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Show j State Veterinarian Gives Findings In Sick Cattle Many cattle have been dying in West Millard due to a sudden change in feed. Usually changing from a poor to good feed, or from a dry feed to a green feed. Often our men call this trouble "shipping fever" or hemorrhagic septicemia. Dr. John I. Curtis, state vertinarian, after viewing the cattle in west millard mailed a letter to Clair Acord, assistant - county agent, making recommendations; a portion por-tion of the letter is quoted herein: Reference- to the loss of cattle in West Millard is undoubtedly due to two conditions, hemorrhagic septicemia, which is infectous, and also the other condition, animals come off the ranges that are dry rather poor feed, and aslo animals on poor pasture in the later part of the season; this pasture consisting I of native grasses, wire grass, salt grass, foxtail and so forth. If they are put into fields where the feed is good rich feed, owners will m-I m-I variably have some loss. The thing 1 to do is to feed these animals 3 or 4 days with good quality alfalfa hav. and then put them in the fields. By carrying out this method ! in many areas we have eliminated most of the losses. There is some condition we cannot explain there. They can't handle this good feed I and we get this loss. It is usually I in older animals. The animals have f a drawn up appearance and have what we call abdominal breathing. That is when they breath the ab-odmen ab-odmen draws in the flank area. The animal grunts a good deal and seems to hate to move about, and when moved or driven very far they way drop over dead. If we can get the producers to feed dry hay 3 or 4 days before putting them in the fields, we will eliminate a lot of this trouble. The other condition is hemorr-hagic hemorr-hagic septicemia and, of course, it is in herds and they should be immunized. im-munized. Hemorrhagic septicemia, aJthe name implies, is a poisoning of the blood (often quickly fatal), accompanied by internal hemorr-ase, hemorr-ase, it has been considered that a specific germ, pasteurella bovi-S-Ptica, causes the disease, but some authorities now believe that, s in the case of swine influenza. 11 js the result of the combined Wion of a germ and virus. In the mai.n it attacks young cattle, especially es-pecially those in poor condition t have been exposed to severe mppmg conditions lack of rest ) I JM proper shelter, irregular feed-I feed-I i, and watering, etc. during M weather. The symptoms, de-,U de-,U j '"ei by Stein, are often severe a fatal pneumonia is a rather wnmon complication. Since the "isease is infectous, the carcasses 1 a.mmals that have died of it uid be safely .dispoed of and the Bmses should be thoroughly dis-liected. dis-liected. ri!imary emPhais in preventing tiZ gic septicemia must be M , 0,1 prPer shipping of ani-h ani-h lncIuding ample provision for IW "ater and rest t0 conserve wtality, and the following of Hum! precautions with animals Worn :iust been received after iWr In many instances, is the ition th a bacteria or ag-IS ag-IS ini'S Which Produces a lengthy 19 Smty' or o and antiserum, Unitv ly Produces a brief im-ii( im-ii( rj wd has some curative val-"flla val-"flla ,use o tnese products, as I ii ,tlhe treatment and diagnos-C diagnos-C ) atm,dlsease should be left to sis is ;,tent veterinarian. Diagnosis Diagno-sis nn, diflicuH because var-li var-li Hinwer diseases have similar tiavh. and laboratory tests 1 De necessary |