CONTROL OF MASTITIS
ROUTINE ON THE FARM. ORDER OF MILKING. Methods for the prevention and treatment of bovine mastitis, which is found in 50 to 80 per cent of the cows in many dairy herds, were described by Dr F. C. Minett. director of the Research Institute in Animal Pathology (Royal Veterinary College), at a meeting of the Farmers’ Club in London. Discussing the methods to be adopted by the farmer in the control of the disease, Dr Minett said that the sheltering of healthy animals from preventable disease should be looked upon as a necessary routine.
Naturally, attempts at control were likely to give good results only in herds which were self-contained or in which interchange of anirpals was limited. Older animals, as well as freshly calving cows, should not be admitted to the healthy section of the herd until it was known that they were giving normal milk.
In the healthy group, it was advisable as an additional safeguard that animals should be milked not only in order of age, but also that first-calf heifers should be milked in the order them in a chlorinated solution after milking each cow.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 January 1939, Page 3
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192CONTROL OF MASTITIS Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 January 1939, Page 3
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