Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-08-30
agricultural department.
THE GARGET OR MILK FEVER.

Several persons have personally in
quired recently what is best to do
when COW is attacked with fever or
:" garget' as ii is generally called.
Every year as cows aremore carefully
fed, with richer food, more cases of
fever or garget will be the consequence
unless more care and wisdom are ex-
ercised IN the time and quality of feed
and treatment. 1t attacks the best
and deepest mixers, either in rich
pastures or fed on rich food. There
fore, before COW calves, if on flush
pasture, she must be taken off and
placed on pasture where she can bare
ly subsist. Orif on dry food, it must
not be rich or of the milk producing
kind. Wheat bran or bran mashes,
in a limited amount, are good. 1t is
cooling and has the proper effect on
the bowels. Dry sweet hay is all that
a cow in that stage needs. After the
coming in the food must not be in
creased too soon. This is the case
especially in hot weather. Bran
mashes can be continued, and it would
be avisable to put teaspoonful of
PhytOlaccG decandra, commonly called
poke root, or scoke root, once or
twice day in her bran mashes. When
the COW has garget and her udder is
swollen hard or feverish or gives
bloody milk the first step is to give
a pound dose of epson salts, to be
followed with bathing the udder with
mercuriaI ointment. This should be
washed off frequently with warm wa
ter and CASTLE soap. Probably the
warm water and CASTLE soap if applied
hot and constantly are nearly as eff
fectral as any other application.
Garget and milk fever are different
developments from the same exciting
causes. The latter is more rapid in
it's results. Lately there has been
recommended new remedy, which is
said to be very effectual in arresting
the disease. 1t was first recommended
and used by DR.. Robt. Mcclure of
Philadelphia veterinary practitioner
and one who was the author of val
liable work on diseases of stock. He
recommended the use of dconite.
And this is now endorsed by the Hon.
7. G. Jones of Ohio, who is pratic-
ally one of the safest cattle men in
the U. S. for practical advice and
treatment. 1t is recommended by
Messrs. Cline, Jones, and others, that
from thirty to forty drops of aconite
be given as remedy for milk fever.
The aconite must be followed by
pound dose of epson salts. In three
hours after, more aconite. Mr.. Jones
says he has received letters from sew
eral persons who have adopted this
treatment under his direction, with
the most successful results.
Mr.. Jones, IN the Breeders Gazette
adds 81 cannot understand why the
veterinary profession ignores aconite
in the treatment of this malady. We
have had," says Mr.. Jones, flour
cases, and directed the treatment in
several others, and all recovered.
This favorable result we attributed to
the prompt administration of the full
dose of aconite." The aconite is
administered in pint of thin Cruel.
DR.. Edward Moore, the vegetarian of
the Country Gentleman, gives tie fol-
lowing prescription, which has been
uniformly successful One dram of flu
id extract of rhus aronaatica three times
per day. The fourth day would see
a complete cure.-Chautauqua Farm