.1898 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
683 
AILING ANIMALS. 
ANSWERS BY DR. F. L. KILBORNK. 
Mare Rubs Mane and Tail. 
I have a mare colt, four years olil, that rubs 
the roots of her tail, and her neck so that she is 
sroiling her mane. What is the matter, and what 
can I do for her ? 8. w. c. 
Minnesota. 
The itching of the mane and tail, that induces 
the rubbing, is due to a scurfy condition of the 
skin. Wash the roots of theViane and tail with 
warm Castile soapsuds, using a stiff brush, if 
necessary, to remove the scurf or dandruff. Then 
when well dried, rub thoroughly with the follow¬ 
ing lotion: Sulphur, two ounces; oil of tar, one 
ounce; linseed oil, eight ounces; mix. Repeat 
the washing and application of the lotion once a 
week until relieved. If there belittle or no im¬ 
provement after two or three dressings, give a 
course, of arsenic internally—-one tablespoonful 
Fowler’s solution of arsenic once daily on feed 
for three days, after which increase the dose to 
two tablespooufuis and continue for three or four 
weeks if necessary. A light, laxative di^t will 
aid in relieving the condition. 
Difficult Breathing or Roaring in a Horse. 
I have a fine gray mare, five years old, which 
had a bad case of distemper one year ago. Ever 
since, she gets her breath hard when working or 
when ridden. She also makes a gurgling noise 
after drinking. What remedy would you advise ? 
Tennessee. w. n. m. c. 
The difficult breathing may be due to enlarged 
lymphatic glands, resulting from the distemper; 
or to paralysis of the muscles of the larynx, 
which constitutes a chronic “roarer”. Iu the 
latter case, the sound should be made only when 
the air is drawn into the lungs and not heard 
when the air is expelled. I would advise a course 
of iodide of potash. Dissolve four ounces of the 
iodide in one quart of soft water, and give four 
tablespoonfuls in the feed night and morning 
until used. Rub the throat daily from ear to ear 
with the following liniment: Compound tincture 
of iodine, four ounces; soap liniment, eight 
ounces; mix. If the treatment afford any relief, 
repeat the course after an interval of a week. 
Otherwise, take the horse to a qualified veterin¬ 
arian for a personal examination and treatment. 
Abnormal Retention of Fetus or Extra-Uterine 
Pregnancy. 
My three-year-old heifer was served July 12, 
18!>7. She appeared all right but failed to deliver 
her calf at the proper time. She made a moder¬ 
ate udder at the proper time, but we noticed no 
sigu 3 of pains and supposed that she was only 
running over the time until she had been so long 
ttiat we thought that she must have been served 
again in the pasture after July 12. We did not 
start her milk and turned her off to pasture about 
August 1. Since then, she has been making more 
udder, and at the present time, has considerable 
of both milk and colostrum judging from a little 
milked out. She is in fairly good flesh consider¬ 
ing that it is fly time, and she has been eating 
more or less cider apples which abound in the 
pasture. Can anything be done for her ? Should 
she be milked or not? I think she has not been 
in heat or shown any sign of being. Can she be 
fattened for beef if nothing else can be done to 
save her for a milch cow, and if so, would the 
beef be wholesome ? F. a. i*. 
Massachusetts. 
If you are correct as to the date of service, this 
is either a case of abnormal retention of the 
fetus, or of extra-uterine pregnancy, in which 
the impregnated ovum failed to reach the uterus, 
but developed outside, commonly by escaping 
into the abdominal cavity in the case of the cow. 
Iu either case the fetus must be dead. Instances 
of this kind are not uncommon in cows and ewes, 
the fetus being retained for a year or two, or 
even longer after the normal period for parturi¬ 
tion. Only a personal examination by a com¬ 
petent veterinarian can determine whether it 
would now be practicable to attempt to remove 
the fetus. Otherwise I can only advise fitting the 
cow for beef. She will be suitable for beef if she 
will fatten so as to be in condition. 
Quarter-Crack in a Horse; Hair Stimulant 
for the Tail. 
1. How can I heal up a quarter-crack on a 
horse’s foot, and how increase the thickness of 
the shell ? 2. Is there any preparation that can 
be applied to a horse’s tail that will increase the 
growth of hair ? b. j. b. 
New York. 
i. First apply a bar-shoe, cutting away that 
quarter so as to relieve it of all pressure. Then 
the edges of the crack should be firmly clamped or 
fastened together to prevent movement. The wire 
clamps used by veterinarians, that are applied 
with special piucers, are the best for this pur¬ 
pose. But if there is no available veterinary 
surgeon having the clamp, the blacksmith may 
clinch the edges of the crack together with long, 
slender horse-shoe nails. After securing the 
crack, fire or blister the coronet above the 
crack, and repeat at intervals of three cr four 
weeks. If the crack extends to the coronet, the 
horse should be allowed to rest for three or four 
weeks, or until the hoof lias made an unbroken 
growth of at least one half inch. Then make a 
cross-cut of an inch iu length just above the 
upper cud of the crack, and extending to the 
quick. This cross-cut may be deepened as the 
wall grows down. After a good cross-cut lias 
been secured that will prevent the crack extend¬ 
ing farther upward, the animal may be care¬ 
fully worked while the crack is growing off, re¬ 
quiring 10 to 1-1 months. Very little can be done 
to increase the natural thickness of the hoof- 
wall, which varies greatly in different horses. 
Au occasional blister to the coronet, together 
witli the application to the part of anointment 
of equal parts of pine tar and vaseline, will in¬ 
crease the growth and toughen the horn of the 
wall. 
2. There is nothing that will increase the 
natural growth of hair on the tail or the mane of 
a horse. If the hair has been thinned by disease 
or want of proper care, the following hair stimu¬ 
lant, applied once a week and rubbed well into 
the skin, may prove beneficial: Castor oil and 
alcohol, of each four ounces; tincture of canthar- 
ides, four drams; mix. If the skin of the tail is 
setirfy, see answer to S. W. C. 
SELLING ARMY HORSES. 
Uncle Sam now finds himself with a 
lot of horses on hand for which he has 
no use. On Tuesday the horses used by 
the regiment popularly known as the 
Rough Riders were offered at auction 
in a sales stables in East 24th Street. 
They had just been brought in from 
Montauk. Most of them looked as starved 
as the soldiers we have been accustomed 
to see lately ; their coats were rough 
and dirty, but they seemed full of life. 
There were upwards of 1,000 of them, 
and under the auctioneer's hammer, they 
went at the rate of two or three a minute. 
The crowd of buyers seemed to include 
every conceivable class who could use a 
cheap horse. The animals were mostly 
small, apparently Texas ponies. Most 
of them sold in the neighborhood of $20. 
The bids started low, generally $5. The 
lowest price was $9, one fair-sized horse 
in tolerable condition sold for $42, and 
one, an exception, brought $77. They 
were too light to be of much value for 
farm work, and the probability is that 
they are unbroken for anything but rid¬ 
ing. But they were cheap. The sale 
lasted two or three days. The Govern¬ 
ment would never buy a horse in such 
condition as were most of these. 
FORKFULS OF FACTS. 
The smallest calf on record is said to be a Cali¬ 
fornia auimal which weighed only 16 pounds at 
birth, and looked more like a cat than a calf. 
It is said that a farmer in Richmond, Va , has 
trained a terrier dog to take worms from tobacco 
plants in his field. This dog is said to work as 
well as a human laborer, at this work. 
A farmer in Indiana has been arrested on a 
charge of torturing rats. This man, it issaid ) 
caught rats in an open trap, and then stuffed the 
trap with paper, and set fire to it. He is said to 
have hired a lawyer, and will carry the case to 
the highest court. 
A Texas game cock was recently sold for 11,000 
after winning his twenty-seventh victory in the 
pit. The understanding was that this bird was 
not to be fought again, but was to be used en¬ 
tirely for breeding purposes. It is a singular 
commentary upon human nature, when a rooster 
brings 20 times as much as a good, serviceable 
milch cow. 
Prof. C. II. Eckels, of the Iowa Agricultural 
College, reports a new method for transporting 
milk, adopted by the Danish Dairy Company. 
This company does business about 100 miles from 
Copenhagen. From one-fourth to one-third of 
the whole amount of milk is frozen artificially in 
cakes, and placed iu 60-gallou cans. The follow¬ 
ing day these cans are filled with fresh milk, 
closed air tight, and then sent to Copenhagen. It 
is said that they can be kept in this way for 
several weeks, being opened when wanted. When 
it is desired to use the milk, the contents of the 
cau are thawed by placing hot water around the 
cans. 
The presence of numerous skunks in a small 
suburban town led the authorities to decide 
that the local dog-catcher must also round up 
these undesired guests. He objected, on the 
ground that he possesses only one suit of clothes, 
which would be unfit for further service after an 
encounter with the indignant Mephitis. As the 
usages of New Jersey would not permit the dog- 
catcher to pursue his vocations in the birthday 
suit affected by our army in the Philippines, the 
town authorities must either present him with a 
secondary suit, or accept his resignation, and 
the wandering Mephitis still pursues his noctur¬ 
nal rambles unmolested. 
The New Jersey Experiment Station and the 
Ohio Station conduct retail milk trades. At New 
Brunswick, there is a fine herd of dairy cows, 
and the milk is handled and sold in perfect con¬ 
dition. From the planting of the fodder crops to 
the selling of the milk, hundreds of interesting 
questions are met, and the scientists at the sta¬ 
tion study them for the benefit of the students 
and farmers. It seems to us that this practical 
way of conducting an actual business at an ex¬ 
periment station is a first-rate thing. No doubt 
other stations are doing the same thing. We re¬ 
gard it as an excellent way to conduct scientific 
experiments that are based on practical business 
methods. 
The Holstein Bull Ckoi».— The bounty formerly 
offered by our Association for slaughter or cas¬ 
tration of bulls uuder a certain age, was, in our 
observation, quite popular, and many breeders 
used it to some extent, so that the payment of the 
bounties became quite a drain upon the treasury 
of the Association. We think the motive that 
prompted this step was to curtail the bull crop, 
and to do away with a number of the lower grade 
bull calves of the breed, and we believe it was 
conducive of good results in this way. We are 
sure many bull calves were vealed or castrated 
for steers, that as breeders would have done the 
breed more harm than good. oillett & son. 
Rosendale, Wis. 
Feeuins Young Pullets.— If the pullets are 
Leghorns, and they are confined in yards, a sim¬ 
ple ration like the following should give good 
results: A mash composed of two parts bran, 
one part corn meal, and one part ground oats, 
seasoned with salt and mixed with skim-milk or 
water, preferably skim-milk, into a crumbly 
mess; they should have as much of this as they 
will eat clean in the morning before they have 
eaten anything else. One hundred Leghorn pul¬ 
lets five or six months old would, probably, eat 
five or six pounds of this mash a day, but the 
feeder would have to use his own judgment, in¬ 
creasing or decreasing the amouut as the appe¬ 
tite of the fowls seemed to demand it. The rest 
of the day, I would keep them busy scratching 
for wheat by scattering a few grains in a litter 
of straw iu the forenoon, and about 4 in the after¬ 
noon, give them all they will eat clean before 
roosting time. Every other day, feed them cut 
bone and lean meat, or butchers’ scraps, giving 
them as much of that as they will eat clean. Keep 
green food before them all the time; the best 
way, probably, to furnish this is to hang up a 
cabbage in the pen. Give them all the skim-milk 
they will drink, and pure water. Keep them free 
from insects, do not crowd them, take the males 
from them, give them warm, dry quarters, and 
they ought to lay eggs. j. drtden. 
Utah. 
Farm Wagon for only !# 19.5)5. 
In order to introduce their Low Metal Wheels 
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Dew wheels and fully guaranteed for one year. 
Catalogue giving a full description will be mailed 
upon application by the Empire Manufacturing 
Company, Quincy, Ill., who also will furnish 
metal wheels at low prices made any size and 
width of tire to fit any axle. 
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