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attained is to get the milk out. Salts will prevent milk being- 

 secreted ; and bj milking we keep it out. 



I would suggest that the garget is only a continuation of the 

 inflammation, and the first stages are not sufficient to produce 

 garget. But when the inflammation is sufficient to produce 

 plugs, they will produce suppuration, and finally garget. By 

 reducing the inflammation we allow the suppuration to pass out 

 through the teats. I think we have all come to agree on the 

 remedy in one thing, and that is, warm applications. I think 

 they are very much the best. The molasses, turkey oil, warm 

 water and friction all have a tendency to produce heat. All 

 may be reckoned as warm applications, and I don't know as 

 there is any difference between. Whether you apply sulphur 

 with or without the oil, it don't make any difference, for it is 

 only an application of something that keeps out the atmosphere. 



Mr. Hubbard. — Docs the gentleman wish to keep the heat in ? 



Mr. Perkins. — The best way is to apply warm things. I had 

 an inflamed knee, and I had such applications made as kept the 

 heat in, and I believe it saved my life. I believe that applica- 

 tions of hot pepper tea, mustard paste, and such hot things, are 

 the best to save life, in many cases. 



Mr. Flint. — Dr. Thayer, who has had a good deal of expe- 

 rience with cattle diseases, prepared a very excellent article on 

 the subject of the garget, which I liked very much. I do not 

 recollect it definitely, but the amount of it was that hot applica- 

 tions and a constant rubbing of the bag should be 'thoroughly 

 tried, and afterward the bag should be rubbed dry and then 

 swayed up. I believe that is a very important thing. It must 

 be apparent tliat the heavy udder, in a state of inflammation, with 

 milk constantly flowing into it, must produce much pain. The 

 very weight of the udder increases its own natural inflammation, 

 and it goes on becoming more inflamed as the milk comes in ; 

 so that anything which will tend to reduce the inflammation, 

 tends to promote a cure. After using the hot water, and after 

 ruljbing the bag thoroughly dry with the woollen cloths, he then 

 prepared a sort of bandage to go up over the rump and prevent 

 the strain, and thus relieve the inflammation. When the bandage 

 is inclined to slip forward he makes another, attaching it in 

 such a way that it will stay in tlie proper place. And then you 

 can put on woollen cloths, or anything that will keep the udder 



