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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 24 
Live Stock Matters 
AILING ANIMALS. 
ANSWERS BY UK. F. L. KILBOBNE. 
Cows Fail to Come in Heat. 
C. B. C., Medina , Ohio.—Haw can I bring my 
cows in heat? Two calved last summer, but 
have not been in heat since. One is young and I 
have never been able to get her with calf. 
Beyond keeping the cows in good, 
thrifty condition, with daily out-door 
exercise when the weather is suitable, 
there is very little you can do. Over¬ 
feeding and idleness both tend to steril¬ 
ity, and are to be avoided. If the cows 
are fat, reduce the feed, and give more 
exercise. If thin, they may require a 
more nutritious, stimulating diet. If 
the heifer is two years old without ever 
being in heat, she is probably sterile, 
and should be fattened for the butcher. 
Poisoning or Indigestion in Calves. 
N. N., Laney, Wis. —What is the trouble with 
our calves ? They are from three to four weeks 
old, and were doing nicely until within the last 
two days, when they have quit drinking and 
commenced to grind their teeth. The hair is 
coming off around their mouths. 
The trouble is due either to poisoning 
or indigestion, but which I am unable 
to say positively from your description. 
I suspect that the calves have had access 
to fresh paint, or old paint pails, and 
have eaten sufficient paint to cause lead 
poisoning, which the symptoms resem¬ 
ble. If the calves are still living, I can 
only advise calling the nearest com¬ 
petent veterinary surgeon A personal 
examination would be necessary before 
advising treatment. 
What Ails the Pigs ? 
A. C., Sarnia, Ont.—l have a litter of pigs, three 
weeks old: five out of the 11 were taken sick, and 
I cannot tell what is the matter with them. They 
have dysentery at first, go down in flesh very 
rapidly, and then die one by one. The sow is in 
good order, in a new pen, kept clean and fed on 
boiled roots, milk, whole corn, bran and shorts. 
The diarrhea is, probably, due to some 
digestive disorder, possibly to over-eat¬ 
ing. Give each pig one-half tablespoon¬ 
ful of castor oil, to which add five to ten 
drops of oil of turpentine and stir in 
just before giving. In addition to the 
sow’s milk, feed the young pigs only a 
little scalded milk, to which add a table¬ 
spoonful of parched or browned mid¬ 
dlings for each pig. I would also omit 
the roots from the sow’s ration for a few 
days. 
A Barren Mare in Milk. 
B. S., Brandon, Mass.— I have a mare, aged, in 
good condition, not in foal. I feed her on sheaf 
oats and carrots. About six weeks ago, I noticed 
the milk dropping from her; in a few days, she 
became inflamed, and I have had to draw the 
milk daily, which shows no diminution. I called 
in the local vets, but they acknowledged them¬ 
selves beaten. 
Cases are occasionally recorded where 
an undue secretion of milk has taken 
place, although the animal was not preg¬ 
nant. In such cases, it is due to some 
unusual stimulation or excitement of the 
mammae that causes the secretion at this 
time. Paint the udder daily with the 
compound tincture of iodine. Then by 
gradually discontinuing the milking, the 
secretion should be checked in a few 
days. It might also be well to give the 
mare daily in her feed or drinking water, 
one to two drams of iodide of potassium. 
If the udder become blistered after a few 
applications of the iodine, apply only 
once in two or three days, as may be re¬ 
quired. 
Heaves or Indigestion in Mare. 
B. C. S., Warsaw, Mo.—I have a mare that eats 
and drinks well, but she is poor and her life is 
not as good as it should be. Is it caused by 
indigestion ? 
The mare is suffering from chronic in¬ 
testinal indigestion and, I suspect, also, 
from the heaves. Give night and morn¬ 
ing in the feed, one-half ounce each of 
powdered gentian and chalk, and one 
dram of powdered nux vomica. Then 
feed either one-half to one pint old- 
process oil meal, or ground flax seed, or 
one to two ounces raw linseed oil daily. 
Feed sparingly of coarse fodders, and 
increase the grain ration if necessary to 
keep up her-condition. □ After giving 
the powders for two weeks, it will be 
well to omit them for a week. If there 
are symptoms of heaves, follow the above 
treatment by a course of arsenic. Begin 
by giving one tablespoonful of Fowler’s 
solution of arsenic in the feed once daily 
for one week ; then increase the dose to 
two tablespoonfuls, and continue for two 
to three weeks. After a few weeks, re¬ 
peat the course if desirable. 
Ho Gall Bladder in Horses. 
It. W. It., Swai'lzville, Pa. —Does a horse have 
any gall ? We are told by some that he does not, 
and therefore, can not be poisoned like other 
animals, while others contend that a small gall 
bladder can be found. 
The horse has no gall bladder, as is 
found in the other domestic animals, 
but simply a vessel or duct, the ductus 
choledochus, which conveys the bile 
from the liver to the duodenum. The 
liver of the horse secretes bile, or gall, 
just the same as the liver of other 
domestic animals, the principal differ¬ 
ence being, that, in the horse, the bile 
is continually poured into the duodenum 
as fast as secreted ; while in the other 
animals, the bile flows into the duode¬ 
num mainly during digestion, and at 
other times into the gall bladder, which 
serves simply as a surplus reservoir. 
The presence or absence of the gall 
bladder has little or nothing to do with 
the effect of poisons upon the horse. 
The horse is just as readily poisoned as 
the other animals. The so-called com¬ 
mon poisons do not act with the same 
violence upon the different domestic 
animals, and in some cases, what is 
poison to one class of animals, is not 
poisonous to another class. 
Retention of Afterbirth. 
E. D. It., Crooked Tree, Pa. —What is the beat 
formula for a cow that retains the afterbirth ? 
Following a normal parturition in the 
cow, the afterbirth should be expelled 
within 24 hours after the dropping of 
the calf. If retained longer than this, 
it is due to some unnatural or unfavor¬ 
able condition. It is true that the mem¬ 
branes are occasionally retained for a 
period of two, three or four days before 
being expelled, without apparent incon¬ 
venience or injury to the animal; but 
such cases are the exception, and it is 
unwise to allow it to remain so long be¬ 
fore attempting its removal. In the 
greater number of cases that are allowed 
to run along in this way, catarrh or 
inflammation of the womb results from 
the putrefaction or rotting away of the 
membranes, with rapid loss of condition, 
often terminating in death. Even in 
many cases that recover, the recovery is 
so long protracted that the animal is of 
little or no use during that season. 
There is no special reliable formula or 
remedy that can be given to cause the 
expulsion of the afterbirth. Various 
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Riverdale-on-Hudson, N. Y. 
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Fat the Milk. 
You want it all. Reid's Peerless Creamery cools milk quickest; raises 
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remedies, such as savin, rue, laurel, 
ergot, etc., have been used, probably 
successfully in some cases, but they are 
not reliable. A bucketful of warm slop 
or thin bran mash with a tablespoonful 
or two of ginger given immediately 
after calving, favors a rapid expulsion 
of the membranes. If the bowels are 
at all costive, or there is danger to be 
apprehended from milk fever, give one 
pound of Epsom salts with two ounces 
of ginger in two to three quarts of 
warm water. 
Of the various methods that are prac¬ 
ticed by dairymen for the removal of 
the afterbirth, the most satisfactory 
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parturition, if it has not been naturally 
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Your young stock 
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