1908. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
349 
AILING ANIMALS. 
Azoturia. 
Can you give a remedy or treatment 
for filaekwater, so called in horses, some¬ 
thing that can he used as first treatment 
before the arrival of a veterinarians A 
neighbor has just lost a valuable horse from 
this and although there are several veter¬ 
inarians in this vicinity they were out of 
town or otherwise employed, so that he was 
unable to secure one for 24 hours, when 
it was too late to do anything, if it had 
been possible at any time. I think a 
treatment or better still a preventive 
of this dread disease would be much ap¬ 
preciated by many horse owners. 
Maine. l. f, g. 
We do not know of any disease of the 
horse under the name of “blackwater,” but 
assume that you mean “azoturia,” in which 
disease the urine is dark colored like strong 
coffee. Prevention is all important. No 
horse will suffer an attack if well exercised 
every day of the year, wet or shine, work 
season or idle spell, and when no work has 
to he done is fed much less grain than 
when at work. There is no specific rem¬ 
edy. At the first appearance of symptoms 
of the disease, which are lagging sweating 
and knuckling of the hind fetlocks the horse 
should be rested unharnessed kept on his 
feet and given a pint and a half of raw lin¬ 
seed oil af one dose. Unless very severely 
attacked this will usually suffice, provided 
he was instantly stopped and rested until 
the oil acted. a. s. a. 
Hair Falling Out. 
I own a handsome and valuable driving 
mare, about nine years old whose beauty 
is being marred by the constant loss of 
the hair from her tail. I have owned her 
two years and during that time the loss 
has been gradual, but steady. The hair 
coraes®out by slight pull with the fingers. 
What can I do to check this loss, and 
what treatment, if any, do you recommend? 
Will it ever grow out again? w. k. b. 
Maryland. 
Wash the tail thoroughly once a day with 
simple cold water, and dry well afterward 
without rubbing hair out. Give her half 
an ounce of Fowler's solution of arsenic 
night and morning, until her hair is glossy 
and firm rooted; then gradually decrease 
the dose daily until in two weeks she does 
without the medicine. Her stable should 
be kept clean and well ventilated and she 
should be thoroughly groomed daily, and 
worked or exercised every day. Carrots 
would be good for her. a. s. a. 
THE PROBLEM OF FERTILE EGGS. 
A few weeks ago a correspondent 
asked me the question, “What can we 
do to get more fertile eggs in Winter ?” 
The question is quite an important one. 
When eggs are 40 cents a dozen and a 
man takes a hundred chicks out of a 
360-egg incubator, he looks at all those 
2 G0 eggs that didn’t hatch with a feel¬ 
ing of disgust, and is quite willing to 
concede that anything which will tend 
to produce more fertile eggs is worthy 
of careful consideration. The first thing 
to consider is, what are the conditions 
under which hens produce the most, and 
most fertile eggs. We find that in the 
Spring, when the frost has got entirely 
out of the ground, the worms come to 
the surface, and the hens spend at least 
half their waking hours in scratching 
for them. These are two of the condi¬ 
tions; abundant exercise and plenty of 
lean meat. At the same time the grass 
begins to grow, and the hen spends the 
other half of her time picking the fresh 
green grass. So we have three condi¬ 
tions: abundant exercise, plenty of lean 
meat, and all she can eat of green food. 
I put the “green” in italics purposely, 
because I think there is a point there 
that has not obtained the consideration 
it is perhaps entitled to. 
Chlorophyl—the element which gives 
the green color to vegetable life—is ab¬ 
sorbed from the sunlight; for we know 
that vegetation grown in the dark is 
white, and lacks almost entirely the 
green color. I imagine that this element 
has a far more important office in the 
internal economy of animal life than we 
usually think. We all know how crazy 
a horse is to get a bite of green grass, 
and how it cleanses his system. Cab¬ 
bage, beets, etc., are good succulent 
food for fowls, helping to keep them 
healthy, but they do not furnish the 
green element. Last Summer I laid in 
an extra supply of green grass for my 
fowls, curing it as little as possible and 
storing it in bran sacks. This Winter I 
have used this green grass in the wet 
mash, making more than half the hulk 
of the mash consist of the grass, which 
after beidg soaked in the hot skim-milk 
or water, if we have no milk, comes out 
as bright and vivid a green as growing 
grass. We have noticed particularly 
and commented upon the deep rich 
color of the yolks of the eggs used 
in the family. This is said to result 
from feeding corn, but I have fed less 
corn than usual, because my hens were 
too fat, and corn has been dearer than 
ever before. 
At this date (March 14) I have no 
chicks hatched out, but the eggs that 
are “in the hatching” seem to have very 
strong germs. I had an old cock shut 
up with 34 hens. I took nine eggs out 
of the coop and put them under a pullet 
that was broody. At the end of seven 
days I tested the eight eggs (one 
had been broken) and found six 
of them with strong germs, only 
two being infertile. I was not breed¬ 
ing from that coop at that time; if I had 
been there would not have been so many 
hens in it. I have from 10 to 18 
females with each male bird this year, 
as I am trying to find out whether there 
is anything in the statement that with 
many hens to a male more of the chicks 
will be pullets, than if only a few hens 
run with each male bird. Mr. Philo 
claims to have raised 70 pullets from 
77 chicks hatched by using an old male 
with 30 to 40 pullets. He admits you 
are not likely to get the highest average 
fertility, but the chicks hatched will run 
largely to pullets. 
To return to the point of fertile eggs 
in Winter, we can get the exercise by 
feeding lightly in the morning in deep 
litter, so they will work as long as a 
grain can be found, and still be hungry 
at noon, then feed a mash consisting 
largely of green food, either grass or 
cut clover, and good beef scraps will 
ansvver for the “lean meat,” though I 
prefer “green cut bone” if I can get it. 
Buy beef scraps with a• guaranteed 
analysis on the bag, and get that which 
has the smallest per cent of fat and 
largest of protein, george a. cosgrove. 
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BIG BUTTER CONTEST 
National Buttermakers’ Association 
WON AS USUAL BY USERS OF 
DE LAVAL 
CREAM SEPAR ATORS 
On March 11th, 12th and 13th there was held at Minneapolis, 
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