CARE AND FEEDING OF DAIRY CATTLE. 



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or is suspected of being infected is given once per day doses of the medicinal 

 uiethylene blue, either in %-oz. gelatine capsules or the same quantity in the com- 

 pressed form, or a heaping teaspoonful of the powdered rnethylene blue. The latter 

 is fed on ensilage or 'other feed, but this method is rather wasteful. This treatment 

 is continued for five consecutive weeks. Immediately after aborting give an injec- 

 tion into the cow's uterus of a solution of a heaping teaspoouful of methylene blue 

 and 1 oz. of salt to a gallon of boiling water, cooled after dissolving to about 105 

 Fahr. Thorough disinfection should be carried out as before mentioned. 



It may be stated that, even where no treatment is attempted, this disease will 

 often " run itself out " of a herd after several years of losses. Thus the carbolic- 

 injection treatment and the niethyleue-blue treatment outlined above may sometimes 

 have been given credit for " cures " which were not cures at all, but merely the 

 disease becoming dormant in the herd. 



A handy device for weighing the grain feed. 

 CONGESTION OF THE UDDER. 



With most cows, as a rule, after calving the udder is hard, hot, and swollen. 

 This condition is not abnormal and need cause no anxiety. This animal should not 

 be fed heavily at first. Bran-mashes are helpful at this time. The cow should be 

 milked three or four times a day, and the udder well massaged each time and 

 camphorated oil or lard well rubbed in. 



INFLAMMATION OF THE UDDEE, OB MAMMITIS. 



This trouble is also known as garget. Some cases are quite mild, but in others 

 the consequences may be very serious. Sometimes only a slight swelling of one or 

 more quarters occurs, or the milk may be lumpy or thready, with or without swell- 



