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and allow her to fill herself with grass, because it stimulates the 

 milk-producing- functions too much, which tends to produce milk 

 fever. 



Why do pigs become lame and stiff? They are fed ground oats, corn 

 and bran and have exercise. 



A Farmer. — They need more exercise. 



Another Farmer. — They have worms. 



Mr. Converse. — Possibly it may be caused by rheumatism, or it 

 may come from feeding too much corn meal. 



Mr. Chapman. — Ofttimes the trouble comes from intestinal 

 worms; a mixture of charcoal, salt and ashes put into the food, 

 will verv often effect a cure. 



To Dr. Smead. — What do you thinls of the barbarous practice so many 

 have, of feeding ashes and salt, mixed, to horses? 



Answer. — The man who believes in that practice ought to take 

 a dose of the mixture every day for a week. At the end of that 

 time, if he is alive and likes the stuff, let him come around and tell 

 me so. I shall then have nothing more to say. 



What would you give a cow that has " run down " since she dropped 

 her first calf and has partly lost her appetite? 



Mr. Weaver. — There is a preparation — a tonic — that seems to 

 benefit such a cow. I have not the prescription, but it contains 

 some ginger, gentian, saltpeter, Peruvian bark, etc. 



Mr. Cook. — A warm bran mash, if the cow will eat it, will be 

 found about as good as the medicine. Don't spend a whole lot 

 of money for these prepared, patent right foods and tonics. Some 

 of them are good in their way, but they cost ten times as much 

 as they are worth. As a rule, they contain 90 per cent, of linseed 

 meal. They are just about as much of a fraud as is oleomaF- 

 garine. Don't buy them. If a cow is ailing, call a good physician 

 or veterinarian; or, as we always have some farmer among us 

 who has had experience in doctoring sick cows, seek his advise. 

 As a rule, he will know what the matter is and what to prescribe. 



