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DAIRY CATTLE AND MILK PRODUCTION 



The most approved is shown in Fig. 45. The essential 

 parts are a milk tube, to which is attached a rubber tube, 

 a receptacle of some kind in which clean cotton is placed to 

 catch the dust in the air as it is pumped through it, and a 



FIG. 46. Improvised apparatus for treating milk fever, a, bicycle pump; 

 6, bottle containing cotton; c. rubber tubing with milk tube at end. 



rubber bulb or a pump of some kind. In case an approved 

 form of apparatus cannot be secured, an apparatus can be 

 improvised that will serve the purpose. Fig. 46 shows 

 an apparatus used for several years by the author, which 



