The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-05-18
DiSChses Of Ho: Sc ,

The agricultural experiment station at
Madison, Wis. has issued the following
bulletin i'll regard tc azotura, Il ,IiSt>aSi,
Of horses:
Causes: Heavy feeding, especially Oh rich
foods. Lack of exercise or heavy feeding
while standing for i; day Or two.
Symptoms: When taken from the stable
ana started to work the horse goes off very
lively hut soon shows signs of distress, lags
III the harness, swe;'ts freely. may show
hind ones are affected. The lamcntSs in
creases until the animal is unable to stand
or move. and it eventually goes down.
When down It struggles violently. The
muscles over the rulhp (croup) and lOinS are
often greatly swollen and hard. The urine
is thick and coffee colored.
Ireatmeht Varies according to the CASE
animal should he placed i'll IL warm, dry,
wellbedded stall, and hot applications he
made to the loins. A blanket wrung out in
hot water, or hot salt or hot bran in Il bag
may be applied, or even some stimulating
linimcnt.. Encourage sweating by giving
plenty Of water to drink and blanketiny
Keep the bowels moving; injections will aisl
for that purpose. The urine should he
drawn once or twice daily and the animal
should be turned frequently The stall must
be we'll beddcd to avoid bruises and bed
sores OIL the patient.
Preyention: Which is far more important
than treatment. Horses must not be kept
idle IN the stable, whether on light or heavy
feed. Exercise must he given every day.
II animals are to be laid off work. reduce
the grain feed. Give a bran mash contain
ing tablespoonful of salt once ii week
Horses that are good feeders and easy
keepers are especially liable to this disease.
If exercise cannot i've given an other way,
few hours every day. If these precautions
are followed the farm horses will never I've
affected with this dread trouble, which
usually appears ut the busiest season of the
year.
4 second bulletin is also issued on con-
tagiouS abortion. Il disease CT pregnant
animals, by reason Of which they do not
carry the young to the natural end Ct the
pregnancy, or if they do. th;. young ami
NAL dies soon after birth. 1t is rarely
fatal to the mother. either COW or eve.
The aftcrbirth is very often retained in
these cases.
Causes: Owing to its prevalence ami con-
tagiousness we can assume it is due to !,
germ. This assumption is borne out by the
experiments Of DR.. Bang of Copenhagen,
who has isolated IL germ which will cause
the disease in otherwise healthy cattle. The
disease may be brought into the herd by /.
COW or a bull.
Prevention: Once il COW is infected, little
can be done, as far as is at present known,
to cure the disease in the animal, but by
carrying out thorough disinfcction the dis
ease may be kept out of the rest of the
herd.
Methods to be followed:
1. All aborting COWS should be separated
from non-aborters.
2 The afterbirth and discharges should
be burned or buried Gf buried should be
covered with fresh lime).
3. The calf bed and passages. should he
flushed out with some good antiseptic, the
following are reliable: (a) Corrosive sub
Innate; part: alcohol. 10 parts; glycerine,
or. (b chloride of zinc, 1 part and clean
rain water, 1000 parts.
The flushing or washing out of the parts
should be done with an injection pump
(which may be procured through the local
drug store at IL cost of about $50, or Il fun
mel made of tin with pipe 1 inch in Diane
ter and 10 inches long, at right angles to
be procured at any tinslop for small sum
The flushing should be done weekly for
three months.
4. The hind parts from the tail to the I'D
der of all the females of the herd should he
washed with one of the above solutions once
4 week.
s. Remove all soiled bedding and burn it,
spray the walls and floors of the constable
with crude carbolic acid, 6 tabespoonsfui,
and water Il pailfuD, 10 quarts.
6. If the bull has been used on cows that
abort, he must not on any account be used
on healthy cows.
causes, not contagious, such lis impure wa
ter, unsound food bad smells, weakness.
over exertion or accidents, it will he safer
to follow out the above precautions than to
neglect them, until the owner is REASONABLE
sure that he has not the contagious form to
deal with.
g. Ewes are sometimes affected with this
disease and similar precautions must be Oh
served.
8. Cows once affected are difficult to get
with calf. The disease tends to run out In
herd in three or four years.
10. The treatment outlined is useless I'M
less faithfully performed.
w.. A. G. HOPKINS, Veterinarian
Experiment Station, Madison, Wis.