1898 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
731 
AILING ANIMALS. 
ANSWERS BY DR. F. L. KILBORNE. 
Chronic Cough in a Mare. 
My mare has a cough something like heaves, 
only she never appears to heave or have any 
movement in the flanks, but has a rattle in her 
throat. What ails her, and can I do anything to 
help her? She is with foal or supposed to be, 
and I don’t want to do anything that would 
endanger the foal. j. a. g. 
Pennsylvania. 
Give one of the following powders in the feed 
night and morning: Sulphate of copper and 
powdered nux vomica,of each 3 ounces; arsenic, 
75 grains; mix, and divide into 30 powders. Rub 
the throat with ammonia liniment sufficient to 
blister, and repeat in two or three weeks. Smear 
a small teaspoonful of the following cough paste 
on the tongue and back teeth three or four times 
daily, always after eating: Powdered opium and 
solid extract of belladonna, of each one ounce; 
nitrate of potash and powdered extract of licor¬ 
ice, of each four ounces; honey, about eight 
ounces (sufficient to make a thick paste) ; mix. 
Stringy Milk Following Garget. 
I have a fine Jersey cow which dropped a calf 
about eight weeks ago. She did well, and gave 
about five gallons of milk per day. About 10 days 
ago, she came up with her left hind teat and 
udder swelled so badly that we could get no 
milk. The rest of the teats and udder were all 
right. I made some sage ointment, and bathed 
the swelling several times. I don’t know that 
the remedy I applied did any good. I know the 
swelling disappeared, but her milk is not all right. 
She lost her milk for several days, dwindling 
down to one-half pint to a milking. When cold, 
it was as stringy as it could be. We could tie up 
the milk and cream like strings. That is the con¬ 
dition of the milk and cream to-day. She has 
lost two-thirds of her milk. She has not been 
sick or failed to eat as yet. Is there anything 
that I can give her ? n. h. 
Maryland. 
Give twice daily in the feed, one-half ounce of 
sulphite of soda, with one ounce each of ginger 
and anise seed. Rub the udder after each milk¬ 
ing with soap liniment, to which has been added 
one ounce of oil of turpentine to the pint of lini¬ 
ment. 
Looseness of Bowels in a Mare. 
My 10-year-old mare goes to the city, seven miles 
away, three times per week, and she scours very 
badly on the last end of the journey, but is all 
right at any other time. I feed her clear oats 
and good hay. What can I do to stop this ? u. s. 
Maine. 
Such looseness of the bowels may be consti¬ 
tutional with the animal, a condition called 
“washy” by horsemen, or due to chronic intes¬ 
tinal indigestion. Do not feed or water the mare 
within two hours of driving, and never allow 
more than 10 or 12 quarts of water at one time. If 
watered on the road or just before driving, do 
not give more than five or six quarts. In feeding 
the principal feed should be given at night, with 
a light feed for morning and noon. If the mare 
does not chew her feed well, have her teeth ex¬ 
amined, and floated if found irregular .or over¬ 
grown. If she bolts her grain, place two or three 
cobblestones, the size of the double fist, in her 
feed-box. The oats would, probably, be better 
fed ground than whole. Give one of the follow¬ 
ing powders in the feed night and morning: Dry 
sulphate of iron, six ounces; powdered nux 
vomica, four ounces; gentian, 12 ounces; mix 
and divide into 32 powders. 
Black-Quarter or Black-Leg in Calves. 
What ailed the calves, and what is the remedy? 
September 2, at night, I fed them their usual 
mess of warm, sweet milk from the separator, 
and all drank and appeared well. On the morn¬ 
ing of September 3, two of the calves failed to 
come at my call. I found them lying in a corner 
of the pasture together. One got up at my ap¬ 
proach, but used only three legs; the left fore 
quarter was badly swollen. The other was not 
inclined to get up, but did so when urged. She 
seemed rather stiff and a little bloated. I did 
nothing for them until noon, when they were 
both worse; then I put a spavin cure on the in¬ 
flamed leg and shoulder, and gave the other one- 
half pint of melted lard. At night the lame one 
was worse, and the other had lost her bloat, but 
breathed hard. In the morning, both were dead. 
I opened them both, and found the inflamed part 
of the first very dark colored. The other looked 
natural. I looked for some obstruction in her 
throat, but found nothing. On the morning of 
September 6, another calf was taken sick in a 
manner similar to the second, bloating and hard 
breathing. We gave more lard which removed 
the bloat, but did not affect the breathing. We 
then gave a dose of pain killer, and soon the calf 
appeared better. In the evening we gave a 
second dose, but the next morning she was dead. 
These three, with four others, had run in a small 
orchard until about August 1, when I let them 
into a three-acre meadow where the clover was 
six or eight inches high. The three that died 
were half Ayrshire and half native stock. One of 
the others was a Jersey, and the other three 
natives. G. F. b. 
Vermont. 
The symptoms indicate an infectious, fatal 
disease of young cattle known as black-quarter 
or black-leg. Young stock from six months to 
three years of age are most frequently attacked 
by the disease, especially those that are in prime 
condition, with an abundance of rich blood. The 
disease usually appears in late Summer or 
Autumn, most commonly on low, or undrained 
pastures. Nearly every animal attacked dies, 
the disease running its course in from one to 
three days. Oftentimes, the first warning the 
owner of young stock has of the presence of the 
disease'is the finding of one or more animals dead 
in the field. The disease is rarely if ever trans¬ 
mitted from one animal to another. Infection is 
from the soil, either with the food or drinking 
water. 
Treatment of the disease has thus far proved 
unavailing. It is so rapidly fatal that medic¬ 
inal remedies have little or no opportunity 
for checking its ravages. A preventive inocula¬ 
tion is successfully practiced in infected locali¬ 
ties. It is further prevented by avoiding pastures 
that are known to be infected. The carcasses of 
all animals dying of this disease should be deeply 
buried, or preferably burned. If buried, they 
should be covered with quicklime. Since your 
calves were, evidently, infected in the three-acre 
field into which they were turned August 1, it 
would be well not to turn young cattle into this 
field after July 15, for two or three seasons. If 
you have further trouble of this kind, you should 
report immediately to your State Agricultural 
Experiment Station, at Burlington. It is a disease 
that they could properly investigate, and by 
making a personal inspection of the premises, 
they could possibly assi3t you in stamping out 
the infection from the field. 
Skin Eruption on Young Mare. 
What shall I do for a young mare just past 
four years old, that has an eruption or little 
lumps or pimples, mostly upon the shoulder and 
withers ? These lumps or pimples have been on 
the mare ever since early Spring. There is con¬ 
siderable humor or itching, as she rubs very 
much. There is a little redness and little water 
or moisture about these lumps when the little 
scab is rubbed * ff. These pimples are covered wit h 
the hair. The mare is fat, and was never poor. 
Virginia. h. ii. 
Give one ounce each aloes and ginger in a 
drench to move the bowels. Repeat the dose in 
one week if not purged by the first dose. Then 
give one of the following powders in the feed 
twice daily: Sulphate of soda, 12 ounces; bicar¬ 
bonate of soda and nitrate of potash, of each six 
ounces; mix, and divide into 16 powders. Re¬ 
peat the course of powders after an interval of 
two weeks if there be any improvement. If there 
be no improvement, give a course of arsenic—one 
tablespoonful of Fowler’s solution of arsenic 
once daily in the feed for three or four days, 
after which increase the dose to two tablespoon¬ 
fuls, and continue for two or three months if 
necessary. If the mare is on dry feed, an occa¬ 
sional bran mash could be given to advantage. 
Cow Gives Bloody Mi Ik. 
Is there a known cause for a cow giving bloody 
milk ? Can you advise me what to do with one 
affected that way? She gives bloody clotted 
milk from the two front teats only, and seems 
much worse at some times than at others. 
Iowa. c. o. g. 
Bloody milk is usually due to an injury to the 
udder; but it maybe due to overfeeding, espe¬ 
cially on grain, or to acrid plants in the fodder 
or pasture. Injury might result from direct 
blows; as a kick or a hook; from stepping over 
a high bar or a high doorstep; by lying on an 
uneven floor or other hard body, or by running, 
especially if chased by dogs. Repeated bathing 
with hot water is excellent at the outset. After 
the active inflammation is reduced, bathe two or 
three times daily with camphorated oil or spirits 
of camphor; or rub once daily with the com¬ 
pound tincture of iodine diluted in three or four 
parts of soft water. The iodine is the more 
efficacious, but it has the disadvantage of tend¬ 
ing to diminish the milk flow. Internally, give 
the cow one of the following powders in her feed 
twice daily: Sulphate of soda, one pound; nitrate 
of potash, four ounces; mix, and divide into 16 
powders. If there is much fever or constipation, 
a dose of epsom salts should, also, be given. 
PUREBRED OR THOROUGHBRED? 
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE ? 
Of late years, stockmen here in Penn¬ 
sylvania have tried to outlive that 
erroneous term thoroughbred, in speak¬ 
ing of pedigreed stock, and use the term 
purebred or thoroughblood. Thorough¬ 
bred is the name of a distinct breed of 
horses bred in England. 
Pennsylvania. norman c. maule. 
We read Mr. Gould’s answer to J. W. 
M., on page 699 of The R. N.-Y., with in¬ 
terest. Also, in Brevities, The R. N.-Y.’s 
remarks. We, like Mr. Gould, do not 
pose as an authority, but have been in¬ 
terested in the subject for some time. It 
seems to us that the name Thoroughbred 
belongs strictly to the running horse. 
He is the only strictly Thoroughbred. 
All other breeds have been more or less 
tinged with cold blood, or ‘‘brought up 
from the slums ”, as it were. That family 
or class of horses is known by no other 
name than Thoroughbred, just as a 
Clydesdale, a Hereford or a Jersey is 
known by its name. To say that one 
has a thoroughbred herd of Short-horn 
cattle, may be all right and proper, but 
it is using a name that belongs distinctly 
to another class of animals. No two 
breeds, let them be as pure or thorough 
in their breeding as the best, can produce 
anything but a half-blood by crossing. 
Let us leave the name Thoroughbred to 
the running horse, and speak of our stock 
as purebred or registered, if we are breed¬ 
ing such, and if not, as cross or mixed 
breeds or scrubs, for as Mr. Gould sug¬ 
gests, “ they are only different degrees 
of the same thing ” k. s. a f. f. 
Cow Sucks Herself. —I wrote you and 
the item was published in The R. N.-Y. 
that I kept a cow from sucking herself 
by smearing her teats with vaseline and 
Cayenne pepper. At the end of about 
15 months, she got so that she did not 
mind the Cayenne pepper, so I had to 
make a sharpened spike muzzle for her 
to wear on her nose, night and day. She 
could not fight the flies or lick her hair 
with the muzzle on, so I put on her neck a 
horse collar such as is used for heavy 
working harness. Any old collar will 
answer so that it has a good pad at the top. 
A collar such as is used with a buggy har¬ 
ness would do, if the sides are wrapped 
with some material to increase the thick¬ 
ness to the size of, or larger than, the 
larger-sized collar. It does not entirely 
prevent her from licking herself, fight¬ 
ing the flies, or prevent her from eating 
out of a trough or feed box, as a spike 
muzzle does. d. d. c. 
Dayton, Ohio. 
An Object Lesson. —At farm sales, 
good grade Oxford ewes are selling for 
from $7 to $10 each; three-quarters to 
seventh-eighths of that breed weigh 175 
to 225 pounds. Common stock ewes sell 
for $4 to $5 each. Yet farmers will not 
invest $25 to $80 for a purebred ram of 
that breed, to produce such sheep, and 
receive the increase in price, but con¬ 
tinue to hunt up some cheap makeshift 
of a ram that they can buy or borrow 
for little or nothing. No farmer can 
afford to use poor sires of any kind. 
Purebred sires are so cheap that they are 
within the reach of any business farmer. 
Denver, Inch l. b. skinner. 
June Grass 
is popularly supposed 
to make the finest 
butter known. The 
truth however,is that 
the quality of butter 
does not depend upon 
grass at all, but upon 
method of manufac¬ 
ture, etc. 
Little Giant 
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will make the finest 
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middle of the Winter 
when there is no grass at all. Does not 
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Elgin, Ill. 
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The kind that a fancy private 
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