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Show w I Answer to Albern Allen, Kingston, I Utah. I The symptoms you desciibc as af- I fecting your cow are entirely inadc- I quate for me to make a diagnosis of I this case. It is probable that your I animal is affected with any one of I a number of different conditions that I arise, forming a swelling of the ud- I der and a clotting of the milk. In a I great many instances a swelling ol I this kind is caused by external in- I jury, perhaps some other cow has I stepped on the udder while the ani- 1 mal was lying down. It may be 1 from bruises and bites received by I being chased by dogs, etc. It should first the ascertained whether or not H the condition is the same in all the animals you speak ofwhether there arc slight differences. If they arc all about the same, it is possibly that the conditions is contagious mastitis, masti-tis, an inflamation of the udder which affects cows and is transmitted' from one to anothec In this instance it would be necessary to isolate the affected animals and disenfect the places where they have been kept. If it is only from bruises or some external injury, I would advise using us-ing hot applications to the udder. Hot water with some disinfectant in it as carbolic acid or crcolin, a weak solution, about two per cent would be a good thing to apply to the udder. ud-der. Use as warm as the hands can stand it. After fomenting the udder thoroughly fifteen or twenty minutes dry entirely, and keep the animal from draft until it is perfectly dry. This will help overcome the condition condi-tion in connection with hand rubbing. Sometimes the milk duct in the teat is stopped up by the clotted milk and it is necessary to pass a milking tube to drain the udder. In order to give a positive diagnosis diag-nosis of any case it is necessary to have a full description of the condition condi-tion and symptoms that affect the animal. KD |