Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1877-01-26
ST. JOHNSBURY, FRIDAY,

Dairy Stock. lie spoke Of his pleasure in
being the first lecturer on veterinary science
in the college; that sixteen years ago he was
a student in this medical college.
Cattle need enough exercise for good health.
We are breeding, in some Of our thorough
breds, tendencies Of disease. The dairy In
terosts are promoted greatly by thorough
breds. Our old stock does not have the
tendencies toward large product Of milk that
the thoroughbreds have, and hence the utili-
ty Of thoroughbreds. One disease is the
milk fever. Some COWS die within few
days after coming into milk, and we wish to
learn all we can about it. Cows in ordi-
nary condition are not as liable to it as those
in fine condition, especially thoroughbreds,
aud the best mixers are more liable to IL.
One aspect is that of au increase Of the
white blood cells. In the ordinary state the
white cells are as one in three hundred To
the rcd cells. As the rcd cells die out the
white blood cells grow up and take the place
Of the red ones, as the blance must be pre-
served. The proportion of white cells is in
creased before birth, to make good the de-
mands on the system 10 nourishing the foelus,
and at birth this demand is arrested sudden
ly, and the peril of life involved is clear.
Other diseases, as epizo6tic, and pleuropneu-
monia, are not specially prevalent here. In
Massachusetts, the pleuropneumonia proved
very fatal, and it is chronic state of things
in Duchess county, N. Y. The rinderpest,
from Russia, is prevalent in England,
costing Great Britain some FIVE hundred
million dollars. Foot aud mouth disease is
another one, but not prevalent here. A COW
dries up Of this disease, aud then cannot be
brought back to flow of milk, as the capil.
larry channels for conveying the milk are
contracted, and the milk is also found to be
poisonous. Another disease is the fouls or
foot rot, but quite common in Massachusetts
and Connecticut; may not be up in Yer
mont. Moist land for the COWS to pasture
is the cause Of the disease. 1t makes great
length Of toe and horns Of the COW, which are
signs Of the disease. Or it may come from
too dry land, or land full of sharp, saty
stone. Treat it as feons on man. by peultl-
ces and deep incisons to let out the enclosed
matter. Carboic acid is an excellent reme-
dy. Take horn rind and tie il up between
the hoofs Of the foot, after the matter is dis
charged, when you wish to heal the wound.
You must get out all the proud flesh, or gan
creme, by careful shaving away Of hoof and
all the fungoid growth. Horn all is another
disease, He ridiculed, as it deserved, the
old process Of saving off horns and put
ting on turpeutine. The disease was an i'm
aginary one with the owner of the stock.
He gave his account Of horn all in Massa-
chusetts, with his bushel of horns, before
learned men. Every COW has a hollow horn
the deer has a solid horn. Don't cut off the
horn and fill it with turpentine, pepper, etc.,
for disease of the lungs or stomach. The
young animal has a solid horn, but with ma
turity the pith is absorbed, and the horn be-
comes hollow. He urged the necessity Of
teaching the rudiments of comparative anat-
omy in common schools, so that the young
farmer boy may early get an idea Of what
be needs to know. Some Of our grasses have
not phosphorus enough, and SO the bony
horns Of our cattle are very hollow, as na-
ture has absorbed the pith; the same thing
causes the hollow tail, hence, the cattle need
bone meal and food similar to it. He told
of quack "cow doctor" who was 6ued $50
for cutting off q cows tail to cure a disease,
and they served him right. What makes
butter Butter and pus, or matter, are
cousins at one stage of their history. After
giving scientific description of how butter
gobules arc produced, he said that the but
ter qualities are in the breed, and cannot be
secured in one not having those qualities by
nature. The sign Of good butter COW is
ha cnff nf lao ol, kko -
side OF the ear. If the COW is excited, the
glands get inhamed and disease ensues hence
the need of care, and be cautious of feed
before calving, so as not to get up an un-
healthy state of the udder.
Mr.. Wood, of Pomfret spoke of his ex-
perience in the matter of milk fever. Had
very fine grade Jersey, calved about May
20, and appeared all right at night. Next
morning the COW was sick and could not get
up; he gave stimulants, and she died at
noon. Another COW, year or two later,
calved at in the morning; next morning
was in the same condition as the first COW !;
got the family physician, and they stimu-
lated till that evening, when she died. A
neighbor had similar experience he bled to
the extent Of half pail of blood from the
neck, and she grew better, and lived, and
was well in few days. Mentioned one that
would not give much blood, or any freely,
and died. Still another, two weeks after
calving, whose blood was thick and black
and would not run; eyes CLASSY and blood
shot, and died. Was not feeding high.
Others mentioned cases where they could
not get blood, and the COWS died; if they
could get blood freely by bleeding, could save
the COW, generally. Mr.. Holden gave two
quarts Of strong boneset tea, and in few
hours the COW was on her feet and eating.
John Quinlan said if people would shut up
their cows in summer, some twelve or four
teen days before oalving with water and dry
hay they would have no trouble; and Jersey
COW, he said, was too weak to get up any.
way. Mr.. Douglass, of Shoreham, lost a
fine Durham, but il he had followed Mr.
Quinan's advice, he would have saved her
Mr.. j. L. Ellsworth, Of Barre, Mass, asked
if the Pomfret farmers fed roots. which he
thought made cows healthy. DR.. Wakefield
OF Monson, Mass, feeds roots, and never haC
the milk fever; and he keeps his COWS dry
three months, aud cuts off extra feed as sOor
as the COW is dry he believed milk fevel
arises from plethora of food and high liv
ing; of all things feed roots for health.
Prof. Cressey insisted that the prima
principles of over supply of white blood cell
with the sudden collapse at calVing, sending
the supply elsewhere, produces the disease
aud DR.. Hubbards case, to feed roots, keep
ing bowels slightly relaxed, protected fron
cold drinks, cold air. etc., aud cut off hlgl
feeding before and at time of calVing, woul,
arrest the manufacture of white blood cells
The bleeding must be early SO as to reduc
the blood in the system and sot have tn
capillares of the brain Cogged, the blac
clotted blood from which death ensues
If the precautions have been neglected
what shall be done Bleed early and free
, half a nailG,I oF blood or 70 LIood mon