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be sufficient. If recovery is slow, repeat the injection. Feed lightly 

 for a few days, on laxative food, and a recovery is practically 

 ensured. 



PNEUMONIA OR INFLAMMATION OF THE LUNGS is a disease of quite 

 frequent occurrence among dairy cattle. It occurs most commonly 

 in cold weather, but may attack the animal at any season. It is 

 usually due to exposure to draughts when -the animal is warm. 



The first symptoms are, as a rule, chills followed by fever, the 

 temperature rising not infrequently to 104 or even 106 degrees 

 Fahrenheit. The animal has a hang-dog air and, on putting the 

 ear to the chest over the lungs, a crackling sound can (usually be 

 heard, though in some severe cases, no sound can be heard at ?$\. 



Blanket the animal; put into a dry, bright box stall, where the 

 ventilation is good; keep well bedded and feed light rations of 

 easily-digested food, as bran mash, roots, and a small amount of 

 clover hay, if the animal will take it. 



Give kind treatment, a dose of raw linseed oil, ana if very weak, 

 light doses of stimulant, as two oz. of alcohol, (whiskey), or spirits 

 of nitrous ether 1 oz., every three or four hours. A mustard blister 

 over the lung will sometimes give relief. It should be left on for 

 several hours. The best method in applying it is to make into a 

 paste with warm water and rub into the hair, then put a cloth over 

 the treated part and blanket. 



Where this disease is suspected, a veterinarian should be called 

 in, if at all possible, as it is difficult to treat, and yet, if the case 

 is well handled, recovery is quite to be expected. 



RETENTION OF AFTERBIRTH occurs occasionally in almost every 

 herd. It is probably due to some pecularity in the physical condi- 

 tion of the animal, but no one seems to have been able to determine 

 why this rather unpleasant and expensive condition should occur in 

 one case,and another cow, similar in every way and fed on similar 

 feeds, should be normal in this respect, that is, discharge the after- 

 birth very soon after parturition. 



When retention occurs, it is (usually well to let it hang for a 

 day, then, if not coming away spontaneously, proceed to remove it. 



To do this, the operator should remove the shirt, carefully wash 

 the arms to the shoulder and smear them with clean carbolized oil 



