A MILK-FEVER APPLIANCE.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1726, 29 March 1905, Page 64

A MILK-FEVER APPLIANCE.

Milk fever that has so long menaced the success of every dairyman can now be 'cured by distending the udder Avitli sterilised air by means of an air pump or syringe as shown in the cut. As will be seen, the syringe is fitted with a cylinder at one portion of the rubber tubing, in Avhich is placed a little sterilised absorbent cotton, and as the air is forced through this it is cleaned of all its extraneous matter. The udder and teats are to be thoroughly cleaned, first with soap and hot Avater, then with a 5 per cent, solution of carbolic acid, and

the self-retaining milking tube, attached to the end of the rubber tubing or hose, then introduced Avithin one of the teats, air is pumped in till that quarter is completely filled and so Avith each teat in turn. The udder should then be kneaded ■with the hands, and the whole operation repeated every feAV hours till recovery takes place. Anyone keeping even only a feAV cqavs would doubtless find it to his advantage to have an apparatus of this sort at hand, as it might be the means of saving his best cow.—“Breeders’ Gazette.”