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Show Animal Blood Bank To Save Livestock During the war we all became familiar with blood banks for humans. Now there are a few for animals and they're saving valu-j valu-j able livestock, according to Farm Journal. Methods of storing cattle and horse blood up to 120 days have been developed at the veterinary clinic of State College of Washington. Wash-ington. Similar banks are being established estab-lished at other livestock clinics and hospitals. Blood transfusions are especially especi-ally good "medicine" for sweet clover poisoning. Also they are useful in cases of naval ill of foals and calves, in calf scours, and pneumonia. Foundered horses are snapped out of it without disabled I feet by transfus:on, if treated soon enough. Wire cuts in cattle and horses causing serious loss of blood are being treated successfully suc-cessfully by transfusion. . When an animal gets sick there may be no other animal nearby from which to take blood. That's where the blood1 bank, comes in. |