1900 
363 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Ailing Animals. 
ANSWERS BY PR. F. D. KII/BORNE. 
Kneesprung Pony. 
Can anything be done for a pony that is 
slightly kneesprung? She has had hard 
usage on the cobblestone pavements, and 
is perfect in all other respects. She Is 
mostly used on the farm and for light road 
work, with no shoes. a. f. a. 
Claremont, Va. 
A run at pasture, with the daily appli¬ 
cation of soap liniment or other stimu¬ 
lating lotion, and active hard rubbing of 
the back cords, will help to straighten 
the knees. A mild blister might also be 
applied occasionally to the back cords to 
advantage. 
Milk Spatters f,om Cow's Teat. 
I have a valuable cow that has just 
calved, and some time before she went dry 
one of her teats got stepped on, leaving 
a little bunch in the end. I have about 
succeeded in removing the bunch, but find 
on milking her that the milk spatters in 
that teat. What can I do to stop the 
spattering? It doesn’t give a nice clean 
stream like the rest. w. h. k. 
Bethel, Conn. 
Insert a milking tube or a small quill, 
and tie in the 'teat, allowing it to re¬ 
main in the teat from one milking to the 
next, for a few days. The milking tube 
should be plugged to prevent the milk 
from running away. If this fail, em¬ 
ploy a veterinary surgeon to enlarge the 
opening, and allow it to heal again, 
when the trouble should cease. 
Abscess Along Abdomen of Mule. 
I have a mule troubled with yellow water. 
He swells up most between hind legs, ex¬ 
tending towards front legs. About one 
gallon of corruption runs when it opens; 
It takes about three to four weeks to 
gather. What is the cause and what can 
I give him to stop it, as he is a good beast 
otherwise? j. B . 
Middleport, Pa. 
There has been some irritation or in¬ 
jury along that region, resulting in in¬ 
flammation and suppuration. The ab¬ 
scess, when formed, should be freely 
opened and syringed out daily with a 
two to three-per-cent solution of creo- 
lin or carbolic acid; keep it open until 
all dead tissue has sloughed out. In¬ 
ternally give two drams powdered dry 
sulphate of iron with one dram aloes 
twice daily. Omit 'the aloes, or give only 
once daily, if the bowels become too 
loose. 
Cows Sucking Each Other. 
I have a nice herd of Jersey cows, and 
they have a notion of sucking each other. 
What can I do to prevent it? I put on a 
muzzle, but they turn thus up edgeways 
and manage to get the teat. 
No Address. subscriber. 
Jerseys are very prone to suck each 
other, as well as themselves. While 
young, they ought to be fed in calf 
stanchions, or better still, in individual 
stalls, where they will not have the op¬ 
portunity of sucking each other after 
feeding, and thus acquire a habit which 
they do not readily give up. If you will 
use a muzzle made of a two-inch, rather 
heavy strap, close fitting, with just 
enough room to allow of the movement 
of the jaws in mastication, and fill well 
with short spikes, you will stop their 
sucking. If made of a rather wide, stiff 
strap, fitted to the nose, the cow will not 
be able to turn it up edgewise, and the 
spikes will keep her away from the other 
cows. 
Sow Eating Her Pigs. 
I have a purebred Berkshire sow, three 
years old, which had 13 pigs two weeks 
ago; is healthy and hearty. She is very 
kind and gentle, an extra good mother. 
She ate two of her pigs, and I have taken 
the litter from her; shall raise them by 
hand. Can you tell me the cause of this, 
and how to remedy it? j. f. c. 
Highland, N. Y. 
Various causes have been assigned for 
sows eating their young, such as cos¬ 
tiveness, inflammation of the womb, de¬ 
sire for salt, or a taste of blood, 
and viciousness. Sows should have 
a light laxative diet for a few 
days before and after farrowing to 
prevent costiveness. Placing salt, or 
salt and charcoal or ashes where the 
sow can eat it will lessen the desire 
to eat the pigs. The afterbirth and any 
dead pigs Should be removed as soon as 
discovered, to prevent her getting a taste 
of blood. Sponging the young pigs over 
very lightly with kerosene is said to ren¬ 
der them unpalatable to the sow. If the 
sows are handled and treated kindly be¬ 
fore farrowing, so as to become accus¬ 
tomed to you, they will be much less 
likely to be disturbed so as to injure 
their pigs, and then to eat them. 
Indigestion in a Calf. 
I have a fine Jersey calf which has 
a habit of eating rags, dirt, sand, ropes, 
etc. She has a clean, fine stable, her food 
Is stale bread, oats, cow-pea hay, and 
still she looks dry and poor, although her 
eyes look healthy and lively: age 10 
months. Can you recommend a remedy? 
Egg Harbor City, N. J. f. k. 
The calf is suffering from indigestion. 
Take prepared chalk, gentian and gin¬ 
ger, of each four ounces, mix, and di¬ 
vide into 32 powders. Give a powder in 
the feed, two or three times daily. Feed 
a small handful ground flaxseed or oil 
meal with the grain ration twice daily. 
If there is constipation give two ounces 
raw linseed oil daily until relieved. 
Place a lump of rock salt, or common 
salt, where the calf can lick it at will. 
Confine the calf where she cannot get 
such things to eat until you turn to pas¬ 
ture, after which she ought to forget the 
habit, if she does well. 
Horses in New England. 
Farm horses are higher now than they 
have been for some time. One year ago 
I bought a second-class horse for $35; to¬ 
day he would cost me double, if not more; 
his weight is about 1,150 pounds, and he is 
about 12 years old. Horses are rather 
scarce near here; many people are obliged 
to go to the city to find them. A good 
team, first-class, cost about $400. There 
is one team I have in mind that is for 
sale for about $350; this team weighs about 
2.800 pounds. These teams are few on the 
farms; they cost too much. Most far¬ 
mers use second-class horses; they are 
cheaper, and sell from $100 to $275 a pair. 
I think the homebred horses are the best; 
those brought from the West are more 
liable to take the disease, for they nearly 
die in acclimating. The second-class 
horses are more numerous than any other. 
We have a great many steam saw mills 
near here that are stocked with second- 
class horses now, and when we see a good 
pair they keep these on the road. There 
are three different kinds of horses, west¬ 
ern, Canadian and homebred; if I were to 
take my pick of these the homebred would 
first, the Canadian next and the western 
last. The Canadian horses acclimate very 
quickly; they are more like the home¬ 
bred. w. E. B 
Warner, N. H. 
Horses are worth about 40 per cent more 
now than four years ago. The farmers 
around here have not raised any colts for 
several years, as horses were so cheap, 
but this year a good many farmers are 
talking of raising colts. Most of the farm 
horses used in this section weigh from 
1,000 to 1,200 pounds, and are good workers 
and drivers. If I were to go out to buy 
a pair I could not get anything but west¬ 
ern horses; there are no natives to sell. 
The western horses are all right if not 
worked too hard the first year, but they re¬ 
quire a little more grain than our natives 
to keep in good flesh, and a good many 
farmers who bought westerners and used 
them just like natives did not feel satis¬ 
fied with tnem. Large teams weighing 
from 2,800 to 3,300 pounds sell for $300 to 
$400 per pair. A good many farmers keep 
an ox team to do their heavy work in the 
Spring and then turn them out to pasture 
in Summer and sell for beef in the Fall. 
I live about 10 miles away from Laconia, a 
small ciiy, and sell butter and eggs every 
week to my customers. I keep about 200 
hens and seven Jersey cows, and raise the 
heifers. I have seven young cattle turned 
off to pasture now. We have 24 sheep and 
24 lambs, also four breeding sows with 
pigs. I keep three horses to do my farm 
work and driving; they weigh 1,050 to 
1,100 pounds each, and will work quietly 
on the plow, but will carry me to Laconia 
in one hour without urging. Some of my 
neighbors do all of their work Spring and 
Fall with oxen, and only keep one horse 
for driving and working in Summer. 
W. Alton, N. H. c . f. m. 
“I HAVE two young pigs, and find that 
coal ashes are just the thing to put in their 
pens. How they do eat them,” writes one 
of our friends. 
An exchange says that the hog takes the 
lead as a condensor of values. 
“Warm sweet milk strengthens the little 
chicks wonderfully. I have even given 
them a drink while they were still in the 
shell,” says a friend of the Langshans. 
The latest report is that hens at Albany 
have developed hydrophobia. Many an 
honest hen might well get "mad” at the 
treatment she receives. We should now 
have a law prohibiting all hens from wear¬ 
ing teeth. 
Mice and Harness.—I see others have 
trouble with rats and mice, (I think most¬ 
ly mice), nibbling harness. A teaspoonful 
or less of carbolic acid in a quart of the 
oil used to grease the harness will pro¬ 
tect it for a year. I have used this for 
10 years with perfect success. o. d. t. 
Town Hill, Pa. 
Excellent results in fattening range 
cattle on beet pulp and hay are reported 
from Oregon. A firm in Union County be¬ 
gan the experiment last Fall, putting 675 
range cattle on this diet. The animals ate 
well and thrived, 500 being marketed this 
Spring in fine condition. The pulp gave 
out before all were finished; the remain¬ 
ing animals will be fattened on pulp next 
Fall, when more feeders will be put on the 
same diet. 
A Sheep Pasture.— I have this year 
sown a mixture of oats, rye, wheat and 
rape. This is only an experiment, but my 
idea is that the oats, rye and wheat will 
provide early feed, and tne rape late; I 
shall sow rape in my corn the last time I 
plow it, and that will make feed until snow 
flies. Last year I sowed about three acres 
of rape for my sheep, and it proved to be 
one of the greatest fodder plants I ever 
saw. It is fine feed for young stock in 
the Fall, when the animals are turned into 
the stalk field, as it lessens the liability of 
the dreaded cornstalk diseases by keeping 
the bowels in good condition. I do not ad¬ 
vise feeding to milch cows, as it has a ten¬ 
dency to flavor the butter. a. f. 
Vermillion, S. D. 
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