Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-08-02


and perfect circulation of the blood
An active udder is the first place that
an impeded circulation of blood shows
itself. The pressure upon the blood
vessels in a full udder tends to repress
the circulation when the conditions are
most favorable. and is very sure to
block the way when conditions are I'M
favorable. Congestion, inflammation,
increased temperature and the curdling
of milk follow to aggravate the diff
Guilty. The milk cOagulates not be-
cause it is sour, as is often supposed,
but flOm the effects of Inflammation
,=nd increased heat. Swellings of great
Ell Or less duration and severity are
often occasioned by external injuries.
lave several times had cows bags ma
terially injured by boys and hired men
throwing stones at the COWS while driv-
ing them to the yard for milking. They
ere sometimes quite seriously injured
by lying on them when full, and by the
horns of other cattle, etc.
The best remedy for garget is pre-
ventation by avoiding the causes which
produce it. WatchfuIness and care in
this direction would avoid most of the
cases. There is one cause of garget to
times contribute by reasoning errone-
ously in the treatment of their cows.
They understand full well that the
bringing forth of their young is severe
task for them and they endeavor to pre-
pare them for the occasion by giving
them extra rations to carry them
through the event; just as some men
when they have heavy job to perform
take an extra meal for the occasion.
The effect of this philosophy is exactly
the reverse of what is intended. If 4
physician was going to prepare a pa
tent for q course of smallpox or mea-
sizes, he certainly would not do so by
increasing the diet Just as the case was
coming on. He would rather reduce
the diet for purifying the blood and
getting the system in the best working
order. SO in preparing COWS for labor
l. Is better to free the system from all
extraneolls matters which might oper-
ate to clog or intlame at the critical
time, by moderate diet for while in
advance of the event, 1t is not advisa-
bic to starve animals to prepare them
for such an occasion, but it is advisable
to use Il light diet long enough before
hand to have the system as free from
waste as possible and the stomach not
heavily loaded with food which can not
be digested because the vital forces are
so largely drawn to other parts. -.
: It issboth detrimental and dangerous
to load the: blood with nutritive matter
that can not be assimilated. and the
stomach with food.that can not be di-
gested,, while the excited state Of the
mammary glands and other reproduce
tive organs are absorbing the vital
energy and reducing for the time the
supply for digesting and assimilating.
High feeding just as labor approaches
tends also to unduly increase the excite
ment of the already highly excited
organs, and the activity leads to other
arrangements as well as garget and
milk fever. Full vigor and full flesh
are not only unobiectionable in cows at
the period of labor-they are very de-
eSirable; but the high feeding to develop
them should be given SO long in adj
vance of labor that its desired effect
will be accomplished before the
local activity connected with labor is
developed. Cows which are to come
in in spring should begin to accumulate
flesh and strength in the fall, if they
are reduced SO as to need recruiting,
instead of waiting till Just as the trying
event is approaching before recruiting
commences. A COW may safely be kept
on the gain until she begins to make
bag. After that she should have only
a maintenance till labor and its effects
have been passed and an active flow of
milk has become established, and then
it will be in order to increase it.
The foundation for great many eases
of garget is laid in the fall or winter,
when COWS are being dried off, by going
too long. without thoroughly milking
out the bag. The long detention of milk
produces swelling and inflammation
which linger till the bag begins to en-
large preparatory to another birth, and
the consequence is an extraordinary
hardness and swelling accompanied with
Inflammation and soreness that keep up
for a long while, and often prove the
ruin of a part or the whole of the nd
der. Garget is generally durable. but
not always. In mild cases the treat
ment may be frequent bathing in tepid
water. with friction after each bathing.
In severe cases the water used had bet
ter be as hot as the animal can endure.
When very severe, fomenting with hot
water has proved etficacious. Cathar-
tics should always be given when the
swelling is obdurate, and frequent and
thorough milking in all cases and a
spare diet allowed. Rubbing the bag
frequently with some penetrating oil,
like oil of turpentine diluted with lin,
seed oil to a strength that will not be
injurious. or ointing with iodine salve,
are valuable aids and are often all that
need be done. The daily use of little
saltpetre administered in the water
drunk or in the feed is recommended by
some high authorities and has proved
useful.-Prof. 4anold, in n. Y. Tribune
T. G. Hunter, of Huntingdon, Pa.
died recently in an insane asylum neal
Philadelphia, from the effects of excite.
ment attending an act which doubtless
saved many lives. About three months
ago. while walking on the railroad track
near his home, he discovered large
rock which had been placed upon the
rails. Thestone was too large to be re-
moved by one man, and he knew that a
passenger train would attempt to pass