Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1863-09-18
Abortion in Cows.

1 append lew notes or extracts OF
Abortion in Cows, which | hope will b'
, read by all interested. Thaers, in BIZ
, "Principles of Agriculture" says, CAB
, ortion in cows is often an epidemic anC
I, probably caused by peculiar state of the
atmosphere, for they often happen ii
great numbers in particular county
or location-without our being able tC
point to any other cause Of genuine in
fuence."
DR.. Dadd, in his Treatise on the Dis
eases of Animals" says, at is my opin-
ion that thousands of the abortions which
occur among our domestic animals in this
country, are for the benefit of the sever
al races present and to follow. For if
the offspring of cows whose systems have
been debiliated by a too early use of the
sexual organs; and those of other pa
rents, laborng under organic disease,
maliormaiion, and stunted growth; TO-
gether with the apology of offspring OF
cows doomed to drag out miserable ex.
istence in some horrible "swill milk es-
tablishment," where death runs riot, or
runs with the milk pail to kill off un-
nursed infants these being permitted to
come into the world with their inherited
imperfections, and being suffered to grow
up and become parents, issuing worse
edition than the original copy, in turn
these bad specimens, not Of natures han
diaoOrk, but Of mans ignorance and folly
or wilful transgression of the law of ma
ture,-being permitted to live, they would
be so many libels on creative power :;
and in order to remove them from the
face Of the earth, and put a check on the
monstrous evil, a friendly pestilence must
occur.
This would be a mournful event, for
many valuable animals might be infected
or contagion be involved in the general
ruin ; therefore nature adopts the lesser
evil: applies the law of destruction prior
to the birth of the monstrosity.
/ would advise breeders to let the fe-
male get her growth ere she is forced to
population for prior to maturity, all the
energies of her system are concentrated
upon the perfection and integrity of her
organism, and until that important period
arrives the reproductive system cannot
be exercised, without running great risk
of violating one of the fundamental laws
of nature"
White, distinguished Veterinary
Surgeon, says, 1.-The most common cause
of abortion in cows, is improper feeding
during the winter and spring before they
are turned out TO pasture"
Youalt says, in bis Treatise on Cattle,
shat abortion often follows the sudden
change from poor to luxuriant food"
Some have thought it contagious-it is
destructively propagated among the cows,
but this is to be explained on a different
principle than that of contagion. The
cow is an animal considerably magma
tive, and highly irritable during pregnan.
cy. In abortion the fptus is often putrid
before it is discharged; and the after
birth rarely or never Immediately follows
it, but becomes decomposed, and, as it
drops away in fragments emits a peculiar
and noisesome smell, which seems to be
annoying to the other cows
They sniff at it and then run believing
about. Some sympathetic influence is
exercised upon their uterine organs, and
in few days a greater or less number
OF those pasiured together likewise abort.
Some have attributed abortion to the
dsproportion in the size between the
male aud female.
After careful reading have come to
the conclusion, that farmers and dairymen
are too much in a hurry to 'realize," so
they put their young heifers too sun my /
own impression is that no COW should
come in until three years old, at least
Dairymen should be careful, in purcba- $
sing cows, to ascertain the facts concern I
ing the age to which the animals came
first pregnant, and act accordingly.-OB- q
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