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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 11 
Live Stock Matters 
AILING ANIMALS. 
ANSWERS BY DR. F. L. KILBORNK. 
Windgalls and Puffs. 
My mare has windpufls on her forward fet¬ 
lock joints, and sometimes after a long driye, or 
after standing in the stable, the joints swell. She 
sometimes goes lame, out not often. Some say 
that I must blister. Is that best ? She is a valu¬ 
able mare, and this is her only trouble, f. j. s. 
Charlotte, Me. 
Blistering- and rest will remove the 
puffs; but they will be liable to reappear 
if the mare is again put to hard work, 
or driven at a rapid pace. Rub the whole 
of both fetlocks thoroughly with ammo¬ 
nia liniment (equal parts of the stronger 
aqua ammonia and sweet oil well shaken 
together). Repeat the application in 
three days if the skin is not well blis¬ 
tered by the first application. Then, 
after the effects of this blister have 
nearly passed off, if the puffs still re¬ 
main, blister them by rubbing well with 
biniodideof mercury ointment. During 
treatment, the mare should have light 
walking exercise daily. 
Lumpy Jaw. 
1. Is lumpy jaw contagious ? 2. Does it injure 
the milk of a cow ? 3. Wbat remedy should be 
used to cure it on a strong and otherwise healthy 
cow, that has but one lump about the size of a 
hickory nut ? j. m. 
Sheridan, N. Y. 
1. Lumpy jaw or actinomycosis is 
rarely, if ever, contagious, i. e., it does 
not spread from one animal to another. 
The cattle usually get the fungous from 
the food. 2. Not in slightly affected 
cases. In advanced or badly affected 
animals, the milk could hardly be whole¬ 
some. 3. Iodide of potassium in one to 
two-dram doses once daily, in the feed 
or drinking water. From your descrip¬ 
tion, your cow, evidently, has not the 
lumpy jaw, but a simple tumor from 
some other cause that could, probably, 
be most easily removed by the knife. 
Bad Teeth in Horse. 
I bought a tliree-year-old mare two months 
ago that had run on green pasture, but the grass 
was very short, until I bought her. She was very 
poor, and I have been feeding her good wheat 
hay and rolled barley, and have kept her in the 
barn with the best of care. She was lousy, but I 
got rid of the insects. She eats well, looks fairly 
well, has good life, and is shedding her coat; but 
she bites and scratches herself all over, and her 
breath smells very badly. She has no cough and 
no discharge at the nose, looks bright in the eye, 
and seems well every way except the itching and 
bad breath. What is the trouble ? a. k. b. 
Healdsburg, Cal. 
Have her mouth examined by a veteri¬ 
nary surgeon. There is evidently either 
a decayed tooth or ulceration from lace¬ 
ration of the mouth by the teeth. For 
the itching, give the mare six drams 
each best aloes and ginger, and follow 
with a bran mash diet until purged. If 
not purged in three days, repeat the 
dose. Then give her, once daily, in her 
feed, one tablespoonful of Fowler’s solu¬ 
tion of arsenic, and one tablespoonful 
of Glauber salts. 
Care of the Horse’s Shoulders. 
At the beginning of spring work, horses’ shoul¬ 
ders are tender and soft. What is a good prepa¬ 
ration to apply to toughen them ? k. w. s. 
Vilas, Wis. 
In order to prevent soreness or galling 
of the shoulders in spring, first see that 
the collars fit properly, and that they 
are neither too large nor too small. I 
prefer a properly fitted leather collar 
without any kind of sweat-pad. Where 
there is danger of chafing of the skin, 
the collar should be washed after each 
day’s work. The shoulder should be 
washed with cold water, and then bathed 
with some astringent wash, as white-oak 
bark tea, or two drams tannic acid dis¬ 
solved in a pint of alcohol. If the 
shoulders become abraded and sore, 
either wind the collar, or preferably 
apply a sweat-pad so cut out as to relieve 
the pressure from this point, sponge off 
with castile soapsuds, rub dry, and then 
apply benzoated oxide of zinc ointment. 
A great variety of washes or prepara¬ 
tions have been advised for sore shoul¬ 
ders and galls, most of which possess 
more or less merit. Much less depends 
upon the particular wash used, than 
upon the care given the harness and 
shoulders as regards proper fitting and 
cleanliness. 
Retention of Afterbirth. 
What food or medicine will best induce a cow 
to clean after calving? I have been troubled 
with several not cleaning ; even when removed 
by hand there was some discharge which injures 
the cow’s usefulness. The cows are fed ensilage, 
bran, oil meal and hay. e. j. r. 
Concord, Mass. 
With cows that are well fed and cared 
for, and that are in good, thrifty condi¬ 
tion, there should rarely be any trouble 
from retention of the afterbirth. There 
must be some fault in the care or man¬ 
agement of your cows. There is no food 
or medicine that is especially serviceable 
in causing the expulsion of the after¬ 
birth. If not expelled naturally, it is 
usually necessary to remove it by hand. 
I would advise you to call a competent 
veterinarian to make a personal exam¬ 
ination of your dairy and surroundings. 
Milk Fever in Cow. 
I recently had an extra good cow drop her calf. 
I gave her a brau mash, and she cleaned all right, 
and ate her supper and part of her breakfast 
Saturday morning. But she would not drink, 
and my son untied her, and she walked out of 
the shed and fell down. The boys tried to give 
her a horn full of linseed oil, but she would not 
swallow it or any water. She lay all day groan¬ 
ing, and when I came home, I found no fever. 
Her legs were cold. She lay in one place all day, 
and did not struggle, but groaned, and died about 
10 o’clock that evening. o. b. 
The cow died of milk fever. In cases 
that are so rapidly fatal, there is little 
or no hope from any known treatment. 
If treatment be attempted, a competent 
veterinarian should be called at the first 
indication of illness. The disease is one 
which should be prevented, rather than 
treated. It occurs most commonly at 
the third to the sixth calving, in cows 
that are heavy milkers, in good flesh 
and well fed, and that calve without 
difficulty. If the attack occur within 
three days after calving, it is usually 
fatal. After the third day, there is more 
hope of recovery. Prevention is sought 
by reducing the feed, especially the 
grain ration, for two or three weeks be¬ 
fore calving. Then just before, or im¬ 
mediately after calving, give a dose of 
one pound of Epsom salts, one-half 
pound of common salt, and two ounces 
of ginger, dissolved in three pints of 
water, as a drench. 
About Lam pas in Horses. 
1. Up to what age does a horse have the lam- 
pas? 2. What is the cause of the lampas ? 3. 
Does it come from the stomach ? v. b. 
Laugenburg, Canada. 
1. Lampas is the name given to a con¬ 
gested, swollen condition of the gums 
or mucous membrane of the horse’s 
mouth, just behind the upper incisors. 
In slight cases, the gums project, in a 
more or less prominent ridge, to the 
level of the teeth ; or in severe cases, 
even beyond the teeth, when they be¬ 
come painful and may interfere with 
feeding. The condition occurs most com¬ 
monly in young horses from three to six 
years of age, but it occasionally occurs 
in older horses. 2. In young horses, it 
is usually due to dentition, or cutting 
the permanent set of incisor teeth. In 
older horses, to digestive disorder, or to 
injury to the gums. 3. Yes, occasion¬ 
ally. In young horses, treatment is 
rarely required ; the condition usually 
disappearing after the completion of the 
eruption of the permanent teeth. In 
extreme cases, where the gums project 
so as to interfere with feeding, scarify 
or bleed lightly from the ridge between 
the teeth and the third wrinkle. Then 
wash once or twice daily with a solution 
of alum or white-oak bark tea. Burn¬ 
ing out the lampas, still occasionally 
practiced by the quack, is a barbarous 
practice, which is unnecessary and 
should never be permitted. In older 
horses, when due to digestive disorder, 
give five to eight drams best aloes, ac¬ 
cording to the size and condition of the 
horse, with an ounce of ginger, as a 
physic. 
Profit in Hens. —After living a half 
century, and being familiar with poultry 
from boyhood, I will say from my ex¬ 
perience during the past 20 years in 
keeping hens for profit (and always with 
some profit, too), that J. A. W., or any 
other man who can breed and select 200 
hens and keep them in one flock and get, 
on an average, 136 eggs a year for each 
hen, has an armor plate that is proof 
against those excellent shots fired at 
him by Myra V. Norys or any one else. 
J. A. W. knows a good laying hen when 
he sees it, and has not spent all of his 15 
years of poultry experience in hunting 
.up poultry appliances and condition 
powders. p. G. 
Stuart, Mon. 
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