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THE RURAb NEW-YORKER 
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COSGROVE’S HEN NOTES. 
Big Wing Disease. 
I have about 600 young chicks from six 
weeks to one week old, and I lose a great 
many. They are Leghorns, Brown and 
White. The eggs hatch well and they seem 
spry at first, but in a few days their 
wings seem to be growing faster than the 
rest of their body, and they get so weak 
they can hardly stand, and so sure as one 
gets “big wings’’ it dies. They develop 
those symptoms at different stages, from a 
few days old to six weeks. I feed wheat, 
cracked com, grit, plenty of fresh -water; 
clean brooders often and they have no bowel 
trouble. Is there anything I can feed them 
to cure this, or is it just poor stock? I 
hatch from 75 two and three-year-old hens 
and three young roosters on free range. 
The chicks have free range. c. B. 
Elko, Va. 
I used to have the same trouble when 
breeding White Leghorns; a portion of 
them would always die from excessive wing 
development, and I could never find any 
way to prevent it. Strange to say this 
trouble hardly ever occurred when I was 
breeding Black Leghorns, which I did for 
five or six years. I found the Blacks 
just as good layers, and much hardier 
and easier to raise. C. B. says she feeds 
“wheat, cracked corn, grit, etc.’ It seems 
to me it would be better to make part of 
their ration of ground grain—cornmeal, 
middlings and bran, with some good beef 
scraps mixed with it; not too much scraps 
at first, commence with very little and 
increase gradually. Beef scraps are liable 
to start bowel trouble. It is too much 
of a tax on the tender digestive organs 
of a little chick to have to grind up all 
its food. It is better to feed some ground 
grain either as a dry mash or wet with 
skim-milk or water. But it will not do to 
feed a wet mash in greater quantity than 
they will eat up quickly; it must not he 
left to be trampled upon and get sour. Mix 
up only what will be eaten at each meal; 
if any is left over, give it to the hens. I 
would like to hear from Floyd Q. White; 
what does he do to prevent or cure this 
"big wings” trouble in his White Leg¬ 
horns? Is vigorous breeding stock the pre¬ 
vention ? 
Lame Hens. 
I would like to find a remedy for my 
hens; they are afflicted with a foot dis¬ 
ease. At first they begin to walk on their 
toes, and gradually lose the use of their 
feet and crawl around on their legs. They 
eat well, but die after a while. What is 
the matter and is there anything I can do 
for them? I. f. s. 
Clyde, N. Y. 
This is probably dropsy of the feet—• 
sometimes—but wrongly—called gout. 
Overfeeding with too little exercise may be 
the cause. Give a laxative, and feed 
scantily for a while, but give plenty of 
green vegetables or grass. It may be leg 
weakness, in which case give a pill twice 
a day made of one grain sulphate of iron, 
five grains phosphate of lime, and half a 
grain of quinine. Lack of sufficient lime 
in the food material is one of the common 
causes of leg weakness. 
Over-Salted Chicks. 
Let us know what is best to give to 
chickens after they have eaten too much 
salt. E. F. R. 
Nottingham, Pa. 
It is of no use to answer this question 
except as a warning to others, because the 
chickens referred to are either dead or have 
got over it by this time. But E. F. R. 
ought to know better than to leave salt 
where chicks or hens can get at it. I had 
a neighbor whose “know-it-all” boy washed 
out a pork barrel and left a little of the 
undissolved salt on the ground, against 
the instructions of his mother. The hens 
came along and seeing that bright, nice 
looking grit on the ground picked it up, 
with the result that nine of them died. 
Pigeons, on the contrary, need salt and 
can eat it with impunity. Salt codfish, 
which would kill hens, is one of the things 
that pigeons must be supplied with. Of 
course the mash for chicks should be salted 
a little, as the salt is an aid to digestion. 
GEO. A. COSGROVE. 
On page 397, O. W. Mapes, speaking 
about roup, says, “Many of the worst out¬ 
breaks have been in new and clean houses,” 
and asks if any of the readers of Txie 
h. N.-Y. have noticed this. In the past 
'y°ars I have built several new houses, 
and in every instance so far as I remem¬ 
ber the fowls have had colds the first sea¬ 
son. It is caused, as I believe, from ti 
dampness of the soil, rather than from ai 
dampness that may be in the lumber, fro 
the fact that I built one house of old lui 
nor, bought and movod to my place a 
other house which had been built a vea 
never used, and the lumber* hi 
d V e< ! ou !r ^ ar as my experien 
£2®!’, plon ly of ventilation is the best pr 
nn n l} ve of eolds. I ventilate by windot 
on the south side, and give fresh air enout 
so there never will be any dampness < 
Massachusetts.^ C * W * CIIADWICK - 
AILING ANIMALS. 
Horse With Chronic Cough. 
We bought a horse last Fall. Nearly 
ever since we got him he has been troubled 
badly by a cough. We did not know It 
when we got him. We have been told since 
that he has had it for a long time. He 
seems to be healthy every other way, but 
his nose runs matter or white stuff badly, 
and he coughs hard. Sometimes he is much 
worse than at other times. We have tried 
giving him tar, also gave him Fowler's solu¬ 
tion of arsenic for some time; have tried 
wetting ali the food given him, but noth¬ 
ing seems to do permanent good. Could 
you advise us? Are other horses apt to 
get the trouble from him? f. a. c. 
Have the horse examined, as a diseased 
molar tooth may have something to do 
with the chronic discharge and cough, or 
there may be a polypus (tumor) in one 
of the nostrils, and in either case an expert 
operation would have to be performed. 
Otherwise he may improve if given an 
ounce of glyco-heroin three times daily; 
also mix twice daily in the feed a dram 
of a mixture of equal parts powdered sul¬ 
phate of iron and powdered sulphate of 
copper. 
Lame Horse. 
I recently bought a team. One of them 
was represented as a little hoof-bound, but 
I have learned a different story since, and 
am reliably informed a previous owner let 
him stand on manure so much that it 
heated, and heated his feet so one foot got 
fever in it and caused a small crack in the 
frog, which occasionally makes him lame. 
How can this be cured? He is a fine ani¬ 
mal, about nine years old, and I would 
greatly like to effect a permanent cure. 
d. p. B. 
Neither the hot manure nor the crack in 
frog would cause the lameness. Thrush, in¬ 
dicated by a discharge from the cleft of 
the frog, is due to standing in filth and 
wet, but lameness is rare in such cases 
and the disease is easily cured by cleansing 
the parts and packing calomel into the 
cracks and cleft of frog. The horse in 
question has some other trouble which 
should be sought for by an expert. It 
seems likely, however, that repeated blister¬ 
ing of the hoof-head with cerate of can- 
tharides, after removal of the hair, will 
in time prove beneficial. 
Another Case of Lameness. 
I have a mare which is very lame on her 
front leg. How can I cure her, as she is a 
good mare, heavy and a good puller? Some 
say it is corns and some say it is ring-bone ; 
some think it is wind-gall, but the feet just 
above hoof are very much swollen and ten¬ 
der, standing out over the hoof; it seems 
to be inflamed. She is lying down on her 
flat side all the time when not eating or at 
work; she cannot stand to treat at all. 
She eats well. j. c. H. 
Utah. 
The symptoms do not indicate either ring¬ 
bone, corns or puffs. More likely a side- 
bone is present, or it may be that pus has 
formed in the hoof and is working up to 
break through between the horn and hair. 
In any case the trouble is a serious one, 
and it would be best if possible to employ 
expert help. If this cannot be done clip 
the hair from the coronet and put on 
poultices of antiphlogistine, which you can 
buy at the drug store. Pus may break out, 
in which case cut away under-run horn and 
inject a saturated solution of corrosive sub¬ 
limate ; then blister the hoof-head with 
cerate of cantharides and repeat the injec¬ 
tion in a week. We scarcely think it a case 
that you will be able to handle successfully 
without expert help. a. s. a. 
STUNTED SHOTES. 
I have six shotes farrowed early in Sep¬ 
tember. I was obliged to keep them in 
close quarters the early part of the Win¬ 
ter. They got good care, but became con¬ 
stipated, and did not thrive. They now 
appear stunted. I had planned to fatten 
them. What would you advise? c. d. 
These pigs, had nothing gone wrong with 
them, should now be ready for market. 
As it is, probably the best plan is to re¬ 
lieve their constipation by turning them 
on grass, or if this cannot be done, give 
them opportunity for exercise, and by 
some hook or crook, feed them green food 
of some kind. In out-of-the-wav places, 
dig up sods and throw them in their lot. 
Nearly always at this time in the year 
sufficient green forage can be gathered up 
for that many shotes. When they begin 
to show thrift, make preparation to get 
them ready for market, concluding how 
long this preparation should last. About 
half of this time feed them a limited ration 
of grain, say about one-half full grain feed. 
When half the feeding period has passed 
raise them to full grain ration. It is pre¬ 
sumed in this advice that they have grass 
or pasture in some form, along with the 
grain, in case their feed must all be grain, 
or grain products, they should have mid¬ 
dlings with some bran added during the 
first part of feeding time. They will do 
better and give more for feed consumed 
than if fed full rich grain feed from the 
start. The aim should be to get to market 
as soon as possible, as at best no great re¬ 
turn can be expected from pigs stunted in 
this way. john m. jamison. 
Ross Co., O. 
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