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be oiled before introducing up the teat. The loss of a 

 part of the udder is often the result of garget; the animal 

 must be watched at the next delivery as the teat may be 

 plugged; sometimes stricture of the teat is the 

 result, in such cases a dilator will be needed. 

 Darning needles and goose quills should not 

 be used, as the delicate lining of the teat may 

 be injured and closure of the teat be the result. 

 Bloody milk may be considered as a symptom 

 of garget. 



The contagious form of garget calls for 

 similar treatment with the plentiful use of 

 antiseptics in addition. 



Milk fever, parturient appoplexy, parturient 

 paresis, (the latter term the more modern), 

 is the bane of the dairy man, it is a disease 

 peculiar to the cow and only attacks heavy 

 milkers; a cow in fleshy condition before 

 calving is predisposed to the disease. Many 

 theories have been advanced to account for 

 the disease; the latest, that of Schmidt, being 

 taming, the one most generally accepted; he claims 

 that a morbid process goes on in the udder by which 

 poisonous material is produced which is absorbed. 

 The sooner this disease appears after calving the more 

 fatal it is; it generally follows an easy, rapid delivery. 

 The symptoms are well marked, every dairyman being 

 more or less familiar with them, probably the first seen 

 is a slight unsteadiness of the gait, crossing of the hind 

 legs and a swaying motion when walking; later on the 

 the head droops, no notice is taken of the calf; there is 



