CURATIVE TREATMENT OF MILK FEVER.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume VX, Issue 7101, 25 January 1901, Page 4

CURATIVE TREATMENT OF MILK FEVER.

Each succeeding spring in Taranaki finds severe losses in dairy herds from milk fever, and I doubt whether the mortality has ever been bo great as it was at the coinmenccnacnt of the current season. Remedies have been tried by the dozen, and when one animal was dosed in a special way (she might, havo recovered without the medjgjine), same sort o£g£gp&pent

/as adopted wwint n another cow, which a !ied. Whenever I come across a; ■< emedy that has bee Q triecl successfully i ( lsewhere, I always gi ye mv readers j he benefit, and I saw an extract from . The Field the other day tn nt may be of service to the many readers of the Star who are engaged in dairying. The correspondent who supplies tho information signs himself " Salopian," and he writes as follows : — " As there may be farmers and others interested in matters relating to cow-keeping who do not read all the articles penned by veterinarian writers, permit me to direct attention to the new cure for the disastrous trouble milk fever— a cure which is now ex» censively and successfully applied in . various districts. In my own case, last ' spring, a valuable, deep- milking Short horn cow brought her fourth or fifth calf in the easiest possible manner, and appeared to be strong and well, but for a slight staring look about the eyes. In a few hours she dropped, and was unable to get up even with assistance ; in fact, she exhibited all the signs of milk fever. Our veterinary surgeon— a first-class ! man — pronounced it a bad case, but i said, 'I am going to try a new remedy, in which, however, I have no faith.' My reply was that it seemed so hopeless [ that he might experiment in^any^ way ■ he liked. He proceeded to inject iodide : of potassium solution into each teat, and i simply directed us to leave the beast . quiet all night. To our great surprise, next morning the cow was chewing her cud, and in twenty-four hours from the j operation she had risen and was standi ing in her stall as though nothing had r happened. On inquiry, I found this . was the common course adopted in numerous instances. It must be a relief to many to be aware that a cure [ is possible, and it is with the desire to afford this comfortable assurance that I > call attention to the fact."