98 White Scours 



18 hours. If the buttons are pinched loose from the wall of the womb 

 sooner unnecessary bleeding occurs. If the afterbirth does not come in 

 12 hours after the birth of the calf take a Mason fruit jar lid and hold it 

 under the cow's navel and allow the navel to take up 4 or 5 tablespoonsful 

 of turpentine. This seems to aid in some cows within 5 to 15 hours while 

 in others the arm must be inserted and the buttons pinched from the wa 1 

 of the womb with the thumb and fore fingers and the afterbirth removed 

 a piece at a time. 



The calf bed is fastened to the womb by buttons which naturally 

 rot off from the wall as the calf reaches maturity but in premature births 

 these buttons do not seem to reach that stage. A cow that has such trouble 

 should be cleaned up and washed out 3 or 4 times a week to prevent her 

 forming pus and becoming a non-breeder. 



WHITE SCOURS 



{Contagious Scours in Neiv Born Calves) 



This disease occurs in many sections of the United States and unless 

 proper precautions are taken it will ruin a herd of calves. 



CAUSES 



The infection or germ of the disease will live for years in a building 

 if unmolested. The bacteria causing it are very hard to kill by methods 

 that would kill any ordinary disease germ. 



It usually travels from one herd to the other by clinging to men's 

 shoes, wagons or the feet of cattle. 



SYMPTOMS 



The calves are invariably attacked before they are tliree days old 

 and ihey often die within forty hours after the first symptoms appear. 



Possibly four or five calves out of a hundred in an infected herd 

 escape the malady unless proper preventive measures are adopted. 



White scours causes the calf to grow indifferent about nursing, they 

 become weak rapidly and give off a whitish yellow, stinking discharge. It 

 is distinguished from abortion by the scours and all calves being born 

 alive. 



PREVENTION 



There has recently been a bacterin developed to prevent this disease 

 which gives quite satisfactory results. These bacterins may be obtained 

 through local druggists or purchased from laboratories listed in the last 



