THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
FARMERS’ CLUB—Continued. 
PREMONITORY SYMPTOMS OF FOUNDER IN A 
HORSE. 
C. T. H ., Xew York Mills, Minn .—My 
eight-year-old mare was driven the other day 
about 14 miles, and was driven into a lake, and 
on returning home she was in good health, 
but in the morning, after a cool night, her 
legs were all stiff and she refuse 1 grain. The 
stiffness increased during the day, and she 
was sore all over, so that she couldn’t lie 
down. There was so high an inflammation 
in the side, near the flank, that she flinched’at 
a touch. As treatment, I drew about two 
gallons of blood from the neck; made her 
sweat with warm fomentations and gave her 
aconite and then about a quart of linseed oil. 
This treatment made her all right. What 
was the matter? 
Ans. —The symptoms were premonitory of, 
and would have resulted in founder had they 
not been checked. They were probably 
brought on by drinking to excess while fa¬ 
tigued—there is more danger in giving water 
to a horse that is fatigued than to one that is 
simply heated—by hard driving to which the 
animal was not accustomed, with the expo¬ 
sure at night, chilling the whole Bystem. The 
giving of the aconite and oil with the sweat¬ 
ing was a proper course of treatment, but the 
bleeding was excessive as well as undesirable, 
and could well have been omitted. Since the 
inflammation did not settle in the feet, pro¬ 
ducing founder, no further treatment was 
necessary. 
SMALL FRUIT QUERIES. 
J. J., Toronto, Ont, Can. —1. Will it do to 
plant grapes between raspberries six feet 
apart? 2. Is seven feet apart too close to have 
grape rows? 3. I have an apple orchard with 
trees 12 years old, 80 feet apart; if I plant a 
row of grap «3 in the mid lie, can I plant still 
a row of black caps between the grapes and 
trees? My land is in the city and high-priced, 
and I wish to crop it to Its utmost. 4. Is Fall 
as desirable as Spring for planting grapes, 
black cap, and red raspberries? 
Ans. —1. We should think that when rasp¬ 
berries are set this distance,they would occupy 
all the land, bo that grapes would have but a 
sorry show between the rows. 2. It will do 
with small-growing kinds, and where land is 
dear. We should prefer eight feet for most 
kinds,and especially for Concord aud Niagara. 
3. You can do so in such a case, as black caps 
do tolerably well in Urn shade, if well fed. 
But, remember, you are putting a good many 
mouths on a small space, and they must have 
food,or the bodies they feed will not be robust 
and strong; therefore give plenty of food in 
the way of bone dust, ashes, or muriate of 
potash, and some sort of nitrogenous manure. 
4. We prefer Spring, unless extreme care is 
used in banking over the freshly planted 
plants,the earth to be removed early in Spring. 
TnK VETERINARY PROFESSION. 
E. K. L., Mt. Herman, X. J .—Where near 
this place, is there a good veterinary' school? 
What is the prospect for a young man engaged 
in the profession? 
ans.— We do not know of any nearer to you 
than the Columbia Veterinary College, 217 
East 84th Street; the New York College of 
Veterinary Surgeons, 2*>5Easfc28d Street., and 
the American Veterinary College, 141 West 54th 
St., thiseity. Wethink agood veterinarysur 
geon has a much better chance of making a 
good livelihood than a medical surgeon of a 
like degree of skill and experience. While 
ordinary doctors are turned out by the thous¬ 
ands every year, from medical colleges^11 over 
the country, the number of graduates from 
veterinary' colleges is comparatively small. 
Of the first kind of practitioners there is a 
vast over production; of the second a consider¬ 
able under-production. Of really skillful vet¬ 
erinarians there are not half enough; while of 
ordinary doctors there are four times too 
many. A large number of the latter, finding 
it impossible to make '‘both ends meet” by 
their profession, havetoeugageiu other occu¬ 
pations. but skillful veterinarians are always 
in demand. 
A BALKY HORSE. 
M, S. S, Trumbull Ch., Conn .—We have 
an eight year-old horse that drives well to a 
carriage, but will not work to a farm cart, 
stopping sometimes when coming down hill 
with a load; what should be done? 
Ans.—T his horse seems to be an old hand 
at the business, and no medicine will effect a 
permanent cure except a dose of “swap.” If 
he is reliable to the carriage, you cau change 
with some one who would have constant work 
for him. A blauket thrown over the head, a 
little Cayenne pepper thrown in the mouth, a 
twist on the ear, almost uuything to take his 
attention, often causes a balky horse to start. 
Continued ou page 782. 
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Per Cent. 
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