MILK FEVER IN COWS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXII, Issue 1674, 29 July 1892, Page 2

MILK FEVER IN COWS.

Mr O. McDouald, of Wainui, writes ua as follows :—

" As milk fever carries off a considerable number of the pick of the milking cows of the district every epiing, you would confer a boon on owners of dairy cows by embalming the enclosed in the columns of the Akaroa Mail if it is cs good a remedy as represented." •• Masterton, June, 1892. " Sir.—Reading to-day an article in the Neio Zealand Mail on the trastment of mils fever in cows (t fi ken from the American Agriculturalist), and knowing you to have been a heavy loser from the same, 1 thought it might be upeful to you, so I forwiud it. Treatment : Administer 6 to 12 drachms (according to the size of the animn!) of choral hydrate in a pint of molasses. Repeat this every two hours, until the s}mptoma abate and the cow can hold up her head steadily. Immediately after the first dose give an injection of warm soap tmds, Do not interfere with the udder until recovery begins. Then draw a little milk at a time, but not enough to draw it dry, until all danper of a relapse is passed. Let uverything be done as quietly as possible, and avoid everything which will increupo the nervous excitement of the cow. Mr T. McConnell is the discoverer of this treatment, and out of 28 cases, 23 made a complete recovery. The remaining five were killed by bleeding, doping, and other tomfoolery.—A. Deal,"

Extract from N.Z. Mail re the subject: "Mr G. E. Nash, Richmond, Yorkshire, writing to the Veterinary Record gives hia experience of the treatment, and says, I have no hesitation in saying that chloral hydrate is the best medicine we have at the present day for parturient apoplexy, a big score for Mr McConnell, praised be hia name." Mr McConnell's 6 to 8 drachms of chloral hydrate witti treacle first dose, and £oz of chloral hydrate in each succeeding dose at intervals of 2, 4 or 6 hours according to the severity of the case and size of the animal. He says that if tbe cases are treated in the first stage or early in the second stage the average doeea do not exceed two. Hoping you will find the above useful shonld yeu require to

use it,—Your, etc.,

A. DEAL,