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January 12 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Live Stock and Dairy 
AILING ANIMALS. 
ANSWERS BY DR. F. L. KILBORNE. 
Heifer Fails to Mi Ik. 
A heifer I raised came in with her first 
calf November 30, but has not given any 
milk from two teats on the right side, 
fiont and back. She has a fine udder, well 
developed, and was raised from good stock. 
1 have tried everything to remedy the 
wrong, but have thus far failed. Would 
she be likely to come to her milk if she 
is kept till she comes in again? l. a. w. 
Milford, Conn. 
Cases of this kind occur occasionally. 
l)ut not commonly, in which one or more 
quarters of a heifer’s udder will fail to 
secrete milk. The trouble may be due 
to lack of development in those quarters, 
or to previous inflammation from some 
injury to that quarter. By rubbing and 
stripping of the dry quarter at each 
milking you may yet be able to stimu¬ 
late a flow of milk. If they fail to come 
to their milk this season, they may do 
so at the next calving, if there are no 
special indications to the contrary; but 
if they fail then, it would be useless to 
keep her longer. 
Whole Rye for Horses. 
Will you inform me whether there would 
be any risk attending the feeding of un¬ 
thrashed rye straw to horses? I mean from 
the awns. These are quite fine as also Is 
the straw, the seeding having been heavy. 
Washington, N. C. b. 
The risk in feeding unthrashed rye to 
horses in moderate quantity is not very 
great, and yet if cannot be said to be 
safe. The awns are liable, and do occa¬ 
sionally, cause serious trouble in th^ 
mouth and throat, as well as in the 
stomach and intestines. It would be 
safer to have the rye thrashed and to 
feed tne straw withotit the chaff, which 
w^ould contain the greater portion of the 
awns. The rye itself could be fed mixeu 
with other grain either whole or ground, 
but it ought not to be more than one- 
third or one-half of the grain ration. 
R. N.-Y.—Some farmers in New Jer¬ 
sey feed whole rye to horses in the fol¬ 
lowing manner: The straw and heads 
are run through a cutter and moistened. 
The ground feed is put on this cut rye. 
This plan works well. Such farmers be¬ 
lieve that the awns or spikes scratch off 
bots from the horse’s stomach. 
Scratches, Malanders and Thrush in Horse 
What will cure my horse? He is coming 
eight, has breakings out on his legs, which 
some people call scratches. I can get them 
t( heal, but they will crack open again, 
particularly on the approach of cold 
weather. Behind the front knees is the 
worst place. He also has thrush in three 
feet and the bottoms of his feet are dry 
and cracked. s. 
. Lionville, Pa. 
When this scaly affection appears un 
der the fetlock it is known as scratches, 
on the back of the fore legs in the bend 
of the knee as malanders, and back of 
the hock as sallenders. There is evi¬ 
dently a constitutional tendency in this 
horse to these skin diseases, which may 
be due to unsuitable diet, want of prop 
er care and cleanliness, or to disorder 
of the liver, kidneys or other organs. 
There is no permanent cure for these 
cases, unless the cause can ascertained 
and removed. They may be apparently 
entirely cured, only to recur whenever 
the conditions are favorable. Treatment 
should be both local and general. In 
ternally I will advise a course of iron 
and arsenic. Give one teaspoonful dry 
pulverized sulphate of iron and a large 
tablespoonful of Fowler’s solution of ar¬ 
senic in feed twice daily. After two 
weeks omit the iron (containing the ar¬ 
senic) for a like period, and then repeat 
as before. Continue for one or two 
months. A laxative diet should be fed, 
consisting in part of bran mashes, si¬ 
lage, roots, or other green feed sufficient 
to keep the bowels moving freely. If 
there is constipation give half ounce 
doses best aloes every three or four 
days until relieved. Locally, use ben- 
zoated oxide of zinc ointment twnce daily 
to soften and heal the cracks. If neces¬ 
sary to wash, use warm castile soap 
suds, after which rub dry. Wet the legs 
only when necessary. If thickening o' 
the skin remains, apply mercuric or 
iodine ointment once a week. 
Post-Partum Paralysis in a Cow 
I hiive a two-year-old heifer that recently 
calved. The heifer evidently had a very 
hard time, as the calf was very large. The 
calf was dead when I found it, but seemed 
to be fully matured. The heifer seems to 
be all right, except that she cannot use her 
hind legs enough to stand. She eats and 
drinks as well as ever, but seem'^ to be 
very weak. Last Spring I had a cow’ in 
the same condition as this heifer. We tried 
slinging her up, but she would not stand 
on her hind feet. She would lie with all 
her weight In the sling, apparently very 
uncomfortable and in a great deal of pain. 
I finally killed the cow as there seemed to 
be no help for her. Both cows were in 
good condition. I have fed the heifer two 
<loarts potatoes with three pints of corn 
and oats since taking in from the meadow. 
Willsborough, N. Y. b. c. f. 
Partial paralysis not infrequently fol¬ 
lows a difficult parturition, as in the 
present case. The cow should have had 
an active blister applied over the loins, 
and follow'ed by hypodermic injections 
of strychnine or dram doses of powder¬ 
ed nux vomica three times daily. Ounce 
doses of sweet spirits of niter, or alco¬ 
holic stimulants can be given to advan¬ 
tage and repeated every four hours. The 
animal should be provided with a warm 
comfortable bed, or blanketed if neces¬ 
sary, to keep her warm, and turned from 
side to side several times daily. If there 
is constipation give pint doses of raw 
linseed oil night and morning until re 
lieved. Feed a nutritious, laxative diet, 
such as bi’an mashes, boiled flaxseed, 
oatmeal or oats, or even milk and eggs. 
Cases of this kind ought always to be 
placed in charge of a competent veter¬ 
inarian wherever practicable. Compli¬ 
cations, especially retention of urine and 
inflammation of the womb, are very 
liable to arise, which can be recognized 
and successfully treated only under the 
personal direction of the veterinarian. 
acre in natural grasses. Putting these 
two facts together the soiling farmer 
plows his ground, plants a succession of 
crops and carries them to the cow. If 
any of the crop is left after the suceed- 
ing crop is ready, that portion is either 
cured for hay or put into the silo. This 
system promptly carried out enables a 
farmer to laugh at the drought. His 
cows are well supplied with fodder, he 
can keep more stock than ever before to 
the acre, and his Winter supply of feed 
is always sure. These are the facts, yet 
comparatively few farmers understand 
them. A book entitled “Soiling, Ensi 
lage and Stable Construction,” by F. S. 
Peer, gives the experience of a practical 
man, and is, in our opinion, the best 
thing of the sort that has ever been 
printed. It tells how to start the soil¬ 
ing system and how to keep it up. It 
tells how to make good silage, how to 
construct or make over a farm stable. 
The book costs $1, and we can supply it 
at that price. It ought.to be worth $100 
to any man who will study it, and then 
go and write his studies with green ink 
upon his fields. 
From what I can learn a carload of 
young cows could be purchased in this 
vicinity at prices ranging from $20 to $30; 
old cows at a less price. It would prob¬ 
ably take about two days to pick them up. 
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“ An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of 
cure.” That is the way with a Cold. A few little 
doses of Dr. 1). Jayne’s Expectorant often saves a 
long sickness, if not something more serious.—.tdr. 
Anybody 
can keep his horses free from 
all forms of Lameness, curbs, 
splints.contract€d cord,thrush, 
grease heel, etc., by treating 
promptly with 
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Dr. S. A. Tuttle._Dear Sir: —I h»ve used your Eliiir on one of 
the worst spavins that I ever saw on a horse, and it eniirely cured 
the lameness. I also used it for rheumatism in my family. with just 
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TUTTLE'S FAMILY ELIXIR cures rheumatism, sprains, 
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Beware of so^alled Elixir. —none genuine but Tutllc’s. 
Avoid all blisters; they offer only temporary-relief if any. 
GREEN FIELD IN DRY TIMES. 
We said last Fall that thousands of 
farmers in this country have been driven 
to the practice of soiling or cutting 
green fodder for their cattle. The last 
few seasons have been particularly dry, 
and again and again pastures have dried 
up, meadows have failed to yield average 
crops, and the result is that many farm- 
ers were caught in two ways. In the 
Summer, when their cows ought to haw 
been giving an abundance of milk, they 
failed because there was not succulent 
food for them. The farmers were either 
obliged to dispose of some of their cows, 
feed hay or corn that was needed for 
Winter feed or else witness a shrinkage 
of 25 per cent or more in the milk yield. 
Again, when Winter came they found 
themselves with half-empty hay mows, 
and a shortage of dry fodder. Most 
farmers regard these dry feeds as little 
short of a curse. Yet they may prove 
blessings in disguise if such farmers will 
heed the advice and experience of those 
who have found better ways of feeding 
stock. The soiling system consists in 
cultivating crops rather than raising 
them as pasture. Under this system a 
succession of green crops is planted and 
cultivated, so that one follows the other 
through the season. It is well-known 
that a cow at pasture destroys more 
feed than she eats. It is also evident to 
many farmers that a greater amount of 
fodder can be grown on an acre of land 
that is plowed, fertilized and well-cul¬ 
tivated than will grow on that same 
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2000 
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■D RONZE TURKEYS raised on the hills of Vermont; 
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/"\NE grandson and one granddaughter of Exile of 
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Four registered Jersey Cows. 3 to 7 
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