THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 3 
234 
Live Stock Matters 
AILING ANIMALS. 
ANSWERS BY DR. F. L. KILBORNE. 
Breeding Three-YearOld Mare. 
A. T. A’., Coldwater, O.—ls a three-year-old 
mare too young to breed ? 
No. A mare three years old is old 
enough to breed, and at the same 
time, young enough. Mares are rarely 
bred before that age. 
Foreign Body Puncturing Cow's Stomach ? 
}V. A. S., Coram, N. Y.—l have a cow that has 
not done well for some time; she has refused to 
eat any grain except once in a great while. I 
have tried everything in the line of fodder; she 
will eat very little of anything, and is growing 
weaker all the time. She was served last August, 
and about four weeks ago, she lost her calf. Her 
eyes and head look as well as any other cow, but 
she is all fallen in behind. What is the trouble 
and the cure ? 
I am unable to give a positive diag¬ 
nosis from your description of the case. 
I am inclined to the opinion that there 
is a foreign body puncturing the stom¬ 
ach, or that an abscess has already 
formed as the result of such a puncture 
If this diagnosis is correct, there is no 
cure. 
Garget in a Jersey Cow. 
C. V.D., Tecumseh , Neb. —I have a Jersey grade 
cow which has been afflicted with garget for two 
years. Can she be permanently cured and if so, 
how ? 
I do not understand from the query, 
whether the cow has had the garget con¬ 
tinuously for two years, or has been 
subject to attacks only at intervals dur¬ 
ing the two years. If the former is the 
ease, the disease has become chronic, 
and the udder is, probably, peimanently 
injured beyond recovery. If the garget 
has occurred only at intervals, the usual 
treatment for garget should effect a 
temporary cure. Garget cannot be per¬ 
manently cured so that it will not recur 
again, either as the result of an injury 
or of any other condition that causes 
the inflammation. A cow that has once 
suffered from the garget, will be more 
liable to the disease than one that has 
never had an attack. 
Skin Disease on Sow ; Blood or Meat for 
Chickens 
G. M. A., Tamaroa, III. —1. What is the matter 
with my sow, and what shall I do for her ? She 
is a Poland-Cbina, two years old. 1 got her about 
a year ago, when she was mostly bare of hair on 
her sides, but I thought nothing of it, she being 
quite heavy with pig. During the summer, the 
hair grew out all right. About a month ago, she 
farrowed a second litter of 10 nice pigs, and about 
two weeks ago, the hair began to come off from 
the sides clean to the skin. It is now coming off 
in patches on her back, and looks as though she 
would soon be bald all over. Her skin is not clean, 
but rather scurfy. It doesn’t seem to hurt her 
any, but in looks; she seems perfectly well, eats 
all right, and the pigs are doing well. She has 
some lice, and I intend to wash her with kerosene 
emulsion as soon as it is warm enough. Her 
feed has been corn, bran and ship stuff, some 
raw and cooked potatoes, and house slops fresh. 
I don’t keep a swill-barrel. 2. Do you think blood 
meal as good for laying hens as some of the meat 
meals ? It doesn’t have the bulk. The dealers 
claim that one pound is worth 16 pounds of lean 
meat. Can this be possible ? 
1. The trouble may be due either to 
keeping the sow too warm, or to some 
disease of the hair follicles or skin. 
Wash with Castile or tar soap thoroughly 
to clean the skin and remove the scurf ; 
then sponge over with the following 
wash once a week : Alcohol and castor 
oil, of each four ounces ; tincture of can- 
tharides, four drams ; mix, and shake 
well before using. Provide the sow with 
fresh litter frequently, so that she can 
keep herself clean. Feed very little corn 
in the grain ration. 2. The blood meal 
is richer both in protein and fat than 
the meat meal, but the claims of your 
dealers are greatly exaggerated. The 
analysis of dried blood shows that it 
contains about 65 per cent protein, and 
16 per cent fat (Maine Experiment Sta¬ 
tion Report, 1886-7), while the cooked 
refuse meat, such as is used for poultry 
food, contains only 35 per cent protein 
and five to six per cent of fat (Connecti¬ 
cut State Experiment Station Report, 
1888). According to these analyses, the 
dried blood contains nearly twice as 
much protein as the meat meal, and 
about three times as much fat. This 
would indicate that the blood meal is 
worth a little over twice as much per 
pound as the meat meal. 
Scaly Skin Disease on Horse. 
■7. II. S., Brooklandville, Md .—My horse has been 
sick for some time. It has what I think to be 
surfeit; the hair has come out nearly all over. 
What shall I do for it ? 
The description would indicate that 
the horse is suffering from a scurfy or 
scaly skin disease—pityriasis—probably 
due to some digestive disorder, instead 
of surfeit, as you suggest. The condition 
commonly known as surfeit, also called 
nettlerash, and by veterinarians, urti¬ 
caria, is due to a peculiar inflammation 
of the skin which results in the appear¬ 
ance of small nodules in the skin vary¬ 
ing in size, from that of a pea to a hick- 
orynut. These nodules usually appear 
suddenly, are transient in their char¬ 
acter, or may be appearing or disappear¬ 
ing on different parts of the body. They 
rarely or never suppurate. Surfeit 
occurs most frequently during the spring 
of the year, and usually in well-fed 
young animals. Pityriasis occurs most 
commonly in older horses. Give the 
horse one tablespoonful of Fowler’s 
solution of arsenic (to be obtained al¬ 
ready prepared of any druggist) in his 
feed once daily for a week, then increase 
the dose to two tabl espoonfuls once 
daily. Also give one to two drachms 
potassium bicarbonate in drinking water 
or feed twice daily. Wash the affected 
portions of the skin with warm Castile 
or tar soapsuds, to soften up and remove 
the scurf or dandruff. This should be 
done on a warm day, or the animal 
rubbed dry and blanketed in order to 
avoid taking cold. Following the wash¬ 
ing, the horse should be given a thor¬ 
ough daily grooming with a good stiff 
horse-brush. A nutritious, laxative diet 
should be supplied, to consist largely of 
green food, bran mashes or scalded oats, 
sufficient to keep the bowels rather 
loose. Oil meal or ground flax seed, 
either d - y in the feed or boiled, would 
be excellent. 
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J. W. G., Carbon Cliff, 111 .—Is it injurious to 
brood sows to run in the yard with cattle on 
account of the manure 1 
ANSWERED BY JOHN M. JAMISON. 
It has been my practice for several 
years to keep my brood sows, during the 
winter season, in the barn lot in which 
my cows are kept during the day. If 
the manure is not thrown from the 
stable into the lot, the sows usually have 
the privilege of working it over, before 
it is hauled to the field. If they are not 
allowed to enter the cow stable, they 
work over the droppings that are left by 
the cows during the day in the lot. 
As to whether the manure is injurious 
to them or not, depends much on what 
the cattle are fed ; in other words, what 
the manure is made from. If, as is often 
the case, the cattle are fed only corn 
and fodder, and this is all the sows can 
get, they will fatten on it if the waste is 
sufficient; but it is not the proper ration 
for a brood sow that must develop her 
own system and that of her pigs, if she 
is carrying or suckling them. But if 
the cattle have clover hay or bran, as a 
part ration, and the sows can get a share 
of the hay, and work over the droppings, 
the results will be different, and much 
more favorable to the sow. 
If in addition to what the sows get, 
after the cattle, whether the cattle have 
other food than corn and fodder alone, 
the sows can have a feed each day of 
bran and middlings. The working over 
the manure for the undigested grain 
will work no injury to them. Under 
these conditions, there is no way that 
the manure can injure them, unless they 
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