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and one of the young cows freshened on the car with her second calf. 

 She was on the car during this excessive cold weather and came along 

 the shores of the Great Lakes. That cow happened to be tied just at 

 the car door. If any animal should have been away from the door, she 

 should ; but she- happened tO' be there and took cold. She had a badly 

 conjested udder so that not a drop of milk could be squeezed from 

 either teat. We got a few drops from one teat, but the other could not 

 be budged. We worked faithfully three days without results and we 

 could not get it with the milk tube. Then we went over in town and 

 got a remedy w'e had used in St. Louis. I had used it before, however. 

 It is commonly called Denver clay or antiphlogistine. 



I have seen that tried at home and on all sorts of cases of that kind 

 and have never seen anything approach it in result. The udder of 

 that cow was in a frightful condition. I can hardly make you under- 

 stand it, and when I left home she was milking freely from three quarters 

 and the other was almost restored. I firmly believe she would have 

 been ruined under other circumstances. 



One of our cows was being led out for exercise one day, and while 

 passing a horse barn where a young fellow was throwing a bucket of 

 water and she got part of it on her face. She was frightened, the ground 

 was rough and she side-stepped, as the boys say — crossed her hind legs. 

 It threw her down and caught her udder and in less than two hours her 

 left hind quarter was swollen up the size of an ordinary stifif hat. We 

 commenced with hot water as hot as she could stand and alternated hot 

 and cold water for several hours. I got on the car and got some 

 antiphlogistine. > 



Mr. How do you apply it? 



Mr. Graves — We use hot water and massage. Then we put on the 

 antiphlogistine as warm as possible, and put a nice thick layer of ab- 

 sorbent cotton over that. We used an udder protector so as to hold 

 it there. That quarter was something terrible. 



Mr. Do you make more than one application? 



Mr. Graves — Yes. We used three of the small cans. Try that 

 remedy for all kinds of trouble like that. 



Mr. Patterson — Can you buy it in any drug store? 



Mr. Graves — You can in any of our drug stores at home, and I 

 presume you can get it anywhere else, but they never handled it until 

 we called for it. 



FLY REMEDIES. 



Q. Will it pay to keep cows in the stable in fly time with screens 

 on the windows? 



