THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Ailing Animals. 
ANSWERS BY DB. F. L. KILBORNE. 
Lice on Goats. 
I have purchased a small flock of com¬ 
mon short-haired goats, and find they are 
infested with small white lice or ticks, 
which do not seem to hurt the old ones, 
but the kids are not doing so well. Will 
they disappear in the Spring, like lice on 
cattle? Will dipping in a solution of kero¬ 
sene or tobacco kill the lice, and which 
would be best, cost to be equal? 
Jlowell Co., Mo. H. K. s. 
The kerosene and tobacco solutions 
are both effective if thoroughly applied. 
The kerosene is best used as an emul¬ 
sion, diluted with about eight parts 
water; or it can be used as a simple mix¬ 
ture in water, in the proportion of one 
to eight, but it is more trouble to keep 
the kerosene well mixed. There are also 
several inexpensive preparations on the 
market, such as Fenoleum, thymo-cre- 
sol, etc., that are effective lice killers, 
and are less liable to injure the^animals, 
if carelessly used. 
Weak Legs in Hogs. 
I have a pig weighing about 100 pounds 
wliic li has lost the use of his legs. He eats 
well, but seems to have a sore spot on the 
l.-ft side of his bowels. Is there any cure? 
Would he be fit to kill and dress now? 
lie has been so about 10 days. e. f. s. 
.Vlanomet, Mass. 
1 have a purebred Berkshire sow that 
lost the use of her hind quarters a few 
days ago. She eats fairly well, but is un¬ 
able to move her hind parts. What is the 
disea.se, and is there any cure for it? 
I.ewi.ston, N. Y. B. M. P. 
Such partial paralysis or weakness in 
hind quarters is usually due to overfeed¬ 
ing and idleness, or to too close confine¬ 
ment in pens. Reduce the feed to a light 
la.xative ration. If there is constipation, 
feed some green* food, boiled flaxseed or 
oil meal to keep the bowels open. Two 
or three ounces castor oil may be given 
if necessary. Give 20 grains powdered 
nux vomica in feed twice daily. Rub the 
loins with a liniment of equal parts 
sweet oil, aqua ammonia and turpentine, 
well shaken together. The loss of the 
use of his limbs would not render the 
pig unfit for food, if not allowed to re¬ 
main too long, or until the animal be¬ 
came feverish. 
Cow Fails in Her Milk. 
We have a cow, an Alderney, fresh last 
April, which has been giving 2^4 to three 
gallons of milk daily all through this Win¬ 
ter, until about two weeks ago, when she 
dropped suddenly to about a quart per 
day, on the same feed she had been get¬ 
ting. She had a sore teat about three 
weeks since, and the man who was milk¬ 
ing her used zinc ointment to heal the 
crack. Would the ointment act on the 
glands and dry her? Could you suggest 
anything to feed her which would tend to 
bring her back to her milk? She is young, 
five years, in good order, and has good 
appetite. We are feeding cut corn fodder 
and clover hay with gluten meal, corn 
chop and middlings. Can you tell me what 
gluten meal is, i. e., of what grain or plant 
is it a product? Corn, is it not? 
t'lafton. Pa. J. w. L. 
The falling off in the milk is appar¬ 
ently due either to overfeeding or to the 
fact that the cow may be coming fresh 
again soon. The zinc ointment would 
not dry her off. If not due to calve soon, 
1 would advise reducing the feed until 
she begins to come to her milk. Unless 
the bowels are already loose, give one 
pound Epsom salts, with one-half pound 
common salt and two ounces ginger, dis¬ 
solved in three pints warm water, and 
given as a drench. Follow with one of 
following powders in the feed night and 
morning; Gentian and ginger, of each 
eight ounces; powdered nux vomica, 
four ounces; Epsom salts, 16 ounces; 
mix, and divide into 32 powders. Gluten 
meal is obtained from corn in the manu¬ 
facture of starch. It contains all the 
protein and little of the starch of the 
corn, and is therefore especially desir¬ 
able as a feed for milk or flesh. 
Growing Oats for Hay. 
An Illinois reader of The R. N.-Y. 
writes to know how we harrow in stable 
manure that is not well rotted, when 
seeding down. We never have any 
rotted manure, not if we know it, except 
as it rots on the field, and we have very 
little trouble in harrowing. We use a 
harrow of the Acme plan, that I bought 
cutters for, and bolted them on a plank, 
to cover the oats and shake up the ma¬ 
nure. This we follow with a smoothing 
harrow, or bush, sometimes both, and a 
roller on light soil; where there are 
cobbles, too small to pick up fast, it will 
put on the finishing touch. Our friend 
Clark’s Cutaway harrow would do ex¬ 
cellent work with the manure, I think, 
and would not get in the oats too deep. 
Any of the disk harrows ought also to 
work well, but I have never tried them. 
I am aware that I shall prove myself 
a little old-fashioned if I am not careful, 
but agricultural tools are too cumber¬ 
some for me to have a different one for 
every little job. It looks shiftless to see 
them left where they were used last, and 
if put in a building in common use, one’s 
shins are continuously getting barked. 
There are many farm implements that 
I should gladly buy for use for a single 
day in a season if it were not for the 
trouble of getting them about and car¬ 
ing for them the other 365 days in the 
year. I have some meadow land a mile 
from home, and rather than shift a 
mowing machine and horse rake over a 
narrow and rough road I have got these 
things stored there. Where farms are 
compact the management may be quite 
different from that of the ordinary New 
England farm that is part of half a 
dozen original farms. Circumstances 
alter cases. The western farmer will 
plant and care for 10 acres of corn as 
easily as I do one. If he gets as much 
corn from his 10 acres as I do from one 
he is all right, but I could not afford to 
farm it that way. The kind of land, the 
kind of market, and the kind of man 
must all be considered in this matter of 
farming, and while no man should for a 
moment think of learning everything 
himself, he should be just as far from 
jumping to the conclusion that what is 
profitable for another man must be pro¬ 
fitable for him. R. s. uinm.an. 
Connecticut. 
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An Elgin Watch always has the 
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There are thou.sands of men 
and women, as well as ever, 
with holes in their luniks: con- 
O 
sumption stopped. 
What did it.? 
Some change in way of life 
and Scott’s emulsion of cod- 
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A hole in the lungs, once 
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Spring Harrow Teeth 20c each. 
Steel clips 20c per doxen. 
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