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is usually up, and able to walk and apparently in normal con- 

 dition. 



I caution you, if you have a case of milk fever, don't try 

 to < give the cow medicine, because she is paralyzed and cannot 

 swallow. The medicine will go into her lungs and it will 

 strangle her. If a bicycle pump is used it should be thoroughly 

 sterilized in boiling water before it is used. There are com- 

 panies that are manufacturing instruments for injecting air into 

 the udder that sterilize the air as it passes through the pump into 

 the udder. Air may be injected into the udder for garget and 

 when it is caked. If the udder is very feverish, of course it will 

 not cure it immediately. Antiphlogistine, which comes in cans, 

 and cm be purchased at drug stores, is a good thing to rub on 

 the udder. For instance, at the World's Fair this year, there 

 was a Jersey cow being led out for exercise, and she became 

 scared by a man flinging a pail of water out, and she crossed her 

 legs and threw herself, and her udder came between the ground 

 and her body, and being a large udder it was severely injured. 

 She was in the test, and they were very anxious to have her 

 proceed, and not shrink in milk, and they injected air into the 

 udder, and they also applied antiphlogistine. I heard Mr. Graves 

 say that they did not notice any change in her milk flow, and it 

 was only a few days till her udder was in good condition. 

 Antiphlogistine is used for human mothers a great deal. 



If there are no other questions I shall turn this discussion 

 over to Mr. Cobb, better known to the people as " Buff Jersey." 



Mr. Cobb : — The first thing I would like to say is, why have 

 milk fever at all? I never have had a case in my cow herd, 

 or a herd that I have managed. And I lay my exemption from 

 it to the cire I give the cow before she is fresh. I never give a 

 cow that is to be freshened any grain whatever. I take all the 

 grain ration away from her, except perhaps the corn in the 

 ensilage. 



A Delegate : — For how long a time ? 



