Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-05-10

could not get up Her head and neck
were drawn around to her side before
she died, and you could hardly pull them
straight. She wheezed but never
coughed any She lay two days and
nights with her head and neck drawn to
one side before she died. What treat
ment shall / follow if any of my other
cattle are affected this way?
Your cow was affected with a brain
trouble called meningitis. There are many
causes for this disease. but among he
more common of the causes is spoiled
food of any kind; for example, musty
hay or fodder or moudy or sour grain
of any kind. Treatment is not always
satisfactory, but should be commenced
in the beginning of the trouble when
the COW first looks droopy and drowsy.
The first thing to do is to move the
bowels thoroughly. This is done by CIV
ing as a drench ] IL pounds of EPSON
salts mixed with ounces of powdered
ginger. Dissolve this in or quarters of
warm water and drench the COW with the
mixture. Follow this with ounces of
odide of potassium and ounces of wat
err. Mix together and make solution.
Give | tablespoonful in little water
morning and night. In addition, if the
head feels hot, keep it wet with colo
water or cracked ice
INFLAMMATION OF THE UDDER.
E. j., Miledgeville, Ga, writes: / have
a COW which has been having a swollen
udder, and l have been bathing it i'm
warm salt water. She had a calf the 9TH
er day, but the udder still has fever in
1t. and | do not know that the calf can
OF nd I hot
She coughs sometimes and does not eat
heartily, and her udder is still hard.
Your COW has the condition known as
Inflammation of the udder or "garget.
would advise you to give her a purga-
etiv dose of EPSON salts. Take 1-2
pounds of EPSON salts, mix with 1t
ounces of powdered ginger and dissolve
the whole i'm three or four quarts of
warm water. Give to the cow as
drench. In addition to this battle the
udder with water just as hot as you
can bear your hand in for one-half hour
daily. Wipe udder dry and paint the
swollen part with tincture of iodine, 1t
is a pretty good practice when a calf
is dropped if il does not get on its feet
soon and suck to help it up and see
that il does get some nourishment. There
is very little trouble with the calf about
feed of milk
TREATMENT OF NANCE IN HOGS.
]. M W., Elliott, Ga, writes: L
have about so or so head of hogs
from three to ten months old that have
the mango very bad. I nave tried sew
eral remedies such as stock powders,
sulphur and lard. They ran through a
pindar patch last fall. l would like
to know how to cure this disease.
Mango in hogs is more difficult to
overcome than mango in some other ami.
mails because the parasite causing this
trouble gets very deeply into the skin.
In treating mango the owner must not
only care for the animals, but also the
premises which they have been occupy
ing to overcome the danger of infec-
ton
The first thing to do is to wash the
hogs with strong warm soapsuds to
soften and remove the scabs. The
washing should be done with a fairly
stiff brush After this probably the
easiest treatment, considering the
number of hogs you have, would be
TO dip them. Make a water-tight dip
ping tub four or five feet long on the
bottom, three feet deep and two feet
wide. The sides should be perpendicu-
lar, but the ends should slope, and be
provided with cle0ts for foot holds
from the bottom of the tub to a pen
at one end to hold the hogs before
going into the dip, and at the other
end a small pen to hold them after
dipping, and so arranged that the dip
that drains from them will run back
into the tub and save what would
otherwise be wasted The dip may
leum or Zenoleum. one gallon to fifty
gallons of water. Two men should be
at the tub to keep the hog from drown
ing, to keep him in the dip for at
least two minutes, and TO rub the dip
well into all parts of the skin of the
body and head. From the tub the
hog is allowed to climb INTO the drain
ing pen, where he remains until the
excess dip has drained from his body,
after which ne is turned loose. Gates
between the retaining pen and the dip
ping tank and between the dipping tank
and the draining pen simplify matters
by givig the dippers better control of
the hogs. The tank should be sunk
into the ground so that the top of It's
sides are level with the ground. The
pens at each end may then be built
on the ground and not on stills, as is
necessary when the dipping tub is built
on the ground. The dipping should be
repeated ut intervals of three days for
several times. The quarter occped by
the hogs should be covered with white
wash, to which has been added a little
carbolic acid or little or the dip, or
the hogs may be removed to a new
location.
In place Of dipping the following ONT