1899 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
411 
SWEENY IN A HORSE. 
I broke a young mule to work last Winter, and 
got it strained or sweenied in the shoulder. Will 
a sweeny collsfr cure It ? If not, what will ? It is 
better, but not entirely well. h. k. s. 
Arkansas. 
My young mare has sweeny. Is there a cure, 
and how long does it take? She is not lame at 
all. Canluseher? j. i. n. 
Virginia. 
Sweeny is a sprain of the muscles that 
fill the posterior cavity of the shoulder- 
blade, followed by rapid wasting of tbe 
muscles, which results in a marked de¬ 
pression along the shoulder-blade. The 
characteristic symptom of sweeny is a 
rolling outward of the point of the 
shoulder, best observed by standing 
directly in front of the horse as he is 
moved towards you, when the sweenied 
shoulder will be seen to roll outward 
from the body more than the sound 
shoulder. There may or may not be 
lameness. There is usually more or less 
lameness soon after the sprain, but later, 
the lameness may be almost or entirely 
absent, although the wasting of tbe 
muscle continues 
Any lameness in the lower part of the 
leg may cause shrinking - of these muscles 
of the shoulder, s'mply from disease ; 
but there will not occur the rapid wast¬ 
ing of sweeny. A large number of the 
so-called cases of sweeny are nothing 
but a shrinking of the shoulder muscles, 
due to some lameness below the knee. 
To make sure that you are treating a 
case of sweeny, look for this peculiar 
outward rolling of the point of the 
shoulder. In the absence of this symp¬ 
tom, it will be well to look below the 
knee for the cause of the wasting. 
Sweeny is successfully treated by 
various methods of counter-irritation. 
In recent cases, with but little wasting 
of muscle, mild stimulating measures 
may be sufficient. Loosen the skin over 
the region of the wasted muscle by 
working and pulling with the hands, 
until it can be freely raised from the 
muscle, then apply a mild blister, (equal 
pans aqua ammonia and sweet oil, well 
shaken together) If not blistered by 
the first application, repeat in five or six 
days. As soon as the crusts from the 
blister have been shed, loosen the skin 
daily, and rub actively with the hands 
for several minutes, or better, with a 
corn cob or firm wisp of hay, until the 
shoulder is well warmed by the friction. 
The blistering can be repeated once a 
month to advantage, until the shoulder 
is refilled. 
In old cases, or those that do not yield 
to blisters, a seton should be inserted, 
extending from near the top of the 
shoulder to the lower part of the cavity. 
The seton should be inserted by a quali¬ 
fied veterinary surgeon 
Light daily exercise during treatment 
is very essential, and aids materially in 
giving tone to the wasted muscle. The 
horse may be put to light work if driven 
moderately. On rough roads or uneven 
ground, the horse should be driven 
slowly. F. L. KILBORNK. 
BEWARE OF "STOCK COMPANY " 
HORSES. 
For a number of years, when horses 
were selling for big prices, it was quite 
a common thing to find companies formed 
in prosperous farming communities for 
the purpose of introducing some stallion. 
These stallions were, however, not al¬ 
ways of the type most suitable for the 
section where they were introduced. 
The primary influence directing the 
choice of the horse was the man who had 
it for sale. If a good talker, plausible 
and known to be a horseman, too many 
were found ready to take the horse on 
his assurance that it was the very ani¬ 
mal they required. As a consequence, 
in many parts of the United States aiid 
Canada, horses of a class altogether un 
suited to the requirements of the farmer 
were foisted upon him; often against 
his judgment, and frequently against 
his will. He used the horse because 
some friend had a share in him, and per¬ 
chance he had a share himself, having 
gone into it as a little speculation. These 
horses were frequently placed by agents 
for rome importing or horse-breeding 
company, who having a very wide range 
of territory wherein to work, were 
rather indifferent as to the stock their 
horses threw. 
With the fall in prices for horses it 
became more difficult to place these stal¬ 
lions, and many of the smaller concerns 
fell through. A few survived, however, 
and are now actively engaged in placing, 
at about double their real worth, a class 
of horses which should be, in many 
cases, examined with much care before 
being allowed to perpetuate their— 
well, to say the least, their peculiarities, 
and so insure a considerably lower aver¬ 
age price for horseflesh. A number of 
instances have recently come to my 
nolice in different parts of Canada, 
where really inferior animals have been 
bought from a company of the character 
described above, and superior prices 
paid. The aim of this article is to warn 
farmers to examine most carefully any 
stallion they may wish to use, and not 
to sacrifice their mares for the sake of 
pleasing some stockholder who has been 
fooled, or who has decided that he can 
fool the community. Beware of all stock 
company horses, for they are seldom 
good stock getters, and never first-class 
animals of their breed. Canada. 
BRIEF VETERINARY NOTES. 
A horsk with a large hock which is healed but 
left the skin nearly half an inch thick, needs 
blistering. We should blister with cantharldes 
ard biniodide of mercury (cerate of cantharldes, 
one ounce; biniodide of mercury, one dram; mix). 
Repeat two or three times if necessary, at inter¬ 
vals of a month. 
A young western horse with a cough and a 
slight discharge from the nose needs a tonic. 
Give one of the following powders in the feed 
twice dally: Powdered nux vomica and sulphate 
of copper, of each three ounces; arsenic, 80 
grains; mix and divide into 32 powders. If the 
powders do not relieve the cough, blister the 
throatand use cough paste as advised forChronic 
Cough in a Cow, page 30P of The R. N -Y. of 
April 22. 
For a heifer that has lost her appetite through 
no apparent cause, and though well fed, is thin 
and weak, we would try a course of nux vomica. 
Begin by feeding a half-teaspoonful of the pow¬ 
dered nux in her feed twice daily for three days 
Then increase the dose to one teaspoonful for the 
next three days, and continue adding a half tea¬ 
spoonful every three days, until three-teaspoon- 
ful doses are being given. Continue this dose for 
two or three weeks, unless twitching of the 
muscles should be observed, which is an indica¬ 
tion that the dose should be reduced or the medi¬ 
cine discontinued. 
A Jersey cow that seems to have a lameness in 
the stifle joints of both legs needs blistering. She 
cannot move around easily, and when she does 
move, there is a grating and dull snapping noise 
in the joints. It seems to hurt her to stand her 
whole weight on one foot as much as the other. 
We would blister the whole stifle joint with am¬ 
monia and turpentine liniment (stronger aqua 
ammonia and sweet oil, of each two parts; oil of 
turpentine, one part; shake well together). Re¬ 
peat the application in three or four days if not 
blistered by the first. It would be well to blister 
only one stifle atone time; the other joint can 
then be blistered as soon as the first begins to 
heal. It may be necessary to blister each stifle 
two or three times. 
A 
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