Show MILK FEVER OR PARTURIENT RIENT FEVERS FEVER FEVE Uy Il K n W V inch Clark expert In charge ot of husbandry Utah ment lent Station This disease occurs only aol In cows COWl and before or om after calving rarely doos It I occur before heror calving Tho rho name Is la because In l a n majority of ot niece no rover foyer III Is present This disease Is most prevalent In dairy districts because It occurs In lii the heavy helly milkIng cows H It I usually takes a the beat liest est cow coy and amid when nt at lt her best beet be t Tho disease may Iny de develop clop at n t nay age aRO but bitt cows COS with first o Ill t anti second calves and old ott cows OWe are rarely If It ever attacked This disease II ene comes COles on usual Iy ly within hours hourI after calv ing but In iii some cases not riot until several days after It I may mn come com on oil nt at any enlon of the lie year but hul W Ii occurs more moro frequently In iii pasture than tian at n t other times nail especially when pas pai urea are arc at nt their best SYMPTOMS The Tho disease makes Its Ha appearance within to lo humors hours lifter after calving but may Iny occur before beure It I usually follows an 11 easy birth On the advent of ot the he disease the lie cow COI becomes uneasy moves moeR about rest reRI lessly leasly strikes tho the belly boly with wih hind legs grinds tho the teeth and may Iny spasms or general convulsions Symptoms of ot paralysis come on after I title this thi period amid the tito cow shows weak weakness nOR ness staggers nod oils falls An As Al tho the paralysis advances the time ce becomes stupid timid and passes Into litto n it semi semiconscious serl conscious condition with Wih her head turn turned urn ed ll around to tine ono side toward her lank flank fank and ald resting on o the this ground Aroun This Is I tim Iho characteristic position Later on an tho ho thoe eyes e become glassy nail are not send lonAI live le t c to 10 lie ho t touch tou h The rho disease can rend read readily ily ilP ly bo ho bl ascertained by hy tho the recumbent position pt anti the glassy lifeless ap nf of the tho lie eye eyo The fhe tongue Is III par salIva runs tho ho mouth the lie gullet has hns lost tho the power of motion arid II the tho ito animal cannot swallow dl Ii 11 cur Is III arrested and amid bloat may Iny oc oe occur PI TH AT IT Sometime before the he cow should be bo milked amid be put In Iii n ii loose condition This latter hatter can be lie done ilone I by feeding green reon too foo food l only anti by oc occasionally giving n a I quart of oC raw ito lin linseed In steed seed oil oi or one pound of suits salts with nn an ounce lunce of ot ginger The Tho food toll should bo lie laxative and foil fed sparingly Grain must be ho withhold withheld until ull nil mill 1111 danger of milk fever reler Is iii over oer Tho The should he be encouraged to drink Tots rots of water take lots loll of exercise e and Inel be bo kept In lii Inn liia a n comfortable place Dv liv n tills this kind of care many ot of milk mik fever cnn be lie prevented Do not nol drench after liter ho goes OPS down Place In Iii n a I cool spat snot draw trw out omit every 01 drop of ot anti and then distend the lie udder well wel t 1 aIr To pre prevent prevent vent the of the air tie tl the tent teat tight near the MId end ml and amid results roul An Mt Al ordinary milk mik tube attached by n a small rubber hose to a 1 pump will wi servo serve the he purpose pupOS well wel The teats lents and milk mik tube should hould be lie hI disinfected before herom the tho latter luter Is used Care must be bO betaken taken that none nane ot of the disinfectant enters the tho udder This treatment Is 18 Inexpensive and worthy of ot a trial The Flue he writer wrier ha bait used uRell this treatment only a n few times but has hlll secured gratifying results This Timis treatment nc nr cording to reports from nil ni parts of ot the United States appears to a bo be b n R sure lure cure ciro for milk mik fever Parties using this treatment will wi con confer conter confer fer ter a great grea favor elor It If they will wi report the results to lo R Ii 1 W V lark Clark Professor of ot Animal Industry Utah tah Itoh College Logan roAn Utah |