THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
3o9 
1809 
Ailing Animals. 
ANSWERS BY DR F. L. KILBORNE. 
Chronic Cough in a Cow; Possibly Tuber¬ 
culosis 
My cow has been out of condition all Winter. 
I have fed her well all Winter. 8he goes around 
with her head down, and coughs all the time? 
What is the matter with her, and what is the 
remedy ? w. c. 
Missouri. 
The cough may be due to some throat 
or bronchial trouble, or to tuberculosis. 
Try the following cough paste: Pow¬ 
dered opium and solid extract of bella¬ 
donna, of each one ounce; nitrate of 
potash, four ounces; powdered extract of 
licorice, six ounces; strained honey, a 
sufficient quantity to make a thick paste 
(about 10 ounces); mix. Dose, one tea¬ 
spoonful smeared on the back teeth and 
tongue four or five times daily, prefer¬ 
ably after eating, so that it will be 
slowly swallowed. Rub the whole region 
of the throat with ammonia liniment 
sufficient to blister moderately. If there 
be no improvement after three or four 
weeks’ treatment, have the cow exam¬ 
ined for tuberculosis by a competent 
veterinarian, submitting her to the 
tuberculin test if necessary. 
Post-Partum Paralysis in a Cow 
My cow, six years old, dropped her fourth 
calf last October, in the morning. The afterbirth 
came, away all right, the cow got up, ate and 
drank as usual. I left her in the box stall with 
the calf. The next morning she could not get 
up, ate some hay and all the apples and pota¬ 
toes I would give her, but wou'd eat no grain 
and drank no water. The next day about noon, 
I went into the stalls and she got up as though 
nothing had been the trouble, and has been all 
right since. 1. What was the cause of the weak¬ 
ness ? 2. Is there any remedy ? 3. Would it be 
safe to breed her again ? j. p. h. 
Maine. 
1. Tbe cow is occasionally subject to a 
form of paralysis after calving, due to a 
difficalt or protracted parturition. The 
paralysis may affect only the hind legs, 
or it may extend to the back or even the 
whole body. It may last from a few 
days to several weeks or even months. 
In this ease there appears to have been 
only a slight weakness or paralysis, 
from which the cow readily recovered 
without treatment. 
2. No treatment would be necessary in 
mild cases of this kind. If the paralysis 
continue, blisters to the back and loins 
with the administration of two-dram 
doses of nux vomica twice daily, or hypo¬ 
dermic injections of strychnia, would be 
the prop 3r treatment. The animal should 
be made as comfortable as possible, and 
moved from side to side every four or 
six hours. Feed on a laxative, nutritious 
diet Should the paralysis be extensive 
or persist longer than a day or two, a 
competent veterinarian should be called 
to treat the case It may be necessary 
to draw the urine, or give laxatives or 
injections to move the bowels 3. There 
is no special risk in breeding the cow 
again. 
Megrims, Chrome Constipation and Scratches 
in a Horse 
1. My horse is subject to fits. What can I do 
for him ? are they worse at one time of year 
than another ? Is there not a law prohibiting a 
person from endangering another’s life by selling 
such a dangerous animal? 2. He is also habit¬ 
ually constipated. I have fed bran and salts 
without the desired effect. 3. What is a remedy 
for scratches ? o. w. h. 
New Jersey. 
1. The fits to which you refer are, ap¬ 
parently, those of a disease of horses 
known as vertigo or megrims, due to 
congestion or other affection of the brain. 
Congestion of the brain may result from 
disease of the heart, compression of the 
jugular vein by a tight or badly-fitting 
collar, or to plethora. The attacks occur 
more commonly during the Summer, 
rarely in Winter. Treatment is usually 
unsatisfactory, unless due to a removable 
cause, as congestion due to plethora, or 
pressure on the veins of the neck. 
When attacked, the horse should be 
stopped at once, unhitched and the collar 
loosened or removed. Lead the horse 
into the shade if possible, or cover the 
head and eyes so as to protect them fre m 
the sun. Apply cold water or pounded 
ice to the head Bleeding from the 
mouth or neck will prove beneficial. 
After a little rest, the animal may be al¬ 
lowed to proceed slowly, unless the sun 
is very hot, in which case, it will be 
better to wait until towards evening. 
Hordes subject to these fits are dangerous 
to handle. Unless you can compel the 
seller of tbe horse to make good his 
guarantee, I cannot see that you have 
any redress. That is the penalty for deal¬ 
ing with irresponsible parties. 
2 For the constipation, give one of 
the following powders twice daily : Pul¬ 
verized aloes and nux vomica, of each, 
three ounces ; ginger, eight ounces ; mix 
and divide into 24 powders. The powder 
may be given in the feed if the horse will 
eat it; otherwise in ball or in one-half 
pint cold water as a drench. The horse 
should, also, receive some green food or 
a bran mash at least once daily. A run 
at pasture for a few weeks would be the 
best laxative. 
3. See Scratches in a Horse, page 249 
of The R N.-Y. of April 1, 1899. 
Collar Boils on a Horse : Milk From Co ws 
With Lumpy Jaw. 
1. One of my horses has been troubled with 
what I call collar boils. Sometimes two or three 
will appear at once, within an Inch of each oth¬ 
er, havirg each a separate core. When those are 
healed, they appear in another place. The skin 
does not become galled or sore until after the 
boil breaks. What is the probable cause and a 
remedy ? 2. Is the milk of a cow which has 
lumpy jaw, affected by reason of the lump? If 
so, how long after the lump has been cared will 
it remain unfit for use ? c u c 
New York. 
1. If the boils appear cnly under the 
collar, it is more likely that they are due 
to the tenderness of the skin rather than 
to the condition of the blood. Rub the 
shoulders two or three times daily with 
oak-bark tea, or with tannin in alcohol, 
to toughen the skin. When the horse 
is used, wash the shoulders with cold 
water both noon and night, j ub dry, and 
then bathe with the tannin and alcohol. 
If the skin become raw or sore, apply 
benzoated oxide of zinc ointment morn¬ 
ing, noon and night. 
2. Lumpy jaw, as a disease, does not 
affect the milk. It is only when the 
disease has caused extensive lesions with 
suppuration that the milk may become 
unsuitable for use, the same as from any 
large abscess or s ippurating sore. P'ol- 
lowing treatment, the milk will be good 
as soon as the tumor is cured. Daring 
treatment with the iodide of potash, it 
will not be advisable to use the milk 
But it may be safely used within a few 
days after the treatment is discontinued. 
A Ration for Cows. 
What proportion shall I feed my cows, of bran, 
corn meal, flour middlings, and cotton-seed meal? 
I feed grain twice a day, and hay three times a 
day. I feed for hay fine Red-top that was cut 
early, and made in good shape. j p b 
Ans —A fairly good ration can be 
made of the above foods by feeding them 
in the following proportions : 
Lbs. digestible nutrients. 
Lbs. D y Carbohydrates 
Lbs. Matter. Protein. +2^fat. 
Red-top.18 16 70 .864 8.857 
Corn meal... 3 2.67 . 237 2.292 
Bran. 2 1.76 .244 .906 
Middlings.... 2 1 76 .256 1.214 
C. S. meal.... 2 1.84 . 744 . 888 
Total .24.73 2.345 14.157 
Nutritive ratio, 1: 6. 
The above is for one day’s ration calcu¬ 
lated for a 1,000 pound cow. It is about 
the right proportion to mix the feeds, 
and the amount fed daily may be gov¬ 
erned by the appetite of the animal. 
The ration would be much improved by 
the addition of some succulent food like 
roots or ensilage. L A 
SCRAPS. 
Where Aifalfacan be grown successfully, there 
should live a contented dairyman. 
A header asks if parsnips will cause abortion 
in cows. No, not when fed moderately. 
Will moldy oats injure stock ? Not when fed 
one forkful at a time. The stock may be trusted 
not to eat too much. Smut on corn will not in¬ 
jure siock. 
In the vicinity of Wheeling, West Va., the 
country roads are so bad that the Society for the 
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals recently stopped 
horses from traveling on them. 
A Savannah, Ga , dealer is said to have shipped 
1,000 dozen eggs to Havana, at 51 60 a dozen. Tois 
beats Indianapolis, where eggs sold at 60 cents a 
dozen during the big freeze of February. 
We would not buy corn meal for a cow that is 
receiving a bushel of good ensilage per day. 
That contains enough corn. Better buy bran and 
cotton-seed meal to feed with the ensilage. 
A candidate for mayor in a West Virginia 
town recently received his nomination on a plat¬ 
form of one plank, which favors the repeal of an 
ordinance forbidding the keeping of hogs in the 
city. 
Mahogany sawdust is said to be especially val¬ 
uable for smoking hams, giving a sweet flavor, 
and being very efficacious in sealing up the 
juices of the meat. Hereafter none of this saw¬ 
dust will be allowed to go to waste. 
Crimson-clover hay, when too ripe, has in¬ 
jured and killed horses. The heads are long, and 
when ripe, contain llt’le stiff spines or hooks, 
which catch in the stomach and form hard balls. 
These balls do not form in the stomachs of cattle. 
Aylesbury ducks are favorites in the English 
market, and they are now being bred in Australia 
for export. Trial shipments to England were 
very satisfactory, and a big farm has been estab¬ 
lished in the Botany Bay district for tbe purpose 
of supplying this trade. 
The Kansas Agricultural College reports an ex¬ 
periment with Alfalfa as compared with millet. 
The Alfalfa was fed at the rate of one ton every 
30 days for three cows. They had a chance to sell 
Alfalfa, and so stopped feeding it and began to 
feed millet. They thus had a chance to compare 
the feeding value of the two foods. In actual 
butter fat return, the Alfalfa was found to be 
worth 54 24 per ton more than the millet. 
Has the cold process of condensing milk been 
abandoned ? I have seen nothing about it for 
several years. j. a. r. 
Ans —But little has been heard of this cold 
process lately. The plan was based upon the 
fact that, in freezing, the solids separate from 
the water, so that when milk is frozen under cer¬ 
tain conditions, the solids of the milk form a 
frozen powder, which contains little of the water. 
It is planned to take this freezing powder by it¬ 
self, and use it for condensing. The process has, 
apparently, made very little headway against 
the old plan of condensing the milk by boiling in 
a vacuum. 
A circular advocating what is known as the 
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about any farmhouse or barn. Of course, he 
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enough to hold a good-sized hen. Then make a 
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get 13 eggs from your best pen, take some old 
hen that has lost all ambition in life, except to 
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“ natural hen incubator.” We charge nothing 
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