Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-04-29
THE FARM AND HOME.
HOW TO AVOID PARTuRIENT
APOPLExY IN COWS.
Mnk Fever-stlT Neck In sheep science
aud Observation-Disclosures in Fields
Farm Notes and Home
Hints.
rarturlent Apoplezy.

/ pains, this appears 10 be the worst.
In such cases. the peritoneum is in
volved, and peritonitis causes the
most excruciating pains possible for
4 lower animals or human beings
would rather see COW OF mine drop
dead than see her in this agony, al
though she should even recover,
/ writes Galen Wilson IN the Country
/ Gentleman. 1t is mercy to the
( faithful beasts so to care for them as
to avoid the difficulty. With this
/ thought in mind. have taken some
4 pains 20 collate what others have
said upon the subject and report ii
here, together with what personal
/ experience l have had with the dis
ease.
! The difficulty is most likely to
/ aflict cows in good habit" and
flesh. and usually good mixers. II
/ seems 70 attack the best, as birds
/ pick at the best fruit. Upon post
/ mortems il is generally revealed
that the stomach is more or less inn
I pacted with dry food. and often with
/ grain food at that That the dis.
/ ease Is incutable when well-fXed is
/ as certain as ii is avOidable in most
/ cases. 1t IL sometimes the result
/ OF taking cold Immediately after calv-
/ ing. This can surely be prevented
/ by proper care at the time and So it
| can, in large measure, by not allow
I ing food to become impact in the
| stomach and BY guarding against
constipation Of the bowels. Some as
sert that only dry food is likely 70
7 impact. This is a mistake | had d
COW die of the disease in June. when
on fresh grass; but she was ia good
flesh and a deep mixer. The grass
in her stomach had dried and Inn
( pacted. She had not had grain feed.
I At such times there Is unusual inter
nal heat. which dries out and inn
pacts tho food. This indicates that
a fehriiuge or cooling, looscning ~
tion should be administered season
ably.
An English writer. after having
lost several valuable COWS by this dis
case. studied mp ON the question and
adopted precautionary measures, the
substance Of which | give below. ana
his animals escaped after that lie
kept his COWS on short rations eight
or ten days previous 10 calving What
food was given was Of cooling. re.
laxiug nature just before calviug
he gave q pound ot salts and pint
81 treaele IN three pint- OF epid watre
mixed with wheat bran iuto'u Thin
Cruel This acted freely After calY.
ing, she was given pail Of water
with the chill taken of She was fed
nothing until six ur eight hours after
calving and then was given liberal
bran mash with linsced meal added.
7 lie used old nfu-ty' bedding lcsf shc
should cat that n her adder was
painfully distendcd before calviug, he
MIXED out enough occasionally to re-
I lieve her. She was not permitted To
cat her .'cleansiug IS cows are ant
to do, and for the purpose, probably
Of natural physir. The bran and
Oilmeal performed that service. II
was noticed that COWS did not eat the
cleansing unless constipation o! the
| bowels was present.
And now comes what | regard an
important point IN after treatment.
The calf was left with the COW three
days and she was not stripped a all.
as is the usual custom. He drew no
milk for the three days: but permit
ted the calf to run with her that time
and help itself ut viii Here is
cogent reason for it IN his own words:
by milking COW clean. just after
calving. you cause an unnatural low
Of the milk and all sorts Of compiler.
lions ensuc. Whereas. by following
natures laws no excessive strain Il
put on the system The COW. 81
course. was brought on TO full! feed
gradually
There il great danger To be appre-
hcnded in milking a COW up to calv-
ing and continuing her full feed no
TO that time, especially II she Is q
deep mixer. Better let her rest
month and be on short rations This
Is also better for her offspring.
The following are the preventive
measures adopted by the late H. i.
Bowditch, ~ he reported them to
Western paper on inquiry:
''ln answer to your question about
the best treatment for milk fever, /
would ray that ! formerly used 10
have trouble and loss from this dis
case. but for about ten years have
hardly had case. and no losses,
owing ! believe. to the following
rules. which are always strictly car
ried out on my farm:
As soon as the Cow II dry before
calving, usually four to SIX weeks.
begin to feed old-process oil meal, in
crcasing the quantity from pint per
day. gradually, till I get up TO two
quarts per day, and continue that
amount till the calf If dropped.
"As soon as the calf IL born. give
in 70 quart Of warm water. with the
addition Of u tablespoonful Of ground /
ginger or q teaspoonful Of cayenne
pepper. dose Of salts. varying the
quantity from pound, for small
twC-yeit-Old. to nearly twO pounds, for |