436 THE MANAGEMENT AND FEEDING OF CATTLE 



All authorities are agreed, however, that as a measure 

 of safety, affected animals should be separated from the 

 others. The discharge from tumors being laden with 

 disease germs are liable to get into the food in the 

 mangers or on the pastures. Certain pastures inundated 

 seem favorable to the spread of the disease. 



Treatment for lumpy jaw may be given as surgical, 

 by the use of some caustic or by means of medicines ad- 

 ministered. When not adherent to the bone, the tumors 

 may be removed with a knife and the parts treated as an 

 ordinary wound. But this should only be done by a 

 trained veterinarian, because of the complicated nature 

 of the structures involved. The tumors may sometimes 

 be removed by the deeply caustic action of powdered 

 arsenic introduced into the same, but the time called for 

 is six to ten weeks. Iodide of potash given as a drench 

 has been highly effective in working a cure before the 

 disease has invaded the bony structure. It is given as a 

 drench, or in the water drunk in about Y^ dram doses 

 daily, until the animal partially gets off feed, and dis- 

 charges freely from the eyes and nose. The treatment 

 should then be discontinued for three or four davs, and 

 during the period there should be given as a drench i 

 pound of Epsom salts for each 1,000 pounds of live 

 weight. Similar treatment may again be given for six 

 to ten days, followed by a similar cathartic. After the 

 tumor has been reduced to about one-third of the orig- 

 inal size, no further treatment should be given. The 

 time covered by treatment is from four to seven 

 weeks. Should this treatment be given to cows in milk, 

 the secretion of the same will be greatly reduced or will 

 cease altogether, and the milk given will be unfit for use. 



Anthrax in cattle. — Anthrax, sometimes known as 

 charbon, is one of the most malignant diseases that oc- 

 cur among domestic animals, and also one of the oldest. 

 It affects cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules, and 

 some of the smaller animals, both domesticated and wild. 



