THE AIR CURE FOR MILK FEVER.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1715, 11 January 1905, Page 67

THE AIR CURE FOR MILK FEVER.

A simple and successful cure for milk fever in cows is the title of a farmers’ bulletin just issued by the United States Department of Agriculture. Dropping after calving, known as milk fever and by many other names, says the circular, has for long been recognised as one of the greatest scourges that dairy farmers have to face. It is very common, frequently fatal, and it attacks the best ana heaviest milking cows in the herd when they are in their prime and at the time of the greatest flow of milk. It is, therefore, of the greatest economic importance that every milk producer acquaint himself with the present extremely successful methods of treating this disease-, especially the injection of filtered atmospheric air ip to the udder. This form of- treatment has been adopted within a comparatively recent time, and, in view ot the uniform success that has followed, every dairyman should become familiar wivh its use and should provide himself with a suitable apparatus for its application, especially if he is situated where the services of a competent veterinarian cannot be secured.