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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
June 2. 
Live Stock and Dairy 
THICK-WINDED HORSE. 
What can I do for my horse? She has a 
harsh, rasping snore; is there any cure for 
her ? r. a. 
Connecticut. 
Horses that are afflicted with a chronic 
disease that causes a loud unnatural noise 
in breathing are said Jo have thick wind, 
or to be roarers. This class does not 
include those afflicted with severe sore 
throat, as in these cases the breathing 
is noisy only during the attack of the 
acute disease. Thick wind is caused by 
an obstruction to the free passage of the 
air in some part of the respiratory tract, 
caused by a nasal or pharyngeal polypi, 
thickening of the membrane of the respi¬ 
ratory tract, deformed bones or paralysis 
of the wing of the nostril, etc. The noisy 
breathing of horses after having been idle 
and put to sudden exertion is not due to 
any disease, and is only temporary. 
Very often a nervous, excitable horse will 
make a noise for a short time when 
started off”, generally caused by the 
cramped position in which the head and 
neck are forced in order to hold him back, 
but he soon recovers, but horses fed on 
the seeds of leguminous, and some other 
we seek for a reason, it seems to us that 
it is perfectly clear that the temperature 
should be lower while broody than at any 
other time, because then there is the least 
bodily activity, less respiration, less food 
consumption, all of which would tend to 
cause a lower temperature. It is interest¬ 
ing also to note in this connection that 
the hen’s temperature would rise two to 
four degrees above the normal while the 
egg was being deposited. 
Inasmuch as there appears to be no 
broody fever to overcome, the answer is 
self-evident that no medicine or drug of 
any kind should be used to cool the blood. 
It might be said also incidentally, that 
there should be no resort to ducking the 
fowl in a water trough “to cool her off.” 
The rational way to treat a broody hen is 
to remove her as quickly as possible from 
the nest, after she has indicated the desire 
to incubate, place her in a clean, well-ven¬ 
tilated coop or pen where she can be 
supplied with water, grit and precisely the 
same rations as are fed to the laying hens. 
With Leghorns we allow them to remain 
in these pens for three or four days. At 
the end of this time most of them will 
forget their desire to raise chickens, rest 
awhile and commence laying again. The 
starvation process in my judgment would 
prolong rather than break up the broody 
desire, at least it probably would prolong 
the time when the hen would again com¬ 
mence to lay. . JAMES E. RICE. 
Cornell Agricultural College. 
plants have paralysis of the laryngeal mus¬ 
cles, particularly when fed chick vetch. 
Other cases may come from lead poison¬ 
ing, sore throats and many times from 
heredity. From the foregoing remarks 
it will be seen that the name roaring, by 
which the disease is generally known, is 
only a symptom, and not the disease, and 
in bad cases the animal fairly suffocates. 
The cure depends much on the cause and 
many times such horses are treated with 
little success. You can try one dram po¬ 
tassium iodide once a day for a week, and 
then one-half ounce of Fowler’s solution 
once a day for the next week in the drink¬ 
ing water, and if this does not do any 
good you would better go to a good vet¬ 
erinarian. M. D. WILLIAMS, D. V. S. 
CARE OF BROODY HENS. 
What can be done to break up broody bens? 
I know the instructions given in “The Busi¬ 
ness lien,” but it has not worked satisfac¬ 
torily with me. Bast Summer a number were 
persistently broody, and some were beginning 
again in mid-winter. If (he temperature of 
a hen rises at this time would it not be prac¬ 
tical to give her some medicine to reduce the 
fever, the same as in diseases? Is high 
feeding more likely to make liens broody? 
Michigan. w. l. 
I think the questioner is wrong in his 
assumption that a hen necessarily has a 
broody fever. I am free to confess that 
I had always supposed that a hen’s tem¬ 
perature must be higher when she was 
incubating than at any other time. I pre¬ 
sume I thought so because everybody said 
it was true. Two of our students. Henry 
Jennings and H. F. Prince, carried out 
some interesting experiments in the ad¬ 
vanced course in poultry husbandry, which 
apparently disprove the theory that a hen 
has a higher temperature when broody. 
In order that all who read this may draw 
their own conclusions, I give you the exact 
records of temperature readings which 
they secured in some of their experiments 
to determine the temperatures of hens 
under different natural conditions. The 
temperatures were taken when the hens 
were laying, when they were broody, 
when they began to lay, and each day or 
two throughout the entire period of in¬ 
cubation. [Briefly stated, the average tem¬ 
perature of six liens, just after laying an 
egg. was 108.1 degrees. The highest was 
109V£ degrees—a White Wyandotte—the 
lowest 107, a Plymouth Rock. On the 
other hand, the temperature of broody 
hens ranged lower. One P. Rock aver¬ 
aged 106.0 and another 105.9. One White 
Wyandotte gave 106.5. another 105.8, while 
a Buff Cochin averaged 106.1. The high¬ 
est temperature among the broody hens 
was 107^. about the same as the lowest 
of the laying hens.—Ens.l From the fig¬ 
ures here given, it is readily seen that the 
hens’ temperatures while broody are be¬ 
low rather than above the normal. When 
The inquirer is drawing his conclusions 
from an assumption of fact which does 
not exist. A broody hen docs not have 
a fever; her temperature is exactly the 
same as it would have been had she not 
become broody, or approximately so. 
Broodincss is not an abnormality, but the 
natural result of that inborn instinct in 
every living thing that makes it want to 
reproduce its kind. In the hen of hot 
countries this instinct is satisfied by the 
depositing of the egg in the warm sand; in 
others she hovers them until the egg is 
hatched. If you want to accomplish your 
end by the administration of a drug, do 
not give one to lower the temperature, but 
one that will so lower the vitality as to 
dissipate the thoughts of maternity, which, 
of course, would also make her forget to 
lay the egg as well. If we must be so 
cruel and shortsighted as to break up this 
instinct we can accomplish it much better 
by a change of scene to a place where 
there are no chances to make a nest; but 
even this I do not think pays, for when a 
hen really makes up her mind to raise a 
family the cheapest way out of the dilemma 
is to let her have her way. She will lay 
as many, if not more, eggs in the course 
of the year, and you will have the chicks 
extra, and your hen in better condition for 
future usefulness. There are a few ex¬ 
ceptions to this rule, but I believe that 
they are very scarce. E. m. santee. 
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THE ENTIRE SISSON JERSEY HERD 
PUBLIC AUCTION 
State Fair Grounds, Syracuse, N. Y., JUNE 20, 1906 
Seventy-five Head Choicest American and Island Bred Jerseys. Thirty Beautiful Heifers 
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PUBLIC SALE 
Holstein-Friesian Cattle 
SIXTH PUBLIC SALE, 
Syracuse, New York, June 7 and 8, 1906. 
This offering consists of 30 HEAD OF PURE BRED IMPORTED 
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