MILK FEVER IN COWS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 187, 17 July 1940, Page 3

MILK FEVER IN COWS

WHAT TO DO TO AVOID TROUBLE A FEW PLAIN HINTS 'With the season for cows coming to profit being close at hand, a few plain hints will not be amiss in regard to the above disease for preventative measures and treatment. These few remarks, although chiefly reiteration of previous statements, cannot be too strongly emphasised or too often repeated, because I still maintain that far too many cows die through lack of attention and inefficient nursing," said Mr G. B. Melrose, district inspector of stock at Te Awamutu. "With the excellent season just completed, cows generally are in excellent condition, and milk fever is almost sure to be prevalent during the coming months, therefore I would strongly recommend that. "1. All cows close up to parturition be brought to handy paddock and given a drench of 2oz calcium chloride, 21b Molasses, 7 to 10 days before calving. "2. All cows immediately they calve be given 2oz calcium chloride, loz tincture riux vomica, 21b molasses. "3. The above will ward off a severe attack. "4. If the cciws show signs of ; an attack, inflate udder well and tie teats with broad tape. "5. If the cow collapses, inflate udder, if not already done, and sit up on brisket. Fill bags with earth and pack her up in a comfortable position. Put plenty of hay underneath her (to ward off pneumonia). "6. Don't drench when down unless you are satisfied that she is perfectly conscious. "7. Don't leave a sick cow at the back of the farmi A farm gate being the best means of conveyance^ "8. Gently baokrate sick cows and provide stimulants twice daily as follows: 2 drachms powdered mix vomica, 3 drachms carbonate ammonia, lib molasses. "9. Don't milk a cow at night, up to 3 days after calving. Finally, have supplies of calcium chloride, tincture of nux vocima, powdered mix vomica, carbonate of ammonia, molasses, raw linseed oil and a milk fever outfit on hamd, which is infinitely better and more profitable to you than in a chemistl's shop 20 miles away, because prompt action, is the secret of success in the treatment of milk fever. Keep the cow up on her brisket.^ I PRODUCTION APPEAL The following Stirring appeal has been issued by the Palmerston North District Council of the National Council of Primary Production. Have you an idle plough lying in the shed or under the shade of the old macrocarpa tree? Have youj some upstanding draughts who arc eating their heads off, or a tractor with rust eating its heart out waiting an opportunity to turn an honest furrow in the Empire's cause? Have you a few acres of grassland that are not pulling their weight on the farm front? If you have all these things and a fervent ftesird to help, then your farm will be producing barley this year, grain that is needed so urgently for the national objective of a baconer to every dairy cow. Time is precious, so do not procrastinate. Early ploughing not only means better crops, more crops. The .Dominion needs a million bushels of home-grown barley which with milk, meatmeal, and root crops will convert a million pigs into bacon by Christmas, 1941. You may think yourself a sheepfarmer,, but fundamentally you may be a potential producer of pigs. So search, your conscience, dig out that currycomb or oil up the tractor that has, not yet earned its keep, and plbugh as you never did before. Plough your own land, plough your neighbour's land, plough for victory, plough for your kinsmen in the battle-line. Think of the summer, hot days tempered by a breeze from the north-west, when the stubble is crisp underfoot and harvest time is here. It will be a reai harvest next summer Avhen the barley runs from the mill in a swelling stream moving to Britain's aid. Our summer will be Britain's winter, cold grey daj'S when fog will cling to the window panes and hearts will be as heavy as the skies under the crushh ing cruelty ol' modern war. though the heart of Britain may be heavy, it will not despaiir, Goh den rays of hope will come from the Vntipodean summer as the full force )f tin; Dominion's war effort comcs Into play.