1900 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
233 
Ailing Animals. 
ANSWERS BY DR. E. L. KIT. BORNE. 
Overfed Cow Off Feed. 
1 have a four-year-old Jersey cow 1 
bought two months ago. She was very 
poor; I began to feed all the hay and grain 
she would eat until I overfed her. Now 
all she will eat are a few potatoes and a 
little hay, but will not eat grain in any 
form. She is still very poor; due to come 
in at the end of May. What can I do for 
her? w. p. s. 
Tupper Lake, N. Y. 
Give one of the following powders 
three times daily, in a quart of thin 
flaxseed gruel, as a drench: Powdered 
nux vomica, four ounces; powdered gen¬ 
tian and ginger, of each eight ounces. 
Mix, and divide into 24 powders. Con¬ 
tinue feeding a little bright hay or corn 
fodder. Tempt her appetite with a few 
apples, potatoes, or roots, and sprinkle 
a l'ittle bran over them as soon as she 
will eat it. Do not allow food to stand 
before the cow from one feeding until 
the next. All food that is not eaten 
within two hours should be removed, 
and nothing given until next feeding. 
It would be well to give the cow three 
or four extra quarts of the flaxseed 
gruel daily. 
Chronic Cough in a Cow. 
I have a cow that coughs every night; 
what can I give her to cure her cough? Is 
there any danger in drinking her milk? if 
so, how can it be obviated? Ought it to 
be boiled? n. 
Ojus, Fla. 
Rub the throat from ear to ear with 
ammonia liniment (equal parts strong 
aqua ammonia and sweet oil) sufficient 
to blister. Repeat after two or three 
weeks, if necessary. Give one teaspoon¬ 
ful of the following cougn paste, by 
opening the mouth and smearing well 
back on the teeth and tongue, to be 
slowly swallowed at leisure: Powdered 
opium and solid extract belladonna, of 
each one ounce; nitrate of potash, two 
ounces; powdered extract of licorice, six 
ounces; honey (about eight ounces), 
sufficient to make a stiff paste. Repeat 
the dose three or four times daily after 
eating. Feed a hot mash daily, to steam 
the throat, if the cow will eat it. There 
would be no danger in drinking the 
m'ilk, unless the cough were due to tu¬ 
berculosis. If there is no improvement 
after two or three weeks’ treatment it 
would do well to have the cow tuber¬ 
culin-tested for tuberculosis. I would 
not advise boiling the milk; but simply 
to heat it to a temperature of 155 to 160 
degrees Fahrenheit for 10 to 15 minutes, 
after which cool quickly with ice or cold 
water. This will sterilize the milk so as 
to render it safer for use. 
Foul-in-the-Foot in Cattle. 
I have several cows whose hind feet are 
sore—fouls in them, I think, from pastur¬ 
ing in swampy ground. The stables are 
kept clean; they stand on cement. What 
can I do to cure them, and what can be 
done to keep them from throwing them¬ 
selves while we are applying the remedy? 
We have tried to catch them lying down, 
but they learned in a hurry who applied the 
wash, and as soon as that person appeared 
in the stable, every one that had sore feet 
scrambled up and it would take a Samson 
to hold them. I cannot have them thrown, 
as they are soon to be fresh milkers. 
Silver Mine, Conn. e. r. a. 
A common method of holding the hind 
foot is to tie a rope around the fetlock 
and draw the foot backward, passing 
the rope through a ring or around a 
bar. If the cows are carefully handled, 
and an assistant stands at one side to 
steady the animal, they will not usually 
throw themselves. But even if they 
do, they will rarely injure themselves, 
if the rope is eased off as the animal 
goes down. You can avoid all danger 
by first tying up the fore feet, so as to 
bring the cow to her knees; then tie a 
rope to each hind foot, or tie both legs 
together, and gently lay her down on 
one side, and keep her down until the 
feet are dressed. See page 523 of The 
R- N.-Y. for July 15, 1899, for the treat¬ 
ment of foot-rot. 
Lice on Cattle. 
My cows are covered with some kind of 
vermin—not lice, but a kind of tick—a little 
thing that seems to burrow its head in the 
hide, with the rest of its body protruding. 
What will destroy them? m. e. b. 
New York. 
The vermin of which you write are 
evidently the large blood-sucking lice, 
the Hoematopinus of cattle. They are 
one-eighth to one-fifth inch long, and 
one-twelfth to one-tenth inch broad, and 
are provided with a sucking tube with 
which they pierce the skin for the pur¬ 
pose of sucking the blood. Rub the re¬ 
gions infested with the lice (most com¬ 
monly the neck and shoulders), with 
one part kerosene, well shaken up in 
about eight parts of sweet or cotton-seed 
oil. Repeat the application in a week 
or 10 days. Two or three applications, 
if thorough, ought to rid the cattle of 
most of their lice. The stable should 
be cleaned and scrubbed with kerosene 
and water, or whitewashed. During 
warm weather it would be easier, and 
equally effective, to use one part kero¬ 
sene to eight parts of water, or one part 
kerosene emulsion dissolved in eight 
parts water, and sponge the animals all 
over thoroughly. 
Cows that Chew Boards. 
What is there lacking in the ration of a 
cow, which makes her gnaw pieces of wood 
and eat splinters? The animals will gnaw 
on almost any kind of wood, but seem to 
prefer pine when they can get at it. What 
should they be fed to make them stop eat¬ 
ing wood? Does it hurt a cow to eat 
splinters? o. w. s. 
Applegate, N. Y. 
This gnawing of boards and old 
bones, or drinking filthy water, indi¬ 
cates that the cattle need lime and 
phosphates in their food. When they 
lack their bone-forming food they show 
these depraved or abnormal tastes. 
The remedy is to feed grain rich in 
phosphates. Bran or oil meal are good. 
Some farmers often feed a handful of 
fine ground bone with the grain. This 
quickly removes the cause and stops 
xae habit. Yes, it is a bad habit— 
likely to hurt t_e cow. 
1 have been using Jayne’s Expectorant for the 
past THIRTY YEARS. During that time I have 
cured myself as well as the members of my family, 
of some very severe Colds. I consider it the very 
best and safest remedy made for the relief of all 
pulmonary troubles —P. M. GREEN, Culbertson, 
Neb., Oct. 17, 18’5. 
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