1908. 
THE RURAL REW-YORKER 
IS 
CHRONIC CATARRH. 
A fine Dorset buck (registered) has a 
very severe cold, lasting now about a year. 
Runs badly at. nose. Getting thin in flesh, 
sight somewhat injured a year ago by awns 
in the hay which we were feeding (locally 
called poverty grass). Other sheep all fat 
and free from cold. Merino ewes and weth¬ 
ers, with some Southdown blood. 
J. C. M. 
This is something far more serious 
than “cold” and we doubt if it can be 
cured. Evidently it is chronic catarrh 
(nasal gleet) and it may be that it is 
due to diseased molar teeth which have 
affected the sinuses of the head, in 
which case removal of the offending 
tooth or teeth might prove remedial. 
More likely it is due to a thickened and 
possibly ulcerated condition of the 
mucous membranes lining the air pass¬ 
ages of the head and this would require 
expert treatment by a veterinarian. If 
you cannot have him attended to by a 
qualified practitioner, syringe out nos¬ 
trils once daily with a mixture of one 
dram of tannic acid in a pint of water 
and in feed give dried sulphate of iron 
in 10 to 15 grain doses twice daily. In¬ 
crease the doses of iron if found neces¬ 
sary. A. S. ALEXANDER, V. S. 
LYMPHANGITIS. 
I have a 7-year-old horse with a badly 
swollen hind leg; came from kick on hock I 
think. It happened two weeks ago. What 
can be done to reduce swelling? Leg some¬ 
what stiff but not lame. d. s. m. 
Winchester, Va. 
Unless there is known history of a 
kick having caused the enlargement we 
suspect that it is due to lymphangitis, 
otherwise known as “Monday morning 
disease or “milk leg.” Stop feeding 
grain and gradually substitute bran 
mashes with hay. Bandage leg from 
foot to body with a soft straw or hay 
rope and keep the rope saturated with 
hot or cold water according to which 
will be safest considering condition of 
stable and weather. Give a dram of 
saltpeter in the water or mash twice 
daily. W hen it no longer is necessary 
to use the water rub the leg twice daily 
with druggists soap liniment and allow 
horse plenty of walking exercise. 
A. S. ALEXANDER, V. S. 
SORES ON TEATS OF COWS. 
What can I do for cows that have a scab 
on one teat, and then to close so that, it 
cannot be opened? I have had several to go 
that way lately. h. m. ii. 
West Chester, Pa. 
This is an infective trouble and doubt¬ 
less is spread by the milker’s hands as 
well as by infective matter upon the 
stall floors and in the gutters back of 
the cows. It is absolutely necessary to 
cleanse scrupulously, disinfect and 
whitewash the cow stables and then to 
keep them clean and use gypsum (land 
plaster) freely on the stalls once or 
twice daily after cleaning away the 
manure and wet litter, etc. Treat indi¬ 
vidual cases by first placing them by 
themselves to be milked last; then by 
painting the sores once with tincture of 
iodine after removal of the scab and 
then applying glycerite of tannin twice 
daily as required. It may be necessary 
in some cases to use a sterilized milking 
tube for withdrawal of the milk but 
there is danger of spreading the disease 
to the udder by this practice unless 
great care is taken to boil and bake the 
tube before each time of use. 
A. S. ALEXANDER, V. S. 
BEAN VINES AS COW FEED. 
F. IV., Egg Harbor, y. J .—Are Lima beau 
vines poison to a cow? Some time ago a 
newcomer lost a eow after being fed on 
Lima bean vines, which were poisonous and 
vines were poison to the cow and killed her. 
They gave her calomel tea to cure, but did 
not help. I can hardly believe the beau 
vines poisonous on the ground that other 
bean vines are used as hay and silage for 
cows. The cow in question was fed in 
morning, took sick late in afternoon and 
died at night. 
We answered this question by ex¬ 
pressing the belief that something be¬ 
sides the Lima bean vines killed this 
cow. We have fed many of them with¬ 
out any trouble. Several readers have 
reported planting Lima beans in the corn 
and cutting stalks and bean vines to¬ 
gether into the silo. There was no dam¬ 
age from feeding such silage. Later 
comes the follwing letter from the same 
enquirer: 
A couple of weeks ago I wrote to you 
about, a cow dying and of a neighbor, in 
pnssing comment, saying that she was fed 
Lima beau vines which were poisonous and 
killed her. I have read your letter to vari¬ 
ous friends and got various opinions: one 
man said some years back he fed cows so 
many that they tramped them for bedding, 
and didn't die, but the milk and butter got 
to taste so bad customers complained, so 
he had to give up feeding it. This, to¬ 
gether with the contents of your letter was 
told to the first-mentioned neighbor, and a 
puzzled look and silence had him, but only 
for a moment, when another friend who 
was with us said that he also had cut vines 
of Lima beans and fed them with no sick¬ 
ness or death, but when the vines are pulled 
up with some roots they are then poisonous. 
He said, not long ago, perhaps two months, 
he read of a farmer who fed Lima bean 
vines to 22 cows and 20 died, two were 
saved by medical treatment. I think that 
any farmer would be likely to pull up Lima 
bean vines to clear a field for sowing and 
feed them to cows, and this should be made 
known, unless you can disprove the above 
statement. f. w. 
Since writing the letter the following- 
statement has been made to us: 
Unripe Lima beans, under certain con¬ 
ditions of culture and storage, are 
known to generate a dangerous amount 
of hydrocyanic or prussic : acid. A 
French journal published, last year, an 
account of many cases of fatal cattle 
poisoning in Belgium from Lima bean 
fodder. The poisonous quality is most 
commonly found in robust semi-wild va¬ 
rieties, rather than in long-cultivated 
strains. These are much used for for¬ 
age in Europe, while the mature beans 
are rarely used. This season Lima beans 
made a late soft growth, which, when 
cut, may have produced these condi¬ 
tions. 
It is quite well known that cattle have 
been poisoned by eating the trim¬ 
mings of wild cherry after they have 
wilted. This wood develops prussic acid. 
As for Lima bean vines we would like 
to hear from people who have fed them 
green or wilted. They have been used 
to some extent for silage. 
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