PREVENTION OF MILK FEVER.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIII, Issue 8832, 7 May 1914, Page 8

PREVENTION OF MILK FEVER.

Frequent milking, but only a .little J at a time, is found one of the best "preventives, and for this reason leaving the cow with the calf (some say for 24 hours, but for a week is better) is, generally successful. As' grass feeders, ■ good doers, and heavy milkers are more liable, it is a good plan to take them dff green feed, and put on a spare =diet of dry fodder a week before calving. About three or four days before calving a purgative is advisable. For this Boz. of glauber salts, loz. ginger, and a little treacle, in a quart of water will 'be found effective. As the accepted cure by means of pure air pumped into the udder seems to point to the fact that an anaerobic (without air) bacteria, is the cause, it is advisable on this arid other grounds "to vigorously disinfect floors and walls of byres, rugs, utensils, etc., and flushout the cow. A milk "fever outfit should always be i kept, ' so that pure air can always be pumped in, arid the udder and surroundings disinfected; also, the teat syphon" in the outfit boiled first if found necessary to use it. -