1900 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
571 
Ailing Animals. 
ANSWERS BY DR. F. L. KILBORNE. 
Skin Eruption on a Horse. 
One of our horses is completely covered 
with lumps the size of a chestnut to the 
size of a hen’s egg; they seem between the 
flesh and skin. He bites them occasion¬ 
ally; they are exactly like hives on a hu¬ 
man. The horse eats well and feels well; 
he is very cautious about powders in his 
feed. f. b. 
Wildwood, Ont. 
Give one ounce each aloes and ginger, 
either in ball or by drench in half pint 
of cold water. Repeat the dose in 
three days if the horse is not freely 
purged by the first dose. If this does 
not cause the lumps to disappear in a 
week or 10 days, try another course of 
aloes as before. 
Skin Eruption on Pigs. 
I ha.ve about 20 pigs, 16 small and four 
big, and they all have an eruption on the 
skin causing them to rub themselves sore. 
Can you tell me what brings it, and the 
cure? I feed nothing but middlings. 
Silverbrook, Pa. b. h. k. 
Give each pig one tablespoonful Ep¬ 
som salts for every 40 pounds weight of 
pig. Dissolve the salts in warm water 
and administer by drenching. Repeat 
the dose in two days if the bowels are 
not moved by first dose. Place a box 
of salt and powdered charcoal where the 
pigs can eat of it at will. If the pigs 
are being overfed, reduce the feed. 
Dust or lightly rub the raw surfaces 
with finely-powdered oxide of zinc. 
Open Sore on a Horse’s Leg. 
In the earlier part of May I found my 
driving horse, a very high-spirited one, with 
her hind foot over the halter chain. I ex¬ 
amined her and found it had cut the flesh 
off to the cords, and exposed something 
that looked like bone in the center. I 
washed it out in bichloride of mercury so¬ 
lution and bandaged, dressing night and 
morning at first; afterward only in the 
morning. I finally turned the mare to pas¬ 
ture, putting on iodoform, and outside this 
a coating of tar, leaving off the bandage. 
The sore has filled full and nearly healed 
over except in the center of the wound, 
which discharges a thick watery fluid 
which looks something like mucuage. This 
fluid comes from some windgalls above the 
hock joint, which were there before the 
injury, by a duct to the opening, pressing 
on the windgalls causes it to flow. She 
walks without much lameness now. What 
treatment shall I give the foot to complete 
the cure? w. t. g. 
Topsham, Me. 
A personal examination will be neces¬ 
sary in this case to ascertain the nature 
and source of the discharge before ad¬ 
vising treatment. I can only advise 
taking the horse to a qualified veterin¬ 
ary surgeon for examination and treat¬ 
ment. 
A Cow Tonic; Foot-and-Mouth Disease. 
1. What tonic can I give a cow that is 
out of condition as the result of a bad 
sore? 2. Foot-and-mouth disease; how does 
it act? The agricultural almanac tells how 
quickly concerted action stamped it out of 
one of the old countries, so I should sup¬ 
pose it is very contagious. reader. 
1. As a tonic, give the cow one of the 
following powders in some feed night 
and morning: Dry sulphate of iron and 
powdered nux vomica, of each four 
ounces; gentian and ginger, of each 
eight ounces; mix, and divide into 32 
powders. 2. Foot-and-mouth disease is 
a contagious, eruptive fever affecting 
cattle, sheep and swine, and communi¬ 
cable by inoculation to all warm-blood¬ 
ed animals, including man. The virus 
of the disease is one of the most con¬ 
tagious known, and nearly all bovine 
animals exposed suffer an attack of the 
disease. The period of incubation is 
from two to six days. The character¬ 
istic symptoms of the disease are the 
eruption of small blisters, one-fourth to 
one inch in breadth, in the mouth, on 
the udder and teats, and on the feet. 
The disease usually runs its course in 
two weeks, and with good nursing the 
animals usually recover. At the present 
time, the disease is unknown in this 
country, although it has more than 
once been introduced with infected stock 
from Europe, but each time it has been 
recognized and stamped out. 
Dry or Contracted Feet; Hip Lameness. 
1. What should be done for a horse 
troubled with dry feet? 2. Is lameness in 
the hip of a horse curable or not? I bought 
a horse that was supposed to have a bone 
spavin, but I think the lameness is higher 
up in the hip, for she drags her foot in 
stepping backwards. Am I right? 
Northampton, Mass. f. h. l. 
1. Blister the coronet mildly with am¬ 
monia liniment, and repeat once a 
month until good growth of horn is 
established. Also paint the whole hoof 
daily with an ointment of equal parts 
of pine tar and vaseline melted together. 
Packing the feet at night with a wet 
sponge or wet moss, or causing the 
horse to stand in about two inches of 
wet clay for a few hours each day when 
not at work, is good for the feet. But 
whenever the feet are thus soaked, they 
should be coated with some ointment 
as soon as dry, to prevent undue drying. 
2. Hip lameness is usually curable. If 
your horse swings the leg outward and 
drags the foot in moving forward, it 
would indicate lameness in the hip; but 
not so if she drags the foot only when 
stepping backward. 
Colt Weak in Hindquarters. 
I have a yearling colt that recently ap¬ 
peared to lose the use of its hind legs, it 
would run and kick up with both hind legs, 
as though something hurt it; then it would 
break down behind and circle around as 
though to keep from falling down behind. 
It eats and is better sometimes. It makes 
frequent but small amounts of urine. I 
can’t find anything wrong in its looks, 
only it is dull; its eyes are bright and it 
is not feverish. It seemed to get quite 
itchy at first on neck and head, and rubbed 
off some hair. What is the matter and 
what treatment is needed? j. a. g. 
Strattonville, Pa. 
I am unable to judge of the nature of 
the weakness from your description. It 
may be due to any one of several causes. 
Try a course of nux vomica, giving 20- 
grain doses powdered nux in feed night 
and morning, and gradually increase 
the dose until at the end of two weeks 
40-grain doses may be given twice daily. 
If jerking or twitching of the muscles 
should occur, it is an indication that the 
nux has been pushed far enough, and 
that tne dose should be reduced. If 
there is little or no improvement after 
a course of three weeks, take the colt to 
a qualified veterinarian for a personal 
examination. 
TREAD POWER FOR BULLS AND COL TS 
I have worked bulls, bull calves, rams 
and colts on the tread power. When a 
power is set to run only about two miles 
per hour, 30 minutes’ work with the bull 
will give him more exercise than he 
would generally get in a month, and do 
him a world of good, if you take care 
of him afterwards. Constantly stepping 
up hill is similar to walking up many 
flights of stairs, and first affects the 
lungs, then the pores, followed by gen¬ 
eral fatigue. The power must be set 
to run slow; the bull must not be 
worked over 30 minutes in warm 
weather, and he must be heavily blan¬ 
keted as soon as off the power, the in¬ 
ner blanket being taken off in an hour, 
and the rest in another hour. If this 
care is not taken, the bull will soon 
begin to cough; will lose flesh and ap¬ 
petite, have a running nose, and be 
generally debilitated. The same thing 
applies to horses; they must have the 
best of care. This is very important, as 
30 minutes on a tread power within a 
close room, and close to another ani¬ 
mal, generates a great amount of heat, 
more than can be obtained out of doors 
at any violent work I know, and it is 
the after care that tells the whole tale. 
Such work is the best thing for a bull 
or colt that ever was tried. The bull 
will grind all the feed used during the 
day, and pump all the water needed. 
Cows can also be used, or any animal 
that can be led on the power and its 
halter tied there. About 12 rams, 
weighing 2,400 pounds in all, can be 
worked at once. They must be put in a 
tight room and no draft allowed to 
blow on them after work. It is so much 
trouble to tie them in place that they 
will be rarely used. 
Of all things on earth to break colts 
on, the tread power is best. I work 
them as soon as weaned. I have had to 
put a log chain around their neck and 
pull them on the power with a geared 
tackle the first time. The next time two 
men could lead and drive them on, and 
then one man can easily lead them on. 
Not all colts are thus afraid; I have had 
them go on with their mother without 
any trouble. After they have run on 
the power several times, two can be 
harnessed together. After they are on, 
and when the power is started, the 
driver can drive them from behind, 
stopping them by saying “Whoa!” (at 
the same time stopping the power by the 
lock-brake), and driving two across the 
wide three-horse power, first to the pull 
of one rein, then the other, until they 
are as well broken as though you had 
actually been on the road with them. 
There is no possible chance for them to 
get hurt, or turn in the harness. While 
I have never tried it, yet it is possible to 
run the wagon up to the power behind 
them, and actually hitch them up to it, 
and thus familiarize them with it. I 
don’t think horsemen realize the possi¬ 
bilities of the tread power in breaking 
colts and balky horses, j. c. Norton. 
Kansas. 
Fertilizers on Pastures. —Under 
most circumstances commercial fer¬ 
tilizers would not prove economical on 
pastures. The conditions are, quite dif¬ 
ferent from what they are in growing 
grass for hay. In the latter case a 
large, quick growth is wanted, while 
for pasture a slow, gradual growth 
throughout the season is desired. If the 
mineral fertilizers are present in abun¬ 
dance, the pasture grass will be pretty 
well supplied with nitrogen from the 
slow decomposition of organic matter in 
the soil. We have used lime and ashes, 
and have thought they paid. They cer¬ 
tainly increased the proportion of 
clover, which was a great advantage. 
Under certain local conditions cheap 
forms of fertilizers, composts, or other 
waste products, may be purchased low 
enough to warrant their use on pastures. 
The reseeding, early in the Spring, of 
pastures which have lost the better 
grasses, will often pay. c. s. phelps. 
Use of Rape. —We have raised more 
or less rape for our Shro.pshires for the 
past five years. We have always sown 
ours broadcast, from four to six pounds 
per acre. I think, however, if one has 
the time to devote to its care, sawing in 
drills 20 inches apart, with about three 
pounds per acre, will give full larger re¬ 
turns. It must be well cared for in the 
early stages of growth, so that no weeds 
get started. At the end of about six 
weeks, u the weather iis at all favorable, 
the plants will completely shade the 
ground, and by that time they are gen¬ 
erally ready for the sheep. A good patch 
of rape should feed from 12 to 15 sheep 
per acre from six to eight weeks, and 
then after a few weeks of growth, be 
ready to run them on again. We plan 
to sow one lot to rape as soon as possi¬ 
ble after corn planting for Summer feed, 
and if six quarts of clover are mixed 
with the four pounds of rape seed, a 
good clover catch is almost sure to fol¬ 
low. Then just before the last cultiva¬ 
tion of corn, we sow rape in the stand¬ 
ing corn, so that after the corn is cut. 
we have some nice Fall feed; the un¬ 
eaten plants hold the snow during the 
Winter, and thus the crop serves a dou¬ 
ble purpose. Care should be taken at 
first not to turn the sheep on the rape 
when they are hungry, or when the 
plants are wet, but after they become 
accustomed to the feed there is not 
much danger of trouble from either 
bloating or scouring. A good way is to 
let the flock have the run of some old 
pasture at the same time with the rape, 
and then when the plants are weft the 
sheep can be shut on the pasture. We 
sometimes let them come to the sheds, 
where the racks are kept filled with dry 
hay, which seems to counteract the ef¬ 
fect of the green feed, and we have never 
yet lost a sheep from the effect of the 
rape. H. e. powell. 
Nickel Plate, Mich. 
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Colds and Hoarseness. At one time my wife became 
very hoarse, and entirely lost her voice. She con¬ 
tinued in this way for two months, during which 
time I tried all the doctors in the neighborhood, but 
they did her no good. Through a friend’s advice, I 
then began using Jayne's Expectorant, and one bot¬ 
tle of this medicine cured her.— Adv. 
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