146 SECOND THOUSAND QUESTIONS IN AGRICULTURE 



gitis or sore throat. Syringe his mouth and throat out four or five 

 times daily with a saturated solution of potassium chlorate. Also 

 have his teeth examined by a competent man. 



Treatment fot ''Roaring." 



Whenever our young horse runs or works she has a thick, heavy 

 breathing. A swelling first broke out under her throat and then one 

 formed on her breast, which we had lanced. Otherwise, she seems to be 

 in perfect health. What can be done for her? 



Apply a good blister to the throat such as the following: Powdered 

 cantharides, 2 drachms; red iodide of mercury, 2 drachms; lard, 3 

 ounces. Rub this in well and wash off at the end of forty-eight hours, 

 and apply vaseline. If this does not relieve trouble in one month the 

 only remedy left will be an operation for roaring, which should not 

 be performed until animal is six years old. 



"Strangles" or Distemper. 



We have two horses which first had sore throat and a slight discharge 

 which did not last long, and a cough. After a week the legs began to* 

 swell from the feet to the body, then came a slight swelling about the 

 head. One of them broke out under the jaw before swelling began. They 

 have bright eyes and eat well. 



The trouble is strangles, or colt distemper. A veterinarian should 

 be called early in the disease as many cases result fatally from compli- 

 cations such as pneumonia, dropsy, or multiple abscesses. Feed only 

 invalid food (hot bran mashes, grass, etc.). Give a heaping table- 

 spoonful of granular sal nitre three times daily in bran mash and 

 inject leucocytic extract once daily. 



Foreign Body in Eye. 



/ have a horse with a discharge of yellow mucus from the eye* 

 I found some small hairs in the corner of the affected eye and these 

 were surrounded by grainy and hardened mucus. Washing the eye does 

 not help the trouble. 



Careful examination after benumbing the eye with a four per cent 

 solution of cocaine, will reveal a foreign body in the eye, or the 

 lachrymal conduit (a tube which carries the tears from the eye to the 

 nose). If you raise the nostril and look inside the nose you will find 

 the lower opening of this conduit. Bathe the eye several times daily 

 with cold boracic acid water, a teaspoonful of boracic to one quart 

 of water. 



Perhaps Not "Moon-Blindness." 



The eyelids of my horse become puffed and discharge a watery sub- 

 stance as soon as warm weather comes on every summer. The local 

 veterinarian calls it "Moon blindness" and says there is no cure. During 

 cool weather the trouble disappears. Bathing with cold water twice a 



