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treatment should be repeated at short intervals and should 

 be followed by thorough rubbing of the udder with lard 

 or raw linseed oil, a treatment which may be continued 

 to advantage for 20 minutes. The rubbing materially 

 relieves the swelling and stimulates the secretion of milk. 

 It is important also to milk the diseased quarter or quar- 

 ters clean at short intervals. The air treatment for milk 

 fever has also been recommended for garget. 



NON-INFECTIOUS "CAI<tf SCOURS." 



Causes. Feeding cold, dirty, old, or too much, milk; 

 drinking cold or impure water ; irregularities in feeding ; 

 feeding from unscalded buckets ; and confinement in dark, 

 cold, or filthy stalls. 



Treatment. Reduce the amount of milk; feed the 

 milk fresh and at body temperature; feed not less than 

 three times a day, and use only clean, sterilized milk 

 buckets. Give only pure water at body temperature, and 

 add formalin to the milk in the proportion of one part 

 formalin to 4,000 parts of milk until the diarrhea or 

 "scours" is checked. The scouring is usually due to the 

 action of fermentative or putrefactive bacteria which are 

 killed or checked by the action of the formalin. 



INFECTIOUS CALF SCOURS' 



This disease is commonly known as white scours and 

 is caused by bacteria. It affects calves usually from a 

 few hours to a few days old, and is very fatal. The dis- 

 charges are usually of a rather light color and have an 

 offensive odor. Medicine is of little avail. The disease 

 must therefore be combatted by methods of prevention. 

 Washing the vagina of the cow with disinfectant solu- 

 tion shortly before calving, disinfecting the navel of the 



