1897 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
LIVE STOCK MATTERS. 
(CONTINUED.) 
The disease under which so many dis¬ 
eases are grouped is “roup”, which is 
the scourge of the poultryman. In or¬ 
dinary cases of diarrhea, the best remedy 
is to withhold all food for 48 hours, 
adding a teaspoonful of tincture of nux 
vomica to every half gallon of drinking 
water, for a week, allowing only one 
meal a day after the fasting of 48 hours. 
P. H. JACOBS. 
AILING ANIMALS. 
ANSWKB8 BY UR F. I. KII.BOKNE. 
Hair Falling from a Cow. 
C. K. 1)., Hayward, W’is .—I inclose specimen 
of hair and the scale which forms at its root, on 
my cow. The hair is all coming off. What shall 
I do to stop it and induce the hair to grow again? 
Dissolve one dram each of arsenic and 
carbonate of potash in one pint of boil¬ 
ing water. Give the cow two tablespoon¬ 
fuls of this solution in her feed once 
daily. Also feed one-half to one pint of 
oil meal twice daily with wheat bran or 
ground oats. Remove the scales by ac¬ 
tive rubbing with a stiff brush. If the 
brush do not satisfactorily cleanse the 
skin, scrub with Castile soapsuds or 
borax water to soften and loosen the 
scales, after which brush them out. 
When dry, rub with the following wash: 
Oil of tar and glycerine, of each one 
ounce; alcohol, one pint; mix, and 
shake well together. 
Chronic Cough in Horse. 
J. A. S., Oowanda, N. Y. —I have one mare four 
years old that had the pleuro-pneumonia in Octo¬ 
ber, 1886, was very sick a long time, and became 
very thin, with a bad cough and fetid discharge 
from the nostrils. She has now regained flesh, 
and done the spring’s work with her mate, but 
still has a hard cough two or three times a day 
with slight discharge from the nostrils. The 
difliculty seems to be between the breast bone 
and the lungs, as I can hear a slight rattle by 
placing the ear close to the windpipe at its lowest 
point. 
Give the horse one of the following 
powders in its feed night and morning : 
Sulphate of copper and powdered nux 
vomica, of each three ounces ; arsenic, 
50 grains; mix and make into 24 pow¬ 
ders. Rub the throat from ear to ear 
with ammonia liniment (equal parts of 
strong aqua ammonia and sweet oil well 
shaken together) Repeat the applica¬ 
tion every third or fourth day until the 
skin is well blistered. Feed sufficient 
grass or other green food to keep the 
bowels moving freely. 
Corns Cause Lameness. 
H. L. C., Winchendon, Mass.— My horse has 
spells of beiug lame In her right fore foot. In the 
fall, after the ground freezes, she becomes lame 
and continues lame more or less of the time 
whenever she is driven on the road. After snow 
comes, she gets well, and is not lame at all until 
the ground again becomes bare. After the 
mud is dried up, she gets well again except now 
and then after stumbling, probably from step¬ 
ping on a stone, she will be lame a little for a 
short time. This hoof is perceptibly larger than 
the other, and upon digging out the mud, I find 
the bottom of the foot dry from the extra heat 
there, while the bottom of the other will be wet. 
She had a bad corn on the inside quarter, and 
a small one on the outside quarter; although 
frequently cut out and treated with muriatic 
acid, they do not get well. She has had a little 
thrush, but 1 can keep it down with muriatic 
acid and water. What can 1 do for her ? 
The lameness is, probably, due to the 
corns. Have the corns well cut out, and 
the heels rasped down so that there will 
be no pressure of the affected quarters 
upon the shoe. Apply a bar shoe and, 
finally, a dressing of hot tar. Repeat 
the tar dressing twice a week at night. 
Have the horse re-shod as often as every 
four weeks, or before the affected heel 
presses upon the shoe. A run on a damp 
pasture with the shoes off, will be ex¬ 
cellent for the feet. 
Speed Cracks and Quarter Cracks. 
/. P. Q., Burnt Hills, N. Y. —1. I have a horse 
troubled with speed cracks. What will take out 
the soreness and heal up the wounds ? 2. How 
shall I treat quarter cracks ? 
I. I do not understand what is meant 
by “speed cracks”. You will have to 
describe the location and nature of the 
cracks or wounds before I can advise 
treatment. 2. For quarter cracks, first 
close the cracks properly with the wire 
clasps used by veterinarians. If these 
clasps cannot be obtained, the black¬ 
smith may close the crack with two or 
three slender nails driven through the 
edges of the crack and clinched, so as 
to prevent movement. Then apply a 
bar-shoe, after lowering the wall each 
side of the crack for a distance of three- 
fourths to one inch, so that there will 
be no pressure of the wall on the shoe 
at this point. If the crack extend to the 
hair, as is commonly the case, apply an 
active blister or fire the coronet above 
the crack, and give the horse a rest for 
three to lour weeks to allow the hoof- 
wall to grow down unbroken for, at 
least, one-half inch. As soon as this 
growth has been made, or if the crack 
does not extend to the coronet, cut a 
transverse groove, at least three-fourths 
inch in length just above the end of the 
crack. The groove should be cut to the 
quick, and is intended to check the 
further extension of the crack upward. 
You have now only to wait until the 
crack grows off, which will require about 
a year. During this time, the horse 
should be used carefully, especially on 
hard roads. Success depends largely 
upon securing the edges of the crack so 
as to prevent movement, and in giving 
the horse a rest until an unbroken 
growth is obtained sufficient to admit of 
the transverse groove. 
'• Lumps” on Horse: In-and-in Breeding. 
A. W. W., Jamestown, N. Y.—l. I have bought 
a Holstein cow, but find her milk very poor; she 
is sweating every morning, and her calf, a year 
old, is the same way; but both eat well and look 
healthy. What can be the reason ? 2. I have a 
mare that gets lumps all over her body the size 
of a pea every summer; they seem to itch. What 
are they, and how can I cure them ? 3. A two- 
year-old colt has colic very frequently. What 
can I do for it? It has been fed hay and oats. 
4. To obtain healthy stock, is it necessary to 
breed to non-relatives ? What difference does it 
make, if any ? Some people say that it makes a 
difference, and others that it doesn’t. 
1. The only reason I can assign for 
the sweating is that the stable is, prob¬ 
ably, too close and warm. 2. The lumps 
are due to an inflammation or disease of 
the skin. If the lumps are smooth, 
simply elevations of the skin, it is sur¬ 
feit or urticaria ; but if scaly, the con¬ 
dition is known as pityriasis. Give the 
mare six drams each of Barbadoes aloes 
and ginger, and follow by a bran mash 
diet until the bowels move freely. If 
not purged by the third day, repeat the 
dose of aloes. Then give two table¬ 
spoonfuls of the following powders in 
the feed twice daily : Sulphate of soda, 
one pound; powdered gentian, eight 
ounces ; carbonate of potash and nitrate 
of potash, of each four ounces; mix. 
Thorough daily grooming will also im¬ 
prove the condition of the skin. A 
run at pasture would also remedy the 
trouble. 3. A complete description of 
the symptoms would be necessary in 
this case to enable me to form an opinion 
as to the cause and nature of the colic, 
before I could advise treatment. 4. In- 
and-in breeding, or the breeding of ani¬ 
mals closely related, is frequently prac¬ 
ticed by breeders for the purpose of 
improving a breed, or of perpetuating 
desirable characteristics or qualities 
possessed by some animal or family. 
All of our improved or registered stock 
has been produced by judicious in-and- 
in breeding and selection. Brother and 
sister, father and daughter, or mother 
and son have often been bred together. 
Experienced breeders have thus prac¬ 
ticed in-and-in breeding with great im¬ 
provement in their stock. But it re¬ 
quires skill and a thorough knowledge 
of the principles of stock breeding to 
enable them to accomplish such results. 
When in-and-in breeding is practiced by 
inexperienced persons, or is carried to 
excess, there is a tendency to degener¬ 
acy, a weakened constitution and ster¬ 
ility. While the breeding of close rela¬ 
tions can, usually, be safely practiced 
for a few generations, in some instances 
for several generations, it is better 
occasionally to introduce fresh blood by 
crossing with other families or strains. 
383 
VALUE OF CORN-AND-COB MEAL. 
Does it pay to grind corn, cob and all ? How 
does cob meal compare with pure corn meal ? 
No experiments have been made at 
this station upon the value of cob meal. 
The consensus of opinion in the West 
seems to be that corn-and-cob meal has 
about the same feeding value as an 
equal amount of corn meal without the 
cob, providing always that the cob is 
ground sufficiently fine. This is, un¬ 
doubtedly, due to the mechanical effect 
of the ground cob rather than to its 
nutrient value, and inasmuch as the cob 
constitutes about 20 per cent of the ear, 
it indicates a substantial loss from feed¬ 
ing corn meal ground without the cob. 
Experience has shown that this loss can 
be saved by feeding the corn whole to beef 
cattle and following them with swine; 
in other words, by making both beef 
and pork out of the whole corn instead 
of resorting to grinding for the sake of 
making beef only. The practice is grow¬ 
ing in this region of shelling and soak¬ 
ing the corn for summer feeding after 
it has grown too hard and dry in its 
natural condition. Feeders have learned 
that whole grain that escapes digestion 
will be very readily discovered and con¬ 
sumed by swine, while any waste of 
ground feed is invisible and will, there¬ 
fore be entirely lost. This all means 
that feeders are preferring to let the 
animals do their own grinding, particu¬ 
larly since they have learned that hogs 
and steers in partnership will do a thor¬ 
ough job. E. DAVENPORT. 
Illinois Station. 
We have made no exact determination 
of the comparative feeding value of 
corn-and-cob meal and pure corn meal 
at this station, but we have fed both 
quite extensively, and I consider a given 
quantity of finely ground corn-and-cob 
meal of equal, if not greater, value as a 
feed for cows than the same amount of 
pure corn meal. This estimate, I be¬ 
lieve, is also confirmed by the work of 
experiment stations where this subject 
has been investigated. I also place a 
similar estimate upon it for feeding to 
fattening steers, though 1 do not recom¬ 
mend grinding corn for this purpose 
where hogs follow the cattle, except 
when the corn becomes thoroughly dried 
and hardened. While the corn is fresh 
and palatable during the autumn and 
early winter months, I do not consider 
it profitable either to shell or grind for 
feeding cattle when hogs follow, and 
corn is rated at the prices ordinarily pre¬ 
vailing here. It is quite difficult to 
grind corn-and-cob meal successfully, 
and I think that one reason why so many 
mills have been discarded is that they 
have not been suited to the work. We 
have found the buhr mills more suitable 
for this purpose than the steel mills we 
have used. c. f. curtis. 
Iowa Experiment Station. 
Croup, that swift-working, alarming enemy of 
children, can nearly always be vanquished with 
Dr. D. Jayne's Expectorant. 
Regulate your bowels with Jayne’s Sanative Pills.— 
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