1904 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
i65 
WHAT AILS THE HOGS?. 
I have about 80 hogs of various ages in 
different sections or pens of a new hog- 
house. where hogs never lived before. The 
house is cleaned frequently, twice or thrice 
a week, and new oat straw bedding put in, 
and also unslaked lime strewn around the 
door. Hogs seem to eat this lime. I have 
been feeding corn liberally for three 
months or so, since pasture gave out. 
Lately I noticed some of the hogs not do¬ 
ing well; seemed to shiver and looked wet 
as if lying in manure; they grow weak 
and breathe hard. I killed one and ex¬ 
amined the skin which I found to be all 
cracked, and came off in pieces with the 
hair; no diarrhoea was noticed. I have 
put lice powder on all, but found no lice 
on them. .They have had fine attention 
and good food and water, and I cannot ac¬ 
count for the trouble unless it might be 
the eating of lime. j. w. h. 
South Haven, Mich. 
The oat straw is the cause of a part at 
least of the trouble. For some reason 
it. is unfit to bed swine with. It is much 
softer than wheat straw, absorbs mois¬ 
ture very easily, and heats and decays 
as easily. I have never been able to 
keep a hoghouse free from moisture to 
the extent necessary to keep oat straw 
from getting damp. Then I suspect the 
ventilation is not right, causing the 
moisture thrown out by the animals to 
congeal on their bodies, walls of the 
pens and over head on the ceiling, caus¬ 
ing a damp air all the time. Air should 
circulate freely over the animals, but no 
wind or gale should be allowed to strike 
them. J. W. H. does not say what he 
feeds besides corn; there should be oth¬ 
er feeds not so heating in their nature; 
middlings mixed with clover leaves or 
finely-cut clover, a good strong supply 
each day, the hay or leaves making the 
larger portion of the ration. In fact 
about all of the latter they will eat up 
clean. As an appetizer the hay needs a 
little middlings mixed with it, the whole 
dampened; better if soaked over night 
if it can be done without freezing. If 
the skins of the hogs are sore or in an 
unhealthy condition they can be very 
much helped by washing with a prepara¬ 
tion like Zenoleum. Dilute the liquid 
according to printed instructions, and 
sprinkle the hogs well once a week till 
their skins again assume a healthy ap¬ 
pearance. The hogs should have lots 
to exercise in and the freedom to take 
it when they wish, john m. jamison. 
MANCHESTER'S DAIRY NOTES. 
A Hard Milking Heifer. 
I have a promising young heifer that 
had her first calf about two months ago. 
She is all right except that she milks very 
hard. Her teats are large for a heifer, 
but the stream of milk is very small, and 
it is enough to tire one out to get the milk. 
Is there any way to mend matters? 
Torrington, Conn. e. s. b. 
A good veterinarian will fix your 
heifer all right. He will have an in¬ 
strument called a bistoury and with this 
will slightly cut the muscle called 
sphincter, located at base of the teat that 
closes the opening so tightly that it is 
hard to milk the heifer. We have known 
a farmer to do this himself with a sharp 
sniall-bladed knife, but the risk of over¬ 
doing it is more in our opinion than 
would be the cost of a veterinarian’s 
visit. We only wish there was a cure 
for short-teated cows. We have been 
obliged to dispose of some extra good 
cows whose only fault was short teats. 
Sore Teats; Barn Ventilation. 
1. For the past year we have been having 
trouble with the cows, their teats becoming 
hard and inflamed; that is, the lining of 
the teat, and at the end seems to be very 
hard, almost impossible to get the milk 
out. Four or five have lost the teat en¬ 
tirely. The trouble does not affect more 
than one teat on the cow at a time. Can 
you tell me what to do to relieve the 
trouble? 2. Can you give me any plan to 
ventilate a barn to get rid of the foul air? 
I he barn has cellar stables where cows are 
ke Pt- j. s. 
Sussex, N. J. 
1. Three or four years ago we had 
quite a number of cows with the trou¬ 
ble you mention and with one possible 
exception all were cured by rubbing in 
after each milking vaseline with a lit¬ 
tle carbolic acid in it, at the base of the 
teat and at the opening where most of 
the trouble seems to lie. We heard a 
veterinary lecturer showing how to cure 
this with a large plug to open the teat, 
but we would have had to spoil the teat 
to enter it. Do not use a milking tube 
if you can possibly avoid it. Your 
chances will be much lessened of a cure 
if you do. This disease seems to be con¬ 
tagious and would advise milking cows 
so troubled last, or at least thoroughly 
wash the hands before milking healthy 
cows. 2. A basement stable barn with 
which we are acquainted having space 
for at least 50 cows, has been ventilat¬ 
ed the past Winter so that the air seems 
sweet and fresh all the time by putting 
in two flues two feet square, made prac¬ 
tically airtight from matched boarding 
and setting them so they start about a 
foot above the stable floor and extend 
upward to the roof and project three or 
four feet. A little roof over the venti¬ 
lator keeps out snow or rain. A hand¬ 
kerchief held near the opening is strong¬ 
ly drawn towards the opening of the 
shaft, showing the forcible upward cur¬ 
rent of the air. This opening is placed 
near the floor so that the impure air 
which is heavier will be taken out by 
the strong draft first. This shaft should 
extend up through the roof that the foul 
air may escape outside of the barn. To 
admit fresh air so that it will not chill 
the cows or immediately be drawn into 
the ventilator before serving its purpose 
several small square boxes are made 
and set in the side of the barn like 
studding with an opening into the box 
from the outside near the bottom of the 
stable and an opening into the barn at 
the top of the stable. Thus there is a 
current of pure air constantly entering 
into the barn without injury to the 
cows, and as fast as it becomes impure 
is drawn up outside. By having some 
traps in the shafts to open or close the 
temperature can be controlled in very 
windy weather. This plan can be made 
to work in almost any barn by anyone 
handy with tools. 
H. G. MANCHESTER. 
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