THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
April 4 
266 
Live Stockand Dairy 
Ailing Animals. 
Horse Interfering, 
What can be done to keep m.v colt from 
sti'iking his left leg with his other foot? 
It is when he Is trotting. He is five years 
old and full of life. H. s. O. 
Kermoor, i’a. 
You do not say whether your horse 
strikes behind or forward, but at any 
rate, it conies from improper shoeing. 
If your horse is properly shod there is 
nothing to prevent his going level. Nine- 
tenths of the horseshoers know abso¬ 
lutely nothing about the anatomy of the 
horse’s foot; when it comes to shoeing 
tliey are a botch, and cannot fit two 
shoes for one horse alike. It is no won¬ 
der that our horses interfere and have 
corns and all other diseases that the 
horse’s foot is subjected to. Have your 
horse .shod level and he will not inter¬ 
fere. 
Tumors of the Orbit. 
I have a cow which for some time has 
had a sore eye. It suppurated and had a 
bad odor. It has almost stopped fester¬ 
ing, but there is a kind of knot hanging 
over the eye which sometimes bleeds. The 
cow is giving milk and is getting poorer 
all the time. What can I do to prevent 
(he tumor from getting larger? n. w. 
Lutherville, Ark. 
A fungus tumor of the eyeball or orbit 
occasionally appears. This may arise 
without any appreciable cause or as the 
result of a wound, it frequently com¬ 
mences within the eyeball as a small red 
mass, eventually bursts through, and 
pushes its way outside of the orbit as a 
large dark red mass, bleeding at the 
slightest touch. It has a peculiar fetid 
odor, and early in its appearance de¬ 
stroys sight, involving all the contents 
of the orbit, not infrequently the bony 
wall itself. Unless the tumor is totally re¬ 
moved in its early growth, together with 
the eyeball, the disease will cause ema¬ 
ciation and death of the animal. The 
operation should not be undertaken by 
anyone unacquainted with the anatomi¬ 
cal structures involved; when operated 
upon early enough the result is gener¬ 
ally satisfactory. 
Thoroughpin; Barbed Wire Injury. 
1 . Cun you recommend a remedy for 
thoroughpin? The horse is working every 
day and pain seems to be out of it. He 
goes s<»nnd except when pulling heavy 
load. Thoroughpin started about six weeks 
ago. llur.se is 14 years old, weight, l,3(Ki. 
The only thing we use is sweet oil. Wo 
would like to know of something to ab¬ 
sorb the matter if possible. 2. We have a 
road horse which got tangled in barbed 
wire last Summer. He still has a spot 
about the size of a silver dollar on top of 
hoof which we cannot get to heal. What 
do you recommend? w. H. 
Springlield, Mass. 
L. Thoroughpin is a name given to a 
bur.sal enlargement which occurs at the 
upper and Itack part of the hock beneath 
the great tendon. Generally both sides 
participate in the swelling, but occa¬ 
sionally it happens that one side only is 
involved. When irritation of the true 
hock-joint is the cause then the thor¬ 
oughpin is but a further development of 
bog spavin. The increased secretion of 
synovia, not pus, consequent upon the 
irritation, first makes its appearance in 
the most dependent portion of the syno¬ 
vial bursa, which it causes to become 
unusually distended. When the disten¬ 
sion reaches to the superior portions of 
the bursa, then the swelling appears 
equally on both sides, and moderate ex¬ 
ternal pressure forces the fluid from 
side to side. This is the origin of the 
name of thoroughpin. Give the horse 
absolute rest after clipping the hair 
from the parts affected, and apply the 
following blister: Tincture of iodine, 
one ounce; turpentine, two ounces; tinc¬ 
ture of cantharides, two ounces; linseed 
oil, three ounces; give it a good applica¬ 
tion every other day until a good blis¬ 
ter is formed, then stop and grease with 
fresh lard. .After two weeks wash and 
grease at intervals until healed. You 
may have to repeat blister. Give rest 
w'hile treating. 2. Scarify or scrape the 
wound thoroughly and ai)ply a good 
strong blister to the parts. You may 
have to repeat this blister two or three 
times for two months. 
Weak Cows; A ‘'Condition Powder.’' 
Our 25 cows have been fed straw at night 
and hay or cornstalks at morning and 
noon, with no grain until about two weeks 
before calving, when each had about four 
quarts. After caiving they became thin 
and weak. What is best to feed such 
cows, and is there any way to prevent 
tliis weakness? C. H. p. 
North East, Pa. 
This is the old trouble of trying to get 
something for nothing; feeding cows 
about to freshen with foods deficient in 
the elements necessary for strength and 
building up the young calf. Straw, corn¬ 
stalks and hay are chiefly starch and 
liber. Very little protein is found in 
them. They are also deficient in ash 
These cows have been drawing heavily 
upon their vitality therefore to grow 
their young, resulting in extreme weak¬ 
ness and fever. Just what grain was 
fed for the two weeks prior to calving is 
not mentioned, but no matter what it 
was, it would do but little good for such 
a time, and if it contained corn would be 
a positive damage. These cows were 
very badly out of condition and could 
not give milk or thrive. They should 
have only warm water to drink. The 
grain food should be wheat bran, three 
parts, ground oats two parts, and linseed 
meal one part, feeding as they can stand 
it live to eight pounds per day, and what 
coarse fodder they will eat. They will 
not be in condition again this year for 
milk production.. Make up a condition 
powder of: 
100 parts.oil meal 
5 parts.powdered charcoal 
5 parts.Epsom salts 
6 parts.salt 
4 parts.gentian 
4 parts.saltpeter 
3 parts.Fenugreek 
2 parts.pepper 
Feed them one-fourth pound per day. 
This will serve as a tonic. But do not 
get into such trouble again. Send to 
your experiment station at State Col¬ 
lege and get all of the information at 
hand upon cattle foods, and then, in¬ 
stead of feeding the hay, straw and 
cornstalks alone, feed with them two 
pounds wheat bran and two pounds 
oats. A bit more or less or either one 
alone would do very well, and so give 
the cow for two months before calving 
the easily-digested protein food she 
must have. _ n. e. cook. 
For the land’s sake, use Bowker’s Fer¬ 
tilizers. They enrich the earth.— Adv. 
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