1901 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
93 
Ailing Animals. 
ANSWKBS BT dr. F. Jj. kidbobre. 
Influenza or Acclimation in Horses. 
What Is the matter with my horses? 
They first become stiff In the legs and suf¬ 
fer from cramps, acting as though they are 
sore all over. They now stand with their 
eyes almost closed, and water and matter 
running from them. The horses were 
brought five weeks ago from Indiana to 
Oklahoma. Is it a common disease, or 
caused by change of climate? w. w. t. 
Cloud Chief, O, T, 
The horses appear to be suffering from 
influenza, or as it might be termed in 
cases of this kind, acclimation fever, 
brought on by the change in climate. If 
the horses are very sick, or appear to 
have much fever, it would be well to call 
a competent veterinary surgeon at once; 
if there is one available. Owing to the 
severity of some cases, and the compli¬ 
cations that are liable to arise, severe 
attacks of the disease can be satisfac¬ 
torily treated only under the personal 
direction of the practitioner. Mild cases 
require very little medicinal treatment. 
Good nursing, comfortable quarters, and 
a nutritious, laxative diet, such as bran 
and flaxseed mashes, with a little green 
food, is about all that is necessary. If 
the attack is more severe, with high 
fever and prostration, give one ounce 
each liquor acetate of ammonia and 
sweet spirits of niter with one dram 
fluid extract of belladonna in a half-pint 
of cold water, and repeat two, three or 
four times daily, according to the sever¬ 
ity of the symptoms. If there is consti¬ 
pation give rectal injections of warm 
soapsuds several times daily, and pint 
doses of raw linseed oil, as often as may 
be necessary to keep the bowels moving 
freely. Unless the stable is very warm, 
the animals should be blanketed and the 
legs, if cold, rubbed and bandaged. If 
catarrhal symptoms develop, steam the 
head once or twice daily, adding a little 
pine tar or turpentine to the boiling 
water, over which the head is steamed. 
Horse Out of Condition. 
What ails my horse, and what will cure 
him? He is rather thin In flesh, slightly 
costive, drinks three times a day, but little 
at a time; does not go well on the road, 
going as though tired or lazy; eats well, 
two quarts oats and a moderate amount of 
hay three times a day. I do not work or 
drive him a great deal. Will poplar bark 
take the place of gentian or golden seal in 
horse medicine? h. l. c. 
Winchendon, Mass. 
Try the following powders: Powdered 
nux vomica and aloes, of each four 
ounces; powdered gentian, nitrate of 
potash and ginger, of each eight ounces, 
mix and divide into 32 powders. Give a 
powder in the feed twice daily. Should 
the Ik rse refuse to eat the feed, mix the 
powder thoroughly with the feed, and 
then just before placing it in front of the 
horse, rub a little of the powder on his 
nose, when he will usually eat it without 
further trouble. No. The poplar bark 
will be more of an astringent, while the 
gentian and golden seal are bitter tonics. 
Small Orifice in Heifer's Teat. 
We have a fine young Jersey cow with 
her first calf, that gives promise of a good 
milker, but the orifice in the two front 
teats is so small that with all the pressure 
the stream of milk is no larger than a 
knitting needle. The two back teats are 
comparatively easy to milk, and we are 
compelled to let the calf milk the front 
ones. What remedy would you suggest? 
Manchester, Va. h. h. h. 
If a veterinary surgeon were avail¬ 
able the most satisfactory method would 
be to have the orifice dilated or opened 
by him. In the absence of the veterin¬ 
arian you can probably dilate the open¬ 
ing with a milking tube. Procure two 
milking tubes, and after milking the cow 
(with the tubes if you will), plug the 
tubes to prevent leaking of the milk, 
and insert a tube in each teat. Tie them 
in position with a piece of tape, to pre¬ 
vent their dropping out, and leave them 
until next milking, when you can either 
remove the tubes to milk the cow, or 
milk her with the tubes. Keep the tubes 
in the teats until the opening is suffi¬ 
ciently enlarged to milk as freely as de¬ 
sired. Do not leave the tube in the teat 
longer than necessary, because of the 
danger of causing the cow to leak her 
milk, by dilating the orifice too much. 
Contracted Tender Feet on Horse. 
What shall I do for a horse with tender 
and contracted feet? j. s. 
Brooklandvllle, Md. 
Blister the coronet all around the top 
of the hoof with ammonia liniment, and 
repeat two or three times at intervals of 
four to six weeks. Paint the hoof two 
or three times a week with a mixture of 
equal parts of pine tar and vaseline 
melted together. You would do well to 
have the horse shod under the personal 
direction of a competent veterinary sur¬ 
geon. 
FEEDING MOUSSES TO STOCK. 
In the morning, after milking, we feed 
hay, and about 9 o’clock turn the ani¬ 
mals out to drink, while cleaning the 
stable, then put them back, but if the 
weather is warm and very pleasant per¬ 
haps leave them out an hour or so, but 
not longer. We now scatter three scoop- 
shovelfuls of beet pulp on to the hay, 
orts usually. We put enough hay in so 
there will be a peck to a half-bushel of 
orts in each cow’s manger. We sprinkle 
on a pint or more of waste beet mo¬ 
lasses thinned with about the same 
amount of water (as the molasses is very 
thick) to each cow, then scatter gluten, 
buckwheat middlings and wheat bran 
on it, and to the cows that are intended 
for beef add more or less cornmeal so 
that when they fail to give milk in pay¬ 
ing quantity they will be good beef. To 
the dry cows coming in, and young 
heifers, we give mostly wheat bran; per¬ 
haps a little meal if they are thin. At 
night we turn out again for drink, clean 
the stable, and sweep the mangers, and 
if any orts are eatable give them to the 
horses. After milking feed hay again, 
then after supper give pulp, molasses 
and grain as in the morning, but a lit¬ 
tle more. 
We have practiced this system of feed¬ 
ing many years, regardless of the kind 
of feed used. It requires considerable 
time, but I think it pays well for extra 
time spent in caring for cows. I will 
say here that in the Spring we keep our 
cows in the stable nights until the wea¬ 
ther is warm all night, and turn out days 
until the flies get troublesome, when we 
change, turning out nights and keeping 
them in days. In either case we feed 
hay and silage until we have some kind 
of grass feed to cut, also feed some kind 
of grain through the year. We are feed¬ 
ing four horses whole straw, clean their 
mangers twice a day, cut the orts and 
take about one-half bushel of them and 
pour on nearly a quart of molasses and 
a little water; stir it, when every piece 
of straw will be sweetened, put on a 
quart of wheat bran and two quarts ^of 
rye, oats, barley and corn ground to¬ 
gether, stir it in, and they eat every 
piece of it. As to the actual worth of 
the molasses, I am not able to determine 
yet, as we have only fed it about three 
weeks, but this I can say of it, that all 
of our stock like it, and will eat almost 
anything with it that otherwise they 
would not touch. Our cows are giving 
at the present time as much or more 
milk as any time last Fall or Winter, 
although the weather is quite cold. 
Whitney’s Point, N. Y. j. p. c. 
Hard-Raised Pigs. —The picture on 
page 35 of a hand-raised pig is very sweet 
indeed. Piggy looks so cunning, with 
such a charming curl to his tail, but it 
takes too much time if the Missy’s time 
is worth anything. I raised six pigs 
once that were left motherless at three 
days old. We were young at farming, 
and fed the mother too much, and she 
crawled under the barn and died. My 
husband said, “Now I might as well kill 
the pigs too.’’ I couldn’t bear that, so 
I asked whether I could have them If I 
could raise them. “Why yes, take ’em 
along.’’ I fed them with a spoon five 
times, being careful to hold their noses 
close to the basin of warm steaming 
milk. After that they would put their 
little noses In the milk and drink. I 
made them a pen near the back door, 
put in a pile of straw, and fed them five 
times a day and once In the night for 
four weeks. The night feeding was not 
very pleasant, as it was in the month 
of April, and I often dreaded to get out 
of a warm bed to feed them, but they 
fully repaid me when they went to mar¬ 
ket in December, being the finest pigs 
on the farm. helen. 
Live stock is in good condition and do¬ 
ing well, but there are not as many cattle 
and hogs feeding as usual. Very little 
snow, but grass is looking well; wheat 
badly damaged by fly in the Fall. 
Reading, Mich. a. a. d. 
We have never fed silage to hogs nor 
any stock. As to clover, we have fed 
plenty of the hay to hogs. While it will 
not take the place of grain, it assists in 
keeping the hogs in a good healthy con¬ 
dition, and also furnishes some nutriment. 
It is of the same use as grass, but not so 
succulent. j. h. duxburt a bro. 
Minnesota. 
Bottle Pigs.—I was very much interested 
in your cut of the hand-fed pig. Several 
years ago I had left on my hands, by the 
death of the mother, eight pigs one day old. 
I had never heard of its being done, but 
thought I would try bringing them up by 
hand. They were put in a corn basket, 
kept in a warm place. For feeding I 
used the rubber from the end of a medicine 
dropper. I never saw anything grow 
faster, and it was actually a pleasure to 
put them on the floor at feeding time and 
see them follow me around. They all be¬ 
came fine porkers. j. r. s. 
Jersey Calves.— Evidently the man who 
does not succeed with Jersey cattle and 
prefers other breeds Is simply very narrow- 
sighted, or does not have the right kind of 
Jerseys. I have now four calves that I 
am raising on sklm-mllk and meal, that 
are six weeks old. They are good veals, 
and would realize me to-day $32, and I 
have before now sold veals under the same 
condition and age for $10 per head. I don’t 
find my Jerseys dainty, kickers, etc., but 
are very docile, gentle and not at all nerv¬ 
ous. My experience with Jerseys is that 
they respond to good treatment wonder¬ 
fully. c. c. 
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