The Grenada sentinel., 1904-01-16
MISSISSIPPI LIVE STOCK.
Some Diseases Peculiar to Farm AMI
mails and How to Treat Them


Some Diseases Peculiar to Farm AMI
mails and How to Treat Them
Continued from Last Week.)
TREATMEN" FOR COUNDER-H
the animal Is shod, remove the shoes,
soak the feet IL hot water, then apply
hot poultices. Keep the poultices hot
by pouring on hot water every hour.
Boiled turnips, bran or cornmeal and
hot water makes a good poultice. Give
drench of pint of raw linseed oil, and
give in drinking water an ounce of
nitrate of potash every four hours, as
and the pulse full a1d strong. Place
the animals in a comfortable box stall,
with good bedding and induce them to
lie down. In mild cases, the animal
may be stood in a stream of cold run
ming water for two or three hours at
p time, ii the weather permits.
HOVEN IN CATTLE-The treat
ment for hOven or wind collie in cattle
should be preventive. Feed, salt. and
water the cattle before turning them
into green pea or clover field. AL
low them to remain on such pasture
not longer than twenty to thirty min
utes the first day and thus gradually
become accustom I'd to the new diet.
If the COW is only slighted bloated
pull the tongue from side to side and
cause her to belch the gas. Tieing
rope in the mouth. bride fashion,
causes chewing, which may be followed
by belching of gas. BY use of
mouth gag a three-quarter inch rub
ber hose may be passed to the stom-
ach and the gas thus allowed to es
cape. We have had good success with
drench composed of a handful OF
soda shaken up il a quart of lard oil.
If the swelling interferes seriously
with breathing we should make an
| opening directly into the first stom-
| ach of the COW and allow the gas to
! escape. The place selected for the
opening should be in the left flank at
| point equally distant from the last
rib. hip bone and backbone. II 40 tro-
| car and canular are at hand use the
small blade of sharp knife for max
| ing the opening.
| MILK-FEVER-This Is disease pc
| cu!iar to the COW, occurring at or
about the time of colving. 1t is seen
only in well-fed. deep mixers, and
usually not before the second or third
|
poison formed in the udder that is
absorbed into the blood and produces
the disease The first symptoms are
nervousness and more or less excite
ment. These are followed by partial
| then complete paralysis. The COW lies
upon the ground with head bent
! around to her flank or extended
straight out. The eyeball is not NOV
ed when touched by the finger. The
preventive treatment is to give scaaty
diet fe wdays before and after cslv'
ing. Do not allow her to run on rich
pasture during these few days.
The curative treatment is to- inject
into the udder two or three drains
of iodide of potash dissolved in quart
of boiled water. The solution should
be about body Temperatures Remove
all milk from the udder and syphoI
one fourth of this solution into cact
quarter by mea Is of a n,iik-tube, rub
ber and. funnel, or inject Ivy means
of a small syringe. First wash the
udder and teats especially the orifices
with warm water and some antiscptic
Rub the udder we'll SO as to cause alb
sOrption of the potash and then mill
out in about an hour. This treatment
if used in time. will save about twenty
five per cent of the cases. Z lder M
circumstances try to drench tAc Gov
in this disease.
TEXAS FEVER-Tick fever. Texa
fever, and bloody -murrain are term
applied to an infectious blood diseas'
Of cattle, and is caused by a micro
parasite. This germ is carried aroun'
, by the common COW tick and in tn
blood of the cattle that have had tn
disease and are immune from it.: s.
far as is known the disease is trans
mitted il nature only by means of tn
cOW-tick. 1t is usually mild in yOun
calves detected in them only by us
! of the thermometer and by micrOsco[
ic examination of their blood. Shoul
the calf become one or two years Oh
before he comes in contact with tn
tick and then becomes grossly infect
:. ed by them he will be very apt t
die of tick fever. The treatment
to see that the ticks get on your yOun
calves, and if the calf has 'becom
six months old or more without con
, ing in contact with ticks. first vacci1
ate him. This vaccination and fulle
.. discussion Of this disease can be foun
! in Bulletin No. Is of the MISSISSIPPI
| Experiment Station, which will be fu
. upon application othe Director
a | Mississippi Experiment Station, Agr
: cultural College, Miss.
BLACKLEG-Tkis is an infection
t disease peculiar to fat cattle. usual
7 between the ages of six months al
! three years old. 1t Is characterize
: by sudden lameness and swelling
0 the fore or hind quarters. The anim'
t gets down, may bGunable to rise, an
!. as rule dies in from twelve
. thirty-six hours after first noticed
e be sick. Upon removing the hide tn
|. swelling is seen to be black, contai1
:; clotted blood. and appears as
J. had been blown into it. The trea
!, ment is to burn or deeply bury tt
= = carcass of every animal that dies
the disease, and vaccinate the heaitt
, cattle you have that are subject to
!; Three days after they have been va
d cinated they may be considered II