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sage out until you get it nice and clean, then with a teaspoonful 

 of sulphate of zinc dissolved in a pint of water bathe the womb 

 well. This will heal the womb and dry up the discharge. In the 

 course of a week, if the discharge is not stopped, dress the womb 

 again the same as above mentioned. Keep giving her the salts 

 once or twice a week, according to how much it acts on the 

 bowels, and, if in the spring of the year, let her out to grass. 



PARALYSIS AFTER CALVING. 



This is when the cow apparently seems healthy, only she 

 cannot rise up on her feet, and is generally caused from an injury 

 to the muscles or nerves of the back when she is straining while 

 calving. This disease need not alarm you for, as a general thing, 

 she gets all right in a few days. 



Treatment. — Give the following: 



Epsom Salts 1 pound. 



Sweet Spirits of Nitre 1 ounce or 4 tablespoonfuls. 



Mix in a quart of luke warm water and give as a drench. 



Keep her body warm with blankets, and apply a quarter of a 



pound of mustard, mixed in vinegar, over the back every second 



day. Feed on soft food, with boiled flax seed in it. Milk her out 



twice a day, and also turn her over from side to side twice a day, 



but never, under any circumstances, put her in slings. 



MILK FEVER (PARTURIENT APOPLEXY). 



This is one of the most fatal diseases cows are subject to, 

 and mostly affects well-fed, fat cows that calve during the hot 

 months of spring and summer, but may affect poor cows. It is 

 also noticed occasionally to affect cows at almost any time of the 

 year; even in the winter, in rare cases, it is noticed. 



Causes. — The exact causes of this disease are not clearly 

 understood; but it is supposed that on account of the hot weather, 

 and the cow being fat and full of blood, it sets up a fever which 

 affects the nerves, and when the nerves are affected, the milk 

 glands also become affected, and do not secrete the milk, and the 

 milk not being secreted as it should be, leaves the blood charged 

 full of material which should go to form milk, and when the blood 

 becomes full of this material, it affects the brain and nerves, soon 

 causing paralysis. This disease is usually noticed to come on in 

 from one to eight days after calving. The sooner it comes on 

 after calving, the more fatal the disease is. Cows taking it in 



