything else. If you can 

 remove the excreta, well and good. If the cow does not get up in an 

 hour repeat the injection. I have never known of a dairy farmer who 

 has tried that treatment without having great success. It is a very 

 simple treatment. 



Mr. — After you force this air into the udder, if the cow does 



not seem to recover, do you take it out and repeat the intlation again ? 



Mr. Glover — Yes. The air will ooze out at the end of the teat in 

 time. 



^Ir. Patterson — I find it necessary to use a rubber band to keep 

 air in. 



Mr. Glover — I do not think that is necessary. It will come out 

 slowly, not with a rush. This is a good treatment for udders that have 

 become feverish and hard. It is also recommended for garget. 



]Mr. Gurler — I want to emphasize what Mr. Glover has said. I have 

 lost a good many cows fom milk fever. Once when I was in Chicago 

 in a wholesale packing house some party called my attention to the 

 oxygen treatment and I bought a can and apparatus which cost me $io. 

 I have not lost a cow since. Since that time has come the fresh '\\v 

 treatment that costs nothing. I want to tell you of one case to show 

 you how it does. A man one day called me up over the 'phone and 

 told me he had a cow down with the milk fever and wanted me to give 

 her the oxygen treatment. My foreman went over and found that 

 'row not in the barn, but in a draft on frozen ground, in the worst con- 

 dition. They got her into the barn and treated her for a couple of 

 hours and she came out all right. 



Mr. Glover — We get such reports constant!}. In nearly every case 

 the Jersey cows come out all right and never show any ill effects from 

 the treatment. 



Mr. Graves — We had ten cows down with milk fever out of the 

 herd of forty-two cows at the World's Fair. We saved them all, and 

 they showed no ill effects afterwards. ** 



Mr. You do not need to use a bicycle pump, you can just take 



a common syringe. We use nothing Init that. One of my neighlwrs 

 had a cow down with the milk fever and I took a common syringe and 

 forced the air into her udder, repeated the operation, and she was 

 well in two hours. 



Mr. Graves — For treating udder troubles oxygen is good as far as 

 it goes. I bought some cattle in the East and among them ten cows. 



