1899 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
289 
Ailing Animals. 
ANSWERS BY DR. F. L. KILBORNE 
Trouble With the Sheep. 
One morning, I found one of my best two-year- 
old ewes totally blind; her eye was as clear as 
usual, and she was apparently in good health. 
She ate hay and grain when put before her. A 
week later I found her dead. She was about due 
to lamb. What caused her blindness and death? 
New York. a. n. n. 
Death was, probably, due either to 
some nervous disease, or to impaction, 
but which I am unable to say from the 
description. See Impaction in Sheep, in 
answer to H. L R. in thiB column. 
Skin Eruption on a Mare. 
My mare, about 12 years old, has a breaking 
out all over her; scabs form, and when picked 
off, a watery matter comes out. She itches, and 
bites anl scratches herself a good deal. Her 
appetite is good, she is in good order, and has 
shed her coat already. What ails her, and what 
shall I do for her ? c. 
Wisconsin. 
Give one ounce each of best aloes and 
ginger, either in ball or by drench, to 
move the bowels. If not freely purged, 
repeat the dose in three or four days. 
Then give one tablespoonful of Glauber 
salts with a teaspoonful of nitrate of 
potash in the feed night and morning. 
Aborting Cow Fails to Breed. 
My cow has had two calves. I turned her on a 
corn-stalk field last November. I think that 
she got smut on the stalks, which caused her to 
abort. She came in heat some time afterward, 
and has continued every two weeks, with service 
biace. w. s. e. 
Illinois. 
Do not allow the cow to be served 
again until after turning to grass for, 
at least, two or three weeks. In the 
meantime, it would be well to have her 
personally examined by a qualified veter¬ 
inary surgeon to ascertain whether there 
is any local trouble that can be remedied. 
If the cow then fail to breed, you can 
only fatten her for beef. 
Horse's Hoofs Dry and Hard 
Wait can I do with a mare that has inflamma¬ 
tion in her hoof ? It is always hard and dry in 
the frog. J. a. T. 
New York. 
Blister the coronet all around the top 
of the hoof with ammonia liniment. Re¬ 
peat the blistering at intervals of three 
or four weeks until the hoofs are suffi¬ 
ciently softened. Make a hoof dressing 
by mixing two parts of pine tar and one 
part of vaseline. With a swab, apply 
this dressing hot to the whole hoof-wall 
and sole, once or twice a week. When 
shod, the toe should be shortened and 
the heels lowered, if necessary, but no 
other cutting or rasping should be al¬ 
lowed. The frog, especially, should not 
be touched with the knife, neither 
should the bars between the heels and 
frog be cut out as is the common prac¬ 
tice, known to farriers as “opening of 
the heels.” 
Impaction in Sheep. 
My breeding ewes are taken oddly. The first 
that I notice is a dejected appearance; the legs 
are a little bracing, the ears droop, and in a day 
or so, they are unable to get up. In the inter¬ 
mediate stages, there is a jerking and twitching 
of the head, with a very slight discharge at the 
nostrils. The excrements are offensive. The 
sheep are in good condition, and due to lamb in 
10 days. h. l. r. 
New .York. 
The symptoms indicate impaction due 
to the too exclusive feeding on dry food. 
The affected sheep should receive three 
or four ounces of Epsom salts with a half 
ounce of ginger dissolved in a half pint 
of warm water, and given by drenching. 
Also give rectal injections of one pint of 
warm Castile soapsuds four or five times 
daily until relieved. Repeat the dose of 
salts in 24 hours if the bowels be not 
moved by the first. Give one of the fol¬ 
lowing powders twice daily in the feed, 
or by drench if the sheep will not eat: 
Powdered nux vomica, two ounces ; gen¬ 
tian and ginger, of each, 10 ounces; 
mix, and divide into 40 powders. The 
sheep should be fed some succulent food, 
such as ensilage, roots or cabbage, once 
daily. In the absence of any green 
food, boiled flax seed or scalded bran 
may be given. The trouble can usually 
be prevented by feeding the sheep some 
succulent food at least two or three times 
a week during the Winter, which will 
prevent the indigestion and constipation. 
Free access to salt and good drinking 
water will tend to keep up a healthy ac¬ 
tion of the bowels, and thus prevent im¬ 
paction. 
Milk Fever in a Cow. 
What was the cause of my cow’s death ? She 
came in during the night, and in the morning 
seemed to be all right. The afterbirth came 
away. I milked 16 to 18 quarts of milk from her. 
She ate a pailful of warm mash. At 1 p. m , she 
seemed to lose the use of her hind legs, and could 
not stand, fell to the floor and coull not get up. 
She seemed to suffer a good deal of pain. She was 
fat and in fine shape. For 10 days, she had been 
fed bran and middlings, about five quarts a day. 
She slipped last September and hurt her back 
in the stable. w. p. 8. 
New York. 
The cow died of parturient apoplexy, 
commonly called milk fever. The disease 
is so rapidly fatal that treatment is rarely 
successful except under the personal 
direction of a competent veterinarian, 
called at the outset. The disease is one 
to be prevented rather than treated. For 
prevention, see Milk Fever, page 209, of 
The R. N.-Y. of March 18, 1899. 
Enlarged Ankle on a Mare 
Last January, I had my mare roughshod; the 
same evening, she hurt her right hind fetlock 
joint. The fourth day it began to swell, and she 
went lame until the swelling broke and matter 
came freely. I used a liniment for a while. The 
sore seemed to be as large as a silver dollar, and 
was healing nicely, but the swelling did not go 
down. Then I bandaged it twice a day, with 
bandages soaked in salt and cider vinegar; I 
have done this for three weeks, and have failed 
to get the swelling down. She is not lame, and 
seems to be as strong in that leg as in any. 
Shelby County, Ind. c l. w. 
If the whole joint is enlarged, blister 
with ammonia liniment, bathing the 
whole fetlock from four or five inches 
above the joint to the middle of the 
pastern. Repeat the application in a 
week if not well blistered by the first. If 
the swelling is circumscribed or confined 
to one side of the joint, blister with bin- 
iodide of mercury and cantharides (bin- 
iodide of mercury, one dram ; cerate of 
cantharides, one ounce ; mix). Clip the 
hair and rub the ointment well into the 
skin. Repeat the blistering two or three 
times, if necessary, at intervals of three 
or four weeks. 
Diarrhea or Scours in Calves 
1. In fattening calves, I have lost several with 
the scours. What remedy would you advise ? 
2. In fattening calves on Jersey cows, which is 
better—to reduce the milk with water and feed 
by hand, or let them suck the cows ? x. y. z. 
Connecticut. 
1 . At the first indication of the diar¬ 
rhea give the calf two full tablespoon¬ 
fuls of castor oil with one teaspoonful 
each laudanum and tincture Jamaica 
ginger. Then give one-half teaspoonful 
laudanum, and one teaspoonful of the 
flneture of ginger every four hours, un¬ 
til the diarrhea is checked. If the calf 
become weak, give two or three teaspoon¬ 
fuls of whisky in a little hot water 
every four hours. If the calf is being 
raised by hand, add one part lime water 
to three parts of milk. Do not feed 
more than one pint of milk at one time, 
but repeat the quantity every four hours, 
if the calf will take it. If the calf is 
raised on the cow, do not allow it to 
suck but a few minutes at one time, but 
feed about every four hours as before. 
Inasmuch as the disease is very liable to 
be contagious, it would be well thor¬ 
oughly to whitewash the calf-pen or any 
part of the stable with which the calves 
come in contact, and to dust the drop¬ 
pings and floor with dry, airslaked quick 
lime. 
R. N.-Y.—The matter of scours in 
calves has been referred to several times 
in our columns recently. Some of the 
best breeders control the matter by the 
temperature of the milk. On page 144, 
the practice of one breeder was referred 
to. If the calf is constipated, he lowers 
the temperature for one or two feeds to 
90 degrees, the ordinary temperature for 
feeding being 98 to 100 degrees. If the 
calf scours, he runs the temperature up 
to 105 degrees for one or two feeds. Too 
cold milk seems to cause scours. 
2 . It would be better for the calves to 
let them suck the cows ; but undoubted¬ 
ly better for the cows to milk them and 
feed the calves. 
Death Among Pigs Fed on Hotel Garbage. 
I lost quite a number of pigs last year. What 
was the cause? They got very thin in flesh, 
broke out in red spots, which spread nearly all 
over the pig. Many of their ears would dry up 
and turn black. They were from three to five 
months old. They would linger along from two 
to six weeks before dying. They would eat some, 
but not much. They were fed on swill from 
hotels. w. a. b. 
Wisconsin. 
Outbreaks of disease similar to this, 
resembling in many respects, outbreaks 
of hog cholera, are not uncommon among 
pigs that are fed on hotel garbage or 
kitchen slops. The disease is due to slow 
poisoning by powdered soap or washing 
powders used in the dish washing. If, 
upon inquiry, you should ascertain that 
powdered soaps are used in the hotels 
from which you obtain the garbage, you 
may pretty safely conclude that they are 
the primary cause of the trouble. The 
symptoms suggest that swine plague 
may, also, be present, probably as a 
secondary disease. The remedy is to feed 
no garbage or kitchen slop from hotels 
where powdered soap is used ; or at least, 
to feed only garbage that is known to be 
free from the soap If used, the garbage 
should be collected and fed while fresh. 
The Pennsylvania Experiment Station sends 
out a caution against creamery promoters or 
creamery sharks. It says that, in order for a 
creamery association to be successful, it must 
have the milk from 300 to 500 cows, guaranteed 
for 9 or 10 months. A creamery, to handle this 
amount of milk, can be built and equipped for 
from $1,800 to $2,200. Promoters usually ask $2,700 
to $4,000. The Station advises farmers who want 
a creamery to get together and see that the cows 
are guaranteed, then have the manager of a 
successful creamery come and explain the busi¬ 
ness. Then appoint a committee to visit one or 
two well-managed creameries, and keep the 
creamery sharks away from those meetings. 
TESTED BY THE MILK PAIL 
Trouble 
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