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water. Warm bran mash may be given when the 

 cow can eat. Plenty of dry straw bedding is needed. 

 One part carbolic acid to one hundred of water 

 makes a good disinfectant to use on the hands and 

 the udder of the cow before injecting the remedy. 



Blackleg. The mortality of this disease is very 

 high. The only remedy the writer has ever used 

 with anything like success is bleeding freely in the 

 neck as soon as the animal is found to have the 

 disease. If the blood can be started and caused to 

 flow freely, recovery will usually follow. Preven- 

 tion by inoculation should be always resorted to as 

 soon as the disease breaks out in the herd, and the 

 afflicted animals removed at once from the herd. 

 The material for inoculation can be obtained from 

 the state veterinarian on application. 



Stringy Milk. In reply to an inquiry addressed 

 to the Pennsylvania State Veterinarian, Dr. Leon- 

 ard Pearson, of the department of agriculture, he 

 says: 



"This abnormality is due to a fermentation caused 

 by bacteria, which enter the milk and produce a 

 change in the milk sugar, causing it to become vis- 

 cous. The infection of the milk with the particular 

 organism which causes this change occurs after the 

 milk leaves the cow. It is probable that the stable 

 dust is infected with this germ, and of course it 

 also exists in the milk house and upon the milking 

 utensils. The way to get rid of it is thoroughly 

 to disinfect the stables by spraying with a 5 per 

 cent, solution of carbolic acid and then wash off the 

 surface of each cow by a 2 per cent, solution of creo- 

 lin. This is somewhat risky in cold weather, and 



