1902 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
763 
Ailing Animals. 
Periodic Ophthalmia. 
I have a good farm 'horse that I have had 
for seven months. Soon after I bought 
him his eyes showed inflammation and 
grew milky colored. A veterinary manual 
says bathe the eye with two drams sugar 
of lead, one-half ounce laudanum and one 
pint of rain water twice a day. I did so. 
When I started he was about blind. I 
worked at him for two weeks and one eye 
went totally blind; the other came out all 
right. His eye cleared up and he could see 
all right from his one eye. Recently his 
good eye started to run a little and I am 
afraid he is going to have another attack, 
the same as last Spring. I am very much 
afraid he w T ill go blind in his remaining 
eye. I think it must be something that 
came on with the changing of the season. 
He came from the West, and is one of a 
pair of first-class farm horses. What can 
I do for him? F. B. B. 
Mayville, N. Y. 
This is an inflammatory affection of 
the interior of the eye, intimately re¬ 
lated to certain soils, climates and sys¬ 
tems, showing a strong tendency to re¬ 
cur again and again, and usually ending 
in blindness from cataract or other ser¬ 
ious injury. It is more common on 
damp clay and marshy grounds, or the 
frequently overflowed river bottoms, 
along the coasts of seas and lakes. Thus 
damp air and cloudy wet climate so con¬ 
stantly associated with wet lands are 
universally charged with causing the 
disease. You can do nothing for the 
horse, or the eye that is blind; there is 
no satisfactory treatment of this dis¬ 
ease. I feel sorry for the man who owns 
a horse with periodic ophthalmia, or in 
fact any serious affection of the eye. 
Put one-half ounce of boric acid in two 
ounces of water; after bathing the eye 
in warm water three times a day apply 
this solution. 
Founder in Cattle. 
In December, 1900, we started with the 
cattle, about 150 miles drive, with movers’ 
wagons. They ranged on prairie grass of 
sage and mesquite. They were 10 days on 
the move; the last day was hardest on 
them, as water and feed were scarce. A 
few days after stopping one dry cow be¬ 
gan to get stiff, and walked as though her 
feet were sore. She remained this way 
until Spring, but has shown symptoms of 
it all the time, always worse in the morn¬ 
ing. We were told to give ’her feed of cot¬ 
ton seeds with a small teaspoonful of cop¬ 
peras on it. After two weeks of this feed 
once a day she improved, so it was dis¬ 
continued. Some say nothing but milch 
cows take it; with us it is not true, for 
some yearlings have had it. Now this same 
cow before spoken of is stiff, and a young 
cow that can hardly get up or down. She 
is very poor, eats heartily, walks as though 
her feet were sore. When she lies down it 
seems to ’hurt her shoulders, and getting 
up is very weak in back. She stares as 
though feverish, is cross and wants to 
fight. Her milk has fallen off, her calf 
has got very poor, runs at nose, looks 
sleepy, sucks as though it hurt its throat, 
and does not have good appetite. Is there 
a cure or preventive, and is it unsafe to 
use their milk? n. m. 
Glen Rose, Tex. 
Laminitis denotes an active inflamma¬ 
tion of the sensitive structures within 
the wall of the hoof, which may in se¬ 
vere cases result in suppuration and the 
loss of one or more claws. Owing to 
the simplicity of the structure of the 
foot of the ox, compared with that of the 
horse, this disease is rarely seen in an 
acute form, but a mild, form commonly 
called soreness is not of infrequent oc¬ 
currence. Causes of laminitis in cattle 
may be overfeeding, overheating, or 
driving long distances over rough or 
stony soil. The symptoms are an un¬ 
willingness to maintain the standing 
position; the animal persists in lying 
down. The feet will be found unnatur¬ 
ally hot, and frequently some swelling 
may be noticed above the hoof. The 
general body temperature is increased, 
and breathing accelerated. Ordinarily 
the animal eats and drinks. When it 
is made to move excessive tenderness of 
the feet becomes manifest. It affects 
the hind as well as the fore feet, usually 
all four. Treatment consists of cold 
packs to the feet, or if the animal can 
be made to stand in a running stream 
of water, having soft bottom, this will 
often relieve the inflammation without 
the necessity of any additional treat¬ 
ment. It may be well, however, to give 
a full dose of Epsom salts, one to 1% 
pound, followed by half an ounce of 
saltpeter two or three times a day. 
SHEEP IN A VERMONT ORCHARD. 
I have been greatly amused at the very 
serious disappointment of A. N. Bliss, 
of Vermont, as to the beneficial results 
of keeping sheep in his orchard. Analyze 
his statements and see how much he ex¬ 
pected from so little. He had an or¬ 
chard of 60 trees, which must have cov¬ 
ered at least two acres. Into this he put 
two sheep with two lambs, and expected 
them to eat all the grass, keep down the 
weeds, and eat all the fallen fruit. To 
make matters still worse they were 
purebred; probably some of the English 
mutton breeds, which have never been 
raised to rustle for a living. His ex¬ 
perience is on a par with the Irishman 
who heard of the comfort of sleeping on 
a feather bed and to test the matter put 
a handful on the floor and tried to sleep 
on them. In the morning he said: “I 
don’t see how any mon can sthand a 
whole bed; a single handful nearly kilt 
me.” To get full benefit of sheeping two 
acres of orchard should have no less 
than 20 full-grown sheep; if natural 
grass land 25 would be better. These 
should have abundance of good water, 
the young trees guarded from gnawing, 
and the sheep fed only enough of wheat 
bran to keep them thriving. What if 
they do eat all the leaves and lower 
limbs and apples they can reach? The 
upper part of the trees will bear so many 
more and better apples that the total 
yield per tree would be fully as much as 
though none had been eaten from lower 
limbs. Then, too, no sheep are half as 
good for orchard grazers as the common 
so-called American Merino. They are 
natural scavengers, love weeds and 
bushes, and will crop the grass closer 
and thrive better on close pasture than 
any other breed, and are not half as 
hard to prevent eating the trees. How 
prone mankind is to read what is writ¬ 
ten, get half the meaning, jump at a 
conclusion, and go do exactly the wrong 
thing. j. s. woodward. 
A Talk About Hens. 
I don’t know exactly what I could do 
with 1,500 hens, for I never cared to keep 
so many, but I have wintered 400 and 
made $735 from them and chicks raised 
from them in one year. I don’t think 
one man could keep 1,500 hens and do 
anything like it in proportion. I notice 
that some men are always harping on 
the great doings of some one hen. Now 
I had one pullet that was hatched in 
January that began to lay in May of the 
same year. She laid in some out of the 
way corner in the brooder house, and 
was sitting on a lot of little eggs before 
I found it out. I let her hatch for the 
fun of it, and some time in the last of 
June she came off with three chicks. She 
raised one of them, and had it been a 
pullet it would have laid before her 
mother was one year old. I had an¬ 
other pullet hatched in August begin to 
lay the following January, but what 
does that amount to? Those are only 
freaks, and do not cut much ice in hen 
business. It takes the doings of 100 or 
more hens to make things interesting. 
The best record I can give after almost 
20 years is 100 pullets, Brown Leghorn 
and Plymouth Rock cross, that laid $230 
worth of eggs in one year. m. e. g. 
Massachusetts. 
A Hog Breeder Talks. 
I have seen several notes from breed¬ 
ers of different kinds of hogs in Tire R. 
N. -Y., but have never seen any from an 
O. I. C. breeder. 1 raise that kind after 
trying several other breeds. I am too 
poor to be called a scientific breeder, 
only do it as nearly practical as I can. 
I keep all my stock in an orchard or at 
pasture at least six months of the year 
with no grain to speak of, just enough 
to keep them in a thrifty condition, give 
them the refuse from house and what 
slcim-milk I have, which is very little. I 
let all my breeding stock run together 
until farrowing time; then separate; 
feed all the feed sow will eat up clean, 
after first week until pigs are six weeks 
old, then wean. The feed consists of 
half wheat bran, ground or soaked bar¬ 
ley, with corn and oats ground. After 
weaning I put sow in with breeding 
stock again. I consider the O. I. C. the 
best hog for the East, it is a sure breed¬ 
er with large litters, can be fattened at 
any age, has large hams and shoulders, 
with a little short nose, healthy, and, 
last but not least, is white, j. n. dates. 
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