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has suffered from more or less. I have had a good deal of 

 painful experience in this matter. I have tried every remedy 

 that has been mentioned here. Sometimes I have succeeded, 

 but I have often failed, in using many of them. I have lost 

 many valuable cows in this way. There are different kinds of 

 inflamed bag. Sometimes it may be caused by too high keeping, 

 or something that causes a secretion of milk to a great extent. 

 It has been suggested that milking the cow previous to her 

 coming in is a remedy. Some years since I had a young cow 

 that came in late in the season. I found she was having a very 

 full bag, and being apprehensive of difficulty I commenced 

 milking her once a day. I found that would not be sufficient, 

 and milked her twice a day ; and if I recollect right I got nearly 

 a pailful twice a day. I milked her ten days' or a fortnight 

 before she dropped her calf. Her bag milked down soft previous 

 to her calving, but after that it began to cake. I used every 

 remedy mentioned here, except hot soap-suds. Notwithstanding, 

 the inflammation increased, till I virtually lost the use of the 

 cow. 



I have no doubt there is a benefit sometimes in milking before 

 the calf is dropped ; but when we find a cow at that time 

 secreting milk too rapidly, it will be well to put her on a limited 

 diet, not feeding very high. I knew one valuable cow, bought 

 at Mr. Peters' sale, that was in high condition when purchased. 

 She came in the first of June and was turned into good pasture 

 and not milked at all, but remained in the jj^sture with her calf. 

 After a time she was milked, and then a fever commenced. 

 They got her into the stable and sent for a veterinary surgeon, 

 who applied his best remedies. But on the third or fourth day 

 the cow died. The calf was raised. 



There seems to be a difference between inflamed bag and 

 garget. The bag sometimes becomes hard a considerable time 

 after calving, though there is no appearance of any trouble at 

 that time. Sometimes, perhaps, the first indication of any 

 difficulty will be a little obstruction in one teat, so that the milk 

 is extracted with great difficulty. This increases, and soon that 

 quarter of the bag will begin to harden. In some cases warm 

 water will prove successful ; in others nothing succeeds. A few 

 years' since I had a very valuable young cow — her third calf, I 

 think. When she came in everything was right. The next morn- 



