THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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MILK LIKE BREAD SPONGE. 
I have a cow on a small place, giving per¬ 
haps 10 or 12 quarts of milk per day. Of 
late the milk, instead of souring in the nor¬ 
mal manner, turns to the appearance of bread 
spoDge. When placed in a jar or pan, it will 
simply boil over the top, leaving a substance 
like whey at the bottom. Can you tell me 
what 'is the trouble? H. N. w. 
New York. 
The trouble is occasioned by a germ, 
with an unpronounceable name. It prob¬ 
ably comes from some uncleanness about 
the vessels in which the milk is handled. 
By this I do not imply that those who 
handle the milk are dirty, or necessarily 
even careless. Such things will happen 
in the best regulated families. I would 
suggest that all utensils be examined. If 
any tins are rusty discard them, for in 
these rusty places where the tin is off, is 
a fine breeding place for this germ and 
several others. Se that all seams are 
thoroughly cleaned out; take an old knife 
blade for this. Get some good wash pow¬ 
der ; put that in the water, and entirely 
immerse such vessels in boiling water for 
not less than a minute. When this germ 
gets a foothold it is often hard to eradi¬ 
cate it. To this end see that the attend¬ 
ants’ clothes are changed, and the stall is 
thoroughly cleaned and whitewashed. 
Sometimes certain cows will at times 
produce milk of this character without 
any apparent reason. When this is the 
case and the trouble reoccurs, the only 
thing I know is to get another cow. I 
once had such a cow, and she was a 
source of trouble till I disposed of her. 
Indigestion, 'too, will produce somewhat 
similar conditions, as will certain kinds 
of feed. See that the cow is not overfed. 
If her bowels are hard, give her a pound 
or two of oil cake meal a day. This will 
be a benefit in any case. Don’t let her 
fill herself with frozen grass. By work¬ 
ing along these lines there should come 
relief. _ E. v. A. 
BLOODY MILK. 
I have a cow that for a month past has 
been giving blood with her milk, seemingly 
not from any one particular teat, but a 
strain of blood through the whole milk, and 
another that sometimes closes up in one 
teat. Please advise treatment. s. s. 
Ans. —At the time when a cow is be¬ 
ing milked there is a tremendous flow of 
milk to the udder, and in certain weak¬ 
ened conditions of the blood vessels they 
rupture under the strain and some blood 
escapes with the milk. This bleeding 
comes from minute arterioles and capil¬ 
laries when it is seen to flow from each 
teat; in other cases it may proceed from 
one affected blood vessel or from irrita¬ 
tion of a growth, such as a polypus, in 
the teat. In yet another set of cases it 
may proceed from diseased conditions 
due a previous attack of garget (mam- 
mitis or inflammation of the udder) or 
even from tuberculosis affecting the or¬ 
gan. Without a full investigation of the 
case we are, of course, unable to say 
confidently just what is causing the 
hemorrhage in this particular case, but 
we would advise you to see that the 
stall floor is well bedded and, if of ce¬ 
ment, covered with a wooden floor or 
rack where the udder rests during re¬ 
cumbency of the cow. Give her two 
drams of dilute sulphuric acid in her 
drinking water night and morning, and 
twice daily bathe her udder with cold 
water, then with a lotion composed of 
two drams each of powdered alum and 
dilute sulphuric acid in a pint of cold 
water. If on examination hard lumps or 
tumors are found high up in the udder, 
and especially at the rear part of the ves¬ 
sel, have her tested with tuberculin as 
such tumors are likely to indicate tuber¬ 
culosis. We think, however, that there 
is nothing of the sort present in the case 
in question. As to the other cow that 
has an obstruction in the milk duct at 
certain times, it is likely that she has 
slight attacks of garget which curdle the 
milk, or there may be a calculus or poly¬ 
pus in the milk cistern or teat duct which 
would necessitate an operation for which 
an expert would have to be employed. 
On general principles give her a table¬ 
spoonful of saltpeter in her drinking wa¬ 
ter or food at times of trouble; foment 
the udder with hot water, and then rub 
with melted lard if the vessel is in¬ 
flamed and hardened. A sterilized milk¬ 
ing tube also may be used to draw off the 
milk. A. S. ALEXANDER, V. S. 
TUMOR FROM COLLAR BRUISE. 
I loaned my team to a neighbor to use on 
a corn harvester and next morning one of 
them had a big hard bunch on his shoulder 
at the bottom of the collar. I have used 
hot salt water on it night and morning for 
nearly a week and it does not seem to grow 
smaller, is very hard but does not seem 
to hurt him. I have not used horse since; 
stable him nights and turn him into pasture 
by day. Can the bunch be cured or shall I 
see a local veterinary about it? w. s. 
Auburn, N. Y. 
tl seems unlikely that the hard tumor 
could have come from one day’s work 
in the corn harvester. I 11 such cases us¬ 
ually there has been a previous bruising 
of the parts with the formation of a 
deep-seated abscess which not having 
been opened, has been surrounded by a 
fibroid wall causing a fibroid tumor. 
When such a horse is put to hard work 
in a collar that does not fit properly, the 
irritation causes inflammation of the 
parts affected by the previous injury, and 
the tumor becomes quite apparent to eye 
and hand. Pus is present then. It may 
only be a thimbleful or it may be a 
quantity inside of the tumor or beside 
the tumor. In either case, the knife has 
to be used to evacuate the pus, and if the 
tumor is old and hard, the best practice 
is to remove it by dissection and treat 
the cavity antiseptically until it fills up 
with new, sound tissue which rapidly 
happens in well cared for cases. If, on 
the other hand, the tumor has thin walls 
and was not preceded by an old tumor, 
it is an abscess and on opening and evac¬ 
uating the pus it will wholly disappear if 
packed once daily with oakum saturated 
in a mixture of equal parts turpentine 
and raw linseed oil until the cavity con¬ 
tracts so that no dressing can be in¬ 
serted, at which stage the wound will 
permanently heal and leave no tumor 
behind. External applications do no 
good when pus is present, or there is a 
well organized tumor. Under the circum¬ 
stances you should at once call in the 
local qualified veterinarian to operate. 
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