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Mr. Glover: — Undoubtedly there would be, if it should come 

 in contact with it before it had fertilized the ovum. 



A Delegate: — I thought there would be a chance of it, if 

 you do it previous to mating. 



Air. Glover: — It must be done some time before copulation 

 takes place. You don't want to use the bull immediately after 

 he has been treated in this manner. And you would not want 

 to have the cow served immediately after she had been treated. 

 Have all discharges stopped, and everything healed up, before 

 you serve her again. And you may have trouble, after your 

 cows abort, getting them with calf. 



A Delegate : — Don't you think it is a bad thing for the 

 average man to go into the uterus of a cow with any old thing? 



Air. Glover: — Yes, sir, it is. It takes skill. The less you 

 can do of that, the better. But dairymen, the owners of herds, 

 should have a chance to go to an agricultural school, where the 

 method of doing these things is taught. If they could go to our 

 agricultural school for a week or two weeks, and be taught the 

 proper methods of disinfecting an animal, it would be worth 

 thousands of dollars to the dairymen of this state. 



A Delegate : — I have had abortions in a herd of 90 to 100 

 cows ; eight abortions in December. They started up the second 

 week in December, and in December I had, I think, nine or ten 

 abortions, and I started using carbolic acid and carbolized salt. 

 I took a pound of carbolic crystals, and crushed them up with 

 50 pounds of salt, and put a tablespoonful of that salt in the 

 feed, and sprayed them with a carbo-naptholeum solution, the 

 whole herd, twice a day. Went right along behind the cows 

 and sprayed them all, and mixed this carbolized salt in their feed, 

 allowing a tablespoonful to each cow. Since I have started these 

 operations I have not had an abortion. I did the same thing 

 last winter, and inside of three months every sign of it had 



