REMOVING WARTS.
METHOD OF TREATMENT. Warts on the teat and udder often form an obstacle to milking, in addition to being a disfigurement. They may also.beeome injured, arid so expose the skin fo infections. Long warts may be removed by twisting or tying a silk thread tightly about the' base of the gTowth. The wart will eventually slough off. Glacial acetic acid or other caustic may be applied to the body of the wart, but care must be exercised to restrict this treatment to the growth, otherwise, damage will be done to the healthy skin. It is advisable before applying the caustic, to swear some vaseline on the skin roynd the wart. This prevents the caustic from running on to the healthy part. Leaky quarter is often seen in heavy milking cows. The remedy, according to one who has had a vast ex perience in connection with the dis eases, which dairy cattle arc liablo to, is to milk the cow more often—throe or even four times a day. Chronic leaking, he said, is probably due, in most cases,, to the weakness of the teat orifice, or to a fistula on the teat, or to the effect of a previous operation, for the relief a stricture or other teat ob struetion.
Weakness Pf the teat orifice may be overcome sometimes by the local application of tincture of iodine or saturated alum solution twice daily. The practice of stopping a leaky teat by a rubber hand band, or tape, or inserting a plug between milkings is not ad visable, as it only tends to aggravate the weakness of the part, or to increase the size of the opening. Teat fistula due to injuries, forms a common and annoying form of teat leakage. Efforts at treatment had better be postponed, if possible, until the animal is dried iff. The treatment is surgical, and ihould only be carried out by a competent veterinary surgeon. Barbwire
.‘.ufs or other injuries to the teat, which might lead to fistula, should be sutured immediately, rather than deferred until me drying off of the animal, with consequent risk of a leaky quarter
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Putaruru Press, Volume VII, Issue 301, 15 August 1929, Page 6
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