About three months ago a pure-bred Jersey commenced to fail on her milk and soon went dry, although on good feed.  Did not seem to be sick, but did not eat ravenously as she generally did, and little was thought of it.  During the past six weeks she has failed rapidly.  Does not chew her cud, froths at the mouth, runs at the eyes, and when she eats anything much it bloats her.  In fact, she seems bloated all the time.  She is lifeless and will hardly move around, getting very thin, and hair standing the wrong way.  Is there such a thing as a cow losing her cud?

Most people imagine a cow’s cud is something material.  As a matter of fact, in a certain sense the words appetite and cud are synonymous.  You can say a cow has lost her appetite or a cow has lost her cud.  Now, any sickness severe enough will cause a cow to lose her appetite.  The bloating is caused from indigestion secondary to some organic disease, probably tuberculosis.  Keep up the cow’s strength by giving condensed floods or drenches of egg-nogg, gruel or greens.  Give warm salt-water injections twice daily and give the following mixture:  Quinine sulphate, 2 ounces; Antipyrine, 1 ounce; ammonia muriate, 3 ounces; alcohol, 1 quart; water 1 quart.  Mix; give 2 ounces every four hours.

Calf Dysentery.

I would like to know the reason for bloody discharges from the bowels of a young six-day-old calf.  There is a looseness of the bowels and the blood is intermingled with the excrement.  There is not a profuse amount of blood, nor is it very dark in color, and it seems to be accompanied with mucus or light, thick substance.

This is dysentery, due to scours so prevalent in calves.  Give 6 ounces olive oil, 4 drachms bismuth subnitrate and 1 drachm Pearson’s creoline.  The discharge is very dangerous to other animals.

Bovine Rheumatism.

Our Jersey cow got somewhat lame one year ago in one hip or leg after calving but soon got better.  Last June when she came in one leg was lame.  It seems to be in the stiffle joint and the first one above.  When she walks she gets real lame.

Rheumatism is the trouble here.  Give the following powder:  Soda salicylate, 3 ounces; salol, 2 ounces; pulv. gentian root, 2 ounces.  Mix and make 24 powders.  Give four daily.  Apply Pratt’s, a good veterinary liniment.

Bleeding for Blackleg.

I have read several articles on blackleg, and it seems strange to me that no mention is made of an operation that is an absolute preventive, namely, bleeding in the feet.

The reason that no special mention of bleeding is made is that it is not now considered the preventive that it once was.  Some people appear to have fair success with it, and others no success at all.  The Bureau of Animal Industry states that the evidence indicates that bleeding, nerving, roweling or setoning have neither curative nor protective value and, therefore, should be discarded for vaccination which is now widely used as a preventive.