The Northern Pacific farmer., 1884-02-07
The Causes of Garget in the Cow

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From the Prairie Farmer.
The causes of garget in the COW are
principally improper treatment after
calving, exposure to cold and wet, the
leaving of portions or dregs of the milk
undrawn at the time of milking, habit
of lying in such posture as to crush the
udder, and the allowing of the animal to
acquire an unduly plump and fat condi-
tion, especially at time of hot and sui
try weather. The causes in the eve are
similar, through the chief are wet lair,
hard pasture, the removal of one of twin
lambs from sucking, and various kinds
of constitutional arrangement.
An udder affected with garget may suf-
fer in either one or more quarters; it
swells, hardens, becomes knotty, has
more heat than in state of health, and
appears to be much panied when
pressed. The secretion of milk either
lessons and becomes mingled with
blood and pus, or is entirely arrested
and gives place to suppuratlon, and in
very bad cases to gangrene. The hinder
extrenities, particularly about the fet-
locks, the hook, and the hip joint, in
many instances, sympathize with the
udder, and undergo SO much
swelling and inflammation as
to prevent the animal from rising, ex-
cept with great difficulty, or even from
rising at all, or almost from moving.
The symptoms in the eve are similar.
but, in the most cases, they are both
very sudden and exceedingly violent,
and may raise such ganQrene as vii
prove fatal to the animal within twenty
four hours Of the commencement of the
attack. The symptoms in the heifer are
comparatively gentle, and have been
supposed to resemble those Of rheuma-
tism in the human subject, and are re-
movable by means of the simple and nat.
ural remedy Of dry pasturage and clean
bedding.
A COW attacked with garget must be
kept in the stable and have dry, soft
bedding; she ought to be fed for day
or two on mashes, with little hay and
when she becomes we'll enough to leave
the stable, she ought to be turned on
quite dry and rather short pasture. If
the attack be slight, she should have her
udder subjected to friction and sucket
at the unrestrained will Of the calf; if
it has decidedly inflammatory char.
acter, and be accompanied with fever
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dose of physic and have her udder
abundantly 1omented with hot water.
be throughly MIXED thrice a day, have
a quantity of camphorated mercurial
ointment rubbed we'll into the udder
after each milking, and washed off again
with warm water Immediately before
the next milking. If the hardening
proves to be obstinate, an iodine
ointment, composed of lard and hydro.
date of botash, must be substituted for
the camphorated mercurial oint-
ment; and if gangrene sets in and de-
velops "a purifying ulcer, the sore must
be we'll cleansed with warm water and
freely washed with a weak solution of
chloride of lime till the gangrenous mat
ter, be considerably reduced, and then
alternately dressed with Friar's balsam,
and washed with the solution of chlor.
ide Of lime, till the gangrenous matter
wholly disappears. If i1duration and
chronic enlargement, accompanied by
deficiency in the secretion of milk, con.
tinue after all the inf1ammato ~ action
has been subdued, the iodide Of potash
must continue to Be applied in the form
Of ointment, and, if need be internally
administered in soma other form. The
proper treatment ofsthe gargeted eve is
in allrespects similar to that Of q garget-5
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