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emaciation, lessens the milk flow, and may cause abortion. The drug is 

 fairly expensive, but it is estimated that 1 pound iodide of potash in 1 quart 

 of water will be enough for a test of two month's treatment, giving y 2 ounce 

 of this solution each night and morning. It can be put in the drinking water 

 or given as a drench if care is taken to prevent strangling. 



Prevention Use Conkey's Nox-i-cide Dip and Disinfectant liberally to 

 kill all germs. Lump Jaw is very contagious. It will easily 

 spread to the whole herd, or infect the stable or pasture, thus endangering 

 animals that may occupy them later. 



MANGE AND This is due usually to skin parasites, but itching may 

 ITCH come from nervous eczema. The irritated condition of 



the skin and constant itching result in sore patches and loss of hair, and 

 expose the animal to insect pests. 



Treatment Apply Conkey's Dip and Disinfectant, using 1 part to 60 or 

 75 of water. Rub well into the skin with a stiff brush or use 

 a sprayer. This will allay the intolerable itching immediately and will cure 

 the disease by killing the germs. If the trouble is nervous eczema, treat 

 the general condition, building up the body and cleaning the blood with 

 Conkey's Stock Tonic mixed with the regular feed as directed. Mangy 

 cattle always show unthrifty appearance, and a course of Conkey's Stock 

 Tonic to improve the condition should always be a part of the treatment. 



MILK FEVER Usually the best cow in the herd is the one attacked, 

 for milk fever affects well-fed, heavy milkers, and 



especially those that have already calved several times. Symptoms usually 

 start within two days after calving: 



Symptoms Uneasiness, stamping the hind legs, muscles twitching, stag- 

 gering, then the hind legs drag and finally the cow goes down 

 in the characteristic attitude shown in the picture, with her head turned to 

 the side, and a peculiar arch of the neck. The animal seems to be in a 

 stupor and does not respond even 

 when the ball of the eye is touched. 

 The tongue seems paralyzed. The 

 movements of the digestive or- 

 gans apparently cease, and there is 

 no dung Dr urine. The pulse 

 ranges fr^m 60 degrees to 150; the 

 temperature may be below nor- 

 mal or as high as 105 F. When 

 the cow is not treated death usually 

 comes in a few days, and under the old treatment fully nine cases in every 

 ten were lost. The new treatment is considered one of the most brilliant 

 discoveries in modern veterinary knowledge for with it nine cases in every 

 ten are successful. Just why it cures scientists do not understand as yet. 

 But the following is the successful treatment: 



Treatment Get a milking tube, a bulb and six feet of rubber tubing con- 

 nected with a filtering chamber filled with sterile cotton, or 

 use a tank of compressed oxygen. Strip the udder of milk, wash it thor- 

 oughly with a warm, antiseptic solution of Nox-i-cide Dip and Disinfectant, 

 two teaspoonfuls to a pint of warm soft water, and also sterilize the milking 



