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THE RURAL, NEW-YORKER 
January 16, 
AILING ANIMALS. 
Blind Staggers. 
Several liorses around here have fallen 
down In the harness, but they have not lost 
their appetite, and when able to get up are 
nearly over the attack. Our horse looked 
as if she was frightened and then fell hard 
enough to break the shaft. We have been 
told that it was blind staggers caused by 
indigestion. Please give a remedy. 
Kansas. w. f. c. 
It is quite likely that some of these cases 
have what is known as “blind staggers” 
but as likely that some of them have slight 
attacks of azoturia induced by a few days 
of idleness in stable while usual oat feed 
is continued. In both diseases it is idleness 
and overfeeding that bring on the attack; 
hence both as a rule may be prevented by 
remembering to give some exercise when 
there is no work for a horse to do, and at 
the same time stopping the grain ration, 
or at least very greatly lessening the 
amount fed, and for oats substituting bran 
or roots with the hay and fodder, and if 
the horse is fat or has had a previous at¬ 
tack giving a couple of ounces of Glauber 
salts in the drinking water once daily. In 
azoturia the muscles of the loins, hips and 
stifles become hard and perhaps swollen, 
and the urine is a dark coffee color. In 
staggers the horse goes down unconscious 
for a few minutes and quickly recovers, 
in azoturia he may go down and fail to 
get up or if attack is comparatively mild 
and proper treatment is given he may get 
up again in a few hours, or within three 
days. a. s. a. 
Staggers. 
I have a horse that has been doing a good 
deal of heavy work lately. I have noticed 
that within a few days when he is draw¬ 
ing hard he will stagger and almost 
fall if I do not stop him. He will be all 
right and go on in two or three minutes; 
does not seem to be in any distress, but 
just loses the use of himself for the time 
being. His eye looks bright and he seems 
all right every other way; is in fine con¬ 
dition, appetite is good. Will weigh 1300 
pounds, age 15. I have never known of 
anything being the matter with him before. 
Please state cause of this, and treatment. 
I shall not do any more heavy work with 
him for a while. F. D. 
Head other answer under this head. The 
horse is getting too little work or exercise 
to do, and too much feed. Besides this it 
is quite likely that his stable is kept too 
close and warm. These conditions induce 
staggers from indigestion and lack of proper 
action of the excretory organs of the body. 
See that the stable is kept perfectly venti¬ 
lated, and that the horse is exercised or 
worked every day of the year, wet or shine. 
Also that when there is little work for him 
to do he is given less food than when 
actively employed. He should be thoroughly 
groomed once or twice daily. A. s. A. 
Knuckling and Stocking. 
I have a young horse five years old that 
is inclined to ankle-cock, even if properly 
shod. He stands very well and his legs 
stock; that drives out in two or three 
miles driving. What can I do to cure him? 
Oswego, N. Y. i. s. c. 
The horse stands indoors too much on a 
board floor, and probably is generously fed. 
Both conditions induce knuckling and stock¬ 
ing, and both will lessen greatly if you give 
him a roomy box stall when in the stable 
and see that he is thoroughly exercised or 
worked every day throughout the year. Rub 
his legs dry when he comes into the stable; 
then put on derby bandages. The bandages 
should be removed at least twice a day for 
a thorough hand rubbing of the legs. Keep 
him shod and have shoes reset at least 
once a month. Floor of stall should be 
level. If you attend to these points he 
should recover in time without medical 
treatment, unless the knuckling has become 
chronic from thickening of the tendons, or 
the stocking is due to heart or kidney 
disease. a. s. a. 
Indigestion. 
I bought a horse five months ago. He is 
about 18 years old, and nothing has been 
the matter with him since. About two 
weeks ago he began to breathe very fast 
after he was driven for a long or even short 
time. Some people told me he was short- 
winded. The horse has not been working 
hard since I have had him. I fed him on 
oats all Summer, besides hay and grass. He 
grew thinner instead of getting fat. A 
week ago I fed him with ground feed and 
his bowels seemed to become loose. Do you 
think he ought to be clipped in order to 
make cleaning easier? He eats well and 
seems to be perfectly healthy. f. g. 
New York. 
The horse is not in fit condition to work 
hard, having become weak and flabby from 
lack of exercise and eating more food than 
he has properly digested. Clipping would 
prove quickly beneficial, besides making him 
easier to clean; but if you clip him he must 
be blanketed when standing out of doors 
and in the stable, which should be com¬ 
fortable. Stop feeding ground food. Feed 
oats, dry bran, carrots and hay, adding a 
little ear corn when weather is very cold. 
If feed passes whole in the manure have his 
teeth attended to by a veterinary dentist. 
He should be driven or thoroughly exer¬ 
cised out of doors every day, else he can 
scarcely be expected to keep well or give 
satisfactory service. a. s. a. 
Moon Blindness. 
I have a colt that will be three years 
old in March. Last Summer I first noticed 
he had sore eyes at different times. They 
would water a great deal, and at times he 
can hardly see out of one eye. I think he 
is moon-eyed. What if anything can be 
done for it, and will he go blind? e. c. 
Ohio. 
You are right. The symptoms point 
plainly to “moon blindness” (periodic 
ophthalmia) and tlie colt will become blind 
in one or both eyes after repeated attacks. 
In a great many of such cases it is pos¬ 
sible to trace the presence of the eye disease 
to similar diseases in sire or dam, there¬ 
fore affected animals should not be em¬ 
ployed for breeding purposes. In Minne¬ 
sota and Wisconsin the stallion laws make 
it illegal to use for public service a stallion 
afflicted with this disease. There is no 
cure. It is possible, however, to retard 
blindness by covering the eyes with a soft 
cloth to be kept wet with a lotion com¬ 
posed of half a dram each of sulphate of 
zinc and fluid extract of belladonna leaves, 
and 10 drops of pure carbolic acid in a 
quart of cold water. Use this at time of 
attack and at same time give a dram of 
iodide of potash in drinking water two or 
three times daily and continue for a time 
after the eyes have cleared up. To remove 
the opacity remaining after the attack 
paint eye once daily for ten days with a 
solution of two grains of nitrate of silver 
in an ounce of distilled water. a. s. a. 
Worms and Tail Rubbing. 
Can you give me a remedy for worms In 
a horse? He eats well, but gets poorer 
every day, doing nothing much but stand 
in the stable. Everybody tells me he has 
worms. He rubs his tail. a. a. f. 
New Jersey. 
If there is no work for the horse to do 
turn him out of doors during the day and 
allow him a box stall at night Overfeeding 
in the absence of due exercise will induce 
tail rubbing; so will worms. Cut down 
the feed, if you are feeding corn alone, and 
substitute oats and bran with a few ears 
of corn daily. In feed night and morning 
for 10 days mix a tablespoonful of a mix¬ 
ture of equal parts dried sulphate of iron, 
flowers of sulphur, salt and powdered gen¬ 
tian root; then skip 10 days and repeat. 
Wash the tails thoroughly with soap and 
washing soda and when dry rub in a mix¬ 
ture of two ounces of flowers of sulphur; 
half an ounce of coal tar dip and raw lin¬ 
seed oil to make one pint; shake. Repeat 
the application, but not the washing, every 
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