12 WHITE SCOURS IN CALVES 



pared to receive the new-born. The calf was dropped on a 

 bedding soiled with feces ; he only fell back a little, and there 

 during 15 or 20 minutes, we watched him making his efforts to 

 get up, falling back here and there to the right and to the left 

 or on his belly, dragging the stump of his cord on the ground, 

 in the urine, or even in the fecal matter. It was only after the 

 mother had well licked her little one, well covered with salt, 

 that the cord was ligated. lam not sure that the umbilicus 

 was cleaned. 



White scours is ordinarily the result of umbilical infection 

 which takes place at the time of delivery, by the way of the 

 wound made by the rupture of the cord." 



He states that this trouble can be prevented if the person 

 in charge of the animals at the time of their delivery takes 

 certain precautions to prevent infection.* 



This disease described by Nocard does not seem to differ 

 in many respects from the diarrhoea in young calves in this 



*"i. Cows ready to calve should be provided with dry and clean 

 bedding until after the birth of the calf. 



2. As soon as labor sets in the vulva, anus and perineum should be 

 cleaned with a tepid solution of lysol in rain water ; twenty grammes of 

 lysol for each litre of water. The vagina should also be cleaned by in- 

 jecting with a large syringe a great quantity of the same tepid solution. 



3. The calf should be received on a clean cloth or at least upon a 

 thick fresh bedding not soiled by urine or feces. 



4. The cord should be tied immediately after birth with a ligature 

 previously kept in a lysol solution, and the cord amputated below the 

 ligature. 



5. The stump of the cord and the umbilicus should be washed with 

 the following solution : 



Rain water, i litre. 



Crystals of iodine, 2 grammes. 



Iodide of potassium, 4 grammes. 



6. The disinfection of the umbilicus and the cord should be followed 

 by coating the umbilicus with a solution consisting of 



Methylic alcohol, i litre. 



Crystals of iodine, 2 grammes. 



7. The operation should be closed, after the alcohol has evaporated, 

 by coating the cord and umbilicus with a thick layer of iodine collodion 

 (i percent) applied with a brush. Once the collodion is dried, the calf 

 may be left to the care of its mother." 



