Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-02-07
DAIRY AND POULTRY.
INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR
OUR RURAL READERS.
How Successful Farmers Operate This
Department of the Homestead-Hints
as to the Care of Live Stock and
Poultry.
Garget In Cows.

Garget In Cows
DIR. John S. Meyer, Missouri veter-
marian of prominence, spoke as fol-
lows at Missouri institutes:
''Mammitis,' or inflammation of the
milk gland, is commonly called garget.
II is an affection to which cows and
heifers are prone at any time of the
year. Mammitis is of rare occurrence
in the mare or FLIES
CAUSES. -Irregularities of diet; the
direct application of cold or heat; ex-
posture to cold and damp; retention of
milk; insufficient and careless milk
ing; over stocking; over driving with
distended udder; contusions and exter-
nal injuries, as blows, bruises or
wounds, or a too plethoric condition
of the system.
SYMPTOMS. - Enlargement of the
udder, with heat; redness; excessively
tender, and hard, consolidated feel
OF the part more particularly affected,
attended not unfrequently, when the
hind quarters are affected, with a
straddling gait; the simultaneous
veins are distended and corded. On
drawing the teat, instead of normal
milk issuing a thin yellowish fluid is
passed, which, as the disease proceeds,
becomes denser and f9tid, and mingled
with t,curdled Jumps, due to an acidu-
lated change in its composition. The
constitutional disturbance is often
considerable, indicated by quick
pulse, increased breathing, rising of
temperature, suspended rumination
and appetite, decrease in the guam
tity of milk from the unaffected quar-
tiers, and irregular excavations of
the bowels AS the disease pro-
ceeds, all these symptoms become aug
mented; the udder increases in size,
the hardness gives away to soft, pit
ting, doughty feel, resulting from the
formation of pus, which, if allowed to
find an outlet itself, leaves behind
ragged, sloughing wound. To this
succeeds modification, induration or
atrophy, the finale of which is a par
tial if not total loss of the quarter; or
modification may extend to the whole
gland and cause the death of the ami
NAL Acute mammitis seldom attacks
ChC " iolC iuiSt, buO 10 SOhhhSt W oiS
or more quarters, and is expressed by
swelling, heat, pain and redness of
the part inflamed, with an alteration
in the physical properties of the milk,
which is curdled, whey like and mixed
with blood
The emulation formed in the sub
stance of the glands very frequently
destroys its secreting properties, block
ing up the acini, lactiferous ducts and
sinuses, and leading to the conversion
of glandular structure into mass of
flbrous tissue. This alteration of
structure is followed by wasting of
the previously swollen part, which be-
comes a hard, almost cartilaginous
mass, smaller than the healthy portion
of the gland, and constitutes an I'M
soundness.
A cow with only three quarters of
the udder secreting milk is of less value
than when the whole is intact. In
some instances the secreting proper
ties may return after the next calving,
but in others this desirable result is
not obtained. 1t is nevertheless sur
prising, the amount of pain and suffer
ing cattle go through, without a speedy
and fatal termination, in comparison
with other animals, particularly the
horse.
TREATMENT.-R emoval of the exist
ing cause, if taken in hand early; hot
lamentations, such as clothes or rugs
wrung out of hot water, or bathing
the udder well for ten or fifteen min
utes with warm camphorated water
every one or two hours; if there is ex-
IRENE pain, there should be added
tincture of opium or thoroughly cooked
poppy seeds, and the gland often and
gently MIXED. Should assesses form
they should be lanced and the sack
syringed out two times day with car
bolized warm water; one part of car
bolic acid to forty of water. Should
there be gangrene the gangrenous por-
ton usually is removed by excision. If
the fever is high give potassium nitrate
in the drinking water three or four
times day, in tablespoonful doses, or
tincture of aconite root in 15-drop
doses for cows every four hours for
two days. The diet should be light
and easily digestible, as Cruel, bran
mashes, linseed meal, pulped roots
and such like