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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 18 
AILING ANIMALS. 
Horse With Worms. 
My horse has worms. lie also has a 
staring coat, eyes are very dull, and when 
led from stall staggers or straddles with 
hind legs. c. e. i. 
New York. 
Have the horse clipped and see that the 
stable he occupies is kept clean, perfectly 
ventilated and light. Have his teeth put 
in order by a veterinary dentist; then 
feed generously on sound oats, bran and 
good hay. Molasses may be freely given 
in such a case with the best of results. 
A quart twice dally in the feed will work 
wonders. For worms give in the feed 
night and morning a tablespoonful of a 
mixture of equal parts dried sulphate of 
Iron, salt, flowers of sulphur and ground 
gentian root. Continue for 10 days; then 
skip 10 days and repeat. Do not give 
the molasses when he is taking the medi¬ 
cine. a. s. A. 
Hairless Spots on Horse. 
anything about flowers of sulphur, hut 
our coachman sprinkled two pounds of 
powdered sulphur through the hay in 
the barn and the rats and mice have left, 
the loft. Let some one else give it a 
trial. s. L. G. 
Chicken and Hen Manure. 
A. 8. H., Elgin, III .—I can buy pigeon 
droppings for $2.50 per ton just as they 
are taken from the pigeon house. Would I 
get good results if I sow them broadcast on 
my potato land and harrow them in before 
planting? 
./. If. P„ Jermyn, Pa .—What are chicken 
droppings worth a bushel? They have been 
kept dry. 
Ans. —It is impossible to state just 
what a given sample of manure would 
be worth. It depends upon what was 
fed to the fowls, how the manure was 
kept, and what has b p en mixed with it. 
The following are average analyses: 
What would you recommend, if anything, 
to put new hair on a horse where it was 
skinned off by a bump when a colt a few 
years ago, and burnt with iodine. 
Pennsylvania. t. a. it. 
Such cases cannot be helped, as the 
hair roots have been killed, and medicine 
will not cause the hair to grow again. 
a. s. A. 
A Case of Garget. 
I have a Durham cow nine years old that 
has a swelling or caked udder in left hind 
quarter every time she is fresh. It broke 
last Winter, and water and stringy stuff 
came from it. Milk was good, but we did 
not use it. There is an offensive odor from 
udder. As she is coming fresh in a few 
weeks and udder is beginning to cake now 
I would like to know what is the matter, 
and what we can do for her. v. s. 
Ohio. 
It is a mistake to breed from such a 
cow, as the udder is permanently affected, 
and each attack will prove worse than the 
last and eventually result in complete loss 
of function of the affected quarter. Besides 
this, the udder may be tuberculous, but 
that can easily be determined by testing 
her with tuberculin which contains no 
germs of tuberculosis, cannot possibly harm 
the cow and will determine with certainty 
if she is affected with the disease. Mean¬ 
while rub the udder twice daily with a mix¬ 
ture of equal parts fluid extracts of bella¬ 
donna leaves and pokeroot and olive oil. 
a. s. A. 
Weak Stifle. 
I have a two-year-old colt; its stifle 
gets out of place and can hardly walk till 
it goes back again, which it does after a 
time without help, when to all appearance 
it is all right till it flies out again. What 
can I do for it? A. 
Michigan. 
Put a collar on the colt’s neck; then tie 
him in a narrow stall so he cannot lie down. 
From the base of the collar pass a rope or 
strap between his forelegs and tie it to 
a hobble fitted on pastern of the affected 
foot. The rope or strap should be so 
adjusted that the foot is kept advanced 
under the body so that the patella cannot 
slip out of place. This done, clip the hair 
from stifle joint and around it, and blister 
thoroughly with cerate of cantharides. 
Keep the colt tied up for a month. Repeat 
the blistering at end of that time, as be¬ 
fore, if the stifle is still weak. A. s. A. 
Sulphur for Rats. 
An inquiry from a reader about the 
effect of flour of sulphur to drive 
away rats is noted. We tried it in a 
crib of corn and gave them a good 
strong dose. But if it had any effect it 
was to make them more healthy and 
give better appetite. Steel traps and I 
cats did the exterminating. w. s. 
Illinois. 
Your correspondent, page 214, asks 
about sulphur to keep away rats and 
mice. I have used flour of sulphur in 
holes where they made passageway and 
found they were not inclined to use the 
ways, and sought other places. The 
flour of sulphur does good work for 
that purpose. p. m. h. 
Massachusetts. 
I, too, like R. F. R., of Richmond, 
Va., read in a local paper that mice and 
rats would not stay where there was 
sulphur. We were much annoyed by 
mice getting into the sifted flour of our 
Hoosier kitchen cabinet. My cook 
placed a small piece of a sulphur candle 
near the mouse hole and another bit 
near the door and we have never seen a 
trace of a mouse since. I do not know 
POUNDS IN A TON. 
Nitrogen Plios. Acid Potash 
lien manure.20 1(5 8 
Pigeon manure.. . .00 32 20 
Thus the pigeon manure is worth 
more than that from hens. It is as 
strong as many brands of mixed fer¬ 
tilizers. At $2.50 a ton it is like picking 
up money to buy it. Broadcast on potato 
land naturally rich the pigeon manure 
might give too much nitrogen and thus 
make too much vine growth. In the 
East we would use 200 pounds sulphate 
of potash and 400 pounds acid phosphate 
with each ton of pigeon manure. With 
us hen manure of good quality is worth 
between $9 and $10 per ton. Most of our 
local farmers think they can pay 50 cents 
a barrel for it, as compared with stable 
manure. 
Manure Spreaders in Winter. 
On page 167 you ask for experience 
of those using manure spreaders in 
snow. I have had no actual experience 
with a spreader, but as I have some 
thought of buying I haye been watching 
two spreaders bought in this neighbor¬ 
hood last Fall. These spreaders have 
been taking the manure from large herds 
of cattle and horses to the field each 
day during the Winter, and spreading 
it successfully, no matter what the 
weather. We have not had extremely 
deep snow, but have had some very cold 
weather. These are 40-bushel spreaders. 
One man has used three horses a few 
times when the snow was deepest, other¬ 
wise they have been drawn by two 
horses. A great many farmers in this 
section draw the manure to the field 
each day, and most of them use a wagon 
all the time rather than change to a 
sleigh and back again. 
Schoharie Co., N. Y. d. w. southard. 
Scours in Heifers. —In answer to the 
question by M. A. B. on page 276, I will 
give a remedy for scours that has never 
failed with me. The dose given to a young 
calf is one-lialf teaspoonful of gloss starch 
powdered fine in one-half cup of boiled 
milk (not corn starch). An animal one 
year or more old would require one tea¬ 
spoonful of the starch and a cupful of the 
boiled milk. It will certainly stop the 
worst case possible of scours, but remove 
the cause of trouble. j. s. 
Batavia, N. Y. 
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