1895 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
627 
SOME AILING ANIMALS. 
ANSWERS BY DR. F. L. KILBORNE. 
An Inflamed Udder. —My cow is 
troubled with a swelling 1 in her udder. 
She will go to pasture all right in the 
morning, but at night there will be a 
hard lump in the udder. The milk will 
curdle in one teat, sometimes in two; as a 
general thing it is in the same teats. The 
same swelling is likely to come over 
night. It lasts two or three days. The 
cow is short of her milk while it lasts ; 
otherwise she seems to be in perfect 
health. Her appetite is good. Her feed 
consists of grass from a pasture that is 
called good, with two quarts each of 
meal and wheat bran at night. j. n. 
Kensington, Conn. 
Bathe the affected quarter with spii'its 
of camphor, rubbing it well in after each 
milking. 
A Dog With St. Vitus’s Dance.— I 
have a valuable Shepherd pup, seven 
months old, that was taken with a jerk¬ 
ing a week ago. He acts exactly like a 
person with St. Vitus’s dance. The 
jerking is mostly confined to his fore 
legs. He will stick his head to the 
ground, his fore legs jerk, and down he 
goes almost on his head. He appears to 
be in pain at times. When I hold his 
fore legs near his body in my hand, I 
can feel the muscles jump and jerk. 
Boonville, N. C. A. s. s. 
The dog is suffering from chorea, or 
St. Vitus’s dance, a nervous disease usu¬ 
ally due to some weakness ; or a debili¬ 
tated condition of the system. Endeavor 
to improve the general health of the 
dog, by feeding nourishing, non-stimu¬ 
lating feed. Allow only moderate rations 
of meat, and no cake, candy or other 
sweetmeats. Daily exercise in the open 
air is very desirable. Give one-half tea¬ 
spoonful doses before eating, morning 
and evening, of the syrup of the phos¬ 
phates of iron, quinine and strychnine. 
The proportion can be obtained of any 
first-class druggist. 
A Dog Out of Condition. —I have a 
Water Spaniel dog, medium size, brought 
from the country about six months ago, 
but owing to present cramped quarters, 
he is living on a floor, but has consider¬ 
able running at large. To keep him 
clean, we washed him, adding a little 
carbolic acid to the water ; this killed 
the fleas, but his hair lost its silky gloss ; 
he got very thin, became constipated, 
is continually scratching and has some 
sores. We gave him some of Humph¬ 
rey’s A. A. Veterinary Specific, but at 
the present time, he has not improved 
a great deal. At times he eats well, 
then does not touch his food at all. 
What can be done for him ? His nose is 
dry and warm ; skin and hair dry to the 
touch. c. A. T. 
Carlstadt, N. J. 
There are so many causes from which 
a dog may be brought to this or a 
similar condition, that it is very diffi¬ 
cult to advise satisfactory treatment 
without a personal examination of the 
patient. Too frequent washings may be 
the cause. Wash not oftener than once 
a week. Confinement, worms or unsuit¬ 
able diet may have caused the trouble 
Allow daily exercise if possible. Ex¬ 
amine the feces for segments of tape¬ 
worms. If present, give one teaspoon¬ 
ful oil of turpentine in one tablespoon¬ 
ful castor oil, well mixed together. In 
fact, it will be well to give this dose to 
relieve the constipation, repeating as 
often as may be necessary. 
Either Swine Plague or Worms.— 
What is the matter with my pigs ? A 
litter of spring pigs and two brood sows 
have the run of an orchard seeded with 
clover ; they have been fed a moderate 
ration of wheat bran and middlings, with 
a little skim-milk in addition to what 
grass they eat. They have also had 
water, ashes and charcoal always in the 
field before them. No pigs have ever 
been pastured in this field before. The 
first symptoms are a slight cough, no¬ 
ticed after eating ; this gradually gets 
worse, the pig gets out of condition, 
loses flesh and finally dies. The old ones 
have not been affected. The cough is 
noticed first, perhaps, a month before 
the pig dies. The litter was strong and 
healthy, and not inbred. j. e. d. b. 
Waverly, N. J. 
The trouble is apparently due, either 
to swine plague or to worms. Try the 
treatment advised for hog cholera on 
page 105 of The R. N.-Y for February 
16. Then examine carefully the lungs 
and small intestines of the next pig to 
die, for worms. If small, thread-like 
worms are found in the air-tubes of the 
lungs, especially towards the outer bor¬ 
der of the lung ; or if large, round worms 
are found in the small intestine, possibly 
extending into the liver through the 
gall duct, the disease is probably due to 
the worms. In that case, feed the pigs 
oil of turpentine in the feed once daily, 
giving one teaspoonful to each 25-pound 
weight of pig. 
MORE LEARNING ABOUT WILD 
CHERRY. 
The doctor referred to by Mr. Birge 
on page 547 of The R. N.-Y., says that 
the leaves of the wild cherry contain 
hydrocyanic acid. As well might he 
have said that rye or corn is intoxicating, 
because whisky is distilled from them. 
I challenge him to find hydrocyanic acid 
in either leaves or bark by chemical 
analysis. The nearest he can come is 
the cyanogen compound, “amygdalin.” 
This substance was discovered by Robi- 
quet and Boutron in 1830, is freely solu¬ 
ble in water and hot alcohol, very slightly 
so in cold alcohol, but is entirely insolu¬ 
ble in ether. They also ascertained that 
hydrocyanic acid does “ not pre-exist ” 
as such, but results from a reaction of 
the cyanogen compound with water. It 
was left to VVoehler and the eminent 
chemist Liebig to “prove” this fact. 
Had the paunches of those cows con¬ 
tained ether instead of water, the eating 
of wild cherry leaves, green, wilted, or 
dry, would have been a harmless pro¬ 
ceeding. Alcohol would have made it 
nearly so, and this may account for the 
fact that “ beer is not cftener changed 
into bier,” wilt or no wilt. A man may 
be a good doctor, but a poor chemist. 
Another misleading statement, of which 
the same article gives proof, is the one 
that refers to the solubility of substances. 
This depends altogether upon what one 
wishes to dissolve, and the nature of the 
solvent used. What may be soluble in 
one solvent, is insoluble in another. One 
substance may be freely soluble in a 
given solvent; another may not be 
affected by it whatever. Mr. Birge need 
not worry himself about the solubility 
or insolubility of green fodders. Has he 
forgotten what The R. N.-Y. had to say 
about “ succulence ” some months ago ? 
Does the milk product of his cows show 
that green clover is less soluble than 
clover hay ? We must remember that 
the stomach with its auxiliaries is capa¬ 
ble of converting the raw material into 
such new compounds as the ablest chem¬ 
ists would not undertake more than to 
imitate, let alone the extempore nurse 
with her tin cup on the kitchen stove. A 
signal proof of this is that the most valu¬ 
able portion of the food (the albuminous 
substances or proteids) is soluble at alow 
temperature, is converted by the action 
of the gastric and pancreatic juices into 
peptone, which is still more readily solu¬ 
ble. On the other hand, this most valu¬ 
able food ingredient is utterly insoluble 
in boiling water, becoming coagulated at 
a temperature more than (50 degrees be¬ 
low the boiling point. Isn’t this an eye- 
opener for those who believe in boiling 
their feed ? j. c. senger. 
Asthmatic Troubles, Pleurisy Pains, and In 
flamed Throats, are overcome and healed by Dr. D. 
Jayne’s Expectorant—for over 50 years an approved 
stand-by for all Coughs and Colds.— Adv. 
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BARREN COWS CURED 
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“ You can quote from this note my assurance that 
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CLOVER HAY WANTED. 
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JERSEYS 
FOR SALE.— Young Bulls 
Stoke Pogis 5th; Ida’s Rioter of St. L.; Landseer's 
Harry, etc., sire son of Prospect Rioter. 
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A. J. C. C. Jersey Cattle and Chester 
WHITE HOGS.—Four choice Heifers and Bulls, 4 to 
III months old. Chester White Pigs: Happy Medium, 
King of Chester Whites, heads the herd. Come and 
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ling and Lamb Rams to select from. Come and see 
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The best bred to cross on common sheep to get largo 
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Feeders of Stock 
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