252 QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. [1 Ocr., 1902. 
Cow yielding largest supply of milk in forty-eight hours, subject to result 
from Babcock tester, of not less than 2°8 per cent. of butter fat.—H. 
Chambers’s Rosebud, with 643 lb. weight of milk, and, as shown above, an out- 
put of 33 1b. of butter in the forty-eight hours. Rosebud also took the special 
Brus of £5 5s., offered by the Sydney Mail proprietors, with same conditions 
as above. 
Mr. Chambers was awarded the prize for the best Jersey cow and for the 
family group, Rosebud, Coconut, and Dairyman. Last year Rosebud was first 
in the family group, and in 1900 she took the first prize in the dry class, 
and after an interval, when she was not exhibited, she took first prize in 
the three years and over in milk class. Our illustrations are reproduced by 
some excellent photographs by Tosca. 
A REMEDY FOR MILK FEVER. 
The Maryland (U.S.A.) Agricultural. Experimental Station has issued a 
bulletin upon the Schmidt treatment of milk fever in cattle, claiming for it 670 
recoveries out of 779 cases treated or over 86 per cent. This treatment assumes 
the disease to be due to the elaboration of a toxin in the udder. All the 
apparatus required is a 3-inch funnel, 4 or 5 feet of t-inch rubber tubing, and 
a small glass pipette or milking-tube. The following is the method of 
procedure :— 
1. Dissolve 120 grains of iodide of potash in 1 quart of water, which has 
been boiled and allowed to cool to about the temperature of the body. The 
iodide of potash must be thoroughly dissolved. 
2. Introduce the fu nel and pipette into the ends of the rubber tube, and 
place in a bucket of antiseptic fluid made from either of the three following 
formule :—(1) Creolin, 1 part; water, 30 parts. (2) Thymo-cresol, 1 part; 
water, 30 parts. (3) Chloro-naphtholeum, 1 part; water, 30 parts. 
3. Milk the udder dry ; then place under the cow a piece of oil-cloth about 
a yard square (a carriage storm apron may be made to answer), so that the 
udder will be about the middle of the cloth. Wash the udder and teats 
thoroughly with caustic soap and warm water, rinsing carefully with antiseptic 
fluid. 
4. Insert the pipette into the end of a teat, and fill the funnel with iodide 
of potash solution. By passing successively from one teat to another, distribute 
the solution equally among the quarters of the udder. 
5. Rub the udder from the teat towards the body, and massage thoroughly, 
in order to distribute the solution throughout. ( 
6. Hight or ten hours after the injection, or when recovery is assured, the 
udder should be carefully milked out, and then bathed with warm water (about 
160 degrees Fahr.). 
A second injection is rarely necessary, but if so, it should be done at the 
end of six or eight hours. 
If there should be a tendency towards hardness of the udder or 
“stringiness” of the milk, baths of warm water should be applied every three 
or four hours until relieved. 
HOW SOUTHERN BUTTER FACTORIES PAY. 
We have no returns showing what is being done by Queensland butter 
and cheese factories and creameries, but an idea of their profits may be gained 
from the following reports on some southern factories, which with the succeeding 
notes on hand separators and silos we take from the Dairyman :— 
The third annual report of the Illawarra Co-operative Central Dairy 
Company, Limited, for the twelve months showed that through the severe 
drought there was a falling-off in the supplies in comparison with the previous 
year. Nevertheless, 397 tons of butter were manufactured, and the number of 
