336 DAIRYING-COWS AND THEIR MANAGEMENT 



recommends the thorough and regular cleaning of cow-shed 

 floors and sprinkling with a solution of sulphate of copper 

 (10 drachms to ij pints of water); and vigorous vaginal 

 injections of a disinfecting tepid fluid with a horse enema 

 syringe. Perchloride of mercury in tablets easily dissolved in 

 hot water, 10 grains to the quart, is probably the most simple 

 and effective remedy. Every morning, when cleaning the 

 cows, with a sponge dipped in the fluid, carefully dress the 

 vulva, anus, and anterior surface of the tail of all of them. 

 The intra-vaginal or intra-uterine injection always causes, 

 especially in young cows, apparently violent expulsive efforts 

 but these in reality do no harm. Nocard has obtained 

 the best results from the employment of this method, and 

 he is of opinion that a single vaginal injection, given at the 

 commencement of the treatment, will establish asepsis, but 

 only when the daily sponging of the vulva and tail is strictly 

 carried out." 



Leaflet No. 13, of the Department of Agriculture and 

 Technical Instruction for Ireland, gives in greater detail a 

 modern method of treatment. Concrete floors are strongly 

 recommended in preference to any other kind that might 

 shelter the germs of disease, also lime-washing the walls, 

 and disinfecting the floor as well as the discharges from 

 aborted cows at intervals with a solution of pure sulphate of 

 copper (2 Ibs. to 10 gallons of water). Jeyes' Fluid (a good 

 teaspoonful to a pint of water) is cheap and effective for 

 disinfecting both cows and bulls. The bull is easily treated 

 by squirting the Jeyes' solution up his sheath or "shade," 

 about an inch of the end of a common rubber enema syringe 

 being inserted a few times after a diseased or suspected cow 

 has been served. A cow requires to be disinfected several 

 times in the following way : 



" Pass the nozzle of the same syringe into the ring of the 

 calf-bed, which is a small, round opening found about eight 

 or ten inches inside the ' bearing.' One hand should first be 

 oiled with olive oil or butter, and passed in through the 

 ' bearing ' with the nozzle : the other hand is kept free to 

 work the syringe. About a pint of the solution should be 

 used each time, and the operation repeated once a day for a 

 week and then once a week for a month, after which the 

 cow may be left alone until about a fortnight before she 

 goes to the bull, when she may have one last injection." 



It is claimed that this treatment, together with the sanitary 



