FARM DAIRYING 



PARTURIENT APOPLEXY COMMONLY CALLED 



MILK FEVER 



Cause: — Milking the cow out too thoroughly 

 after calving. Better not to draw any milk the 

 first 24 hours, but just leave the calf with the cow. 

 If for any reason it is not desirable to leave the 

 calf with her, draw only a little milk at frequent 

 Intervals the first three days, if trouble be feared. 

 If this rule is followed, milk fever is not likely to 

 occur. 



Symptoms : — These develop from 4 to 36 hours 

 after calving. Rumination ceases; sudden de- 

 crease in milk-flow; dulness of the eyes; unsteady 

 gait ; stamping with the hind legs ; at length falls 

 helpless to the ground, turns head to one side and 

 eyes close, or lies flat with extremities extended. 



Treatment: — It is usually a fatal mistake to 

 dose for milk fever. In many cases, the muscles 

 of the throat are paralyzed and the cow having no 

 power to swallow, the medicine given goes into 

 the lungs and often causes death. 



The treatment giving prompt relief in the se- 

 verest cases, and one to be relied on, is filling the 

 udder with pure oxygen or with common air by 

 means of a bicycle pump, or a rubber bulb syringe, 

 and a common milk syphon or similar tube. Pump 



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