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Treatment : Prevention. If an animal is once slightly 

 affected with inflammation of the bag, it is likely to de- 

 velop a bad case of Mammitis from the slightest injury 

 or exposure as stated above, which depreciates a cow 

 considerably as a milk producer, especially on the mar- 

 ket. Great care should be exercised when purchasing a 

 cow for milking purposes. See that the teats and udder 

 are sound, free from lumps, etc. 



Medical Treatment: Hyposulphite of Soda, sixteen 

 ounces ; Nitrate of Potassi, four ounces. Mix and make 

 into sixteen powders. Give one powder three times a day 

 in drinking water or place in a gelatin capsule and give 

 with a capsule gun. Also, dissolve Bichloride of Mercury, 

 two grains; Boracic Acid, two drams, in one quart of 

 boiling hot water. When this solution cools to about 

 blood temperature, after stripping all milk fluid or pus 

 from the affected teat or teats, inject with an ordinary 

 bulb injection syringe after placing a teat tube into the 

 end from which the air escapes when the bulb is pressed. 

 Now, place this end of the syringe retaining the teat tube 

 in the affected teat ; the other end place in a bottle or ves- 

 sel containing the solution and gently press the bulb and 

 inject about a pint of the solution into each affected 

 quarter. Leave the solution in the teat for only fifteen 

 to twenty minutes and milk out thoroughly. Eepeat this 

 treatment two or three times a day. 



For an external application, the following ointment 

 has given remarkably good results : Blue Ointment, two 

 ounces ; Lard, two ounces. Mix well and apply twice daily. 



INFLAMMATION OF THE EYE, 



(Conjunctivitis) 



Cause: Injuries, irritating gases, from an animal 

 standing in dark and poorly ventilated stables or foreign 

 bodies in the eye, as chaff, etc. 



Symptoms : A constant flow of tears from the eye run- 

 ning down the animaPs face, which are due to the inflam- 



