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come in contact with stagnant pools of water that carry 

 this infection. Perhaps the best plan is to fence out all 

 such stagnant pools of water. 



SUPPRESSION OF MILK 



(Absence of Milk) 



Cause: Unusually due to poor health, debility, ema- 

 ciated, chronic disease of the bag, or wasting of its 

 glands from various diseases or impure food. Some- 

 times this condition is produced without any apparent 

 cause. 



Treatment: Determine the cause, if possible, and 

 remove it. Feed warm wheat bran mashes, steamed 

 rolled oats or barley. Administer Pulv. Anise Seed, one- 

 half ounce, two or three times a day. This has a very 

 good effect in this particular condition. Also rub the 

 bag and strip the teats often, and apply Oil of Lavender. 

 The majority of cases respond to this treatment if not 

 due to chronic disease of the bag. 



TAPEWORM 



Cause: Small portions of tapeworms, consisting of 

 one or more segments, are occasionally seen in the drop- 

 pings of infected cattle. The infection is undoubtedly 

 taken in with the food or water, infection being spread 

 by the eggs of the parasite, and being expelled with the 

 feces of an infected animal. The eggs being swallowed 

 by insects, worms or snails, which act as an intermediate 

 host, and which when swallowed accidentally by cattle 

 while grazing or drinking carry with them into the 

 animal's stomach the infectious stage of the tapeworm. 

 Aged cattle do not seem to suffer much from tapeworms, 

 but in calves these parasites cause scours and rapid 

 emaciation. 



Symptoms : Emaciation, diarrhoea, loss of flesh, rave- 

 nous appetite, paleness of the mucous membranes of the 



