THE MORE COMMON AILMENTS OF CATTLE ^^^^ 



clover pastures are regarded as especially dangerous. If 

 in no other way, the food may be regulated by feeding 

 it as soiling food. A pasture so sparse that the cow 

 must travel much to get barely sufficient food to satisfy 

 her furnishes an ideal condition for such cows before 

 calving. For the laxative, i quart of linseed oil may 

 be given and for the cathartic i to 2 pounds of Epsom 

 salts and 2 to 5 ounces of powdered ginger, according 

 to the size of the cow. Breeders in the island of Jersey 

 claim that delayed milking, as outlined above, has 

 greatly reduced milk fevers. 



The remedial measures of former years were labo- 

 rious and costly and largely ineffective. But these are 

 not to be decried, as practitioners acted in good faith 

 according to their light. The principle which underlies 

 the new treatment is the distention of the udder and the 

 maintenance of such distention for periods long enough 

 to insure recovery by injecting into it some substance 

 that will insure such a result. These, of course, reach 

 the udder through the milk ducts. Various substances 

 have been used, but those which now stand high in 

 favor include atmospheric air filtered and sterilized and 

 well-boiled water, but the weight of the latter is dragging 

 on the udder. The material used is pumped into the 

 udder through tubes inserted in the teats. Treatment 

 should only be given by veterinarians or by those only 

 who are thoroughly acquainted with careful antiseptic 

 methods. Relief usually follows the treatment within 

 a short time of administering it, but some attention to 

 the condition of the bowels may be necessary as recovery 

 progresses. 



Actinomycosis, or lumpy jaw, in cattle. — This disease 

 infectious and chronic in its action, is also known by 

 the name of big head, and in Britain it is sometimes 

 called wooden tongue. It is characterized by the de- 

 velopment of peculiar enlargements or tumors, chiefly 

 about the head, but it may also affect the internal organs 



