1897 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
527 
Live Stock Matters 
AILING ANIMALS. 
ANSWERS BY DR. P. L. KILBORNE. 
Chronic Cough in Horse. 
It. FMaryland. —X have a 13-year-old horse 
that has had a bad cough for the last three 
months. There is no swelling about the throat, 
and I can’t see anything wrong anywhere. I 
don’t know of his taking cold. He had a very 
bad spell of distemper when three years old, but 
got all right except that, when drinking, he would 
appear to have trouble in swallowing. The feed is 
Timothy hay, oats and corn, and he eats well. 
Try the following prescription: Pow¬ 
dered opium, one ounce ; solid extract 
of belladonna, one ounce ; pulverized 
nitrate of potash, four ounces ; powdered 
extract of licorice, four ounces ; honey 
sufficient to make a thick paste (about 
eight ounces). With a paddle, smear a 
small teaspoonful of this paste well back 
on the toDgue or teeth to be slowly swal¬ 
lowed at leisure. Repeat three or four 
times daily after feeding , or whenever 
there is a severe coughing fit. Also rub 
the throat externally from ear to ear 
with ammonia liniment (equal parts 
strong aqua ammonia and sweet oil well 
shaken together). Repeat the applica¬ 
tion in four or five days if not blistered 
by the first. It may be desirable to re¬ 
peat the blistering as soon as the first 
crusts have been shed. 
Cocked Ankles or Knuckling in a Colt. 
W. F. T.. New York. —I have a colt about four 
years old which is very fast, which I think has 
been overworked. Its hind feet, when standing, 
and sometimes stepping, seem to act a little as 
though cockle-jointed; as he steps, the joints be¬ 
low the fetlock joints seem to come about half 
way, and then as he finally straightens down on 
his feet, bend the other half, and make a crack¬ 
ing noise as the foot or ankle straightens out. 
Both feet are the same: he has gone a little -lame 
in one of them only. What is the cause, the name 
and the remedy, if any ? What is the probable 
effect if not cured ? Can it be cured ? 
If the knuckling was not present be¬ 
fore the colt was speeded, it is, evidently, 
due to overwork. Knuckling is not un¬ 
common in young foals, but the condi¬ 
tion is usually only temporary, the colt 
recovering without treatment as it 
grows stronger. In older horses, the 
trouble is usually due to injury or over¬ 
work. In this case, the colt may have 
been predisposed to knuckling, and the 
condition aggravated by -the fast work. 
The colt should hav i a rest from hard 
work for, at least, several months. A 
run at pasture, or light, daily exercise 
should be given. Shoe with the heels 
raised or the toe shortened. Bathe the 
ankles two or three times daily with 
soap liniment (to be obtained of any 
druggist), rubbing them vigorously with 
and shoulders. I use a woolen cloth and 
rub thoroughly. A few applications will 
usually be found sufficient for the sea¬ 
son. It holds out better than anything 
else I have tried. d. m. Campbell. 
New York. 
Uses a Sheep Dip, 
We have used on the college farm, 
with considerable success, two materials 
to abate the fly -'nuisance. Pyrethrum 
or Persian insect powder dusted upon 
animals once in two or three days 
affords great relief. The principal ob¬ 
jection to the general use of this powder 
is the cost—about 50 cents a pound. We 
have used, with good results, on our 
milch stock, the present summer, a sheep 
dip known to the trade as Thymo-Cresol. 
This should be used at the rate of about 
two tablespoonfuls to two gallons of 
warm water, and after stirring thorough¬ 
ly, should be rubbed into the hair with 
a sponge or soft cloth. On account of 
the strong odor of this substance, it 
should be applied after milking in the 
morning, and then the cows sent at once 
to the pasture. The animals do not 
enjoy the taste of this preparation, and 
are not likely to lick themselves very 
much; but we have failed to observe any 
bad results from its use. 
[prof.] c. s PHELPS. 
Storrs Agricultural College. 
Kerosene Does It Well. 
Until within the last week or two, I 
have never done anything to keep flies 
from tormenting stock. The horn fly 
does most of the tormenting, and this 
insect stays all night on the cattle if 
allowed to. A short time since, I bought 
an instrument for applying insecticides 
and fungicides to house and garden 
plants. It is a large atomizer, and blows 
out the liquid as a spray. I use clear 
kerosene in this, and apply it to the 
cattle when they come from the pasture. 
Half a minute suffices to treat an animal, 
and all the flies are killed, with no in¬ 
jury to the animals, as the quantity of 
kerosene used is so small, and the ap¬ 
plication so fine that only the ends of 
the hairs are moistened with it, and it 
soon evaporates. I have never tried the 
application in the morning to keep them 
off, and think that it would not serve 
the purpose more than an hour or two. 
I got the idea from a lecture I heard at 
a Grange meeting. It is quite a satis¬ 
faction to give the cows a peaceful night, 
and the destruction of such large num¬ 
bers of flies must help ease the daytime 
torment. m. morse 
Massachusetts. 
BACKING UP THE PASTURE. 
The time of year has now come when 
something to help out the pastures is re¬ 
quired. This should have been provided 
for last spring, and on the farm of the 
regular dairyman, is seldom neglected. 
The common farmer, however, has need 
of this fully as much as any one, and it 
will well repay any one with even one 
or two cows to feed them something 
more than they are getting in the fields, 
unless this is sufficient to supply their 
wants fully, a thing which seldom 
occurs in July and August, when pastures 
are bare and brown from overcropping 
and drought. Perhaps the most popular 
food for this purpose is fodder corn, 
sown broadcast [never.— Eds.J or drilled 
in rows. The former method is not very 
satisfactory, as it requires a great 
amount of rain to keep the crowded 
plants growing, and there is not the’ 
substance in them even then that there 
is in the better matured plants grown in 
hills or drills. 
Oats and peas make excellent summer 
feed, but must be sown in succession to 
be available for any length of time. 
Sorghum is one of the best of fodder 
crops, and cows like it very much. Some 
prefer sweet corn to anything else for 
the cows during dry weather in summer. 
The main object is to give the cows 
enough to eat ; the kind of food may be 
left to individual preference. Good hay 
is readily eaten by cows when they come 
from pasture, even when they are get¬ 
ting a pretty good bite. It is a change 
for them, and they like it. I could but 
notice this the other night when our 
cows were turned into the barnyard 
where we had been unloading hay. 
Every spire was licked up greedily, and 
they were getting all the green cut 
clover they would eat, too, but no past¬ 
urage. 
It is a question with a good many 
farmers whether or not it pays to feed 
grain during the summer. I believe that 
it does. Bran is my choice, and there is 
not a day in the year when the cows do 
not get a feed of it. 
It is not the dairyman but the general 
farmer who needs to be preached at to 
feed his cows more carefully. The regu¬ 
lar dairyman realizes the importance of 
paying close attention to this, better 
than the man who makes butter only to 
help out with the grocery bill or to 
keep his wife in pin money. 
It doesn’t pay to let the cows dry up for 
want of something to make milk of. Cut 
into the corn intended for a crop if you 
have nothing else to feed them, or buy 
a load of clover hay if necessary. Feed 
the cows anyway. w c. rockwood 
My wife had another attack of Lung trouble. She 
coughed Incessantly and raised enormously. We 
nearly despaired of her recovery. Dr. I). Jayne’s 
Expectorant, by the blessing of God. restored her. 
She is now well—(Rev.) JO i. HOPKINS, West Ber¬ 
lin. N. •)., February 18, 1891. 
For sick headache take Jayne’s Painless Sanative 
Pills.— Adv. 
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It cures curbs, colic 
sprains, lameness 
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the hands for 20 minutes each time. If 
there is no marked improvement in six 
or eight weeks, blister both ankles with 
ammonia liniment, and repeat two or 
three times at intervals of one to two 
months. If not cured, the horse would 
always be weak in those joints. With a 
long rest and stimulating applications, 
a fairly good recovery can be expected ; 
but he will never be as strong as before 
being injured. It is doubtful whether 
he will ever be strong enough to do 
much hard track work. 
KEEPING FLIES FROM STOCK. 
A Home Fly Mixture, 
I have used all the preparations on 
sale for the riddance of the cattle fly, 
but I have found nothing so effective 
and lasting as a combination of my own 
get up. For 12 cows, I mix thoroughly, 
five pounds of the cheapest grease avail¬ 
able, with one pint of coal tar, one ounce 
carbolic crystals, and one-half pint of 
kerosene. This should be applied by 
rubbing on the back, on the sides, at the 
base of the horns and under the flanks 
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Blanket the Cows. 
The fly nuisance has been a great 
trouble to me as it, probably, has to 
every dairyman who has the well-being 
of his stock at heart. I have tried kero¬ 
sene to which is added a small amount 
of carbolic acid. This is put on with a 
small spraying can, and kills the flies ; 
but it soon evaporates, and they are back 
as thick as before. The dairy papers 
are full of concoctions of this nature, 
such as fish oil and carbolic acid, or coal 
tar, etc. These last are very objection¬ 
able, because, while they only partly 
accomplish their object, they give the 
cow a very dirty, disagreeable appear¬ 
ance which we don’t like with our pet 
Jerseys. Another thing about them is 
the odor that fills the stable It is very 
amusing how dairy editors will in one 
column charge their readers to white¬ 
wash and cleanse their stables, and 
aerate their milk, and in the next recom¬ 
mend that they daub their cows with 
kerosene, fish oil and carbolic acid, etc., 
before they milk, so the cows will stand 
still while it is being done, and the odor 
from which would drive a respectable 
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I have found that will keep the flies off 
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many bushes for the cow to run among, 
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