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be mixed with a yellowish serum (whey) which has separated from 

 the casein, commonly called Garget. This should be treated like the 

 above, though it may sometimes demand fomentations with warm 

 water succeeded by a liberal rubbing with Electric Cream (Na- 

 tional) three times daily and giving a large teaspoonful of saltpeter 

 in drinking wate^ three times daily to ward off inflammation. It 

 may be a week before the natural condition of the gland is restored. 



CAKED UDDERS 



Caked udders in cows and other farm animals are due to over- 

 distension of the udder, excessive exercise with a full udder, lying 

 on and squeezing the udder in a small, uncomfortable stall, or any 

 kind of external violence to the udder. 



TREATMENT 



Remove the cause if you can find it. Then bathe the udder with 

 warm water (as warm as you can stand to your hands) for one-half 

 hour, after which rub well with National Electric Cream. Repeat 

 this twice daily. Dissolve a pound package of Bovolax in a gallon 

 of warm water. Give a quart every morning and night until the 

 entire gallon has been given. Then you may give a teaspoonful of 

 saltpeter in food once or twice daily and keep on applying the Elec- 

 tric Cream and warm water until the udder is normal. This will re- 

 lieve a swollen udder and bring it to its natural condition more 

 quickly than any remedy known. 



FAILURE TO COME IN HEAT 



This complaint is more common among cattle than other farm 

 animals, possibly because of the presence of the germ which causes 

 abortion in a herd, (Bacillus Abortus.) When abortion exists in 

 a herd, even though it is only to a slight extent, the organs of gen- 

 eration are more or less depoverished. This accounts for the lack 

 of oestrum or failure to come in heat. There are other causes, such 

 as debilitating diseases and a rundown condition. 



TREATMENT 



In these cases the patient must be fed grain more liberally, care 

 being taken not to overfeed, but to keep the digestive organs in 



