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should be added to the bath ; the bathing being performed 

 two or three times daily. Teat siphons should be boiled 

 occasionally, and each time of using should be soaked in 

 some antiseptic for ten minutes; the teat siphons should 

 be oiled before introducing up the teat. A useful appli- 

 cation for garget in ewes is lard and turpentine mixed to 

 a creamy consistency. The loss of a part of the udder is 

 often the result of garget; the animal must be watched at 

 the next delivery as the teat may be plugged; 

 sometimes stricture of the teat is the result, in 

 such cases a dilator will be needed. Darning nee- 

 dles and goose quills should not be used, as the 

 delicate lining of the teat may be injured and 

 closure of the teat be the result. Bloody milk 

 may be considered as a symptom of garget. 



The contagious form of garget calls for simi- 

 lar treatment with the plentiful use of antiseptics 

 in addition. 



Milk fever, parturient apoplexy, parturient 

 paresis, (the latter term the more modern,) 

 is the bane of the dairyman, it is a disease 

 peculiar to the cow and only attacks heavy 

 milkers; a cow in fleshy condition before 

 calving is predisposed to the disease. Many 

 theories have been advanced to account for 



Milk Tube 



(Seif-re- the disease: the latest, that of Schmidt, being 



taining. 



the one most generally accepted; he claims 

 that a morbid process goes on in the udder by which 

 poisonous material is produced which is absorbed. 

 The sooner this disease appears after calving the more 

 fatal it is; it generally follows an easy, rapid delivery. 



