128 Blue and Stringy Milk 



the difficulty of eliminating it from a herd until the fly season is over. 

 Flies cai'ry the disease from neighboring herds or newly introduced ef- 

 fected animals. The eyes water matter and often turn blue. Sometimes 

 effected animals lose the sight of the eye. 



TREATMENT 



While this disease cannot be eliminated it can be controlled in se- 

 verity, by using boric acid water. Take 3 level teaspoonfuls of boric 

 acid, moisten with wateir and work to a moist dough with the fingers, 

 add enough water to make one pint. Rope the effected animals to a 

 post and gently syringe out the effected eyes each morning. If done in 

 the morning, it wards off the attack and irritation of flies. By syring- 

 ing in the mornings the full effect of the medicine is in fdrce during the 

 light of the day and has a soothing effect. My experience with pink 

 eye has led me to believe that boric acid water makes the disease less 

 severe and hastens its termination. 



BLUE MILK 



Blue milk may be caused by a stagnant water supply, d-^rk hous- 

 ing of the cows or warm and moist weather. It is more often caused by 

 a germ that harbors in the teats. 



TREATMENT 



If it is due to water or housing, the conditions should be changed. 

 If it is due to bacteria, take a small, blunt pointed syringe and inject 

 in the effected teats a few syringe fulls of a solution made by mixing 2 

 dirams of sodium hyposulphate in one pint of water. 



This may or may not be noticeable at milking time. Wlien it can 

 be detected in a cow as she is milked it is probably a local infection that 

 can be overccme by applying camphor and lard, equal parts. See (In- 

 flammation of the Udder.) Massage the udder with the hands. Hot 

 and cold cloths and liniments, or Venice Titrpentine, may aid in reducing 

 the sAvelling. 



Then, there's another kind of stringy milk that is not noticeable at 

 the time the milk is drawn but develops after the milk has set a few 

 hoi^r=. This mav be due to moldy feed or weeds cattle eat in the field 

 or ihe water supply. Secure a sample of milk from a neighbor, place 

 ^ome of the \vater of the effected cattle in it and see if it becomes stringy. 



