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Show WHITE SCOURS CAUSES LOSS Disease Contracted by Way of Navel or Mouth Soon After Birth Tablets Worth Trying. Many calves die of white scours or pneumo-enteritis, which Is a deadly germ disease born in the calf and contracted con-tracted by way of the navel or mouth soon after brrth. Medicinal treatment usually fails, but triple sulpho-car-bolate tablets are well worth trying, under direction of a qualified veterinarian. vet-erinarian. He should also immunize each new-born calf with polyvalent anti-dysenteric serum and likewise use it in double doses should a case occur. Provide a new clean pen for new-born calves. At birth saturate the stump of the navel of each calf with tincture of iodine and then apply powdered starch. Repeat the treatment treat-ment dally until the navel Is entirely healed. Also cleanse the teats with a saturated solution of boric acid before be-fore the calf is allowed to suck for the first time and daily for ten daj-s If it continues to nurse. |