436 THE DAIIiTMAX'S MAl^UAL. 



losses by contagious disease among valuable dairy herds 

 have been very numerous and exceedingly costly of late, 

 purchasers of valuable cattle should always exact of the 

 sellers security against this risk, and should insist upon a 

 full warranty of soundness and freedom from disease, 

 with acknowledged hability for any damage that might 

 happen from any breach of such warranty. With such 

 precautions the onus and risk would fall where it natu- 

 rally belongs, viz., upon the seller, who would then be 

 very careful that the animals he disposes of are free from 

 fault and would be most anxious to keep his stock in a 

 perfectly healthful condition. 



When abortion appears in any herd, immediate treat- 

 ment should be adopted. The cow should be instantly 

 removed from the herd upon the first indication that 

 she is about to lose her calf or has lost it, and kept iso- 

 lated in a distant part of the farm, where she should be 

 disinfected within and without in a thorough manner. 

 Her treatment there should be as follows : The stable 

 should be kept filled with vapor of carbolic acid, and so- 

 lutions of sulphate of copper should be liberally spread 

 over the floor and painted or sprayed upon the walls and 

 furniture. Injections of solution of one dram of hypo- 

 sulphite of soda in a quart of warm w^ater should be 

 made into the uterus, three times daily. Every evacua- 

 tion of the cow should be covered with fresh made car- 

 bolate of lime or solution of sulphate of copper, and the 

 cow should be given daily one ounce of hyposulphite of 

 soda dissolved and mixed with some food. 



The stable itself may also be disinfected by burning in 

 it a pound of sulphur and keeping the doors and win- 

 dows tightly closed while the sulphurous acid fumes are 

 distributed in every pnrt of it. Of course no cows are t ) 

 remain during the disinfection. The solution of sulphate 

 of copper with which the floor, stalls and furniture is to be 

 drenched is made by dissolving four ounces to the gallon 



