The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
807 
Ailing Animals 
Answered by Dr. A. S. Alexander 
Dysentery 
I had a cow freshen about, two months 
ago- She seemed to do all right and gave 
a good mess of milk until about a week 
ago she nearly dried up. What little she 
gave was lumpy. She started to have 
diarrlurei, and has had it terribly ever 
since, with occasionally a little blood 
mixed with it. She has got so poor she 
can hardly stand. F. L. o. 
New York. 
We are sorry to say that we fear this 
cow is afflicted with .Tohne’s disease, also 
called chronic bacterial dysentery. It is 
caused by a specific germ, very similar 
to that which causes tuberculosis, and is 
incurable. It quite commonly starts just 
after calving or an attack of any debili¬ 
tating disease, and causes gradual emaci¬ 
ation, despite the fact that the cow usu¬ 
ally eats well until death results. The 
disease always proves fatal in the end. 
The infective germs are in the feces, 
therefore yon should at once isolate the 
cow, cleanse, disinfect and whitewash the 
stall she has occupied, and burn or deeply 
plow under the feces. In the circum¬ 
stances a qualified veterinarian should 
he employed to examine the cow. and to 
determine if Toft tie's disease is present 
lie may send scrapings of mucus from 
the rectum (o be examined by the ex¬ 
perts at the department of veterinary sci¬ 
ence of the State Agricultural Experi¬ 
ment Station. Meanwhile try the effects 
of 20 drops of beech wood creosote, one- 
half ounce of oil of cajnput and two 
ounces of cottonseed oil. given twice 
daily, Increase to three such doses a day 
if found necessary. If Johne’s disease is 
not present this treatment may prove 
remedial. If it is present it will only 
give temporary relief. 
Thrush 
We have a mare suffering with thrush 
and have tried several different remedies 
without success. Will you advise us 
what to do. \v. R. 
Virginia. 
The term thrush is applied to the con¬ 
dition in which a foul-smelling discharge 
issues from the cleft of the frog and 
sometimes from cracks on each side of the 
frog. The cause is allowing the horse to 
stand in wet and filth in the stable. In 
some instances the disease spreads to the 
sensitive tissues under the frog (fatty 
cushion) and under the sole (pododerm) 
and causes a fast-growing fungus growth 
which is termed ranker of the sole. When 
removed, the growth reappears almost 
overnight and often proves practically 
incurable. Treatment of ordinary thrush 
consists in cutting away every bit of 
loose or rotten horn of the frog and near¬ 
by parts, cleansing perfectly, and then 
packing into the cleft and crevices either 
straight calomel or a mixture of calomel, 
subnitrate of bismuth and boric acid in 
equal quantities. These remedies are 
somewhat expensive. If many horses 
lave to be treated, it is therefore pref¬ 
erable, perhaps, to use a mixture of equal 
quantifies of slaked lime, powdered alum 
and powdered wood charcoal. Calomel 
is most effective. Keep the packing nm- 
s rial in place by pressing oakum or ab- 
orbent cotton on top of it after smear¬ 
ing it with a little pine tar. Renew the 
dressing daily. Keep the stall floor per¬ 
fectly clean and dry. The best treatment 
for canker is, we have found, to keep 
the sprouting parts covered with pow¬ 
dered alum, a layer of oakum or cotton 
batting and a plate of metal or strong 
leather to slip in under the edges of the 
shoe and cover the dressing. Renew the 
dressing twice daily and have the horse 
stand on a floor well covered with en¬ 
gine cinders. 
Hobbling a Horse 
Is there any safe way to hobble a 
horse? I have lots of grass, but not 
fenced, and I do not care to go to the ex¬ 
pense of fencing for one horse. She ran 
away when I first got her. and I do not 
want to risk having her go again. 
Pennsylvania. ir. F. ir. 
Hobbles may be bought at the harness 
maker’s shop, or can be made if so de¬ 
sired. We should advise, however, that 
the horse may safely bo tethered if a 
quiet animal. The rope should be tied 
to a ring in a strong halter and to a stake 
driven securely into (he ground. By that 
means tin- burse can be made to graze a 
portion of the pasture clean and then be 
moved to a new part, so that he will have 
a fresh bite. If you find that, the mare 
in question is clumsy in her grazing, so 
that she gets ere rope wound round her 
pastern, if will he necessary to bandage 
tlie extremities against injury, Burning 
of the skin by the rope becoming wound 
around the leg and then “sawing” the 
part would be certain to cause a sore con¬ 
dition which is very difficult to heal and 
always leaves a sear which is an eyesore. 
If would, of course, be better to fence the 
pasture with woven wire, say 4S in. wide, 
on posts a rod apart and having two 
barb wires on ton. Such a fence is not 
prohibitive in price. Board fencing 
would be better, but is too expensive in 
most parts of the country. 
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