1901 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
431 
AILING ANIMALS. 
AN8WKR3 15Y DR. F. D. KIDBOKXE. 
Knee-Sprung Mare for Breeding 
I have a mare eight years old that 1 
would like to breed from. She i.s sprung 
ill both front legs; would the colt be apt 
to be sprung also? r. e. 
Cross Keys, N. J. 
Her colts would probably be all right. 
If the trouble is congenital with the 
mare she would be more likely to trans¬ 
mit it to her colts than if the knees 
were sprung from overwork; but the 
danger of her having knee-sprung colts 
is very slight. 
Tetanus in Colts. 
ISly yearling colt died of tetanus within 
two weeks of castration, and a number of 
Ollier colts In this neighborhood died under 
similar circumstances; all being castrated 
by the same veterinarian. Is it possible 
for a veterinarian to carry the germs of 
the disease from farm to farm? The vet¬ 
erinarian in question does not, so far as 1 
know, sterilize his instruments. j. h. b. 
Jtomeoville, ill. 
Yes, it is quite possible for a careless 
operator to carry the germ of tetanus, as 
well as of other diseases, on his person 
o" instruments, if he does not observe 
due precautions as to cleanliness and 
disinfection, it is inexruHable for any 
person to perform an important opeia- 
tiori like the castration of colts, without 
careful disinfection of instruments and 
hands. The animal ought also to be 
sponged off with a disinfectant before 
operating. An operator who will now 
castrate colts without disinfection ouglit 
to be held pecuniarily responsible for 
any injury or damage resulting from his 
neglect or failure to disinfect. 
MORE CURES FOR KICKING COWS. 
Take a strong strap long enough to 
go around the cow, just in front of the 
udder; buckle it around tight. It won’t 
hurt the cow but it simply prevents her 
from raising her hind feet from the 
iloor. As it seems to prevent her from 
using certain muscles she cannot kick, 
if the strap is quite tight coming in 
front of the udder and up around the 
flank. An old dairyman told me of this 
when I was trying to break some heif¬ 
ers. As heifers are always more or less 
nervous, this is a very mild and hu¬ 
mane way of breaking them, and never 
fails when used on any animal. 
Castorland, N. Y. w. s. G. 
I meant to write to the Hope Farm 
man when it was first announced that 
he possessed a kicker. He, like many 
others (myself included), has formed a 
habit of commencing at the wrong end 
of a kicking cow. Procure a snap ring 
called a bull ring, put it in the cow’s 
nose, and then tie the rope to a post or 
pulley or something lower than her 
nose, for when tied tight with her shoul¬ 
ders well up against the stanchion she 
is going to get on her knees to apolo¬ 
gize for her heretofore unkind treat¬ 
ment, and usually will say it good and 
loud. In one case I had to chain back 
the hind leg for two milkings and affix 
the chain for two more. Nose ring 
cured the worst case within 10 days. 
Pennsylvania. e. d. r. 
I have been in your trouble with that 
kicking cow. I have had a good deal 
of experience with animals of that kind, 
some of them very vicious ones. It is 
no use to fight with a kicking cow; you 
will only make her worse. After try¬ 
ing many devices recommended, which 
proved failures, I adopted this simple 
and entirely effectual plan: Fasten a 
ring in the back of the stall, the cow’s 
head fastened in the stanchions; pass a 
rope around the leg just above the ankle, 
tie it securely, jjass the other end 
through the ring, draw it up snug and 
tie it. Sit down and milk your cow 
without any fear of her kicking, for she 
cannot kick without first bringing her 
foot forward, which she cannot do thus 
controlled. She will probably at first 
®fiuggle and attempt to free herself. Be 
kind and gentle with her, and she will 
soon find you have control, and will 
yield and stand quietly while you are 
milking. Don’t sell a good cow because 
she is a kicker. This simple device will 
prove effectual; at least it has always 
done so with me. b. a. b. 
Armonk, N. Y. 
The batch of “kicking cow” recipes 
are the most ridiculous rubbish ever of¬ 
fered to a dairy public, and I don’t be¬ 
lieve a practical cow man wrote one of 
those marvelous cures. You do not need 
a lot of breeching, hames, harness 
poles, bars, etc.; only a simple Lttle 
piece of i/4-inch rope six or seven feet 
long. Make a loop in one end (so it 
can’t shirr), put it around Julia very 
gently directly in front of the udder— 
in the flank—and up over the back just 
in front of the points of the hip bones, 
slip end of rope through your loop and 
shirr the rope up snug and fasten. That’s 
all; now go on with the circus. Yes, 
she’ll try to kick and if full of vim may 
possibly flounder just a bit, but she’ll 
soon be the most disgusted cow on 
earth, and will stand quietly and chew 
her cud just as she does when the calves 
milk. I really do not suppose you care 
very much whether Julia is milked by 
hand or not, but it’s worth knowing by 
any and all who milk cows, as the device 
is simple, practical, safe and sure. The 
drawing of the rope up snug around the 
cow does not in any way interfere with 
the natural “giving down’’ of the milk. 
Just try it and as the government seed 
packages say “report results.” 
Jerome, N. Y. o. c. w. 
How to Pasture Hogs. 
We never ring our hogs; as our farms 
are on the hills we let our hogs have 
large pastures to run in. When we 
started our pastures they contained a 
great many brakes or ferns. Our hogs 
will root these all up and eat the roots, 
and are killing them out. In the Fall, 
after the crops are harvested, we let 
them on our mowing. Some of the 
mowing is very rocky, and has never 
tjeen plowed; then there are plots where 
we have taken the rocks off, and seeded 
down. We find that the hogs will never 
root the newly-seeded places, but will 
work the old mowing thoroughly, and 
after they have rooted them well over 
they come into clover. Now, when we 
turn the hogs on to them, they will feed 
the clover down, but do not root the 
turf except under apple trees. We also 
notice that after the hogs have rooted 
around the tree the apples are not 
wormy on that tree the next season, 
and that the leaves have a deeper color, 
and the apples are better. I would ad¬ 
vise every farmer to keep more hogs, 
and never ring them. Fence off a plot 
and let them root, and then seed it down 
and take another plot. It is surprising 
to see what the hogs will do for them. 
Get some good purebred hogs, as it does 
not cost any more to raise them after 
one gets started, than it does to raise a 
grade, and there is a satisfaction in 
looking at a good uniform herd. As to 
breed, should advise selecting what the 
raiser thinks he would like the best, as 
anyone will be likely to have better 
success with what he takes a fancy to 
than with something he is not so inter¬ 
ested in. BRADLEY C. NEWELL. 
Rowe, Mass. 
Trouble With Pigeons. 
We have pigeons well sUuated In a good 
loft, tended well, and are at a loss to 
know why they leave their nests. They 
fly at large, leaving their nests while hatch¬ 
ing. They are fed well. i. d. 
Taylorsburg, O. 
The trouble may come from too many 
pigeons for size of loft or number of 
nests, too many lice for number of 
pigeons, or a few particularly quarrel¬ 
some birds that are continually fighting 
other birds from the nests. Pigeons dif¬ 
fer in nature In much the same way as 
people. In the case of the pugnacious 
pigeons they should be removed from 
the loft. Unfortunately people of the 
same nature are not so conveniently 
taken care of. One pair of pigeons will 
sometimes take possession of several 
nest boxes, or the greater part of a loft, 
and possession and the ability to hold 
out against all comers Is the whole 
thing with pigeons. This will happen 
more frequently with birds that fly at 
large than with those confined in an 
aviary. If the trouble is lice give them 
tobacco stems to nest with and they will 
soon disappear, as lice and tobacco 
.stems wiJl not occupy the same nest, 
and I know of no better use to which to 
put tobacco. Pigeons will usually give 
better results as a whole If confined in 
an aviary, properly cared for, than if al¬ 
lowed to fly at large. j. e. s. 
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