104 THE COW 



passing perhaps even epidemic abortion, is garget 

 and udder injuries of one kind or another. There 

 may be mechanical injury to the udder or inflamma- 

 tion as the result of excessive or improper feeding 

 or a specific infection may be passed from one cow 

 to another. The latter type is commonly very 

 much more severe and often treatment seems of 

 little avail. As a result, every herd of much size 

 will have spoiled udders, sometimes only one, some- 

 times two or more quarters missing. A bad case 

 of infective garget may lead to the actual loss of a 

 large part of the udder by sloughing off. In this 

 case, there will be severe constitutional disturb- 

 ances with high fever and great loss of flesh. A 

 good cow with only one teat gone will probably 

 be worth keeping, but when half of the udder is lost 

 it will be better to salvage her at the butcher's 

 unless she is especially valuable on account of her 

 offspring. Losses from garget are likely to be 

 greatest in the best herds, as the cow with an 

 intensely developed milking tendency seems to be 

 most liable and also because the high feeding with 

 concentrated protein grains practiced in the best 

 stables acts as a predisposing cause. It may be 

 added that care, patience and prompt use of some 

 simple treatments will go far to minimize the 

 losses. 



The American dairyman is very fortunate in 

 not having to reckon with some very serious cattle 

 plagues which are found in Europe and other parts 



