1906. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
5i5 
COW WITH HOOF ROT. 
What remedy is good for hoof rot. and is 
it curable? The tenant on my farm informs 
me I have a cow with that disease. I do 
not see anyone who knows much about the 
disease, or what to do for it. Is it apt to 
go through the whole herd? My barn is 
new, with cement floor. I have been told 
of a man living two or three miles from my 
farm who has 10 cows with that disease. 
What is the cause of it? M. d. s. 
New York. 
The disease known as foul in foot 
(foot rot) may be due to overgrowth of 
the claws and inward pressure, as in 
ingrowing nail of man; or it may be 
caused by the irritation or stable filth, 
to impaction and hardening of soil be¬ 
tween the claws, or sticks, and where 
the toes become long and cattle walk 
on hard floors they bruise the heels and 
abscesses may form. Perhaps the best 
treatment is to cut the end of the toes 
off with a saw and then keep the animal 
where it will not bruise the heels, and 
keep the feet from moisture, like dew and 
wet straw, as the moisture has a tendency 
to irritate the tissues. Wash.,the feet 
with good soap and water and a little 
sulphate of zinc in the water, and I trust 
your cow will recover, but it will be slow. 
If cement floors are the cause of the 
trouble, here is another good question for 
our readers to discuss, how to prevent 
the trouble. m. d. williams, d. v. s. 
AILING LAMBS. 
What Is the matter with my lambs, the 
cause and remedy? The lambs are about 
two months old, in pasture with ewes. They 
seem to be simply sick; do not want to 
nurse or eat much: some are stiff, others 
are n.ot. but will lie and stand around for 
three or four days, and die probably from 
starvation. H. c. s. 
Sherman, N. Y. 
I believe the trouble to be intestinal 
worms. This can be verified by a careful 
examination of the lungs, liver and intes¬ 
tines of the lambs, immediately after 
death, using a good magnifying glass to 
assist in the examination. Most of such 
worms are small, and would not be read¬ 
ily detected by a novice. After the lamb 
has been dead awhile and become con- 
jested it is still more difficult to find them. 
The only doubt in my mind as to the 
above being the cause, is that this trouble 
does not usually develop in the lambs 
quite so early in the season. The eggs of 
such worms are deposited by the ewes on 
the grass, and the lambs eating the same 
become infested and die; not being as 
strong as the old sheep, they have less 
resistant powers. The remedy is to give 
the old sheep the gasoline before they go 
to pasture (it will not be too late now), 
recommended in The R. N.-Y. on several 
occasions. I should give the lambs one 
ounce of linseed oil, mixed with one-half 
ounce of turpentine, being careful not to 
strangle the lambs in the operation. I 
have known of some remarkable cures 
from turpentine alone, and I have known 
some very sudden deaths from the same 
remedy when carelessly given or when 
too large a dose was used. 
The questioner does not state as to the 
condition of the bowels, always a very im¬ 
portant factor in diagnosing and treating 
diseases. Such will sometimes occur in 
young lambs when the milk of the ewe 
has undergone a change from feeding 
succulent foods, as might be the case in 
changing from a dry Winter food to the 
pasture. Should there be a bowel trouble, 
give each lamb five drops of essence of 
ginger and one teaspoonful of linseed 
oil. There may be another cause, viz., 
rheumatism, brought on by too much rich 
food, particularly in the ewes’ milk, but 
dissimilar to above, and lying on the cold, 
wet ground, and exposed to storms. 
An old remedy called “Shepherds’ cor¬ 
dial” in such a case may be helpful; it is 
a stimulant, anodyne, and a bowel correc¬ 
tor. Add to one pint of peppermint water, 
one ounce of prepared chalk, a teaspoon¬ 
ful each of tincture of opium, and tinc¬ 
ture of rhubarb. The dose is a teaspoon¬ 
ful for a lamb a few days old, up to a 
tablespoonful for one a month or older. 
Should a lamb become rigid, put in a hot 
water bath, as hot as will bear the hand, 
then dry carefully in a dry blanket. 
These are suggestions; their application 
will depend on how they meet the con¬ 
ditions. The trouble from intestinal par¬ 
asites is apt to be more severe, when the 
sheep lie in shady places, and in such the 
grass grows rank, which is readily eaten 
by the lambs. Let me again urge the im¬ 
portance of protection and shelter for the 
flock, and the avoidance of sudden 
changes in feed and conditions. 
EDWARD VAN ALSTYNE. 
NOTES ON STOCK FEEDING. 
“Succotash.” —The Michigan Experiment 
Station's bulletin No. 235 discusses a new 
method of feeding stock. We have begun to 
discuss the soiling problem, that is, the plan 
of raising a large number of green crops, cut¬ 
ting them and hauling the green forage to the 
barn for feeding. At the New Jersey Ex¬ 
periment Station, you will remember, single 
crops are grown in this way; that is, one 
kind of grain at a time, except oats and 
peas, which are sown together. At the Mich¬ 
igan Station a crop known as succotash was 
raised. The ordinary succotash was an In¬ 
dian dish composed of beans and soft corn 
boiled together. The succotash of feeding 
stock consists of a combination of different 
grains all sown together. For example, a 
mixture of corn, Canada peas, oats, rape and 
clover was all seeded together and gave, when 
carefully handled, a long season of feeding, 
to be cut and hauled to the stock or pastured 
over by swine or sheep, as desired, although, 
of course, in the latter case, especially with 
swine, a good deal of the seeding or sod was 
destroyed by rooting or wallowing. Two or 
even three crops may be grown when the land 
is handled properly and the seeding not de¬ 
stroyed by too much pasturing. In order to 
succeed with this succotash crop the land 
must be made very rich to begin with. On 
poor land it would be much better to raise a 
single crop of some kind and be able to give 
it some form of cultivation, but on rich 
land, especially where there is an abundance 
of manure, this combination crop will give a 
vast amount of forage. It was an interest¬ 
ing experiment, and those who wish to go 
further with it ought to have the bulletin. 
It will be asked how this combination crop 
was seeded. After the ground was thoroughly 
prepared a mixture of rape and clover in 
equal parts was sown broadcast, using about 
three pints of each to the acre, after which a 
combination of equal parts by measure of 
corn, oats and peas was then thoroughly 
worked and sown by an ordinary grain drill 
at the usual depth, this operation nob only 
putting the grain safely under, but covering 
the rape and clover. These crops made a fair 
growth and gave a long succession of feed¬ 
ing. 
Digester Tankage. —During the last year 
or so we have had a number of questions 
about the use of tankage as a food for live 
stock, especially for hogs. The Michigan Ex¬ 
periment Station has Issued Bulletin No. 237, 
giving results of an experiment in this line. 
It is understood that tankage consists of 
refuse material from slaughtering stock; the 
digestive organs, scraps of flesh and some 
blood, and also condemned carcasses are put 
into a vat and cooked under high steam pres¬ 
sure. The fat is skimmed off and the bones 
and lean meat remaining after thorough cook¬ 
ing are dried at a high temperature, then 
ground up almost as fine as wheat middlings. 
This makes what is known as digester tank¬ 
age. It has been claimed that this tankage 
properly fed will practically take the place 
of skim-milk for young growing pigs. It ap¬ 
pears from the Michigan Station experiments 
that this is largely true. Tankage was fed 
mixed with other grain : middlings 20 pounds, 
cornmeal 10 pounds and tankage three pounds. 
This was compared with the following mix¬ 
ture; middlings 20 pounds, cornmeal 10 
pounds and skim-milk 00 pounds. Both were 
fed in the form of a thin slop, and it will 
be seen that three pounds of the tankage were 
really compared with 90 pounds of skim-milk. 
The gain from the skim-milk was a little 
larger, but the cost of the tankage was much 
less, and it seems to be demonstrated that 
the tankage was a full substitute when mixed 
with water for the skim-milk. When both 
the tankage and the skim-milk were left out 
much smaller gains were made with the mid¬ 
dlings and meal made into a slop. It seems 
to be pretty well demonstrated that this tank¬ 
age is an economical food, not only for grow¬ 
ing stock, but for fattening stock as well 
when mixed with other grains. These are 
Interesting facts for dairymen, who sell entire 
milk and still want to keep a number of hogs 
on the farm. It often happens that a farmer 
has an orchard that he wants to use for a 
hog pasture, or is growing rape, sorghum or 
other forage crops for these hogs. Some 
farmers hesitate to try the experiment, be¬ 
cause they are afraid that they cannot raise 
the little pigs successfully without skim-milk, 
of which they have none for feeding. If this 
tankage will prove such a complete substi¬ 
tute for the skim-milk these farmers could 
readily keep up their supply of milk without 
trouble and thus provide pasture for a good 
drove of hogs. 
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