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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 4 
Ailing Animals. 
AN8WKB8 BY DB. F. L. KILBOBNE. 
Mare Out of Condition. 
My two-year-old mare breaks out in a cold 
sweat in the evening, and will be dried off in the 
morning; she eats well, and seems to feel all 
right. J. A. H. 
Pennsylvania. 
The sweating is an indication of weak¬ 
ness, probably because of the mare be¬ 
ing out of condition. Give the mare one 
teaspoonful Fowler’s solution of arsenic 
in feed-once daily, for three or four days, 
after which increase the dose to two 
tablespoonfuls once daily, and continue 
for, at least, three or four weeks. Hub 
the whole region of the loins with am¬ 
monia liniment, sufficient to blister 
mildly. Repeat two or three times, if 
necessary, at intervals of about a month. 
To Stimulate Growth of Hoof. 
What Is best to use to make a horse’s hoofs 
grow 1 I have an eight-year-old team that came 
from New York City. Their feet are in bad shape. 
I have turned them out, and wish to grow new 
hoofs on them. J. J. w. 
New York. 
Blister the coronet and lower half of 
the pastern with ammonia liniment 
(equal parts strong aqua ammonia and 
sweet oil well shaken together). Repeat 
at intervals of three or four weeks until 
sufficiently stimulated. Also, apply to 
the hoof-wall and sole, two or three 
times a week, an ointment of equal parts 
of pine tar and vaseline melted together. 
If the ointment is occasionally applied 
hot, it is all the better. 
Lambs Dying in Turnip Field. 
This is my second year in sheep growing. The 
last of September, I put 15 ewe lambs in the 
turnip field to eat off some of the turnip tops; 
two or three weeks after, several of them looked 
as though they were sick; their ears lopped down 
a little, and were swollen some, not at the ends 
but next to the head. Two days after, I caught 
one, and its ears looked as though two inches of 
the ends on the outside were blistered. In just a 
few days, these ends were dead, and in time, 
came off about an inch from the head. What 
was the cause ? w. k. j. 
Ontario. 
. The deaths were, probably, due to over¬ 
feeding on the turnips. If the turnips 
were frosted, they would be still more 
dangerous. Turnips are an excellent 
succulent feed for sheep when fed moder¬ 
ately with the usual dry ration of Win¬ 
ter, but they are unsafe when fed in 
excess. 
Abortion in a Cow. 
My cow aborted last year about two months 
ahead of her time. She has been fed wet feed 
heavily salted, consisting of wheat bran and 
corn-cob meal equal parts. She was giving about 
three quarts of milk twice a day, but increased 
a few days before abortion. Is there anything in 
the feed to cause abortion ? How long would it 
have been possible for her to carry the calf after 
it died, or would she have dropped it as soon as 
life became extinct ? g. l. t. 
New Jersey. 
The abortion was, probably, due to 
some accidental cause and not to the 
feed. Excessive salting might cause 
abortion, as well as overfeeding on 
grain ; but if the cow were really over¬ 
salted, it ought to have been indicated 
by undue looseness of the bowels. The 
fetus is commonly expelled within 24 
hours after its death, but it may be re¬ 
tained several days, or even several 
weeks in exceptional cases. Abortion 
may, also, take place before the death of 
the fetus, or while the fetus is still alive. 
I would advise not breeding the cow 
again until, at least three months after 
all vaginal discharge, as a result of the 
abortion, has ceased. 
Intestinal Worms in a Dog. 
My dog is troubled with white worms about 
three-quarters inch long. How can they be re¬ 
moved ? *• B - 
Massachusetts. 
Dogs vary so greatly in size, that the 
size should have been indicated to enable 
me to prescribe definite doses. Cause 
the dog to fast for 12 hours, preferably 
over night, then administer a dose of 
spirits of tuipentine, to the amount of 
three drops of turpentine for every pound 
of the dog’s weight (i. e., 60 drops or one 
teaspoonful for a 20-pound dog, two tea¬ 
spoonfuls for a 40 pound dog, etc.) The 
turpentine should be thoroughly shaken 
up in 8 to 10 parts of milk, and adminis¬ 
tered by drenching. If the dog is pass¬ 
ing segments of tapeworms, add two 
grains areca nut for each pound of the 
dog’s weight, to the drench. An hour or 
two after giving the turpentine-and-milk 
drench, give a dose of castor oil, the dose 
to be rather larger than the quantity of 
oil of turpentine given. Continue the 
fasting for, at least, an hour after giv¬ 
ing the castor oil, and then feed the dog 
on a light diet. Repeat the course of 
treatment whenever the worms appear 
herd was composed of those heifers, and then his 
eyes were opened. Scarcely one of them would 
produce as much butter within 100 pounds as the 
original mother. He got what he had bred for— 
size. He had traded 100 pounds of butter worth 
then, on an average, 825, for sizable steer calves 
and heifers that would make poor cows.” 
Some of the Alaskan Islands have been turned 
into farms for the production of foxes. Black 
and blue foxes were planted a few years ago on 
these islands, and have now multiplied so that 
trapping them is a profitable business, probably 
more profitable on the whole than digging gold 
in the Klondike. The chances are, however, 
that there would be more money in raising sheep 
on the old farm than in either of those enter¬ 
prises. 
in the feces in considerable numbers. 
The dog’s drinking water and sleeping 
quarters should be kept clean and sweet, 
and the feces either buried or burned 
daily as far as practicable. 
Heaves or Difficult Breathing in a Horse. 
My horse, 12 years old, seems to be troubled 
with breathing. Sometimes it sounds as though 
there was an obstruction in the head or lungs. 
He has spells of running at the nose, a thick, 
white mucus. He coughs hard at times, but I 
can generally stop him with a few doses of cough 
paste containing belladonna, opium, honey, etc. 
Last March, he was very sick, but I had a com¬ 
petent veterinarian attending him, and he 
brought him through alive. He claimed that the 
horse had lung fever. N. 8. 
New York. 
This is a difficult case on which to 
give a definite opinion without a per¬ 
sonal examination. I suspect that the 
horse has the heaves, although the 
difficult breathing may be due to some 
local obstruction, as a swelling or ab¬ 
scess about the throat or head. Try the 
following course of powders: sulphate 
of copper and powdered nux vomica, of 
each three ounces; arsenic, 90 grains; 
mix and divide into 36 powders. Give a 
powder in the feed night and morning. 
If there be any improvement, repeat the 
course of powders after an interval of 
two or three weeks. Continue the use 
of the cough paste when necessary. If 
the powders afford no relief, there is 
some trouble other than the heaves. In 
that case, I can only suggest that you 
again employ the veterinarian you em¬ 
ployed before, or follow his advice and 
sell the horse. 
SCRAPS. 
Dubtstorms caused great discomfort in the 
Australian sheep districts last month. Rabbit- 
proof fences three feet nine inches high were 
covered by banked-up sand, and sheep were sent 
away from the affected districts, to save as many 
as possible, their pasture being quite covered by 
sand. 
A Danish method devised to prevent the genera¬ 
tion of mites in cheese is said to be entirely 
effectual. It consists in continually whitewash¬ 
ing the curing rooms, the cheeses being soaked 
in brine for an entire day before being placed in 
these apartments. The cheeses are carefully 
wiped and turned daily, during the curing, and 
are finally washed in lime water before being 
stored away. 
V. K. Chesnut, in Farmers’ Bulletin No. 86, 
To be idle is the hardest of 
all tasks. Our grandmothers 
understood this and even in 
their leisure moments 
ware never found with- 
„ out some little task in 
' their hands, if it were 
only knitting, tat¬ 
ting or crochet¬ 
ing. There was a 
reason for this 
that does not ap- 
pear upon the 
surface. Our 
grandmothers 
were healthy wo¬ 
men, imbued with 
a spirit of ambi¬ 
tion and activity 
that would not 
permit them to 
be idle. 
If many modern 
women are much 
less active and more given to idleness than 
the stately dames of yore, it is because they 
enjoy a smaller measure of good health. 
A woman who suffers from weakness and 
disease of the distinctly feminine organs, 
who is racked with pain, and tortured with 
headaches and nervousness, cannot be ac¬ 
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are the natural results of suffering of this 
description. The poor invalid woman is 
not at fault, save in her ignorance of her 
own physical make-up or neglect of her 
womanly health. 
Thousands of women are neglectful in 
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