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above, after each service. Germs of contagious abortion can live fully 7 

 months in a stable, and at least twice that in the vagina of the cow. 



A course of Conkey's Stock Tonic given strictly according to directions 

 will put more resistance in your stock and act as a general preventive of 

 abortion. Stock Tonic will correct faults of digestion and thus prevent the 

 danger of abortion from that cause. 



ANAEMIA Symptoms are pale, bloodless condition of the mucous mem- 

 brane; tongue soft; weak debilitated condition, fast breath- 

 ing; usually the hair is harsh and dry. This trouble may follow some other 

 disease or may come from poor food, foul stables, bad ventilation or any- 

 thing that will rob the blood of vital elements. Lice or other parasites may 

 cause it. 



Treatment Correct the cause of the disease. See that the animal has 

 good feed and mix with the regular feed Conkey's Stock 

 Tonic according to directions. This is tonic, alterative treatment, helping 

 all vital organs to do their work and increasing the blood supply. If lice 

 are found, treat with Nox-i-cide Dip and Disinfectant according to direc- 

 tions, or use Conkey's Lice Powder. 



ANTHRAX OR A malignant, extremely contagious blood disease due 



CHARBON to a bacillus, which thrives in rich, moist soils which 



have become infected from animals that have died from 



anthrax. It affects overfed cattle, sheep, horses, and sometimes hogs. The 

 disease is dangerous to man also, though much less fatal. 



Symptoms The animal goes down suddenly with fever, loss of appetite, 

 quick breathing, rapid but feeble pulse; swellings appear, 

 sometimes hot and painful at the start but becoming cold and painless. 

 Sometimes there are eruptions, boils, etc. on the body; hemorrhage of 

 bowels and bladder, etc., also blood from nostril and mouth. The swellings 

 do not crepitate, or crackle, when touched (which is one difference between 

 Anthrax and Black Leg). Post mortem examination will show the spleen 

 enlarged, which is another difference between this disease and the very 

 similar one called Black Leg. 



Treatment Not practical, on account of the extreme danger to attendants 

 or to other animals in the neighborhood, as infection can 

 come through flies, mosquitoes, etc., or contact with the diseased body, or 

 breathing air in its neighborhood. Prevention is the only treatment, and 

 consists of burning the anthrax carcass or burying it in quicklime, removing 

 the herd from the dangerous pasture, draining the pasture; thorough 

 disinfecting of the herd with Nox-i-cide Dip and Disinfectant solution (2 

 tablespoonfuls to a gallon of water), also thorough disinfection and white- 

 washing of the premises. Since the very fat, overfed animals are the ones 

 that succumb quickest to the disease on account of the excess of waste 

 matter in the blood, it is necessary to guard against bad blood by the use of 

 Conkey's Stock Tonic when animals are fed heavily. This keeps up digestive 

 power, stimulates the walls of the blood vessels, increasing circulation and 

 cleansing the blood from waste and impurities and giving the animal healthy 

 resistance to blood disorders. 



BLACK LEG Black Leg is similar to Anthrax, but affects young ani- 

 mals only. There is no enlargement of the spleen as in 

 Anthrax, but there are swellings under the skin on thighs, neck, shoulders, 



