326 DISEASES OF CATTLE. 



smelling ichor is discharged. The disease spreads up- 

 wards, where finally separation of the tail takes place, 

 thus leaving the animal without one. 



Garget Mammitis. — Inflammation of the udder in 



cows is often of a verv troublesome character. It occurs 



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shortly after calving, and in some instances not for a 

 week or two after. The inflammation is usually confined 

 to one quarter of the udder only, and may be of an acute, 

 or chronic character. 



Cause. — Want of proper attention in not milking the 

 cow sufficiently after, and in many cases by not milking 

 the cow when her udder is almost ready to burst, even 

 before calving. In a word, if the udder, teats and milk 

 ducts, are kept from over-gorgement, there can be no ud- 

 der disease. The trouble is, that all cows are not alike 

 in the production of milk, but unfortunately they receive 

 the same treatment; and hence, those cows which are 

 endowed with great milking qualities, are usually the 

 victims of garget. 



Symptoms, — Heat, redness and pain, followed in a 

 day or so by elevated swellings, which, if acute, will 

 grow to a point, soft and fluctuating, and containing 

 pus; and if not opened at this time, fistulous sores will 

 be formed, which may cause final destruction of one por- 

 tion of the udder. 



When the heat and redness is not followed by swelling 

 containing pus, this then is called chronic garget. In 

 addition to those symptoms, the cow will have shivers 

 and chills, not from cold, but from the muscular rigor 

 which is set up in cases of extensive suppuration. 



Treatment. — In the acute form, apply warm poultices 

 to hasten suppuration or heeling; where the parts point, 

 and contain fluid or pus, open deeply at the lowest 



