CIT AFTER X. 

 MILK FEVER— ITS SIMPLE AND SUCCESSFUL TREATMENT. 



I, PRELIMINARY STATEMENT. II. NAME AND SYNONYMS. III. DESCRIP- 

 TION OF DISEASE. IV. CAUSES. V. HOW TO KNOW IT. VI. THE 



NEW AIR TREATMENT. VII. PREVENTION. 



I. Preliminary Statement. 



Milk fever is a very common, and until recently a frequently fatal, 

 disease affecting cows in all the large dairy districts of this and other 

 countries. As it usually attacks the best milking members of the herd 

 and at a time when the milk flow is the heaviest, the malady is one which 



Apparatus for Treatment of Milk Fever, for the injection of sterile atmospheric 

 air into the udder. 



has caused very severe losses to our dairy industry. It is therefore of the 

 greatest economic importance that every milk producer acquaint himself 

 with the present extremely successful methods of treating this disease, es- 

 pecially the injection of filtered atmospheric air into the udder. This 

 form of treatment has been adopted within a comparatively recent time, 

 and, in view of the uniform success that has followed, every dairyman 

 should become familiar with its use and should provide himself with a 

 suitable apparatus for its application, especially if he is located where the 

 services of a competent veterinarian can not be secured. This method of 

 dealing with the disease does not make the assistance of the veterinarian 



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