1907. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
POLL EVIL 
Is there any cure for poll evil in horses? 
My veterinary surgeon says it is incurable, 
but I thought some of the numerous subscrib¬ 
ers to your paper might know of some cure 
for it. A. M. 
Mt. Pleasant, S. C. 
While poll evil certainly is a most for¬ 
midable disease affecting the tissues of the 
top of the neck just back of the ears it 
is curable in very many instances. The 
case in question may be incurable by rea¬ 
son of disease of the bones (caries) of 
the part or deep-seated sinuses that have 
been over-cauterized or that cannot safely 
be laid open. At the outset poll evil, which 
is due to bruising from striking the poll 
upon a low ceiling, beam or door lintel, 
or by a blow delivered by some rough at¬ 
tendant, may sometimes be aborted by 
keeping cold, wet compresses continuously 
upon the part and then applying 
tincture of iodine or iodine oint¬ 
ment after the inflammation subsides but 
the enlargement remains. Persistent blis¬ 
tering with cerate of cantharides also 
gives good results. In cases where the 
''art softens from presence of pus an oper¬ 
ation becomes necessary and by prefer¬ 
ence should be performed by a graduate 
veterinarian, as indiscriminate cutting is 
dangerous at this part where important 
blood vessels and other organs are numer¬ 
ous and easily injured. After removing 
the hair and washing the parts with a two 
per cent solution of some effective disin¬ 
fectant the operation consists in laying 
open each pocket and sinus (pipe) for per¬ 
fect drainage of its contents. Instead of 
making free incisions the surgeon may 
have to open through skin alone and then 
break down the tissues with blunt instru¬ 
ments until the pus chambers are reached. 
When drainage has been insured and all 
diseased tissue removed treatment pro¬ 
ceeds by once daily swabbing the parts 
clean with antiseptic cotton on a probe 
and then using full strength tincture of 
iodine with which to inject the sinuses and 
swab the wounds. There are many differ¬ 
ent ways of treating the trouble, but the 
one just described is known to be quite 
effective and is much safer than the com 
mon plan of injecting corrosive sublimate, 
terchloride of antimony and like caustics. 
As soon as good results are seen to fol¬ 
low the daily use of iodine tincture the 
enlargement should be thoroughly blis¬ 
tered by rubbing in for fifteen minutes a 
mixture of two drams of powdered can¬ 
tharides and one dram of biniodide of 
mercury in two ounces of lard. Tie the 
horse so he cannot rub part; wash the 
blister off in three days; then apply lard 
daily for a week and repeat the blister 
every three or four weeks. The swabbing 
treatment is to be continued in addition 
to the blistering until the “poll evil” is 
completely cured, a. s. Alexander, v. s. 
BEWARE OF GASOLINE HEATERS! 
In Hope Farm Notes, page 495, I 
notice a little squib about using gasoline 
in the operation of incubators. If any 
person desires to commit suicide by any 
specified method I have found it best not 
to enter other than the mildest protest, 
simply because my motive might be mis¬ 
understood. But it is hardly fair for any 
person bent on shuffling out of existence to 
include innocent bystanders. Last year 
a party not far from here “discovered” 
the value of gasoline as an incubator 
warmer, and for a time was jubilant. But 
one day, without any more warning than 
a gun usually gives, the apparatus ex¬ 
ploded just as his little girl happened to 
be near it playing on the floor. The poor 
little thing was buried the next day. 
Twelve years ago the lamp of a high- 
class incubator I had in my hatching 
house exploded, though it was filled with 
the finest kerosene I could buy. We got 
the fire out before my entire outfit was 
consumed. The following year our min¬ 
ister was not quite so fortunate. The 
lamp in his $15 brooder exploded and his 
chickens and entire “plant” was burned. 
1 hese, and several other accidents of' a 
similar nature quite satisfied me that the 
insurance companies are right in classing 
incubators as dangerous. I have hatchec 
and raised a good many thousands o 
chickens by the safer methods, and made 
considerable money at the business, but 
that is a private matter. In my 26 years 
experience raising poultry I have learnec 
qu.ite a number of things, and one of them 
is that if any person gets an idea that any 
certain method is the best of all it is a 
waste of breath to try to prevent him or 
her from investing good cash and time in 
it. It is best to let them give it a trial 
even if it is dangerous, provided, of 
course, they can do so without risk to the 
life, limb or property of persons other 
than themselves. I think there is no busi¬ 
ness on earth that has so much pipe- 
dreaming connected with it as poultry 
raising; no business pictured so beauti- 
full v and practised so badly; no business 
in which fancy is so rampant and fact so 
quiet. 
Beware of gasoline heaters! 
Illinois. _ FRED GRUNDY. 
BEDBUGS IN A HENHOUSE. 
A. J. K., Hamburg, III .—Has anyone ever 
reported bedbugs in henhouses? What shall 
I do, is there any remedy or shall 1 have to 
abandon the house? I have had hens to givo 
up eggs almost ready to hatch. 
Ans.— While it is true that the human 
bedbug may attack fowls, probably the 
bedbug found by the correspondent in his 
henhouse is the species which commonly 
infests the chicken, and which is different 
from the human being. The henhouse 
bedbug will feed upon man and mice 
if necessary. It would be a diffi¬ 
cult job to eradicate the chicken bed¬ 
bug from the ordinary henhouse by the 
usual methods employed in controlling the 
human bedbug in dwelling houses. I 
think the only way to accomplish this in a 
henhouse would be to fumigate it thor- 
oughly with cyanide of potassium, as 
nursery stock is fumigated for the San 
Jose scale. The henhouse should be ar¬ 
ranged to be closed very tightly, and the 
poisonous gas generated by using the cy¬ 
anide at the rate of two or three ounces 
per 100 cubic feet of space in the hen¬ 
house. 1 his is about twice as strong as 
is used on nursery stock. Measure the 
contents of the henhouse, weigh out the 
cyanide and get 1 /> times as much com¬ 
mercial sulphuric acid as it will take of 
cyanide; then pour about two ounces of 
water to each one ounce of acid into a 
stone jar or crock, and drop the cyanide 
enclosed in a paper bag into the acid so¬ 
lution. If the house is large and long 
two or three more jars should be ar¬ 
ranged, and the poison equally distributed. 
Drop the bag of cyanide into the farthest 
jar and quickly pass along, dropping the 
other bags as you go towards the door, 
or it could be arranged to drop the bags 
with a cord and hook arrangement, hang¬ 
ing the bags over each jar and dropping 
them in all at once. Of course the fumiga¬ 
tion should be done only when the fowls 
are out of the house, and this could be 
effected at any time during the day, as 
the bedbugs are on the fowls mostly at 
night, and are hidden during the day in 
cracks and crannies of the house. 
M. V. SLINGERLAND. 
A SMOKY INCUBATOR. 
I have been reading about the trouble the 
Hope Farm man and several others have been 
having with smoky incubator lamps. Seven 
or eight years ago we bought an incubator 
for half price. It smoked so badly the 
farmer who sold it to us was very much dis¬ 
gusted. We took It home and in the 
Spring started it. After’a few days it went 
to smoking again, and twice it filled our 
cellar full. We cleaned out the flues, and 
while examining the burner we found that 
the sleeve that covers the wick tube was not 
cut true, so that it would reverse, and unless 
it was put on a certain way the flame would 
strike against the side of It. and as a result 
the flame would not burn true; the burner 
would become hot, and the oil would draw 
up too freely and smoke, with danger of fire, 
I would suggest a careful examination of this 
sleeve. See that the flame does not strike 
against the side of it, and I think you will 
find the principal cause of your smokv lamps. 
I have a small piece of V-shaped iron three 
Inches long, and after trimming and adjust- 
ing the flame I slip this under the thumb- 
nut that raises or lowers the wick. For live 
or six seasons I have used this incubator, 
taking off from four to five hatches each sea¬ 
son, and without a smoky lamp. 
Rowley, Mass. w. t. w- 
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Lost Strayed or 
Stolen—One Cow 
That is about what happens each year 
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