1901 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
133 
AILING ANIMALS. 
ANSWERS BY 1>R. F. L. KILBORiNE. 
Fistulous Withers on a Horse. 
I have a mare that became very sore 
in the withers last Fall, as I supposed 
from being out in a storm and taking cold 
which settied in the withers. I doctored 
her. and let her be idle, hoping she would 
get over it. but she has not got any better, 
and a few days ago one side broke and it 
discharges a thick matter. Is it a case of 
fistula? Would I better try to heal the 
sore? What treatment would you advise? 
She i.s very sore yet on the withers, and I 
am afraid of losing the use of her. 
.Jasper. N. Y. n. w. w. 
The mare has a fistula of the withers, 
which can be satisfactorily treated only 
by a competent veterinary surgeon. I 
would advise taking the mare to a veter¬ 
inarian at once, before the fistula be¬ 
comes deeper seated and more chronic. 
Rheumatism or Founder m Pigs. 
I have 10 pigs averaging 20 pounds each; 
they are in good thriving condition but do 
not seem to use their feet as they should. 
They seem to have a touch of rheumatism 
when they first get up. walk a few feet 
on their front knees, and show pains. 
They are fed principally on shorts, scald¬ 
ed; a liberal amount of bedding is given 
to them. Is there anything you would 
ailvise me to do or give to them? J. a. 
Waterdown. Ont. 
Give each pig two teaspoonfuls castor 
oil and repeat every third day until 
bowels move freely. Feed flaxseed or 
oil meal gruel, boiled potatoes, or other 
succulent food sufficient to keep the 
bowels open. Do not overfeed. Give a 
lieaping teaspoonful of the following 
powd-^rs to every two pigs twice daily: 
Nitrate of potash, bicarbonate of soda 
and sulphate of magnesia, of each eight 
ounces, mix. See that the pigs are kept 
warm and comfortable. 
Horse Blistered with Coal OH. 
.\l)ont a week ago I came into possession 
111 an l.S-montlis-oId black gelding that is 
very iliin and weak fi'om “roughing it.’’ 
llefore 1 got him a mixture of lard and 
coal oil had been aiiplied to his back for 
lice; now the hair is falling out in bimclies, 
leaving the skin naked but not raw. Wluit 
shall 1 do for liim? 1 am giving him a 
warm box stall, some corn fodder, clover, 
one (piart of oats and one-third pint of oil 
meal, three times a day, but no medicine. 
He eats fairly well. w. v. ii. 
iteshler, O. 
The hair would undoubtedly come in 
again all right without treatment. It 
requires a severe blistering to destroy 
the hair bulbs if the skin is not injured 
by the horse biting or rubbing himself. 
Some practitioners always anoint a blis¬ 
tered surface with lard, vaseline or oth¬ 
er ointment, while others advise no ap¬ 
plication. If the skin is very dry, with 
a tendency to crack, the application of 
one part pine tar melted up with four or 
five parts of vaseline will prove bene¬ 
ficial. When the blistered surface has 
healed the following lotion may be ap¬ 
plied to stimulate the growth of hair; 
Castor oil and alcohol, of each four 
ounces, tincture of cantharides one-half 
ounce; apply once or twice a week. 
THE HEN AND HER EGGS. 
I.s it necessary to have a cock for hens, 
keiu for the eggs only? That is, will a hen 
lay as many eggs without a cock as with 
one? How many eggs will a hen average 
per month when kept in good condition? 
How many months in one year will a hen 
lay? I am speaking of Leghorns. c. h. 
Brooklyn. N. Y. 
Male birds should never be kept with 
hens that are kept for eggs only. Not 
only will they lay fully as well without 
them, but their eggs will keep in good 
condition a greater length of time, be¬ 
sides saving the feed of the useless 
males. In laying, all depends on the 
hen and the month; Spring months be¬ 
ing the natural time for hens to lay, 
they will under ordinary circumstances 
lay many more eggs than at other 
times. Some hens will lay an egg every 
day for a long time, while others in the 
same flock will probably not lay enough 
to pay for their keep. Here comes the 
advantage of the trap-nest system. The 
question is, can the laying qualities of 
the stock be increased enough to pay 
for the extra time, required to attend to 
the nest and keep the records, which 
would be quite an item in large flocks? 
Good stock, well cai-ed for, should aver¬ 
age 150 to 175 eggs each per year. In 
some instances they may go 200 or bet¬ 
ter, but such records for large flocks are 
few, and 100 would come nearer the 
mark for the average fowl as ordinarily 
kept. Many hens will lay every month 
in the year; even when moulting they 
give us a few eggs, while others will 
take a long rest during the Fall and 
Winter months. Usually there are three 
or four months during the Fall and ear¬ 
ly Winter when you will get but few 
eggs from hens over one year old. The 
best way to get a supply of eggs all the 
year is to have March and April-hatch¬ 
ed pullets to take the old hens’ place in 
the Fall. If well housed and cared for 
they will keep up a fair supply of egg.s 
until the next Fall, when they should 
be replaced with early pullets again. 
J. E. s. 
4 TRUE ‘‘CROWING HEN.'’ 
With the possibility of throwing some 
light upon the subject of crowing hens 
discussed in The R. N.-Y., page 795, last 
year’s volume, I desire to submit a pho¬ 
tograph of a White Wyandotte (Fig. 
49) and the accompanying explanation. 
The subject of the picture was hatched 
in the Spring of 1899. In the Fall of the 
same year she was selected as one of 20 
pullets for a pen. She was never seen 
upon a nest and so far as known never 
laid an egg. The male birds in the pen. 
two in number, were never seen to mate 
with it. During the Winter the feathers 
of the tail began to take on the appear¬ 
ance shown in the picture; they devel¬ 
oped to a much greater length, and be¬ 
came more curved and sickle-like than 
is usual with females of this breed. The 
feathering of the neck and rump became 
full and heavy, presenting the general 
shape and outline of the hackle of the 
male. Upon close examination the 
feathers of these two regions were seen 
to be much longer and finer than those 
01 the female, but not as much so as 
the hackle of the male. In detail of form 
and structure they were intermediate 
between the two. During the Winter 
the comb became well developed, like¬ 
wise the wattles. They were smaller 
than those of the mature male, and con¬ 
siderably larger than those of the fe¬ 
males. With the growth of the feathers 
of the neck, rump and tail, together with 
the enlargement of the comb, wattles, 
and spurs, the bii’d presented a distinct¬ 
ly masculine. appearance. It moulted 
earlier in the Fall than the other fowls 
in the flock, the new feathers growing 
quickly. 
In September it was sent to a taxi¬ 
dermist to be prepared as a specimen for 
the museum of the veterinary depart¬ 
ment of the college. The photograph 
from which Fig. 49 was made was taken 
after the bird had been mounted. A dis¬ 
section of the genital organs revealed 
the presence of a diminutive uterus and 
oviduct. At the usual site of the ovaries 
or testicles were found an aggregation 
of nodular structures varying in size 
from a No. 4 shot to that of a cranberry 
bean. The largest of these were ellip¬ 
tical or bean-shaped, the smallest spher¬ 
ical. Section showed them to be quite 
firm and uniform in structure through¬ 
out. Owing to the bleaching action of 
the material used by the taxidermist for 
the preservation of the tissue the color 
of these glandular structures could not 
be determined. When the mounted spe¬ 
cimen was placed before a group of stu¬ 
dents with the question as to what it 
was, some answered “A White Wyan¬ 
dotte cock”: others said. “A Wyandotte 
hen.” Finally one gave a correct answer 
by venturing the statement that it was 
“an hermaphrodite.” ,ias. r. i-aiok. 
Mass. Agl^ College. 
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