Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-08-22
Inflammation Of Cows udders.

n nOteQ dairy editor writes: wv nat
Is known as Inflammation of the udder
or milk ducts is quite common with
cows-as most dairymen have frequent
occasion to note.
"The teats will show heat at one
milking and at the next milking the
milk will be lumpy and, full of small
bits of curd. Many owners of large
herds often lose COWS by this trouble.
The trouble ls generally due to external
causes and is more frequent in winter
or late fall, when COWS lay out on
frosty nights. 1t is pitiful to go into
some dairics and see the injured nd.
ders."
"Hot water and salt applied heroi-
cally and afterwards smeared with cam
phorated liniment and given nitrate of
potash and chlorate of potash after
being thoroughly physicked with Epson
salts, is recommended as good treat
ment."
COMMENTS.
There is nothing connected with
dairying that l have. tried harder to
find the cause than sudden intlsmma-
tlon of cows teats and udders.
have spent days visiting my broth.
er dalrymen for the purpose of getting
light on the matter. The worst afflicted
herd found had been kept very close
in the stable in inclement weather.
Whenever they were giving milk their
owner would as soon lay out on the
grass himself as to allow hismilch COWS
to on frosty nights,
OF his thIrty-one cows all of which
he raised eleven had some trouble
with their teats or udder. There were
four three teated COWS and two which
gave milk from only two teats, Some
of them were giving bloody or gargety
milk most of the time. questioned
this man closely as to his methods. He
was great feeder and kept his cows
just as still as he could. He was "wsy
up" in his methods of feeding and car
ing for his cows. l was puzzled until
/ went to his barn and seen his COWS.
His COWS were large, with large udders
and long teats, and they we're kept in
stanchions. They had bruised each
others udders and stepped on one an
others teats. lie was losing enough
every year to go far towards
putting in some humane stalls which
would keep his cows from wounding
each other.
The other day asked my neighbor.
Giddings, who runs q year round dairy
of some fifty COWS, how much loss he
had sustained in the last year by dam.
aged teats and udders and bloody milk,
etc. Nothing to speak off, he re-
piled, Injured teats and udders dis
appeared with the stsnchions and
horns.'
Bro Giddings does not believe cows
udders are so very sensitive to cold.
An All Wise Being would not have
placed the udder of q COW where he
did If frosty night would be likely to
damage it.
We old people can look buck to when
our COWS were treated to dozen times
more cold, cold draughts, ETC., but we
don't remember of much gsrget. l
don't think one should pay more than
about five cents y COW to have them
warranted free from stilictien and loss
for year, Dry them the proper time
and supply roots from October to May
and feed them wisely and all will be
right. kept one COW until she was
twenty-one years old, she having nine.
teen caives-and she never was "off
feed" or gave drop of poor milk. She
no doubt ate 1000 bushels of roots and
gave near 100000 pounds of milk. 1
MIXED her myself over 1l,oc0 times.
A. X. HYATT,
in Farmers Tribune.