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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
AILING ANIMALS. 
Brittle Feet. 
Is there any preparation I can use on 
my horse’s feet to make the hoof grow 
faster without injury? I have one with 
the hoof clipped off up to the nail holes, 
until there is hardly room to drive a nail 
Can you give a remedy? d. v. w. 
Hyde Park, N. Y. 
About the first thing that I can re¬ 
member of Dr. Smead was his saying: 
“No foot, no horse.” I have always fol¬ 
lowed that rule in buying horses and I 
always examine the feet to see that 
they are not thin-shelled or flat. In 
practice I have seen good horses that 
had good feet but were literally ruined 
by abuse. Some horses cannot stand 
what others can. Perhaps you are to 
blame for the condition this horse is in 
and perhaps you are not. You may 
soften his feet with poultices made of 
bran and by softening the hoof induce 
it to grow faster than it naturally 
would in the condition it is now in. You 
will have to have patience and let it 
grow down, for things of that nature 
take time. 
Constipated Horses. 
Give a remedy for constipated horses. 
Somebody advised Epsom salts; another 
said it would injure mares with foal. 
Salts should never be given to a 
horse. Give the mares a pint of raw 
linseed oil, a bran mash once a day, and 
oats twice a day. If you are feeding 
straw stop it and feed hay. A great 
many people feed too much hay. 
Horses should be fed what hay they 
ought to have in the morning and let 
them stand without any more until 
night, then give them a forkful. You 
may have to repeat the oil in 10 days or 
two weeks. Be sure that you get the 
raw linseed oil instead of mustard seed 
oil. I have often prescribed linseed oil 
and the dealers would try to improve on 
it, substituting mustard seed oil. 
Roup in Fowls. 
What is roup, and how does it manifest 
itself In chickens? f. a. 
Roup in its first stages can be easily 
cured but when advanced it becomes 
contagious and it often occurs that by 
not taking a fowl affected by it away 
from its mates a whole flock is lost. 
The symptoms of roup are a desire of 
the fowl to remain on the roost or to 
mope around in some corner. The 
throat seems to be swollen and a rat¬ 
tling or wheezing sound is often heard. 
Froth appears in the under corner of 
the eye accompanied by a thin dis¬ 
charge from the nostrils and if not at¬ 
tended to at once the eyelids swell and 
the eye fills with yellowish matter. The 
nostrils become closed from increased 
discharge and the fowls soon become 
blind and starve to death. They should 
be removed at once to some good warm 
place away from the rest of the flock 
and their eyes and nostrils should be 
washed and bathed three times a day 
with warm salt and water or alum and 
water and afterwards allow them to in¬ 
hale turpentine vapor by placing a 
tablespoonful in a cupful of boiling 
water. I have always found this the 
most effective treatment. 
O. E. HATCH, Y. 8. 
Hard to Fight the Bud Moth. 
8. C., Berwick, N. 8 .—What is the best 
method to kill the bud moth, so called, on 
apple and cherry trees? It destroys the 
young buds, and is harder on young scions 
just starting. 
Ans. —The one-third grown brown 
bud-moth caterpillars are in hiberna¬ 
tion this Winter in minute and very in¬ 
conspicuous silken cocoons in angular 
places near the buds. I should expect a 
thorough treatment of the infested trees 
with the lime-sulphur wash in Marct 
would kill the hibernating caterpillars. 
But this has not been demonstrated, so 
far as I know. As soon as the buds be¬ 
gin to open the caterpillars come out of 
their Winter homes and often bore into 
the buds. At this time, before the blos¬ 
soms open, this insect is vulnerable, 
and will succumb to thorough work 
with a poison spray. If badly infested, 
I would spray twice before the blossoms 
get open with a strong poison, using 
the Bordeaux Mixture in one spraying. 
The arsenate of lead should give satis¬ 
factory results against this pest. If one 
waits until after the blossoms open and 
fall the brown caterpillars will have ac¬ 
complished most of their nefarious 
work.. M. V. SLTNGEBIAND. 
HOC SKINNING. 
The practice of skinning hogs has 
grown and spread in this county until 
not more than 10 per cent of all the 
butchering done is by the old-fashioned 
way of scalding. Thirty years ago hog- 
skinning was practiced by only one man 
in this county, and that on a limited 
scale. The demand for his services in¬ 
creased, so that he was obliged to take 
a partner, and yet another, until now 
there are dozens of men who make it 
their sole business for six or seven 
months of the year. The butcher takes 
the skin for pay, and he can take off 
from 10 to 25 per day according to the 
distance he has to drive to get to them, 
and they are worth from 50 cents to $1 
each. It is remunerative business. 
From the standpoint of the owner of 
the hog it is a good thing, too. Before 
the advent of the skinner a big iron 
kettle had to be procured in which to 
heat the water, a hogshead or tub in 
which to scald the porker, a platform 
built on which to lay the animal while 
the hair was scraped off, the water 
carried and heated to the boiling point. 
These preparations took the best part 
of the forenoon. If the hogs were large 
and heavy, or there were many of them 
to kill, help had to be secured from a 
neighbor, and that meant extra meals 
for the good housewife to get, besides 
the work of cleaning the fat from the 
stomach and intestines, which always 
used to fall to woman’s share of the 
butchering. Let me urge every farmer’s 
wife to protest—to rebel if necessary— 
against that part of the work. Cutting 
and trying the lard, making sausage 
and head-cheese, and other necessary 
work incident to butchering is all that 
shouuld be required of the housewife, 
and the steaming intestines of the hog 
should be left outside the kitchen. It 
is not fit work for a woman. 
Now, the butcher will drive into the 
yard, catch, kill, skin, clean the inwards 
and hang up a half dozen hogs in two 
or three hours. There is no water to 
heat, no mess to clean up, no extra help 
to hire and feed. The loss in weight is 
slight, from five to 15 pounds, according 
to the size of the hog, but the butcher 
will pay half a cent more per pound 
for pork skinned to cut up on the block 
and for home use it is decidedly better. 
This practice seems to be only local, for 
the secretary of the State Grange told 
me not long since, that he had traveled 
all over the State, but he never heard 
of such a thing as skinning a hog out¬ 
side of Yates County. There is a good 
opening in every section for a butcher 
to take up this business. It might take 
a little time to educate the people to it, 
but not nearly so long as it would to in¬ 
duce the people of this county to revert 
to the old practice of hog scalding. 
Yates Co., N. Y. e. c. gillett. 
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