Show PREVENT SCOURS IN CALVES infectious disease gains access to the body of young animal soon after its birth MY by C IF ECKLES missouri experiment station one kind of scours Is an infectious infections which gains access to tho body of the calf soon boon after birth through the freshly broker navel cord it ally occurs within a week and often within 48 hours after the calf Is born ind and runs its course quickly the symptoms are sudden severo severe sickness sunken eyes and usually a white foul smelling dung if one calf has be ome infected others pre are liable to contract the disease and die in the same manner it Is important to thoro thoroughly 1 hughly Jis disinfect infect box stalls where calves are cropped and have them well bedded with clean straw it Is always a good plan to disinfect the navel cord when he calf Is born and it there Is reason to suspect they might contract the die ase extra precautions should be taken such as singeing the cord with i A hot iron which stops up the opening ar r to tie the end of the cord with a string and wrap a strip of cloth around the body A mild solution of creol ln zen oleum or carbolic icid should be applied to the cord as a disinfectant |