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most frequent uterus diseases, were a mucous catarrhal 
metritis with the orificium open, injected and more or less 
swollen. These cases were very difficult to cure. In Lade- 
gaard the conditions were very much more favorable. One 
hundred and thirteen out of 197 cows became pregnant with- 
out treatment. Of the 66 treated cows 64 had inflammations 
of the uterus or of the cervix, in 44 the uterus being en- 
larged; two of them were normal, and nine had aborted. 
The majority of these animals suffered from a chronic and 
catarrhal metritis, but all these affections were much more 
benign than in Paeregaard. 
In the third herd, at Groensletegaard, I treated 41 cows 
out of 112; 25 of them also had aborted. Of these 41 cows 
37 had inflammations of the uterus or of the cervix, most of 
them with an abundant purulent discharge which, however, 
quickly disappeared after treatment. Only two cows which 
had been sterile for a long time did not become pregnant 
again, 
In the beginning of the second year the metritis cases in 
Paeregaard were again more numerous and more difficult 
to treat than at the two other places. Accordingly the 
number of pregnant cows was smaller. 
Similar conditions existed on the two farms Brahesborg 
and Wilhelmsborg which are close together and belong to 
one master. In Brahesborg nearly all the cows became 
pregnant every year, but in Wilhelmsborg considerable 
irregularities had existed for the last ten years. In spite of 
a yearly addition of about 40 heifers the number of the cows 
had gone back from 130 to 100. The conditions were similar 
to those in Paeregaard. Many of the animals were affected 
with a catarrhal and others with a septic purulent metritis; 
these ailments were, however, of a:tather benign character 
and yielded to the treatment quickly. The percentage of 
the cows which conceived became 76%, which is quite satis- 
factory. 
On another estate, Anhof, the conditions were similar to 
