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Tonic according to directions. Increase the drinking water allowance and be 

 sure it is of comfortable temperature for drinking. Do not let your cows 

 fret, for any nervous, excited condition acts directly on the milk secretion. 

 Keep your cows contented and happy. Keep them warm in winter, provide 

 shade for them in summer, spray them with Conkey's Fly Knocker during 

 the fly pest season, and they will make full use of their feed in a profitable 

 milk-flow. 



NAVEL ILL This is a common disease of calves, as also of colts. It 

 is due to germ infection of the navel cord and may occur 

 at birth or anytime before the navel is perfectly healed. 



Symptoms Soreness and inflammation at the navel; swelling of the joints; 

 lameness, sometimes paralysis of the forelegs or hind legs; 

 the young animal is puny, fails to thrive, and usually indigestion and 

 scours follow. 



Prevention Proper treatment is prevention, for this trouble is preventable 

 always. Before the cow calves, see that her stall is clean and 

 thoroughly disinfected, using Conkey's Nox-i-cide Dip and Disinfectant in 

 a solution of one part to fifty of water. Wet the navel for a week or ten 

 days with Nox-i-cide solution, two teaspoonfuls in a pint of soft water, or 

 1 to 1,000 solution of corrosive sublimate. 



PARALYSIS This is sometimes very difficult to treat and a good veter- 

 OF THE inarian should be called as there may be complications. 



BOWELS Obstinate constipation, acute indigestion, such as impaction 



of the rumen, or worms are some common causes; but 

 there are many others. It may affect either calves or grown animals. 



Symptoms The animal goes down and cannot get up, or can rise only 

 in part. Usually it is the hind part that is affected. 



Treatment The first thing is to give a brisk physic, such as Ep- 

 som salts, and inject 1 oz. of glycerine up the rectum. 

 Then every four hours give warm flaxseed tea and thin oatmeal gruel 

 containing stimulants. Give this in large quantities, as much as the 

 animal will drink. For the stimulant, give 2 ounces of whiskey and 

 y?. teaspoonful of fluid extract of nux voniica. Increase the dose of nux 

 vomica each day until the animal gets up of its own accord or until the 

 muscles twitch involuntarily. Then go back to the original dose and con- 

 tinue as necessary. The urine should be drawn if the animal cannot pass it. 



Prevention Paralysis due to digestive disorders can be prevented by the 

 use of Conkey's Stock Tonic occasionally, mixed with the 

 regular feed, according to directions. This treatment tones all the organs 

 and keeps the system open. Conkey's Stock Tonic is especially advised for 

 all dairy animals. It wards off many troubles to which heavy milkers are 

 liable. 



RINGWORM This is a skin disease due to a parasite which works in 

 the hair follicles, causing bald spots. It is especially com- 

 mon in winter and spring. It usually attacks the face but may appear on 

 any part of the body, as round bare patches covered with white or grayish 

 scales and ringed around the edge with bristly, diseased hairs, which in turn 

 fall out, so that the rings or spots are sometimes 2 or 3 inches in diameter. 

 This trouble is contagious. 



