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THE; KURAL NEW-YORKER 
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QUESTIONS ABOUT ANIMALS. 
Hog With Cough. 
I have a hog which lias a hacking cough. 
Will you inform me the cause and a core? 
New York. .t. n. A. 
We are unable to state the cause of the 
cough, as it may be due to any one of a 
very large number of different causes. 
Sometimes it is worms; or it may lie tuber¬ 
culosis, or a sore throat, or a lung trou¬ 
ble, or worms (Strongylus paradoxus) in 
the air passages of the longs. A dusty 
or damp bed may also cause cough. 
Freetnartins. 
Would the fact that heifer calves were 
twins render them useless, barren as breed¬ 
ers? My neighbors say “Yes"; I say 
“No.” J. h. s. 
Connecticut. 
Where a bull and heifer calf are born 
as twins the. heifer in a majority of in¬ 
stances is barren, but we have known 
cases where this has not proved true. The 
barren heifer may be considered a herma¬ 
phrodite as regards the anatomy of its 
generative organs. Twin bulls and twin 
heifers are prolific. 
Sweeney. 
I have a horse that has sweeney in the 
shoulder. Would you tell me how to euro 
same, or what can be done for it ? K. 
Maryland. 
One cannot prescribe treatment with 
confidence when such meager information 
is given. Always it is necessary to give 
a full description of the case. In ordinary 
sweeney the hair should he clipped from 
the wasted parts and a blister of cerate 
of cantharides applied once a month. When 
1 he blister lias been washed off apply lard 
daily and give the horse plenty of exercise, 
or work him in a breast collar. 
Horse With Thrush. 
Can you tell what to do for bad case 
of thrush? I bought a draught horse 
about a week ago and found lie has quite 
a bad foot. What is the best treatment, 
and can 1 use him every day, provided lie 
is not too lame? m. 
True thrush rarely if ever causes lame¬ 
ness, and may be cured by providing a 
clean dry stall floor at all times; cutting 
away all rotten, loose and under-run horn of 
sole and frog and packing calomel into the 
deft of the frog and on each side of it. 
pack oakum over the calomel and renew 
the dressing once daily. In a few days 
the horse may be worked. 
Cowpox. 
My cows have a fester sore on teats 
and scabs forming over it, very tender and 
hot. Is it cowpox? it looks as if the 
whole herd would have it; the sixth one 
bad signs of it this morning. Will it have 
to run its course, or is there a cure? I 
am milking 17 cows now; feed no grain; 
in pasture May 1. i,. c. 
Iowa. 
We think you have made out n good case 
of “cowpox" and the affected animals at 
once should be isolated and milked last or 
by a different milker. Wash the udder with 
a mixture of one ounce of hyposulphite 
of soda in a quart of clean water; then 
twice daily paint the sores with glycerite 
of tannin. If some sores are obstinate in 
healing remove the scabs and paint once 
with tincture of iodine and then use the 
other medicines. Give each affected cow 
half an ounce of hyposulphite of soda, iu 
feed night and morning. Keep the eows up 
until they are well. 
Managing and Feeding Brood Mares. 
Will you advise me as to a grain ration 
to feed a mare until sucking colt? I have 
two three-quarter bred Clyde mares, about 
1.800, pounds; they are four years old this 
month. One foaled May 8, the other one 
on the “4th. I have only a bush ranch, 
and am afraid I shall be short of pasture. 
They are bred to purebred Clyde, and I 
want to keep them iu good condition. I 
have been feeding oats and bran mixed, all 
Winter, and they did well on that. I have 
no heavy work for them to do for a couple 
of months, and then not steady. I should 
like the quantity of grain or bran given 
by weight. I do not like to buy any chop, 
as 1 do not know what I am getting. I 
propose breeding them again some time the 
last of June. Is that about right (to pure¬ 
bred Clyde) ? I am no horse man, and am 
worried at the behavior of these mares. 
They are extremely quiet and kind in the 
regular way, but since one has had a foal 
they are so cranky to each other (not to 
me), that I have to keep them separated. 
<’an they lie put in the same field when 
each has her own colt, as it will be a diffi- 
< ult thing for mo to keep them separate, 
owing to my small clearing? h. i. 
British Columbia. 
< ontinue feeding oats and bran in the 
proportion of one part oats and one-fifth 
part bran. Allow one pound of oats for 
each hundred pounds weight of mare and 
the bran extra. Give this amount at two 
b eds, night and morning, while on grass 
and when grass is scarce rut green corn 
fodder and throw over to mares on pasture. 
When the foals are about a month old 
they will begin to pick grain and bran, 
and from that time on should have access 
to a mixture of one part screened oatmeal 
and one-fifth part wheat bran put in a box 
where the mares cannot steal it. Feed 
each mare separate, tying her up in a stall. 
Bet her wear a halter at pasture. Mares 
get cranky and mean as described and 
one generally is boss. The separate stall 
way of feeding at meal times remedies some 
of this trouble, but a mean mare some¬ 
times lias to be pastured apart from the 
others. If remains to be seen how the two 
mares in question will get along when 
both have foals. It is best to breed mares 
nine days after foaling, and they should 
foal not later than June or July on ac¬ 
count of the grass and suitability of the 
weather in these months. As a mare goes 
about 340 days in foal you can calculate 
on that basis. 
Shy Mare. 
I have a nice bay mare about. 10 years 
old that I bought from a farmer a few 
years ago: he had raised her from a colt, 
and his little girl, 13 years of ago, had en¬ 
tire care of her. She is high-spirited, but 
well broken, and is a good roader and work¬ 
er; women drive her about the country 
roads. Parts of two Summers, when I have 
been away, I have put her out to pasture a 
few miles from here, and she acted finely 
and they had no trouble in catching her 
when they wanted to put her in barn or 
wanted to use lier. This year I thought I 
would give her a good time'at home, and 
fenced off about an acre of my home lot, 
with painted posts, fancy wire, etc., and 
turned her out. l T p to this date she re¬ 
fuses to be caught, and lias bothered me 
terribly. 1 have tried all local means 
known, and failed; finally got a lot of 
horsemen and captured her and put her in 
barns where she is now kept. Can anyone 
tell me how to treat her so I can get her 
when I want her? C. q. e. 
Connecticut. 
If she can be used every day it is no ad¬ 
vantage to turn her out and she will do 
better if fed in the stable. If you must 
turn her on grass keep a halter on her head 
and feed no grain in the stable, but twice a 
day feed her from trough in the field. Then 
when she is wanted she will come up to the 
attendant when feed is carried to her in a 
box. It is possible too that she will let 
herself be caught as soon as the novelty 
of freedom on pasture wears off. a. s. a. 
MILK PROFITS. 
I have been interested in comparing the 
prices of Ilolsteins in your advertisement 
columns, with the possibilities of the Hol¬ 
stein talk on page 433. I would hazard 
the opinion that the writer never has seen 
100 cows that had each given 12,000 
pounds of milk in a single season. Feed is 
$30 per ton, milk at the average factory, 
where the majority of farmers must take 
their milk, 95 cents per 100. At these 
prices there is not a large profit, but cows 
will do better when turned to pasture. 
Twelve thousand pounds, at 95 cents, $114 
to the credit of the cow. For the past 
year dairy and farm products have been 
higher than the laboring man can afford to 
pay, and our best hind quarters of beef sell 
in London one cenl per pound less than in 
our own inland towns in this State. The 
ability of the man coupled with the capa¬ 
bility of the cow will always vary, and 
when all cows are purebred and of the 
same degree of excellency prices will be 
more uniform. J. E. D. 
St. Lawrence Co., N. Y. 
HORSES OVER A PIGPEN. 
Our horse stable is 16x20x8% feet high, 
double boarded at the top, floor and sides, 
and usually three horses are kept there, 
but are sick every little while. The 
manure from the stable is thrown through 
a trap in the floor to the hogpen below. The 
table has one window about 18x22 feet, 
which is never open, as it is in upper part 
of door, peak of barn is 20 feet above 
ceiling of horse stable. IIow can this be 
ventilated? Is the arrangement of pen, 
stable, etc., the cause of sick horses? 
Camden. N. J. a. j. p. 
It is impossible to determine exactly 
what causes your horse’s sickness without 
knowing the full particulars of their care 
and management, but it is very certain 
that if you are keeping them under un¬ 
sanitary conditions over a pigpen and in an 
unventilatei] stable, this may be the cause 
of your trouble. The first thing to do is 
to see that no odor or fumes from the 
pigpens can reach the horse stable when 
the trap door is closed. You can then 
ventilate the stable very easily by cutting 
a hole 3x4 feet in the wall and covering 
the open space with common muslin or 
sheeting. This cloth should he in the 
south or east side of the stable whichever 
is most convenient. Of course during 
warm weather this cloth should he removed 
entirely, or the stable door left open to 
provide plenty of fresh air. This system 
of ventilation is inexpensive and provides 
a stable with pure, dry air without 
draughts. You should also insert two more 
windows in the stable as large as ttie one 
you now have to provide sufficient light 
for the horses. c. s. g. 
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