ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 223 



DAIRYMEN'S PART 



STATE FARMER'S INSTITUTE 



JOLIET, ILL., FEBRUARY, 1905. 



A. J. Glover conducted the dairymen's part of the program 

 in the state convention at Joliet the last week of February, 1905. 

 and the following is a report of the proceedings, including a 

 lecture by Mr. Glover in which he used live cows as models. 



Mr. Glover : — I will try to tell you something of the milk 

 fever cure. It is a very simple one. A few years ago it was 

 discovered that by injecting oxygen into the udder of the cow, 

 after it is entirely emptied of milk, and then massaging it, that 

 nearly every case of milk fever was cured. Another man who 

 did not have oxygen handy, took a bicycle pump and injected 

 air into the udder, and massaged it, and the cow stricken with 

 milk fever became well. We have had reports from a great 

 many dairymen stating the good results that they have had in 

 using this method. The air is injected into the udder in the 

 following manner : Insert a milk tube which has already been 

 fastened with a small rubber hose to a bicycle pump, into the 

 teat, and proceed to inflate the udder the same as you would a 

 bicycle tire. Inflate each quarter in the same way, until you have 

 the udder filled full of air. 



If you find that the air is oozing out too rapidly, you can 

 put rubber bands around the teats to prevent its escape till you 

 are through massaging the udder. If the cow is not up within 

 an hour, repeat the treatment. But I have never seen only one 

 or two cases where the treatment had to be repeated. Inside 

 of an hour after this treatment has been administered, the cow 



