1900 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER) 
347 
Ailing Animals. 
ANSWERS BY DR. F. L. KILBORNE. 
Cow Gives Bloody Milk. 
I have a cow that gives bloody milk. 
What is the cause, and also the remedy? 
When we first noticed it there were sev¬ 
eral large clots of blood milked from one 
teat. Since then the milk has been more 
or less bloody several days. The cow 
calved last September. She has been fed 
two quarts of gluten meal and four quarts 
of shorts a day with salt, English and 
meadow hay, all she will clean up. 
Merrimac, Mass. J. k. s. 
The udder was probably bruised, or 
otherwise injured in some way. Bath¬ 
ing with cold water after eacfh milking 
would have relieved the congestion. If 
the trouble still continues, rub the udder 
with soap liniment after each milking. 
Young Horse “Down in the Hip." 
My four-year-old colt in some way hip¬ 
ped himself in his stall. I called the only 
surgeon I could, but some say he is not 
much of a surgeon, so I come to you to 
ask how long should such a horse stand 
perfectly still, and when driven, how far 
should he go? The hide is not marked in 
the least. He seems very tender to the 
touch down the side back of the ribs, but 
it is probably in sympathy. I wash twice 
a day with hot water and apply a kind of 
soap linament. He was hurt over 10 days 
ago and seems doing well. Eats well and 
feels well. How long should I keep on 
bathing and applying medicine? c. w. t. 
West Leyden, N. Y. 
The colt will require to be kept quiet 
for three or four weeks, or even 
longer, if much tenderness remains. I 
would give uaily walking exercise as 
soon as he can walk without showing 
signs of pain. You are treating it prop¬ 
erly. Continue the soap liniment with 
hard rubbing, until the soreness has dis¬ 
appeared. Do not work the colt so as to 
strain him for a month after recovery, 
to enable the union to become strong. 
Cows Made Sick by Drinking Filthy Water. 
Two three-year-old heifers became fresh 
in February, and were fed clover and Tim¬ 
othy hay, wheat bran and oat meal. They 
have been giving a good flow of milk until 
recently. They commenced to lose, and 
one is almost dry, and what she does give 
is a watery substance and is getting some¬ 
what thick. The other one is coming the 
same way. They are turned in the yard 
twice a day. They have been used to 
having spring water, but for about four 
weeks we have been obliged to pump water 
from a well, and it was colored from horse 
manure. These heifers would eat the 
straw in the horse manure. What is your 
opinion? c. b. s. 
Munnsville, N. Y. 
I am of the opinion that the trouble is 
due to the filthy water the cows have 
been drinking. It was unfit for any kind 
of stock to drink, and the cows must 
have been very thirsty to drink such 
water. Eating the straw in the fresh 
horse manure is not nearly as bad as 
drinking the filthy, stagnant water, in 
which various organisms would find a 
suitable medium to multiply, and still 
further poison the water. Supply pure, 
fresh drinking water, and under no cir¬ 
cumstances water from that well again. 
It would be much better to melt snow. 
The cows will probably not fully regain 
their milk flow until another season. 
Ringworm or Warts on Cattle. 
I have a Jersey heifer not quite one year 
old, that has what some call warts on 
neck and head, around eyes, as also have 
the others in her company. They disfigure 
and look unsightly. Can you tell me the 
cause and suggest a remedy? I have her 
on pasture. I brought her home a few 
weeks ago and I find her dam now has 
them, appearing on her eyes and sides of 
head—was free from them before. The 
animals were playing one with the other. 
Are the warts contagious? m. l. m. 
Florida, N. Y. 
Your description of the appearance of 
the patches agrees with a parasitic affec¬ 
tion of the face and neck of cattle, 
known as ringworm. Round, elevated 
spots appear, covered with whitish scurf 
or scales, which spread slowly, destroy¬ 
ing the hair as they progress. If. on 
closer examination, you find this condi¬ 
tion, scrub with strong soapsuds, to 
soften and remove the scurf, then dry 
and paint with the compound tincture of 
iodine, allowing the tincture to spread 
into the hair around the border of spots 
to destroy all of the fungus. Two or 
three applications should effect a cure. 
The animals should be closely watched 
for a few weeks, to detect and treat any 
new centers of infection that may ap¬ 
pear. 
Scours in Calves. 
I have a peculiar phase of scours among 
sucking calves. It begins with an unusu¬ 
ally large amount of whitish soft excre¬ 
ment being voided, which in a little while 
gets worse, so It runs and is yellow and 
jelly-like. Most of the calves usually re 
cover after a while if put in a clean place, 
but not always. All the calves in a pen 
usually have it when it once gets started. 
I have had good success in ordinary cases 
of scours with castor oil, laudanum and 
Jamaica ginger, but these remedies do not 
seem to have any effect in this case. Will 
you give remedy? g. w. s. 
Allen’s Falls, N. Y. 
For general purposes I can advise 
nothing better than the castor oil, laud¬ 
anum and Jamaica ginger for scours in 
calves. If taken in hand at the outset, 
together with a proper course of feeding, 
the trouble can almost always be check¬ 
ed. Possibly you did not give the reme¬ 
dies in sufficiently large doses, or repeat 
the dose as frequently as was desirable. 
Sufficient castor oil should be given (two 
to three tablespoonfuls, with a teaspoon¬ 
ful each of laudanum and Jamaica gin¬ 
ger), but only at the outset, to move off 
the bowels. Then repeat the laudanum 
and Jamaica ginger every four, two, or 
even one hour if necessary, together 
with a like quantity of whisky if the 
animal is weak, until the diarrhea is 
checked. In obstinate cases tannalbin 
can be given to advantage, in milk, in 
doses of 20 to 30 grains, and repeated 
several times daily. When the calves 
are fed by hand it is well to add one- 
fourth to one-third lime water to the 
milk, which should be fed quite warm. 
Feed but a small quantity of milk at one 
time, say one pint, or not to exceed one 
quart, and repeat every four to six hours. 
It is much better to starve the calves a 
little than to overfeed them. With very 
young calves it is often best to feed not 
more than one-half to one pint at a 
feeding. _ 
THE BULL ON A WIRE. 
One of the most important questions 
that the average farmer who keeps a 
bull has to face is how to handle him 
safely, and still give plenty of exercise. 
Most farmers do not have an enclosed 
yard, some allow the bull to run with 
the other cattle, and the majority keep 
him in a stall the year round, save when 
he goes out for service. For a cheap 
and neat device for exercising a bull of 
ordinary docile disposition, I know of 
nothing better than a wire with a slid¬ 
ing ring. If the bull is put on the wire 
when yet a calf, and grows to maturity 
with a few hours’ exercise each day on 
the ring, he will become so well accus¬ 
tomed to it there will be no trouble 
when he is grown. Nearly three years 
ago we purchased a registered Short¬ 
horn bull calf, then five months old. He 
was stabled and well cared for until old 
enough to ring. A little later he was put 
out on a wire for daily exercise. He 
very soon learned the length of his chain 
and the distance the ring would slide on 
the wire. He is now a well-grown ani¬ 
mal, and is out on the wire for exercise 
from two to several hours each pleasant 
day. He is in good view of the highway 
and all passing stock, and does not 
bother in the least. Perhaps all bulls 
could not be handled as easily, but the 
majority could if properly trained from 
the beginning. 
Our bull wire is about 60 feet in 
length, and is made of several strands of 
galvanized fence wire, hand twisted. 
Two heavy ox-yoke rings are fastened 
at each end of the main wire or cable, 
so they will come within four or five feet 
of the posts, and these in turn are se¬ 
cured to the posts by secondary wires. 
The rings serve in keeping the bull at a 
proper distance from the posts, and also 
in twisting the wires. The end wires 
pass through the posts, so they will ad¬ 
just themselves when the main wire is 
being twisted. The posts should be suf¬ 
ficiently heavy so that they can be well 
braced; seven feet above ground and 18 
inches thick do very well. No matter 
how well the posts are secured in the 
ground, the pull of the wire will prob¬ 
ably be such that it will be necessary to 
attach stay wires back of each. Our bull 
wire is attached to either post about six 
feet from the ground, but this is hardly 
high enough on account of sag in the 
middle. Seven feet high at the posts will 
be better generally with a long wire. 
C. P. REYNOLDS. 
Shiawassee Co., Mich. 
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