SIMPLE REMEDY

Taranaki Daily News, 12 September 1940, Page 2

SIMPLE REMEDY

TREATING BLOWN COWS I Various farm problems, including milk I fever and the losses it had caused among dairy stock. particularly in the South Taranaki district, were being discussed by a group of farmers and their wives when one of the latter suddenly remarked that on that morning while milking she noticed that one of the cows was badly blown. She at once ran out of the shed and scraped some soil from unj der the tank where it was dry into a bottle, which she then filled with milk. The contents were shaken up and poured by her husband down the throat of the cow, which made a speedy recovery. That simple horhe remedy, she said, had been given them some years ago by a farmer who had never known it to fail, He always kept a bottle with some soil in ready to add water or.milk for use at a moment's notice. Her husband, too, had frequently given cows the same easy, if rough and ready treatment, with the same satisfactory results. It was certainly an easy remedy, as I soil was alwa.vs available round a shed. j it was agreed by the others, who said 1 that they had not previously heard of | that treatment, though they had heard of kerosene being used for the purpose. Cases, too, were mentioned where it was the practice to keep in the shed a "small lump of wood which was placed in the cow's mouth to force its jaws open.