THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
November 2 
738 
Live Stock Matters. 
FORKFULS OF FACTS. 
Cotton-Seed Meal Dry. —In your an¬ 
swer to W. J., Camden, Del., on page 
090, you say that you do not advise the 
use of cotton-seed meal with dry feed. 
My experience with it, in connection 
with dry feed, has been very satisfac¬ 
tory. I mixed the meal with corn-ear 
chop ; one part meal to two parts of 
chop, by measure. Of this mixture, I 
gave cows in milk six quarts per day, 
and fattening steers double the amount, 
with very good results. The rough feed 
was corn stover and a little hay and 
straw. N. e. 
Juniata County, Pa. 
Buckwheat for Horses. --I have never 
fed buckwheat to horses except as a 
medicine. It is worth more than oats 
and is not half so good. Old men here 
say that it will not hurt a horse, either 
clear or ground with corn ; and that it 
will fatten a horse in a week if not 
worked, and the horse will get weak 
and poor in half that time when he be¬ 
gins to work. The hulls, if left in the 
meal, are irritating in their effect upon 
the lining of the stomach, and the feed¬ 
ing of whole buckwheat is often recom¬ 
mended to rid the horse of worms. I 
tried it, and it did not have any effect 
on either horse or worms. c. K. c. 
How to Feed Corn. —Some one asks 
Hoard’s Dairyman the old question about 
feeding corn without the expense of 
husking and grinding. He suggests 
running the unhusked ears through a 
crusher which will break them into 
pieces about the size of beans. Prof. W. 
A. Henry has this to say about it: 
Everybody knows that a cow appreciates most 
highly the ear of corn which has never been 
husked. There is the same freshness to such an 
ear that there is to apples buried in the earth in 
the old-fashioned way. compared with those which 
have been kept in the musty, dry cellar all winter. 
Corn which has been exposed to the air in the 
crib and to vermin, is never so toothsome to the 
cow as that wrapped in the husks which nature 
placed about it. It has been proved again and 
again that 100 pounds of corn with the cob on 
which it grew, when ground together, go as far 
as 100 pounds of pure grain when ground. Just 
why is one of the mysteries not yet explained, 
but the fact stands. I am greatly impressed with 
the benefits of these short-cut methods of corn 
feeding in these days of continued high priced 
farm labor with lowering prices for dairy prod¬ 
ucts. Put the shock corn through the feed cut¬ 
ter, ears and all, and let the cows have their 
proper amount of grain in that way. Under this 
system, of course, part of the corn must be snap¬ 
ped or removed from the stalks, else too much 
grain will be given. I do not think that the corn 
in this shape is quite as good as that produced 
by the method proposed by our correspondent, 
viz.: running the snapped corn through a crusher. 
Crushed snapped corn seems to me to present 
corn in an ideal manner for dairy cows or fatten¬ 
ing steers. The crushed grains with the cob 
seem very palatable and I believe are in a form to 
yield up as large a proportion of nutriment as is 
possible for the digestive system to extract. 
SOME AILING ANIMALS. 
ANSWERS RY DR. F. L. KILBORNE. 
A New Cow Disease —M}' two-year- 
old heifer is mysteriously ailing. She 
dropped her first calf September 8 ; was 
in heat September 16 and 27, but was 
not served. She has been all right, and 
gave a large mess of milk until yester¬ 
day morning, when she was behind in 
coming when I called, instead of being 
first as usual, and walked slightly stiff, 
as though the trouble was in her legs. 
She ate her little mess of bran all right, 
but did not care to eat grass, and moped 
all the morning. Later in the day, she 
ate grass and seemed better, but at night 
gave only about one-third of her usual 
mess of milk. This morning, she came 
first when I called as usual, and acts all 
right, but gave little more than a pint 
of milk. She appears all right, and 
starts off to eat grass all right. On the 
ridge of her back, just back of the 
shoulders, are thick eruptions for about 
a foot in length, which she very much 
dislikes to have me pick ; they are quite 
dry. She is a twin, and her mate dropped 
her calf August 20, and is well in every 
way; indeed, seems to feel specially 
good just now, as did both of them up to 
yesterday. I have fed them a few pecks 
of frosted green tomatoes lately, and 
the grass has been frosted; but what¬ 
ever feed they have had, both have fared 
exactly alike. They have not been 
bloated at all. These two are all the 
cows we have, and are great pets. We 
sold the mother of them since these came 
in. They are grade Jerseys, w. G. D. 
Bellville, O. 
The symptoms correspond very closely 
with a disease or condition which occa¬ 
sionally occurs in cattle in the fall. The 
disease has been investigated in several 
places during the past few years by in¬ 
spectors from the United States Bureau 
of Animal Industry, but without ascer¬ 
taining the cause. The animals usually 
recover after a few weeks, the only treat¬ 
ment required being a light, laxative 
diet. The cows are slow in coming back 
to their milk, and often do not until after 
the next calving. 
Loss of Spirit in a Mare. — How 
can I put more spirit into a mare of five 
years old ? She has been a good trotter, 
but she seems to have lost her spirit, 
although in good condition. I feed her 
nine quarts of oats, and eight pounds of 
hay per day. • F. a. n. 
Danbury, Conn. 
Try powdered nux vomica. Give the 
mare one teaspoonful twice daily on her 
feed ; the dose to be increased to two 
teaspoonfuls the second week, and con¬ 
tinued for three or four weeks if neces¬ 
sary. Feed a bran mash three times a 
week, to be omitted if the bowels become 
too loose. 
Treatment for a Jersey Heifer.— 
Sometime ago you gave some directions 
regarding a heifer that had aborted. 
She got something like septicaemia, and 
is not over it yet. She seems to feel 
pretty well, is not losing flesh, has a good 
appetite, but every day or two discharges. 
The local physician thinks that she still 
retains a little of the placenta which 
causes the trouble. What shall I do for 
her? A. j. s. 
New Millport, Pa. 
Inject the following solution into the 
womb daily, until the discharge ceases : 
sulphate of zinc and carbolic acid, of 
each one dram, water one pint. The in¬ 
jection can most conveniently be made 
by using three to four feet of half inch 
rubber tubing, into one end of which is 
fitted a small funnel. With the oiled 
hand insert the free end of the tube into 
the neck of the womb, and then pour 
the solution into the raised funnel. Give 
one of the following powders on the feed 
twice daily : powdered nux vomica and 
sulphate of copper, of each four ounces, 
arsenic, 80 grains ; mix, and make into 
40 powders. 
A Case of Hog Cholera. —Last year, 
I sold something over $100 worth of pig 
products. I was encouraged by the clear 
profit in that, and last winter bought a 
Cheshire boar. This fall I had altogether, 
of old and young, 30 head of hogs. They 
have had the run of a large pasture with 
a brook running through it all summer. 
They had the refuse and swill from the 
house, and a dairy of 10 cows. For about 
10 weeks, they have had the offal from 
three and four sheep each Friday even¬ 
ing. I have fed some sulphur with their 
feed, and for a short time, fed chop made 
from the screenings of oats. I cannot 
remember that there has been a sick hog 
on the place before. A few weeks ago, 
I noticed some small pigs coughing after 
they ate, and thought that, perhaps, 
they ate their food too fast, or something 
of that sort. Soon some of the old ones 
began to fail, shrinking in a very few 
days to mere skin and bones. They 
would sway and stagger in the hind parts 
when starting out, would get into the 
manure pile as far as possible, and all 
pile up together, seeming very stupid. 
Some voided a yellowish thin substance ; 
others seemed very much constipated. 
All seemed to breathe quite hard, and 
coughed whenever they first moved, or 
after eating, i. e ., as long as they would 
eat. I have not heard of any other sick 
hogs in the county. I killed a few to 
save them from suffering, and have one 
left out of 30, which coughs quite fre¬ 
quently. One man told me to give each 
hog seven drops of carbolic acid. I did 
so with no apparent good or evil effects. 
Another said give a physic of castor oil. 
I did so ; no good. Some seemed quite 
inflamed along the belly after dying ; 
others did not. All seemed quite uneasy 
at times, and would wander from one 
pen to another ; they could not squeal 
very loud. One man said that hog cholera 
was nothing but a belly full of worms, 
and that burnt corn cobs would have 
cured them all right. I have tried it on 
the remaining one I have been reading 
a stock doctor book, and can see that 
they had some symptoms of hog cholera. 
I killed one that was pretty well on to¬ 
ward death, and, with a neighbor, ex¬ 
amined all the internal organs. I could 
find nothing out of order except the 
lungs ; the outer passages of these seemed 
to be filled completely with a white 
mucilaginous substance, and the lungs 
were not at all a natural color. Could 
it be swine plague and none of the other 
organs affected ? I would like the opinion 
of others. h. d. w. 
Arnot, Pa. 
Your hogs evidently died of the cholera. 
The most satisfactory known treatment 
for this disease was given in full on page 
105 of The R. N.-Y. of February 16, 1895. 
I would advise cleaning out and disin¬ 
fecting the pens occupied by the sick 
animals, using a two to three per cent 
solution of concentrated commercial 
sulphuric acid. Then be sure to intro¬ 
duce only healthy pigs in restocking. 
HIGH-STEPPING HORSES. 
What is the method of training a colt 
or horse to lift the feet high, as the 
Hackney horses do ? I wish to start 
early in training a colt raised from my 
common mare, bred to a Thoroughbred 
running stallion. I work the latter on 
the farm—plow, harrow and cultivator. 
The colt is three months old, and the 
mare was worked up to the time of foal¬ 
ing. j. d. 
Narrowsburg, N. Y. 
11. N.-Y.—How to breed and develop 
high-class carriage horses, is a question 
many breeders are asking themselves at 
this present time. The farmer may breed 
a good colt, keep and care for him until 
he is four years old, and then be 
at a loss to know just how to mar¬ 
ket him to the best advantage. The 
quickest way would be to sell to the 
dealer ; if the colt is a good one, he will 
be sure to bring a fair price in this way, 
and it saves the farmer all the trouble 
of training and condition, for the sale 
ring, which, by the way, is something 
he may, or may not, know anything 
about. A horse, to bring a good price 
in the sale ring, should have good man¬ 
ners, a well-groomed coat, and be able 
to go a good pace ; if he have action, all 
the better, but how to get the action, is 
a problem the breeder must solve. 
When a colt is taken up at the age of 
three or four, the first thing is to have 
him shod properly. When this is done, 
and the colt is put in harness, he should 
never be asked to trot fast; a regular 
pace of eight miles an hour will teach 
him to step with rhythmical precision, 
and will do far more towards developing 
the action than most people believe. 
The colt should never be driven far 
enough to get tired ; he should always 
be fresh and full of go. Some men have 
the idea that, by beginning with a colt 
a few weeks old, they can develop won¬ 
derful action, and many curious methods 
have been adopted to attain the desired 
result, lunging the colt in plowed land 
and putting bells on the feet, being 
among the favorite methods used. Such 
practices, however, often prove more in- 
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