THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Feb. 18 
114 
AILING ANIMALS. 
EFFECT OF FEEDING UPON MILK. 
Send for illustrated pamphlet and valuable Information regarding 
Cows That Go Blind. 
J. E. A., El Dorado, Cal.— What 
makes my cattle go blind and what is a 
remedy for the trouble ? Their eyes be¬ 
gin to run and the water runs out for 
about a week, then a scum grows over 
the sight and they are blind for some 
time, and then the film gradually goes 
away in some cases, while in others it 
does not. It generally attacks one eye, 
then the other. Some of my cows are 
having the trouble a second time this 
winter. 
Ans.— Your cattle are apparently suf¬ 
fering from an attack of enzootic oph¬ 
thalmia due to some local cause or condi¬ 
tion. Remove the unaffected animals to 
new quarters, if possible where they 
will have a change of feed, and espe¬ 
cially of drinking water. If running in 
low pasture remove them to high ground. 
The afflicted cattle should be placed in a 
cool, dry, darkened stable during the 
day, to protect them from the light. 
They may be allowed to run in a yard or 
pasture on high ground at night, if the 
weather is mild and dry. Give each ani¬ 
mal from 1 to 1% pound of Epsom salts, 
according to its size and condition, to 
open the bowels. The diet should be 
light and sufficiently laxative to keep 
the bowels moving freely. In the mild 
cases no local treatment will be neces¬ 
sary. In the severe cases in which there 
is much inflammation, suspend a cloth 
from the horns so as to cover the eyes, 
and keep the cloth saturated with a solu¬ 
tion of one dram of acetate of lead and 
one-third dram of sulphate of morphia, 
dissolved in a quart of soft water. Give 
one tablespoonful of nitrate of potash in 
the drinking water once or twice daily. 
Horses with a Cough. 
E. H., Lamartine, Pa.—M y horses 
have a cough and run at the nose, eat 
and drink all right, have no swelling 
under the jaws. What ails them and 
what should I do for them ? 
Ans.— A cough may accompany or suc¬ 
ceed a great variety of diseases, but is 
most commonly associated with diseases 
of the respiratory organs. A cough, like a 
lameness, is not a disease of itself, but 
simply a symptom of disease. In the 
present case, being accompanied by the 
nasal discharge, it would indicate as the 
probable cause a cold or some catarrhal 
affection of the air passages. Steam the 
head at night by feeding from a bucket 
or a nose-feeding bag a hot-bran mash, 
made by pouring sufficient boiling water 
over four to six quarts of bran to make 
a soft mash, and placing it before the 
animal while steaming hot. Usually a 
horse will work at the mash while cool¬ 
ing so as to give the air passages a good 
steaming. If he does not, it becomes 
necessary to place the mash in a sack or 
nose-bag and fasten it to the halter or over 
the head for half an hour. A stimulating 
liniment or mild blister applied externally 
to the throat is often very beneficial in 
relieving the local irritation. For this 
purpose the ordinary ammonia liniment 
(equal parts of strong aqua ammonia 
and sweet oil, well shaken together) may 
be applied once daily over the region of 
the throat, until the skin is slightly blis¬ 
tered ; then apply every two or three 
days, or as often as necessary to keep 
up the counter-irritation without blister¬ 
ing the skin too severely. If the cough 
is severe, the following may be given 
three or four times daily until relieved: 
one teaspoonful of fluid extract of bella¬ 
donna and one tablespoonful of finely- 
powdered nitrate of potash mixed with 
sufficient honey or thick syrup to make a 
paste, and placed well back upon the 
tongue with a spoon or paddle, to be 
slowly dissolved and swallowed. 
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Nearly at the head of the first column 
on page 858, of last year’s R. N.-Y., a 
correspondent says: “No one fact is 
better established than this: the pro¬ 
portion of butter fat to casein in milk is 
constant. In other words, milk that is 
rich in butter fats is correspondingly 
rich in casein.” The very reverse is 
true. Let us go over a few facts in 
the case, and see how this thing is. I 
will begin with Willard, a careful and 
experienced author, who in his Dairy 
Husbandry, page 300, gives the follow¬ 
ing figures as to the composition of new 
milk ; 
Sample 
Butter. 
Casein. 
Sugar. 
No. 1.... 
. Percent.. 7.62 
3.31 
4.46 
No. 2.... 
“ 4.96 
3.66 
5.05 
No. 3.... 
“ 3.99 
8.47 
5.11 
No. 3)$.. 
“ 3.43 
3 12 
5.12 
These figures show quite the reverse of 
what is stated in the lines above quoted, 
for the milk that has 7.62 per cent of fat 
in it, has less casein and sugar than that 
with only 4.96 per cent of fat. In fact, 
the sugar, which is the largest propor¬ 
tion of solid matter of milk, increased 
all through as the fats decreased ; while 
the casein does the same, taking the aver¬ 
age. We will now go to Massachusetts, 
where the experiment station gives these 
figures in the annual report for 1891 : 
Cow Fats. Other solids. 
No. 21. 6.75 9.93 
No. 20. 6.40 9.53 
NO. 18. 5.95 9.81 
NO. 23.. 5.85 9.64 
No. 12. 5.10 9.09 
NO. 17. 4.73 9.25 
No. N. 4.54 9.56 
No. 31. 3.65 9.52 
NO. 4. 3.90 9.31 
Cows 31 and 14, practically gave pre¬ 
cisely the same amount of solids not 
fat, while the butter varied from 3.65 to 
6.40 per cent; while cow 12 gave a much 
less proportion of solids not fat, with 
more than 30 per cent more fat in her 
milk than in that of cow 4. 
If we go to the Connecticut reports 
and others that might be quoted, we find 
the same kind of evidence, and Dr. Col¬ 
lier of New York, has recently given his 
testimony in these columns to the effect 
that the fats of the food are most con¬ 
cerned in the production of butter, and 
that the albuminoids are “not in it,” and 
as it has never been alleged that fats in 
the food increase the nitrogen in the 
product, this evidence is to be taken 
strictly as supporting the same fact as 
that above proved beyond question. 
The correspondent asks what sort of 
cheese would milk make that has only 
two per cent of fat? This is not a fair 
argument at all, because there is very 
little milk indeed so poor in fat as this. 
But it would make a much better cheese 
than the average; for a mere skim-milk 
cheese has 25 to 27 per cent of fat in it, 
and it is a difficult matter to keep more 
than three per cent of the fat in the milk 
in the curd. And a cheese made from a 
two-per-cent milk would have 33 per cent 
of fat in it, if the casein was four per 
cent, and 50 per cent if the butter and 
casein were in the same proportion as 
claimed. H. stewart. 
The Raw, Blustering Winds of winter 
search out the weaknesses of all who are predis¬ 
posed to Lung Complaints, and In consequence. 
Colds. Coughs, and Bronchial Disorders everywhere 
prevail. Those who have contractod Colds should be 
especially careful, and not imprudently wait until 
by constant coughing they so Irritate and rack their 
Lungs as to bring on themselves a very serious Pul¬ 
monary affection. Let them rather treat their symp¬ 
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of Dr. Jayne’s Expectorant, cure their. Colds, and 
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