March 3 
i5o 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Ailing Animals. 
ANSWERS BY DB. F. L. KILBORNE. 
Worms in Horses; Collar Gall. 
1. Can you give remedies for worms in 
horses? My horse has worms from six to 
18 inches long, as large as a lead pencil, 
color white. 2. The horses also have sore 
necks, and am unable to treat them per¬ 
manently; the sores break out the same 
as a boil on top of the neck usually, but 
occasionally in other places. I can heal 
them for a time, then they return. I have 
had medicine from veterinaries several 
times, but it only helps temporarily. The 
trouble is worse in warm weather, and if 
they by chance get a sore it is almost im¬ 
possible to heal it. t. b. s. 
Binghamton, N. Y. 
1. The worm you describe is the com¬ 
mon ascaris of tne horse, and except 
when present in large numbers, is com¬ 
paratively harmless. Cause the horse to 
fast for at least 10 hours, then drench 
with three ounces oil of turpentine well 
shaken up in one pint raw linseed oil. 
After two hours give one ounce each 
aloes and ginger to move the bowels 
and carry away the worms. A bran- 
mash diet for a day or two before the 
treatment, and also afterwards, until 
the bowels move, would be desirable. 
2. Thoroughly cauterize the raw sur¬ 
face with a stick of nitrate of silver, af¬ 
ter which apply benzoated oxide of zinc 
ointment morning and evening. If there 
is a tumor or other evidence of dead tis¬ 
sue, it may require dissecting out be¬ 
fore it will heal permanently. 
Cow Fails to Come to Her Milk. 
I bought a Guernsey cow commencing to 
spring; after she dropped her third calf she 
failed to give the usual flow of milk from 
three teats. The flow from the one is 
fairly good. She Is in good condition and 
well cared for. I have been trying differ¬ 
ent feeds, but as yet find no improvement. 
What is your opinion? h. c. c. 
Bellwood, Pa. 
Occasionally, as in this case, a cow 
will fail to come to her milk alter calv¬ 
ing, without apparent cause for such 
failure. Since there is no trouble with 
the udder, or other disease to treat, we 
can only suggest that you continue to 
feed liberally until she can be turned to 
pasture. She may yet return, in part, 
to her normal milk flow. Should she 
fail to do so this season, she will be 
quite liable to after the next calving, so 
that if she is a valuable cow it would 
be worth while to keep her over and 
give her another chance. Should she 
then fail, fatten for the butcher. 
Abortion in Cows. 
1. What shall I give a cow after she has 
aborted? 2. Is there anything that will 
stop her from doing it again? 3. Is abor¬ 
tion catching? 4. Will one cow do it that 
stands two or three stanchions away from 
one that has done it? 6. Is there any cure? 
6. Is there anything I can give a cow that 
is nearly dry (she has lost one calf), so she 
will not lose this one? 7. What is the 
cause? 8. What shall I do so that it will 
stop? 9. Will silage, if fed too long to a 
cow, kill the calf? 10. Will silage hurt 
cows if fed after they are dry? I have a 
herd of 20 cows, and a barn 40x60 feet built 
in the Fall of 1898; the cows are on one 
side, in a room 16 feet wide, the length of 
the barn, 60 feet. It is a good light, airy, 
place, has six windows in it, and they are 
all kept clean and nice. I use sawdust for 
bedding. I feed good silage twice a day, 
about a bushel to each cow, and good, clean 
nice hay, and about eight quarts of grain 
a day, or three quarts of shorts, one quart 
of gluten meal twice a day, morning and 
night. They have all the water they will 
drink, and plenty of exercise and good care, 
and I don’t see why they abort; I have 
tried all that I know or have been told, but 
it doBs no good. I had two cows lose their 
calves, one at six months, one day, and 
the other at seven months the very next 
day. I put them in a shed by themselves, 
and fumigated the barn and kept them 
there for a couple of months, and then as 
they seemed all right I put them back. 
In about three months I had another cow 
lose her calf at three or four months, so I 
put her separate, and February 4 I had 
another cow lose her calf at eight months, 
so I have got her by herself. I have had 
a good Jersey bull about two years old, to 
keep for my cows, but as he was in good 
condition I have sold him to be killed, and 
he was all right every way, so the trouble 
cannot come from him. I haven’t fed 
silage to the last cow, nor grain, since dry¬ 
ing her up two or three weeks ago, only 
she would reach a little of the other cows’ 
silage standing next to her. The cow that 
lost her calf last Spring is in calf again 
and is dry, and will perhaps calve in a 
month or two. Is there anything I can 
give her so that she will not lose her calf 
this time? I have had the other two 
killed. This is her third calf; she is a 
heifer that I raised, and is about five years 
old. The cow that lost her calf February 
4 is about seven or eight years old. 
Fitchburg, Mass. o. a. c. 
1. Warm mashes with a light diet, the 
same as if she had calved at full term. 
Isolate from the herd at once, or as soon 
as any suspicious symptoms are ob¬ 
served. 2. Nothing beyond avoiding al 
causes that tend to favor abortion. 3. 
Yes; in outbreaks as in your herd. In¬ 
dividual cases are mostly accidental. 4. 
Nearly or quite as liable as if she stood 
next to the aborting cow. All cows in 
the stable are nearly equally exposed 
and liable to abort. 5. Avoiding or pre¬ 
venting the causes is the only known 
remedy. 6. Fluid extract of Black haw 
(Viburnum prunifolium) in ounce doses 
once or twice daily is believed by some 
to prevent abortions. In other cases it 
appears to have little or no effect. If 
the symptoms are observed before abor¬ 
tion has actually taken place, it can 
sometimes be prevented by keeping the 
cow perfectly quiet and giving ounce 
doses of laudanum or of bromide o:i 
potassium every three or four hours. 
During treatment the cow should be fed 
sparingly, mainly on bran mashes or 
other sloppy food. 
7. Accidents of various kinds (see 
page 827 of The R. N.-Y. for Nov. 15, 
1899). The contagious form is un¬ 
doubtedly due to a specific germ or 
micro-organism. 8. Isolation of the in¬ 
fected animals and a thorough system of 
disinfection under the personal direction 
of a competent veterinarian will usually 
check the outbreak in a few months. 
The general stable should be thorough¬ 
ly cleaned and disinfected at least once 
a month, or immediately after the re¬ 
moval of each aborting cow. A solu¬ 
tion of one-half pint of the concentrated 
commercial sulphuric acid in each 10 
quarts of water is an effective and cheap 
disinfectant wash for the stable. Keep 
the stable as clean, dry and well-ven¬ 
tilated as possible. The fetus, mem¬ 
branes and all litter that has been in 
contact with an aborting animal should 
be at once removed and burned or deep¬ 
ly buried. The isolated cows should 
have the tail, vulva, and hips washed 
daily with a two to three per cent solu¬ 
tion of creolin, or chloro-naptholeum, or 
a one to 1,000 solution of corrosive 
sublimate in water. Wash out the 
vagina and womb daily as long as dis¬ 
charge continues with a solution of two 
tablespoonfuls creolin or chloro-naptho¬ 
leum in one gallon blood-warm water, 
or one dram corrosive sublimate dis¬ 
solved in one gallon water. 
9 and 10. No, if not fed to excess so 
as to injure the general health of the 
cow. If you have further trouble with 
abortion, I would suggest that you cor¬ 
respond with Director H. H. Goodell, of 
your Experiment Station at Amherst, 
or with Dr. Austin Peters, chairman 
Massachusetts Board of Cattle Commis¬ 
sioners, Boston. They may be able to 
cause an investigation and assist you 
in eradicating the disease. 
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