There are also a number of inflammatory udder troubles known as garget or mammitis. From Wordnik.com. [Outlines of Dairy Bacteriology, 8th edition A Concise Manual for the Use of Students in Dairying] Reference
| Use it for caked bags, or garget, for cuts, cracks, scratches or sores |. From Wordnik.com. [Pratt's Practical Pointers on the Care of Livestock and Poultry] Reference
Of such as are twice mowed I speak not, sith their later math is not so wholesome for cattle as the first; although in the mouth more pleasant for the time: for thereby they become oftentimes to be rotten, or to increase so fast in blood, that the garget and other diseases do consume many of them before the owners can seek out any remedy, by phlebotomy or otherwise. From Wordnik.com. [Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)] Reference
The most common is where the milk is clotted or stringy when drawn, as in some forms of garget. From Wordnik.com. [Outlines of Dairy Bacteriology, 8th edition A Concise Manual for the Use of Students in Dairying] Reference
The different phases of this subject will be taken up in this course as follows: types and breeds of farm animals; adaptability of various breeds for practical purposes; dairy conformation; care and management of the dairy herd; the raising of calves; mutton and pork production; examining horses for unsoundness; diseases and ailments of farm animals, — tuberculin test, treatment for milk fever, garget, abortion, and other common troubles; practical methods of handling dairy herds for profitable milk and butter production; advanced registry, requirements and testing. From Wordnik.com. [University of Virginia Record] Reference
29. garget. From Wordnik.com. [A Spelling-Book for Advanced Classes] Reference
| abortion, garget, milk fever, scours, indigestion, liver and kidney |. From Wordnik.com. [Pratt's Practical Pointers on the Care of Livestock and Poultry] Reference
"Grasses, leaves, the stalks of French beans, of peas, melons, gourds, cabbages, artichokes, potatoes, maize, and garget, are very rich in this alkali.". From Wordnik.com. [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference
But when the test of practice is applied to our well-studied and proven scheme; when we see how far our allowance for "chances" has fallen below what is needed to cover the contingencies of late springs, dry summers, early frosts, grasshoppers, wire-worms, Colorado beetles, midge, weevil, pip, murrain, garget, milk-fever, potato-rot, oats-rust, winter-killing, and all the rest; when we learn the degree of vigilance needed to keep every minute of hired labor and team-work effectively employed; and when we come finally to the items of low markets and bad debts, -- we shall see how far these and similar drawbacks have undone our arithmetic, and how often our well-contrived balance must be taken into the footings of the other column of figures. From Wordnik.com. [Village Improvements and Farm Villages] Reference
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