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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
491 
AILING ANIMALS. 
Weak Ankles in Horse. 
I have a horse about 14 years old, 
which I have owned two years. He has 
snapping ankles. It did not show much 
when I first bought him, but it grows 
worse all the time. I was advised to 
blister it, which I did about 10 days ago, 
with biniodide of mercury and lard. In 
two days after I blistered it I worked him 
all day, and have worked him ever since. 
Is there a cure for this trouble? 
New York. d. p. w. 
You erred in putting the horse to work, 
lie should have had at least a month’s 
rest after washing off the blister. The 
blister was not rightly concocted. A bet¬ 
ter one would have been a mixture of one 
dram of biniodide of mercury and two 
ounces of cerate of cantharides. Put on 
rather high heeled shoes without toe calk¬ 
ins and blister again when the state of the 
skin will allow. If this does not avail, 
after the month’s rest, it would be best to 
have the back tendons line-fired and blis¬ 
tered by a qualified veterinarian. 
Heaves. 
Please tell how to cure the heaves in a 
horse. s. b. 
Michigan. 
There is no cure. Distress may be al¬ 
leviated by feeding grass in place' of hay 
in Summer ajid wet oat straw in place of 
hay In Winter. In addition allow the 
horse twice the usual amount of rest after 
eating and before work. Give half an 
ounce of Fowler’s solution of arsenic night 
and morning. Avoid all dusty and spoiled 
food. Farmers induce heaves in their glut¬ 
tonous horses by allowing them to hog all 
the hay they care for three times a day. 
This is sad waste of hay, and bad business 
for the horse. 
Shedding Coat. 
What is the best preparation to make 
cattle and horses shed their coats? 
R. B. 
We do not believe in giving drugs for the 
purpose suggested. Depend upon it that if 
the coat is not promptly shed there is 
something seriously amiss with the care, 
management and feeding, and all that is 
necessary to improve matters is to seek 
the cause and remove it. Colts will shed 
more promptly if fed dried 'blood meal 
along with oats and bran. Cows improve 
in the same way if fed flaxseed meal, and 
the same may be said of horses. If shed¬ 
ding is tardy it may be hastened by heav¬ 
ily blanketing a horse and making him trot 
until he sweats profusely. 
Nailprick in Horse’s Hoof. 
I have a horse that got a nail in the 
hind foot a week ago. I got the nail out all 
right, but she is still very lame, and get¬ 
ting worse. Will you inform me what to 
do? E. D. 
Michigan. 
A veterinarian should be called in as 
soon as possible in such a case, as the 
foot should have intelligent treatment. This 
consists in cutting down upon the puncture 
so as to allow free drainage if pus should 
happen to form, and also to allow anti¬ 
septics to enter or keep part free from 
germs. After cutting as described we would 
saturate the part with a 1-500 solution of 
corrosive sublimate and then cover the 
wound thickly with a mixture of one part 
of iodoform and six parts of boric acid on 
clean cotton batting, to be kept in place by 
clean bandages. Renew the dressing daily 
and keep foot dry. At present stage the 
cutting will have to be done to evacuate 
pus; then apply the dressing. When the 
wound stops discharging apply powder with 
pressure and after clipping the hair from 
the hoof-head blister repeatedly with cerate 
of cantharides if lameness persists. 
Sweeney. 
I am using a horse that has sweeney 
in right shoulder. "What should I do for 
it. as he is slightly lame? lie is 12 years 
old. b. w. H. 
Pennsylvania. 
The usual treatment for sweeney is to 
remove the hair from wasted parts and 
blister them well with cerate of cantharides 
or other effective blister, and to repeat the 
treatment if required and when the skin 
will allow. Setons (rowels) also are put 
under the skin in stubborn cases, or the 
veterinarian may inject a few drops tur¬ 
pentine here and there under the skin of 
the wasted parts. The latter treatment is 
effective but cruel, as it sets up great irri¬ 
tation and so causes unnecessary suffering. 
Pyaemia in Horse. 
A 12-year-old gelding that has proved a 
valuable animal when in good condition has 
developed swellings that come in various 
places. In some weeks’ time they develop 
Into running sores that discharge a yellow- 
custard looking matter. Just now he has 
a very hard swelling under the body near 
arm-pit a foot long and half as wide. This 
will head in two or three - .weeks and run 
matter. One on side near backbone and 
another above present swelling ran matter 
all Winter in yard. Horse is poorly and 
thin, but has good appetite and has had 
good hay. He has had similar sores in 
past years and recovered for a year or two, 
then old trouble came back. c. d. b. 
First have this horse examined by a 
competent expert to make sure that he is 
not affected with farcy, which is the skin 
form of glanders. Incurable and contagious. 
If he is found free from that disease then 
give him one dram of Merck’s sulphide of 
lime three times daily until he is well. Treat 
the sores by opening and injecting tincture 
of iodine and painting around the parts 
with the same tincture da.ily. 
Garget. 
I bought a cow four or five days before 
she came in. I noticed the right quarter 
of her udder was swollen considerably and 
quite hard, and no milk to speak of. f gave 
her saltpeter three times a day until the 
fever seemed to be out of her udder, and 
washed udder with very warm water. The 
swelling went down considerably, but only 
a couple of streams of milk. I also greased 
her udder four or five days after she came 
in. I also rubbed udder with the white of 
Sm mustard and lard mixed together. 
1 he swelling seems to be all out, but no I 
more milk, just a couple of streams which 1 
seems all. The right forequarter Is larger i 
and more fleshy, but not caked. I rubbed it. 
Could a cow lose a quarter of her udder 
without having lumpy milk? If I rubbed 
biniodide of mercury and lard on that quar¬ 
ter would it have any effect on the other 
parts of the udder? If not. what proportion 
should this be mixed? I bought a cow sev¬ 
eral years ago and one quarter was larger 
than the others by feeling, and gave only 
about half as much milk. When she was 
dry I rubbed biniodide of mercury and lard 
on (I forget the proportion), and it brought 
it to its natural state, and was all right 
when she came in fresh. h. j. e. 
New York. 
In our opinion this was an old case of 
garget, and nothing will restore the lost 
function of the affected quarter. It also 
should be remembered that tuberculosis 
sometimes is the cause of such conditions, 
so that it always is wise to test with 
tuberculin to settle the matter one way or 
the other, and no possible harm can result 
to the cow from this teat. One dram of 
biniodide of mercury in two ounces of lard 
is severe enough as a blister for the udder, 
and we would prefer a mixture of equal 
parts lard and mercurial ointment. 
Abnormal Udder. 
A heifer that will freshen in September 
and will be two years old has very much 
enlarged hind quarters of udder, about 
twice as large as they should be; no devel¬ 
opment in front whatever. The back quar¬ 
ters are a little bit hard, somewhat like 
caked udder. What can I do for it? 
Ohio. J. c. d. 
Have her tested with tuberculin to make 
sure that the condition is not due to tuber¬ 
culosis. If she stands the test all right 
then merely massage the udder very thor¬ 
oughly twice a day, using a little olive oil 
or lanolin upon the hands. It is unlikely 
that the fore quarters will develop normal¬ 
ly, but this treatment may help. a. s. a. 
FAT MEAT FOR GAPES. 
On page 428 I noticed a request for a 
remedy to use when chickens had gapes. 
For many years back we were greatly 
troubled with gapes in our little chicks, 
but for the past two years have lost but 
very few. A friend of our was told by an 
old gypsy to feed the little chicks fat meat, 
and since we have tried this we have had 
very little trouble. We have fed it both 
raw and fried, chopping it up very fine. 
Last Summer we used several pieces of 
bacon for the purpose. The little chicks 
eat it very greedily. If any fat meat is 
left from the table we feed it to our 
chicks, and so far it has done its work. 
This is not expensive, and is worth a 
trial by anyone who wishes to control gapes 
in little chicks. Edwin C. Powell in his 
book, “Making Poultry Pay,” recommends 
using three drams of salicylate of soda to 
each quart of drinking water. If the chicks 
are in such a state that they require im¬ 
mediate relief he recommends taking a long 
slender feather, tearing off all the barbs 
except those at the tip. Mix a little 
oil of cloves and sweet oil. Moisten the 
feather tip with this and insert into the 
windpipe. Twist the feather around sev¬ 
eral times and withdraw. If you have 
operated successfully you draw out many 
of the worms, and the oil will kill those 
left behind. Wo have used both these rem¬ 
edies, and prefer to medicate the drinking 
water and feed the fat meat before they 
get so far advanced with the disease as 
to need such radical treatment, for if you 
are not well skilled with the feather or 
horse hair many may die in your hands. 
Grovania, Penna. o. a. m. 
The Pheasant Nuisance. —In regard to 
the pheasant question I can say from my 
own experience that they are a nuisance 
to the farmers. One pheasant can pull 
as much corn in an hour as a crow will 
pull all day. They are greatly troubling 
farmers in this section and I think an end 
should be put to them. c. w. h. 
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