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staves  produce  in  the  Harder,  a 
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Live  Stock  Questions 
Answered  by  Prof.  F.  C.  Minkler 
White  Scours  in  Calves 
On  September  23,  1922,  a  day-old  calf 
had  what  seemed  to  be  a  severe  case  of 
scours.  We  gave  it  nutmeg  in  milk,  but 
it  rapidly  became  weaker ;  could  not  seem 
to  get  up  and  did  not  care  whether  it 
drank  from  a  bottle  or  hat.  Next  after¬ 
noon  it  was  dead.  Since  then  we  have  had 
11  calves,  two’  we  raised,  six  we  wanted 
to  raise,  and  three  we  sold.  After  death  of 
second  calf  we  began  to  make  inquiries 
concerning  the  disease.  We  were  told  it 
was  white  diarrhoea,  and  were  advised  to 
give  a  half-teaspoon  of  laudanum  and  try 
to  make  it  nurse.  This  did  no  good,  or 
rather  not  in  some  cases,  and  we  gave 
one  egg  in  a  pint  of  milk,  fed  boiled  milk, 
and  gave  a  doctor’s  appetizer.  We  disin¬ 
fected  calf  quarters,  put  in  fresh  straw, 
and  the  disease  continues.  C.  a.  d. 
Waverly,  Pa. 
White  scours  in  calves  can  usually  be 
traced  to  one  of  three  causes.  (1)  Im¬ 
proper  nourishment  of  the  cows  during 
their  gestation  period,  resulting  in  the 
delivery  of  calves  that  are  weak  and 
under-nourished;  (2)  the  maintaining  at 
parturition  in  stalls  that  are  contaminated 
with  the  particular  bug  that  is  respon¬ 
sible  for  this  condition;  (3)  the  feeding 
of  the  calves  out  of  vessels  that  have 
been  improperly  cleansed,  for  it  is  pretty 
generally  believed  that  the  infection  may 
be  introduced  either  through  the  digestive 
system  or  through  the  umbilical  cord. 
It  is  admittedly  true  that  there  is  a  very 
close  relationship  between  the  suscepti¬ 
bility  to  scours  in  calves  and  the  preva¬ 
lence  of  contagious  abortion  in  the  herd. 
Naturally  cows  that  have  difficulty  in  the 
retention  of  afterbirth  or  that  expel  the 
fetus  prematurely  are  unable  to  yield 
calves  that  are  strong  and  vigorous.  The 
use  of  an  abundance  of  leafy  roughage, 
such  as  clover  or  Alfalfa  hay,  or  the  use 
of  bonemeal  or  poor  roughage  has  in 
many  cases  obviated  trouble  of  this  char¬ 
acter. 
So  far  as  unsanitary  quarters  are  con¬ 
cerned,  it  is  not  sufficient  to  merely  clean 
out  the  stall  with  a  pitchfork  and  put  in 
new  bedding,  especially  iE  the  stall  was 
used  previously  by  a  cow  and  her  calf 
that  were  suffering  from  ills  of  this  char¬ 
acter.  It  is  essential  that  the  stall  be 
thoroughly  whitewashed,  and,  if  possible, 
sterilized  by  means  of  fumigation  or  the 
use  of  disinfectants  of  known  usefulness 
and  value.  Then,  too.  the  bedding  must 
be  clean,  dry  and  abundant,  and  it  is  well 
to  wash  the  umbilical  cord  with  boric- 
acid  and  paint  with  iodine.  Frequent 
paintings  with  iodine  until  the  surplus 
cord  has  sloughed  off  has  its  advantages 
The  udder  of  the  cow  should  be  thor¬ 
oughly  cleansed  and  washed  with  a  saline 
solution  before  her  calf  is  allowed  to 
nurse.  Allow  the  calf  to  have  limited 
amounts  of  nurse,  and  make  sure  that  he 
has  some  of  the  colostrum  or  first  milk. 
When  hand-feeding  is  undertaken,  a 
safe  rule  to  follow  is  to  use  only  pails 
and  utensils  so  clean  that  one  would  be 
willing  to  drink  out  of  them  himself. 
Mere  washing  in  hot  water  will  not  suf¬ 
fice.  The  pails  should  be  scalded  and 
sterilized  with  steam,  if  possible.  Again, 
the  amount  of  new  milk  should  be  limited 
and  frequently  fed  during  the  first  few 
days. 
The  use  of  bloodmeal  is  very  efficient  in 
controlling  this  disorder,  especially  with 
older  calves.  Amounts  varying  from  a 
heaping  teaspoonful  to  a  heaping  table¬ 
spoonful  can  be  fed  mixed  with  the  milk 
and  continued  for  two  or  three  days. 
Feeble  calves  should  be  blanketed  with 
old  gunny  sack  and  kept  warm,  and  if 
the  youngsters  are  particularly  valuable, 
that  is,  purebred  and  intended  to  be  raised 
for  breeding  purposes,  it  is  well  worth 
while  to  have  them  inoculated  with  bac- 
terine,  that  the  veterinarians  procure  and 
administer  especially  to  counteract  this 
condition.  It  is  injected  previous  to  the 
appearance  of  the  disorder. 
Good  results  have  followed  the  admin¬ 
istration  of  such  home  remedies  as  you 
have  employed,  and  again  formalin  has 
been  successfully  used  as  a  disinfectant 
of  the  digestive  system.  It  has  been  my 
experience  that  calves  that  have  suffered 
from  white  scours  long  continued  are 
scarcely  worth  raising,  even  though  di¬ 
gestive  disorders  seem  to  be  controlled. 
Calves  from  weak  generally  predisposed 
to  abortion  females  frequently  develop 
into  unsightly  youngsters,  inclined  to  be 
pauehy  and  constitutionally  weak.  San¬ 
itation,  of  course,  is  the  determining  fac¬ 
tor  in  the  controlling  of  this  disorder. 
The  cows  should  be  carefully  groomed 
and  cleaned  previous  to  parturition  and 
the  precaution  suggested  above  should  be 
taken  in  every  instance.  Keep  the  calves 
warm  and  dry  and  not  over-nourished, 
and  through  the  agency  of  such  laxatives 
as  castor  oil,  to  be  followed  by  the  blood- 
meal,  endeavor  to  re-establish  normal  di¬ 
gestion  and  assimilation. 
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