THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
March 15 
i94 
Live Stock and Dairy 
Ailing Animals. 
Interfering Mare; Bad Blood. 
I have a mare 10 years old and with foal, 
that is troubled with Summer sores on 
her ankles. The sores begfin as abrasions, 
usually from interfering, and gradually 
develop ugly sores. I have to keep her 
reined up to prevent gnawing the sores. 
They disappear promptly with beginning 
of cold weather. The animal has small 
hard nodules under skin over shoulder; 
has attacks of itching apparently along 
spine. How would it do to bleed in Spring 
and give iodide of potash? o. w. h. 
Prother, Ind 
You would better take your mare to a 
good horseshoer, for it will do no good 
for the veterinarian to prescribe for an 
interfering horse. The horseshoer must 
prescribe. From the other symptoms 
you give the mare’s blood is probably 
out of order and needs cleansing. Get 
two pounds hyposulphite of soda, pow¬ 
dered, and give her a teaspoonful night 
and morning in a bran mash, with oats 
ior noon feed. 
Cholera in Chickens. 
Our hens are troubled with some disease; 
we cannot find out what it is. Their heads 
first get purple and then almost black. 
We do everything for them we know, but 
most of them die. The droppings are 
green. It seems to attack the largest and 
best of the fowls. i. w. d. 
Webster, N. Y. 
In a large number of cases where 
chickens become sick and suddenly die 
it is laid to the chicken cholera, while in 
reality fully three-fourths of them die 
from other diseases, such as roup, egg- 
bound, diarrhoea, etc. But be that as it 
may, it takes but a short time for the 
chicken cholera to play sad havoc with a 
flock. It is contagious; hence, the im¬ 
portance of removing the fowl as soon 
as noticed away from its mates. The 
symptoms of this disease are sudden and 
violent thirst and diarrhoea; the drop¬ 
pings greenish, then thin and white. The 
fowl becomes very weak and staggers 
about, and finally dies unless relief is 
given at once. Treatment must be im¬ 
mediate. The following remedy has 
been tried with good success: Equal 
parts of tincture of opium, red pepper, 
rhubarb, peppermint and camphor, 
mixed well and shaken before using. 
Give the fowl as soon as noticed about 
10 drops of the above, and in about eight 
to 10 hours if the fowl does not seem 
better, give another dose, continuing un¬ 
til relief is given. 
Cotton-Seed Meal for Hens. 
Can cotton seed be fed with safety to 
poultry? We all know that animal meal or 
dried bone and meat is largely fed to hens, 
and with success. While cotton-seed meal 
has much the same analysis we judge 
from our own experience that it is not a 
safe food for hens. Do you consider it 
advisable for hens, and how much would 
you feed? 
I have never seen or heard of cotton¬ 
seed meal being fed, but I should judge 
that it would be by no means a safe food 
for poultry. w. h. harden. 
Waynesville, N. C. 
I have fed cotton-seed meal to my fowls 
In limited quantities at different times with 
no bad results, but could not see any 
special good it did them. I fed about one 
pint mixed with bran or cornmeal to 12 
fowls. I believe it to be a good and health¬ 
ful feed if properly fed. k. s. trimble. 
Somerset, Ky. 
I am afraid of cotton-seed meal for 
fowls. I have tried it only twice. Just 
after the last trial three fine Partridge 
Wyandotte pullets died, from no apparent 
cause. These two trials were one day 
apart. These three pullets are all the Wy- 
andottes I have lost this year. Whether 
(he meal killed them or not I do not know, 
but others may experiment with cotton¬ 
seed meal if they wish; I shall not. I 
mixed cotton-seed meal, cornmeal and 
wheat bran as for a cow. 
Greensboro, Ala. j. t. littleton. 
I have made several experiments with 
the feeding of cotton-seed meal to poultry, 
and they have not been satisfactory at all. 
Unless one is very careful it loosens the 
bowels of the fowls and gets their digestive 
organs out of condition. It is beneficial to 
feed a very small amount in with the other 
soft feed when fowls are moulting, but 
one must use a lot of care and judgment, 
and I do not believe it is best to advise the 
use of it at all. I never trust the feeding 
of it to anyone but myself, so I can watch 
the fowls carefully and notice the effect. 
There are plenty of othe> feeds that take 
its place and are much safer. Therefore 
we do not make a habit of using it at all. 
Smyrna, Ga. belmont farm. 
We commenced to use cotton-seed meal 
years ago with a great deal of caution, 
in the proportion of one part to 12 of bran 
and cut clover. We found that by using 
a greater proportion it caused looseness 
of the bowels. Feeding as above we 
found it very fattening, and now use it in 
the Fall, during the moulting season and 
fattening chicks for Winter consumption, 
but discard it entirely during the egg sea¬ 
son from January until October as being 
too heating and fattening for our southern 
climate. e. dunstan. 
Winona, Miss. 
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AND 
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