The practical stock doctor: a reliable, common-sense ready-reference book for the farmer and stock owner .. . can be had at any drug store, and the apparatus iscomplete. There is also needed a milking tube with a shortpiece of rubber tube attached, and a small bicycle pump. Before using the apparatus it must be sterilized; put a littlecotton plug in the end of each of the glass tubes, as shown in thecut, and roll the tube in four or five layers of newspapers, tyingthe ends around the glass tubes, as shown in the cut, and it isready to be sterilized. To sterilize it, put in an oven with a slowh
The practical stock doctor: a reliable, common-sense ready-reference book for the farmer and stock owner .. . can be had at any drug store, and the apparatus iscomplete. There is also needed a milking tube with a shortpiece of rubber tube attached, and a small bicycle pump. Before using the apparatus it must be sterilized; put a littlecotton plug in the end of each of the glass tubes, as shown in thecut, and roll the tube in four or five layers of newspapers, tyingthe ends around the glass tubes, as shown in the cut, and it isready to be sterilized. To sterilize it, put in an oven with a slowheat, about right for baking cake, and leave it there for onehour; the oven should be hot enough to just slightly scorch thepaper, and turn the cotton plugs in the glass tubes just a littlebrown; if too hot, the cotton inside the tube will be burned toomuch, but the cotton plugs and the paper will indicate theamount of heat to use. The tube is now ready for use, and bypumping air through this sterilized cotton, the germs will befiltered from it. The apparatus can be sterilized and laid away, 782 )%- - -r;. APPARATUS USED IN STERILIZED AIE TREATMENT FOR MILK FEVER. ADDENDA 783 leaving the paper around it, in some clean place, and it will beall right for use when needed; it would be best to re-sterilize ifnot used for three weeks after sterilizing. To use in treating the cow, put the milking tube, with thepiece of rubber tubing attached, into a solution of: Carbolic Acid,J^ ounce; water, i pint, to sterilize it; remove the cotton plugfrom one of the glass tubes and attach the bicycle pump bymeans of a short piece of rubber tubing; remove the cotton plugfrom the other glass tube and attach the milking tube, firstshaking all the Carbolic Acid lotion from it; wash off the end ofone of the teats with the Carbolic lotion, and insert the milkingtube into it and pump air in slowly. If pumped too fast, germsmay be forced through the cotton. Be sure the milking tubedoes not touch anything
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