1906. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
843 
AILING ANIMALS. 
chronic disease, she will gradually run 
Cows Injured By Jumping. 
In my pasture field is a ditch three feet 
wide which the cows jump across. Two of 
them have recently died at calving time. Is 
the ditch the cause? j. v. 
South Carolina. 
down, in which case it will be wise be¬ 
fore Winter to kill and bury her. Her 
care and food seems all right except that 
I would not put her in the stubble at night. 
E. VAN ALSTYNE. 
There is no doubt that the cause of the 
trouble is the three-foot-wide ditch. The 
cows have injured themselves jumping 
across. If the remainder of the herd are 
allowed to do this the same trouble may 
be expected. Bridge the ditch and unless 
some have already injured themselves, 
which is not unlikely, there should be no 
further trouble. It is always wise before 
a cow calves to see that her bowels arc 
loose. One pound of Epsom salts given 
in a drench three days before calving will 
usually accomplish this. Another pound 
a few hours after, and four quarts of 
oats are excellent. 
A Case of Cowpox. 
I have a cow which has on each teat sores 
which make milking very difficult. The 
trouble began a week or ten days ago. The 
first appearance is a yellowish blotch.; after 
a day or two that is covered with a quite 
large reddish brown seal). The cow seems 
otherwise to be in perfect health. I have 
thought it might be cowpox, as there is an¬ 
other one of the herd beginning to show the 
same symptoms. What can be done with the 
dise? f. n. 
Guyanoga, N. Y. 
From the description given I should 
say the trouble looked very like a form of 
cowpox. I am no “vet” and advise only 
what I have found helpful in a like case. 
In any matter of this kind it is wise to 
consult a local veterinary, if one is avail¬ 
able. I have been obliged myself many 
times to treat my live stock with such 
help as I could get from literature I 
might have on the subject. I find that 
most affections of the teats and skin are 
liable to be contagious, even the scab on 
the end of the teat. Therefore it is al¬ 
ways a safe thing to milk such a cow 
last, and be sure the hands are clean. A 
weak solution of carbolic acid, in which 
to wash both the hands and teats, will 
be found helpful to prevent spreading and 
to assist in healing. See that the animal 
lies in a clean dry place. In this case 
I should isolate the affected cows from the 
rest of the herd. I should wash the teats 
with a solution of one dram of sugar of 
lead in one pint of water. Then apply 
benzoated oxide of zinc ointment. So 
long as the trouble continues avoid stim¬ 
ulating foods, such as gluten or cotton¬ 
seed meal. Keep the bowels loose. It 
may be necessary to give a dose of one 
pound of Epsom salts. No one should 
milk these cows who has any cuts or 
A SILO MAN TALKS. 
Can T afford to have a silo and go to 
the expense of raising the corn and put¬ 
ting it into a silo instead of feeding it in 
the old way? Well, that depends on sev¬ 
eral things. The silo will not furnish the 
brains to run it, even after you get it 
built, but will simply keep what you put 
in it, if you have a good one. Many 
farmers put in their seed corn too thick 
for the purpose of surely having their silo 
full, with the result that the corn they 
put in is immature, and so the silage is 
poor stuff; perhaps the sugar turned acid, 
and the more you feed of'it the worse you 
are off. Plant your corn early enough, 
and thin enough so that it will ear well. 
One stalk with a good ear on it is worth 
four or five without an ear, and one 
bushel of silage well eared is worth at 
least three of the other sort. I was re¬ 
cently in a field of silage corn where I 
could find stalks of Learning corn 12 feet 
high, with two large ears of corn past 
the boiling stage, and State, or flint corn 
mixed with it, having ears from eight to 
11 inches long, nearly ripe. Such corn 
makes an excellent feed, say 20 to 25 
pounds to a ration with a proper grain 
ration. Such silage will supply all the 
carbohydrates needed, and so of course the 
proper feeds to mix with it will be the 
protein feeds, such as cotton-seed meal, 
gluten, etc. Any farmer who has not 
done so, can well afford to make a study 
of the “balanced ration” question. I fear 
that some farmers might buy cornmeal or 
hominy to put with such a ration of silage 
as I have just described, and of course 
that would be a mistake, as lie has the 
carbohydrates needed in the silage. 
I feel very sure that good corn put in 
in this way can be handled much cheaper 
than in the old way, will save a very con¬ 
siderable on the grain bill, and give excel¬ 
lent results in the production of milk of 
a high grade. But don’t try to make the 
silo run the whole farm. It is simply one 
of your tools. In 1902 my dairy of yOung 
cows, nearly half of them under four years 
old, paid me above their feed bill and 
expense of marketing an average of $47.78 
from March 1 to the next January, and 
gave milk which gave an average test of 
5.39. That was done with a good qual¬ 
ity of silage and less than $2 worth of 
cotton-seed meal and gluten in equal parts 
per cow. Of course I fed mixed 'lay with 
the other. Some of the stuff fed is not 
worthy the name of silage, and the proper 
grain ration certainly cuts quite a figure. 
J. D. SEELEY. 
sores on his hands, as he would be liable 
to contract the trouble. 
An Ailing Cow. 
We have a cow nine years old, a heavy 
milker, grade Holstein, that ahout a month 
bro had a swelling just in front of udder and 
along milk veins. Swelling did not seem > 
sore; milk not affected. Veterinary prescribed 
a wash of sulphate of zinc and sugar of lead, 
saltpeter to be given twice a day. Now the 
swelling has burst and discharges ill-smelling 
fluid. She has been milked about a year, but 
has not seemed so thrifty as usual with same 
care and feed. She will he fresh in April, 
runs in clean woods pasture through the day 
and stubble field at night; a feed of corn at 
milking time. What is the cause and cure, 
and is her milk fit to use? One teat is a 
little inclined to garget; milk slightly clotted 
a,t times. a. s. 
Indiana. 
It is possible that the cow has tuber¬ 
culosis. The unthrifty condition rather 
points that way, as does the inclination 
to garget. I should not care to use the 
milk. It might be used to fatten a calf. 
1 should inject into the opening after the 
pns has been pressed out a solution of 
peroxide of hydrogen. This can be ob¬ 
tained of any druggist at a cost of about 
' ■> cents a pint. It will cleanse the wound 
and no healing can take place until all dis¬ 
charge ceases. I know of nothing better 
to apply than the wash mentioned. If 
there is no deep-seated trouble it should 
heal and the cow be as good as ever. Of 
course she will need stimulating and lax¬ 
ative foods to keep up her strength. 
Should this be the outcome of some 
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