Lice

Lousy stock cannot grow fat for the nourishment given is absorbed by the lice.

Treatment.—­Clean stable thoroughly and spray Pratts Dip and Disinfectant everywhere.  Sprinkle a small quantity on an old blanket and tie it around the animal for two or three hours.  Spray the legs and such places the blanket does not cover.  Repeat if necessary.

If Pratts Powdered Lice Killer is used, dust the animals thoroughly with the powder, rubbing the hair the wrong way, then rub it thoroughly into the skin.

Lump Jaw

Cause.—­A vegetable parasite.  It is contagious.

Treatment.—­Remove the tumor by surgical means or paint daily with tincture of iodine.  Give daily two drams of iodide of potash.  Give nourishing feed with Pratts Cow Remedy daily.  Disinfect stable with Pratts Dip and Disinfectant.

Milk—­Bloody or Stringy

Cause.—­By rupture of minute vessels in the udder due to injury, irritation or inflammation and derangement of the system.

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East Point, Ga.

     Please send me a box of Pratts Cow Remedy and some Pratts Bag
     Ointment.  I sure do need it.  I found no other that will do the
     work.  It brings in calves easy.

MRS. MATTIE BROWN._
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Treatment.—­Change the food and pasture.  Give large doses of Pratts Cow Remedy at first, and gradually reduce to regular quantity.  Give good nutritious feed with bran mashes and clean fresh, water.  Rub udder twice daily with Pratts Bag Ointment.  Four drams of hyposulphite of soda in feed twice a day has produced good results.

Milk—­Blue and Watery

Treatment.—­Keep stable perfectly clean, disinfect thoroughly with Pratts Disinfectant and treat same as for bloody milk.  Sometimes blue milk is the sign of tuberculosis.  If so, have the cow killed and burned or buried deep.

Milk Fever

Symptoms.—­There is a feverish condition and inflammation of the brain; a complete stoppage of milk, weakness in hind quarters, animal staggers and when down is unable to rise, throws head to one side and goes into a state of stupor.

Cause.—­By trouble peculiar to calving or running into rich pasture during hot weather; by lack of exercise and from costiveness.  Usually attacks fat cows.

Treatment.—­(From Circular 45, Bureau of Animal Industry, U.S.  Department of Agriculture.) “Of all known methods of treating milk fever, the injection of sterile atmospheric air into the udder is by far the most simple and practicable as well as the most efficacious and harmless one at our disposal.”  Pratts Milk Fever Outfit for air treatment should always be kept on hand.  The price is $3.  This treatment has cured 97 per cent. of cases treated.