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2. Spayed cows are apt to accumulate fat and flesh, so 

 that they will become dry much sooner than cows not 

 spayed. Still there can be little loss, for a fat cow is 

 always ready for sale. These, then, are the objections to 

 the spaying of cows, if objections they may be called. AYe 

 now leave the subject to those who are more immediately 

 interested. 



Spleenic Apoplexy. — This is a new disease, consisting 

 in engorgement of the spleen with blood, and the subse- 

 quent rupture of the organ, followed by death in from 

 twelve to twenty-four hours from the time of attack. 



Cause. This disease is clearly traceable to the new, and 

 what is Avrongfully called imjyroved feeding and fattening 

 of cattle. Food, rich in nutritive qualities, and deficient 

 in fluids, is the great cause of spleenic apoplexy in cattle. 



Symptoms. Constitutional disturbance is set up all at 

 once, and no early symptoms manifested. The animal is 

 well to every appearance at one time in the day and dead 

 by evening. When the symptoms are seen, tliey are as 

 follows : Colicky pains, twitching of the muscles, stagger- 

 ing gait, frothing from the mouth, and the urine colored 

 and mixed Avith blood. The animal falls and dies, the 

 immediate cause of death being coma, from derangement 

 of the brain. 



Treatment. Treat the case by way of prevention with 

 low diet. No treatment, however well directed, is of any 

 use when the disease has once manifested itself. Life is 

 prolonged a few hours by blood letting, but no cure can be 

 effected. 



Spring Erupt ion. — (See Eingworm.) 



Stomach Staggers. — (See Hoven.) 

 Strangulation. — (See Choking.) 



