1899 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Ailing Animals. 
ANSWERS BY DR. F. L. KILBORNE. 
Cow's Teat with two Openings. 
My cow has a small hole in the side of 
the teat about midway of its length. Can it 
be closed in any way? c. w. s. 
Ohio. 
It would be better to wait until the 
cow is dry, then burn with the hot iron, 
which is preferable to caustic. Use a 
pointed iron rod, heat it red hot, and 
after securing the cow on one side so 
as to expose that teat, press the point of 
the hot iron into the opening to be 
closed. Do not allow the iron to remain 
in contact with the flesh longer than 
two or three seconds at a time, but make 
two or three applications as may be 
necessary to get a good burn, at inter¬ 
vals of a few seconds. If the burning be 
successful, the opening should close in 
healing. If it fail to close up, repeat 
the operation, burning more deeply. 
Such an opening may sometimes be suc¬ 
cessfully closed by scarifying with the 
knife, and allowing it to heal over; but 
the hot iron is more reliable. 
Fistulous Withers on a Horse. 
What will cure fistulous withers on a 
horse? They broke July 4, and have been 
getting worse since. The horse is five 
years old; It rubs and scratches a good 
deal. The disease seems to be going down 
on the leg, on one side, and up the neck 
on the other. t. t. 
Md. 
This 'is an aggravated case, and it is 
doubtful whether a cure can be effected 
by ordinary methods that can be ad¬ 
vised. The horse ought to be examined, 
and probably operated upon, by a com¬ 
petent veterinary surgeon. The follow¬ 
ing course of treatment may prove ef¬ 
fectual: First inject the fistula with two 
ounces of a mixture of carbolic acid one 
part, and spirits of turpentine three 
parts, well shaken together. Use a good 
strong one or two-ounce syringe, so as 
to inject with considerable force. After 
inserting the nozzle of the syringe into 
the fistulous opening, wrap an old towel 
or some cotton batting around it, and 
press down firmly with the fingers of the 
left hand while making the injection 
with the right, to retain the injection 
and force it to the bottom of the pipes. 
If there is more than one opening, the 
others should be closed by an assistant, 
while making the injection into the 
most central opening. Allow this injec¬ 
tion to remain for 36 to 48 hours, after 
which syringe out daily with a solu¬ 
tion of thrbe-fourths ounce of sulphate 
of zinc and one ounce acetate of lead in 
one quart of water. Shake well before 
using, and inject with force as directed 
above. Repeat the turpentine injection 
about every 15 days, if necessary. Care 
must be taken not to allow the turpen¬ 
tine to run down over the skin, which 'it 
will blister. If you can probe any of 
the pipes, and can open them at their 
lower extremity, it would be well to do 
it, so as to allow drainage from the bot¬ 
tom. 
SOME FEEDING PROBLEMS. 
Shorts or Middlings for Pigs. 
Which is the more profitable feed for 
young pigs, shorts or middlings, the price 
of each being the same? Which is the 
better plan, to mix the food just before 
feeding, or several hours before? a. j. 
Galilee, N. Y. 
It is a very hard matter to say which 
is a more profitable feed for young pigs, 
shorts or middlings. The terms shorts 
and middlings are very frequently used 
interchangeably. Much of the shorts 
purchased nowadays is simply bran 
made fine by grinding over, and mixed 
with sweepings and dirt of the mill. 
Such shorts are very unsatisfactory, and 
middlings would be far preferable for 
young pigs. The following table shows 
the comparative analyses of wheat mid¬ 
dlings and wheat shorts: 
Wheat Middlings.— Per Cent. 
Protein .17.8 
Carbohydrates and fat.78.8 
Nutritive ratio .•.1:4.8 
Wheat Shorts.— Per Cent. 
Protein .16.8 
Carbohydrates and fat.76.9 
Nutritive ratio .1:4.5 
It will be seen from these analyses that 
there 'is very little difference in the com¬ 
651 
position of wheat shorts and wheat mid¬ 
dlings. 
For pigs from two to three months old 
and weighing about 50 pounds, a nu¬ 
tritive ratio of 1:4 is desirable. For 
pigs from three to five months old, and 
weighing about 100 pounds, the nutri¬ 
tive rate should be 'increased to about 
1:5. It is very probable that, in feeding 
either wheat shorts or wheat middlings 
to pigs from three to six months old, it 
would pay to add a small quantity of 
corn meal. In feeding pigs at the Cor¬ 
nell Experiment Station for the last 
three years, we have found that a mix¬ 
ture of wheat middlings and corn meal 
gives better results than either wheat 
middlings or corn meal alone. We pre¬ 
fer mixing the food several hours before 
feeding. L . A . c . 
Feeding Cattle in Georgia. 
I want to put up in a cow lot, 12 one and 
two-year-old cattle, common stock. The 
idea is to get a quantity of cow manure, 
and, at the same time, to keep improving 
the condition of the stock, so as to be able 
to sell for beef. What would be the best 
and cheapest feed, and in what quantity 
per head? We have plenty of hay, corn, 
corn fodder and peas, and can get cotton¬ 
seed hulls and meal cheap. f. g. 
Macon, Ga. 
If F. G. will feed his scrub cattle cot¬ 
ton-seed meal and hulls, giving as much 
as they will eat three times a day in the 
proportion of 4 pounds of hulls to 1 of 
meal, he will find 'it the cheapest food 
he could possibly use, and at the same 
time will produce the richest manure. 
I would advise him to change the food 
occasionally to the extent of adding a 
little corn meal, pound for pound, in 
place of the cotton-seed meal. In other 
words, if giving five or six pounds 
of cotton-seed meal per head per 
day, I would occasionally leave off 
two or three pounds, and substi¬ 
tute the same quantity of corn meal. 
The same change may be made in 
roughage, occasionally substituting for 
a few days some other cheap rough- 
age, such as shredded corn fodder or 
hay. But there is no cheaper food than 
cotton-seed hulls and meal. 
Georgia Exp. Station, r. j . redding. 
Educating the Cow.— D. II. Otis, of the 
Kansas Experiment Station, tells the fol¬ 
lowing in a recent bulletin about some 
scrub cows that were bought for experi¬ 
ment: "On entering college, they would eat 
a little whole corn, and seemed to relish 
a straw stack, but had to be taught to eat 
meal and Alfalfa. The first month, the 
best cow yielded 28.8 pounds butter fat 
the second month, 32.8 pounds, and the 
third month, 37.1 pounds. During the 12 
months, she produced 383.7 pounds butter 
fat (451 pounds butter.) Valuing skim- 
milk at 15 cents per 100 pounds, she yield¬ 
ed $73.17 worth of dairy products. But the 
value of her education does not all show 
in the first year, for during that time, her 
digestive apparatus, her udder, and her 
ability to convert feed into milk have un¬ 
dergone a course of development, which is 
shown by the fact that the first month of 
the second year’s record shows a credit of 
44.8 pounds butter fat, an increase of 21 
per cent over the best month of last year.” 
365 Days a Year. 
Some men who keep 
cows declare the price of 
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The kind that a fancy private 
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