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Show Milk Fever Is Disease of Many Well-Fed Cows Milk fever Is a disease of the well-fed well-fed and pampered cow and Is most common where cattle are stabled warmly and given little exercise. When rations rich In protein are fed In the period Immediately preceding calving time there seems to be a tendency tend-ency toward this trouble, but It Is Just as likely to occur when the cow Is on grass In the spring. Do not allow the cow to lie upon her side but prop her up on her chest by means of sacks tilled with straw. Tap If acutely bloated. Milk and wash teats with a 2 per cent solution of a coal tar disinfectant, and Inflate each quarter of the udder In turn. This may be done by means of a bicycle bi-cycle pump, rubber bulb syringe, or apparatus for the purpose. Do not put tape or rubber bands about teats but dent In repeatedly to cause retention re-tention of air. Allow water but no teed for eight to twelve hours. In order to prevent this disease stop all rich feeds five or six weeks before calving and make the cow take plenty pf exendse each day. Keep bowels free and give ep.om suits at calvlpg time If she is at all constipated. Don't overlook suiinn grass wneu considering pasture crops to curry the cows and hogs through the droughty summer months. It Is well to use palls with a partly covered tap, because thla keeps out 50 per cent of the dirt and other Impurities Impuri-ties which would otherwise get Into the milk. |