SCOUR IN CALVES.
METHOD OF PREVENTION. A farmer who hat lost a good many calves through scour in the past few-years is given the following advice by the veterinary expert of the " Farmers' Union Advocate," from whom he sought advice: — You are not likely to prevent this trouble by using a lick, or any other medicinal form of treatment. But you can prevent it by using care and common sense. Observe the following rules and you will have little or no trouble : (i) Run the calves on clean ground, as dry as possible, and especially avoid running them in a paddock where "calves have •previously suffered from scouring and have died.
(2) Do not let the calves have the chance of drinking stagnant water, swamp water, or, if possible, surface water of any kind. (3) Feed them well. >lf using
separated milk or whey, see that it if first pasteurised —that is, heated to a temperature of not less than 176 degrees Fahr. (4) Do not store surplus separated milk or .whey in dirty barrels, or any other receptacle which is not perfectly clean. (5) Always make sure that the trough, buckets, or other vessels from which the calves are fed are perfectly clean before the feed is placed in them.
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Waipa Post, Volume IV, Issue 155, 18 October 1912, Page 4
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211SCOUR IN CALVES. Waipa Post, Volume IV, Issue 155, 18 October 1912, Page 4
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