1899 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
667 
Ailing Animals. 
ANSWERS BY DR. F. L. KIEBORNE. 
Over-Driven Mare Becomes Thick-Winded. 
What can I do for a valuable six-year- 
old draught mare that was lately over¬ 
driven? When at work on a hot day now, 
she breathes very heavy—locally termed 
“thick-winded.” This happened about 
three months ago, and she was then in 
high condition, and had been doing little 
work. At present, her weight is normal, 
work quite light, and she is, a large por¬ 
tion of the time, on the pasture. r. 
Washington. 
Nearly all cases of the so-called 
“thick-winded” horses are either “roar¬ 
ers,” or have the heaves. In this case, 
if the unnatural sound is known to have 
been the result of the mare being over¬ 
driven, there may be some temporary 
respiratory trouble; but it is more likely 
that she has become a “roarer,” as a re¬ 
sult of paralysis of the muscles of the 
left side of the larynx. There is no bet¬ 
ter place for the mare than on pasture, 
unless she eats so heartily as to over¬ 
distend the stomach, which might cause 
the unnatural breathing or “thick wind” 
when first started out. I can only sug¬ 
gest trying dram doses of powdered nux 
vomica, to be given night and morning 
in a little bran or mill feed, and con¬ 
tinued for three or four weeks or longer. 
Chronic Diarrhea and Nasal Catarrh in a Ewe. 
I have an old ewe that has been sick 
since lambing last March. She scours 
badly, and her eyes and nose discharge. 
What can I do for her? w. s. b. 
Massachusetts. 
I doubt whether the ewe is worth the 
trouble and expense of treatment. Hav¬ 
ing been sick so long, she will recover 
slowly, if at all. If treatment is desired, 
it will be well first to give her one table¬ 
spoonful oil of turpentine well shaken 
up in a teacupful of raw linseed oil. 
This should be given on an empty stom¬ 
ach, after a fast of at least 12 hours, 
and may be repeated 'in three or four 
days. Then give one of the following 
powders twice daily in a half pint of 
starch gruel, as a drink: Catechu, pre¬ 
pared chalk, gentian and ginger, of each 
six ounces; mix and divide into 24 pow¬ 
ders. As soon as the diarrhea is check¬ 
ed, cease giving these powders and give 
the following: Nux. vomica and pero- 
phosphate of iron, of each two ounces; 
gentian and ginger, of each, six ounces; 
mix and divide into 24 powders. Feed a 
powder twice daily in wheat bran or 
ground oats. Steam the head once or twice 
daily by holding over a bucket of boil¬ 
ing water, to which have been added a 
few drops of carbolic acid or oil of tur¬ 
pentine. A convenient method of confin¬ 
ing the steam is to hold the head in one 
end of a sack, while the other end is 
drawn over the bucket of boiling water. 
Grease-Heel in a Horse. 
My eight-year-old mare has a breaking 
out about her heels and pasterns, very 
much like the grease, only there is no 
odor. I have been putting on sugar of lead 
and sulphate of zinc, but as fast as it is 
cured in one place it breaks out in another. 
I stopped working her and feeding grain, 
and turned her to pasture, but she is get¬ 
ting worse. She had not been to pasture 
before she got this way. h. t. 
Maryland. 
Grease heel usually has an offensive 
odor, but not always. Your description 
indicates a case of grease. Give one 
ounce each best aloes and ginger, either 
in ball or by drench, to unload the bowels. 
Repeat in a week or 10 days if the 
bowels be not moving freely. Also give 
one tablespoonful Fowler’s solution of 
arsenic once daily for three days, after 
which increase the dose to two table¬ 
spoonfuls once daily t and continue until 
the heels are cured. When you have 
again checked the discharge with the 
sugar of lead or sulphate of zinc, both 
of which are suitable remedies for 
grease, apply benzoated oxide of zinc 
ointment twice daily until healed. Do 
not wash the legs, or allow them to be¬ 
come wet, if it can oe avoided. When¬ 
ever wet, rub dry as soon as possible, 
and then apply the zinc ointment. The 
grain ration should be light, and con¬ 
sist mainly of bran mashes or scalded 
oats. Feed no corn or other heating 
grains for some time. 
Wheat Bran or Shorts. 
As a ration for cows producing milk, 
what is the relative value of bran and 
shorts? a. j. 
Galilee, N. Y. 
Ans. —The term shorts is an indefinite' 
one. It is frequently used in place of 
the term middlings, and there 'is not 
much difference in the feed value of 
shorts and middlings. Extensive ex¬ 
periments have been conducted to deter¬ 
mine the comparative value of wheat 
shorts and wheat bran for milch cows. 
At the Copenhagen Station, 240 cows 
were used in a trial to determine the rel¬ 
ative value of wheat shorts and wheat 
bran. The difference in value between 
the two was very slight, and not enough 
in favor of each cne so that it could be 
definitely said that either wheat shorts 
or wheat bran was preferable for feed¬ 
ing milch cows. Prof. Henry says, in 
Feeds and Feeding. “Bran is par excel¬ 
lence a leading feed for the dairy cow, 
furnishing not only bulk, a uesirable 
quality in this"case, but protein and ash 
matter, which are so much needed in the 
formation of milk. As a complementary 
food to corn meal, the combination of 
bran and that grain is not to be ex¬ 
celled.” L . a. c. 
Stockowners in New South Wales re¬ 
port the death of a number of horses from 
being fed on chaff in which the binding 
twine was cut up. The twine formed balls 
in the stomach, which resulted in fatal in¬ 
flammation. 
A consular report upon Guernseys in 
Great Britain says that carrots are largely 
grown in the Channel Islands for feeding 
to cows, as much as 15 to 20 pounds of the 
roots being given to an animal in a day. 
The result is an enormously increased milk 
flow. 
Newspaper reports state that an Illinois 
veterinarian recently condemned 79 cows 
as tuberculous, after the tuberculin test, 
of which post-mortem examination showed 
only 49 to be affected. The Whitewater, 
Wis., Register suggests that, in such cases, 
the veterinarian himself be compelled to 
pay for animals found in a healthy state. 
Ticks and Texas Fever.— Bulletin No. 
56, of the Louisiana Experiment Station 
(Baton Rouge), deals with this subject, 
which is of special interest to cattlemen 
of the South and Southwest. It is copi¬ 
ously illustrated with plates showing the 
different kinds of ticks, the latter feature 
taking up the larger part of the space. 
The McKillip Veterinary College, of 
Chicago, has offered a junior scholarship 
in that institution to the second-year stu¬ 
dent in the Wisconsin Short Course of Ag¬ 
riculture, who makes the best showing in 
the study of veterinary science. We are 
glad to see such prizes offered, for they 
encourage those who start at our agricul¬ 
tural colleges to continue their studies and 
go higher up. 
A firm of French horse dealers recently 
sent a buyer to Kansas City, Mo., to pur¬ 
chase 3,000 horses, to be used as cab horses 
in Paris during the exposition. After the 
purchase of 120 horses, the order was can¬ 
celed, owing to the excitement in France 
over the Dreyfus case, which is making 
investors timid. This compelled buyers to 
unload horses collected for this French 
shipment at a loss in Kansas City. 
Mr. Dairyman: 
Are you getting all the cream from your milk 
by your present method ? 
We should like to put an 
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in your dairy and com¬ 
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months, we will not ask 
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The Empire is as much in advance of the old 
style separators as the latter are of the setting 
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Six sizes of hand machines ranging in price 
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U. S. Butter Extractor Co., Newark, N. J. 
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