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ties who used to lose cows have, since they adopted this plan, 

 not' been troubled with milk fever. 



If the udder is full and hard I would milk the cow before 

 calving in all cases, as it prevents garget and does the cow no 

 harm afterwards. 



COLD PACK TREATMENT OF MILK FEVER. 



E. A. A. Grange, Professor Veterinary Science Agricultural 

 College of Michigan: 



(The request for information upon the diaphoretic form of 

 treatment in this dread disease led us to secure the report of Dr. 

 E. A. A. Grange, who has been uniformly successful with this 

 system and has lately stated he had no reason to modify his 

 opinion expressed at length in bulletin form over two years 

 since.) Says the Professor: 



" I have obtained some very favorable results from the appli- 

 plication of cold, zvet -packing, in the treatment of parturient 

 apoplexy, or milk fever. Unfortunately the number of animals 

 that are invaded by it, is on the increase from year to year, in 

 direct ratio with the improvement in milch cattle. It is very 

 important that it should be delected as soon as it makes its 

 appearance, for I do not know of any disease where the old 

 adage of a 'Stich in time, etc.,' can be more appropriately applied, 

 than to the one under consideration, and the remedy which I 

 shall further on allude to, has in those instances that I have 

 applied it, 'nipped the disease in the bud.' 



symptoms. 



" In those cases which I have had an opportunity of observ- 

 ing in the early stage, the first evidence of something being 

 wrong was an exhibition of general restlessness, and loss of 

 appetite, accompanied in many instances by rigors, or in other 

 words a chill; which is often more or less confined to the hind 

 quarters ; this is usually followed by what is called by veterinarians 

 paddling of the hind feet, which consists in an uneasy movemen t 



