1899 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
389 
Ailing Animals. 
ANSWEB8 BY DB. F. L. KILBOBNE. 
Intestinal Worms and Kidney Trouble in a 
Horse. 
1. What is a remedy for worms in horses? 2. 
What will cure kidney trouble in horses ? 
Michigan. e J. m. 
1 See answer to G W. R. 2 There 
are several diseases of the urinary organs 
that might be classed under the general 
name of kidney trouble, that require 
entirely different treatment. It will be 
necessary to kno v the history and symp¬ 
toms of the case, in order to form an 
op’nion as to the nature of the trouble, 
before treatment can be advised. If you 
will write again giving fully the history 
and symptoms we can advise treatment 
Difficult Breathing and Cough in a Cow. 
One of my cows breathes so hard at times that 
I can hear her while standing several feet from 
her. and at times has a slight cough, neither of 
which seems to affect her in the least, as she is 
in extra-fine condition. What can I do for her ? 
c. b. 
The difficult breathing may be due to 
an enlargement of one of the th-oat or 
bronchial glands ; to a tumor or other 
growth ; or to a tubercular gland or de¬ 
posits. It would be necessary to make 
a personal examination to ascertain the 
cause before satisfactory treatment could 
be prescribed. Owing to the strong sus¬ 
picion that it may be tuberculosis, I 
would advise having the cow examined 
at once by a qualified veterinarian. 
Constipation in Young Lambs. 
What ails my lambs, and what can I do for 
them? They commenced by going a little stiff, 
and keep getting worse, until they are unable to 
get up at all. Their appetites seem good, and 
they are always hungry. The sheep are in good 
condition, and receive each day all the good 
clover hay they will eat with about a bushel of 
corn and oats ground together, with a little oil 
meal to a flock of about 80 ewes The lambs are 
also fat, and from one to three weeks old. 
New York. ,r. a h. 
A teaspoonful of castor oil, to which 
add a few drops of tincture of Jamaica 
ginger, should be given to each lamb. 
Then give rectal injections of blood- 
warm Castile soapsuds, using a half¬ 
ounce or ounce of hard rubber infants’ 
syringe, and slowly inject two or three 
ounces. Repeat the in j eetions every hour 
or two until the lambs are relieved. The 
dose of oil may be repeated after 24 
hours if necessary. If any of the lambs 
are not getting enough milk, injections 
of warm milk, adding a teaspoonful of 
molasses to each injection, may be given 
instead of the soapsuds. 
Intestinal Worms in Horses. 
What shall I give a seven-year-old horse and 
nine-year-old mare (mare is in foal) for worms 
that Inhabit the large intestines ? o. w. k, 
Ohio. 
Oil of turpentine is one of the most re¬ 
liable, general vermicides, and if prop¬ 
erly given, will rid a horse of the larger 
number of his intestinal worms. The 
dose of the turpentine is two to four 
ounces (according to the size and con¬ 
dition of the horse) and should always 
be given well shaken up in oil or milk. 
The turpentine, as well as all vermicides, 
is most effective when given on an empty 
stomach, and followed in a few hours 
by an active purgative. A convenient 
method is to give the horse no feed at 
night, and in the morning, before feed¬ 
ing, administer the turpentine (three 
ounces for a 1 , 200 -pound horse) in a pint 
of raw linseed oil or a quart of milk by 
drenching. Follow with bran mashes and 
a very light feed of hay or other coarse 
fodder, and at night, give an ounce each 
of aloes and ginger, either in ball or by 
drench in a half pint of cold water, to 
move the bowels. If the horse be fed 
mainly on a bran mash diet for two or 
three days before giving the medicine, 
it would be all the more effective. In 
some cases, it may be desirable to repeat 
the course of treatment after two or 
three weeks. 
The sulphate of iron that you have 
been giving is an excellent tonic, and 
tends to cause expulsion of the worms. 
The iron might be conjoined with aloes 
and gentian to advantage, in the propor¬ 
tion of three parts of the dry sulphate 
of iron, two parts of aloes and eight 
parts of gentian. Mix and give a table¬ 
spoonful in the feed night and morning. 
It would be better to wait until after the 
mare foals before subjecting her to the 
treatment. 
Cow off Feed; Babcock Milk Test. 
1. My grade Jersey cow, nine years old, had a 
calf April 1, and has been giving 14 to 15 pounds 
of milk to a milking. I usually get 16 or 18 quarts 
per day, and have got 22 quarts on flush feed. 
She doesn’t seem to care for fresh grass. She 
has good coarse hay, grain, and three or four 
quarts carrot3 every night and a lump of salt 
always in the manger. What shall I do? 2. I 
also have a heifer two years old from this cow . 
She had a calf a week ago, and is giving about 
10 quarts per day. I want to get the milk tested 
to see what per cent of butter fat I am getting. 
How and where can I get it tested ? j. b. k. 
Rhode Island. 
1 Give the cow one of the following 
powders in her feed twice daily: Pow¬ 
dered nux vomica and dry sulphate of 
iroD, of e^ch six ounces; gentian, 12 
ounces ; mix and divide into 32 powders. 
If the cow will not eat the powders in her 
feed, give in one-half pint of water or 
gruel by drenching. 2 . The Rhode Island 
Experiment Station could test the milk, 
but I cannot answer as to whether they 
would make such tests for private parties. 
Write Director A. A Briarham, Kingston. 
Impaction in Sheep. 
I bought 13 sheep last Fall, put them in a 
stable 22 feet square with a ground floor, and 
kept them there all Winter, with plenty of water 
and all the good clover hay and wheat bran they 
could eat I lost four of them by some disease. 
They refuse water or feed, and in a few days, die 
with a discharge from the nose, of blood and 
matter which smells terribly. What is the cause 
and a remedy ? c , 8 . a< 
Pennsylvania. 
I suspect the deaths were due to indi¬ 
gestion and impaction. Your description 
of the symptoms, especially as regards 
the duration of the nasal discharge, is 
too indefinite to enable me to give a 
definite opinion. If the discharge oc¬ 
curred only a few hours to a day or two 
before death, the diagnosis of impaction 
is confirmed, for which, see pages 289 
and 290 of The R. N.-Y. of April 15, for 
prevention and treatment. If tbe nasal 
discharge was of longer duration, indi¬ 
cating disease of the head or respiratory 
passages, a more complete description of 
the symptoms will be necessary before a 
diagnosis can be made. 
Feeding Beans to Stock. 
I have a few bushels of beans that we can not 
sell on account of some blackened beans in them 
caused by exposure to rain before they were 
hulled. There are so many it will not pay to 
hand pick them. What would be the best way 
to feed them ? I have horses, cows, calves, sheep, 
pigs and poultry. We have been cooking them 
with other scraps, and feeding them to the hens. 
Would it pay to have them ground to feed to 
calves and pigs; mixing them with ground corn- 
and-cob? j. p. k. 
Pucker Brush, Ind. 
Ans—W e would not attempt to grind 
beans, but would cook them and feed 
them to the poultry or the pigs Sheep 
make the best use of raw beans of any 
live stock, and they can eat them whole. 
But from our own experience with the 
beans and cow peas, we would prefer to 
boil them and use them for feeding 
either hens or pigs. 
DEVON CATTLE. 
For those who follow mixed husbandry 
in mountainous districts, I think the 
Devons have no superior as a general-pur¬ 
pose breed. They are esteemed here on 
the Alleghany Mountains, because of 
their easy keeping qualities, as they 
thrive on short pasturage, and appear 
to withstand neglect better than most 
of the other pure breeds. 
When not in milk, they fatten readily, 
and it costs but little to fit them for the 
block, and the butcher prefers them at 
an advanced price over other stock, as, 
it is claimed, the offal is less and the 
dressed beef produces more desirable 
cuts than an animal of the same weight 
of any other breed. With good care, the 
Devon attains a weight which compares 
favorably with the larger breeds. One 
animal sold to my local butcher, with¬ 
out special care in feeding, dressed 1,236 
pounds net, and brought me $105 26 
These heavyweights are not generally 
profitable, neither are they desirable 
unless it be for exhibition purposes. 
I usually sell at from six to twelve 
months of age, mostly to my neighbors 
for crossing on other breeds, or to be 
used as foundation stock. Twelve years’ 
experience in handling these cattle 
shows them to be rich, persistent milk¬ 
ers, but the yield is not large as com¬ 
pared with the various dairy breeds 
Their calvas are usually rather small at 
birth, but grow rapidly until they at¬ 
tain the age of about one year, after 
which they appear to mature rather 
more slowly than some other breeds, but 
I think they maintain their usefulness 
much longer than those that mature 
earlier. Whatever profit there is in 
growing cattle here on the mountain is 
made by selling between the ages of six 
and eighteen months. 
Cambria Co., Pa. geo. w. skttlemyer. 
DISHORNED CATTLE AT FAIRS. 
I have seen dishorned Herefords ex¬ 
hibited at New York, Ohio and Indiana 
State fairs. They were also exhibited 
at West Virginia State fair. I have 
seen dishorned Short-horn and Jerseys 
exhibited at local fairs; indeed, I doubt 
very much whether the rules of any of 
our State fairs would prevent their en¬ 
tering for competition and receiving a 
prize. If there are rules preventing it, 
they should be changed. I do not think 
they should be assigned to a class by 
themselves, because there is no neces¬ 
sity for it. One cannot make an Aber- 
deen-Angus out of a Short-horn by cut¬ 
ting off his horns, any more than one 
can make a negro out of a white man by 
paring off his finge” nails Many of the 
fairs now have separate classes for Short¬ 
horns and Polled Durhams, which I think 
entirely unnecessary. The case is this : 
I buy a “ double standard” Polled Dur¬ 
ham cow. She has twin calves ; on 3 has 
horns, the other is polled. The horned 
one I can show only as a Short-horn, but 
the polled I can show in both classes or 
either, as I deem best. Can any one 
point out a good reason for two such 
classes ? o. e. bbadfutk. 
Cedarville, Ohio 
OPEN-AIR ENSILAGE. 
In a pamphlet entitled Grazing Prob¬ 
lems of the Southwest, issued by the 
United States Department of Agricul¬ 
ture, we are told that Mr. Fred. Kohler, 
of Bee County, Tex., has used stack en¬ 
silage made of sorghum, and considers 
it, when fed in connection with cotton¬ 
seed meal and hulls, the cheapest and 
best fattening material for topping off 
beef steers for the market, lie builds a 
sort of paling fence, using four or six- 
inch fence-boards, in 10 to 16 foot 
lengths, woven together with heavy gal¬ 
vanized fencing wire, leaving about a 
two-inch space between the boards The 
length of this fence can be accommodated 
to the diameter of the stack which it is 
desired to make. When the sorghum is 
ready to cut, which is about the time 
that the seeds are commencing to hard¬ 
en, one of these paling fences is set up 
in a circle, varying from 12 to 20 feet or 
more in diameter. Then using horse 
rakes, loaders and stackers, freshly- 
cut or slightly wilted sorghum is fed 
over the tops of the boards into this pen, 
and the process is continued until the 
pen is filled. Daring the filling, the fod¬ 
der is stamped down around the edges 
so as to leave no air-spaces. When the 
pen is done to the top, a layer of straw 
is added and built up to a peak to shed 
rain. On this is piled dirt or stones or 
bags of earth to the depth of two or 
three feet, in order that the pressure 
shall range from 125 to 200 pounds to the 
square foot. Pressure may, also, be ap¬ 
plied by means of a Spanish windlass or 
by levers. The palings remain in place 
until the stack has settled and com¬ 
pacted sufficiently to stand alone, when 
they may be removed and set up else¬ 
where and the process repeated. 
It has been found that, by applying 
the pressure at the right time, one may 
readily control the fermentation, and 
produce either sour or sweet ensilage 
as desired. Thus, if the fermentation is 
not allowed to proceed above 130 degrees 
F., if the stacks are weighted when this 
temperature is reached, sour ensilage is 
produced. If the fermentation is al¬ 
lowed to go on until the temperature 
rises to between 150 and 165 degrees F. 
before the stacks are weighted, the mass 
will often become highly carbonized, ap¬ 
pearing dark brown, or almost as black 
as charcoal, but the ensilage is sweet 
and relished by cattle. Sour ensilage is 
considered more satisfactory for dairy 
purposes than sweet ensilage. 
NOTES. 
The heaviest yoke of oxen on record in this 
country, are owned in Massachusetts. They 
weighed, at eight years, 7,300 pounds; they were 
17 hands high, 15 feet in length, 10 feet in girth. 
They have a record for hauling on the ground at 
a drag, a dead weight of 11,061 pounds. 
Mb. Alfred Mansell, Secretary of the English 
Shropshire Sheep Association, has just arrived in 
New York. He will visit in the States and Canada 
about four weeks. He will be the guest of Mor¬ 
timer Levering, Secretary of the American Shrop¬ 
shire Association, most of the time. 
The National Provisioner says that, barring 
the canDibil and the American negro, the indige¬ 
nous races of hot climates eat very little meat. 
Nature has taught them that meat food is too 
heating for their climate. It is not likely, there¬ 
fore, that any increase in trade in American 
meats and provisions may be expected in our 
new posts. Vegetable foods are wanted, and it 
is not likely that we shall have the opportunity 
to supply them. 
A kecent number of Hoard’s Dairyman stated 
thatH. E Cook, the well-known farmers’institute 
lecturer, of New York, was shipping Pasteurized 
cream to New York City. It is stated that he 
started the hot cream at a temperature of 160 de¬ 
grees in “jacketed” cans, so that it arrived at 
market still warm and in good condition. Mr. 
Cook writes us that this statement is a little 
ahead of time. He made one sample shipment 
of the hot cream, which went through in good 
condition. He can’t tell, however, what the re¬ 
sult would be In hot weather. He says that, if 
he has any surplus milk later, after supplying 
his cheese trade, he shall try It again. It would 
certainly be interesting to know how this hot 
shipment compares with cream shipped on ice. 
LIVE-STOCK FEEDERS 
■hould see that a guaranteed analysis 
accompanies every bag of 
Cotton-Seed Meal. 
It is the only safe way to avoid adulterated 
Meal. Every bag shipped by the American Cotton 
Oil Company contains a red tag guaranteeing 
not less than the following analysis: 
Ammonia.................... 8.50 per cent. 
Nitrogen..... . 7.00 “ 
Protein .43.00 “ 
Crude Fat and Oil.9.00 “ 
See that the name of The American Cotton-Oil 
Compant is on the red tag attached to bag. 
Send your address for free information about 
cotton-seed meal. 
THE AMERICAN COTTON OIL COMPANY, 
27 Beaver Street, New York City. 
O RAISE THE CALVES 
on Blatchford’s Calf Meal, the 
perfect Milk Substitute, and sell the milk. 
“Have Spring Calves as Big as Cows." 
J. H. Cooley, Now Woodstock, N.1L 
Ask your Feed Dealer for it. 
J. W. BARWELL, Waukegan, Ill. 
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