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THE R.UHAL NEW-YORKER 
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AILING ANIMALS. 
Catarrh in Horse. 
I have a horse five years old that has a 
cough and a white thick mucous discharges 
from his nose when he put his head down 
to drink. lie has been affected about three 
or four months. What is the complaint 
and the cure? r. 
New York. 
In cases of this sort a veterinarian should 
be employed to make an examination, as 
one should first make sure that glanders 
is not the disease present. If it is chronic 
catarrh then it may be treated with fair 
success by giving in the feed night and 
morning for a period of 10 days one of the 
following tonics: Dried sulphate of iron, 
powdered sulphate of copper, iodide of pot¬ 
ash. Give one drug at a time and alter¬ 
nate for periods of 10 days until the dis¬ 
charge dries up. Sometimes a diseased molar 
tooth is present and has to be removed by 
trephining. For cough a half to one ounce 
dose of glyco-lieroin given two or three 
times daily will be found effective. 
A. S. A. 
Tetanus in Horse. 
I have a horse whose eyes are enlarged 
in the outside corners; they also run mat¬ 
ter. Some call it the “hooks.” He has a 
sore just below the corner of the eye; it 
looks as though it will make an abscess. 
He also seems to be stiff in the loins and 
is very sluggish. What is the trouble and 
give remedy? at. e. 
South Carolina. 
There is no such disease as “hooks 
that mythical trouble belongs in the same 
category with “wolf in the tail,” and “hol¬ 
low horn,” and these suppositious ailments 
ought to have been forgotten about the 
time they quit burning poor old women as 
“witches.” We fear your horse has tetanus 
(lock-jaw), as in that disease the “haws” 
(membrana nictitans), of the inside corners 
of the eyes protrude over the eyeballs each 
time the horse is moved, or the head is 
raised, and at the same time the muscles 
of the body become rigid with spasms. The 
tail is elevated and the ears are “set” 
(paralyzed). As, however, you say that 
there is a sore under the corners of the eye 
it may be a case of stopped-Up lachrymal 
duct. In either case a veterinarian will 
have to be employed, as home treatment 
will prove ineffectual. a. s. a. 
Weak Stifle. 
Please give remedy for a yearling colt. 
When about three weeks old I noticed a 
lump on the stifle joint, but never found 
out what caused it. The stifle bone seems 
to slip out of joint and goes back again 
with a click when he walks. I have tried 
blistering it, but it did not seem to help it 
any- w. a. h. 
Maryland. 
In the first place the puff doubtless was 
due to infection of the navel by gejms at 
birth, as so often spoken of here, and might 
have been prevented by applying a 1/500 
solution of corrosive sublimate freely to 
the navel at birth and then twice a day 
until it healed up perfectly. At present 
stage it may be necessary to tie the colt 
up so he cannot lie down and then blister 
the stifle repeatedly. It is usual, however, 
first to give nature a chance to strengthen 
up the parts by free range on grass, and 
at the same time feeding generously on oats 
and bran. If this fails and the stifle does 
not become strong then the blistering plan 
must be adopted and it is best at the same 
time to keep the foot of the weak leg ad¬ 
vanced under the body by means of a rope 
or strap run from hobble around pastern 
forward between fore legs and there at¬ 
tached to collar around neck. a. s. a. 
Feeding Orphan Foal. 
We had the misfortune two weeks ago 
to lose a mare who had a little colt two 
weeks old. will you publish directions for 
feeding a little colt? The colt used to be 
nibbling at grass when it was out in the 
pasture with the mother, so we have pulled 
grass for it every day and it eats it up 
with apparent relish. We also give it 
crushed oats with the hulls removed and 
cow’s milk diluted with one-third water 
and sweetened. Would an occasional egg 
beaten in the milk be any use, or would that 
be wrong? Some people tell us we will 
ruin its digestive organs by feeding so much 
grass while it is so young, but it seems 
to be doing so well that we do not want to 
stop feeding the grass if it can stand it. 
Its bowels are all right. We feed the milk 
'less than a quart) every three hours, the 
last time at nine o’clock; then just once 
more in the night. Could we drop that feed 
in the night and feed at five next morning 
or would the eight hours be too long for it 
<o go? it is just four weeks old now, and 
a fine strong colt. j. h. b. 
Deckerville, Mich. 
At first an orphan foal should be fed 
once an hour, and a half cupful is sufficient, 
n «ng the following mixture: One dessert¬ 
spoonful of white granulated sugar, two 
bibb-spoonfuls of lime water and cow’s 
milk to make one pint. Milk poor in butter 
fat and from a cow very recently fresh is 
best adapted for foal feeding. At present 
age the foal may well take the grass and 
have the last mess of milk late at night, 
and then the first thing in the morning. Mix 
limewater with the milk and if there is a 
sign of scouring at any time two or three 
ounces of castor oil shaken up in milk. 
Skim-milk may be gradually substituted for 
the new milk as the foal grows, and to the 
oatmeal may be added one-fifth part of 
wheat bran at each meal. Also allow foal 
free access to pure, cold water at all times. 
a. s. A. 
Convulsions in Dog. 
A few days ago I saw a dog that, had 
some kind of spasms or convulsions. It 
laid on its side, and kicked vigorously, and 
could not stand up. When it got on to its 
feet it would fall over. It would not, or 
could not recognize its master. It did not 
snap much with its jaws, though it did 
a little, but not very viciously. While doinp: 
this there was some spittle that dropped 
from the side of its jaws. The fit was some¬ 
what like those that cats have. Its master 
threw some water over its head, though I 
do not know whether this did any good, or 
helped to get the animal over its trouble. 
When it finally recovered it would not or 
could not recognize its master at first, but 
did soon after. This was a brown dog, a 
spaniel I think, and a handsome animal. 
Could you tell from the above whether the 
animal had the rabies or not, and could you 
give the general symptoms of a dog that is 
afflicted? M. J. s. 
Massachusetts. 
The dog doubtless had a fit or convul¬ 
sion, and worms are a common cause, pup¬ 
pies being most affected, or young dogs 
weakened by distemper or dentition irrita¬ 
tion and worms. If the dog had rabies he 
would have died inside of five to seven days 
from time of attack. Affected dogs do not 
have fits or convulsions, but as a rule grad¬ 
ually become worse, the attack starting 
with paralysis of the lower jaw, drooling, 
tongue protruding and eyes straining, with 
one pupil dilated and the other contracted. 
The voice changes to a half-bark, half-howl, 
which is characteristic. The dog laps its 
own urine and eats foreign bodies, such as 
sticks, straw, earth, manure, rags, etc. 
There is in the “dumb” form of rabies little 
tendency to range or (o bite man or other 
animals. In the furious form the animal 
has in addition to most of the symptoms 
just mentioned a desire to leave home, “run 
amuck,” biting people or animals that come 
in its way and of course has not paralysis 
of the lower jaw. When a dog is suspected 
of rabies it should be immediately chained 
up or locked up in a box stall whence it 
cannot escape. Then call in a graduate 
veterinarian to make a diagnosis, and be 
sure that if rabies is present the animal 
will die in five to seven days or thereabout, 
and will be paralysed before death. A dog 
should not be shot on general principles, 
fits are common; rabies happily is com¬ 
paratively rare. If it is proved that rabies 
has been present, by keeping the dog until 
the plain symptoms have become apparent, 
there then is the advantage of being able 
to know that persons bitten should have the 
Pasteur treatment and animals bitten the 
proper precautionary watching and care 
lest they likewise become rabid and <Jo 
damage. _ a. s. a. 
CLOVER IN THE SILO. 
I have sometimes put green Alfalfa 
through my silage cutter into my silo, and 
found it to be perhaps the most desirable 
silage which I was able to produce. This 
has been done on occasions when a third 
cutting of Alfalfa came at a season of the 
year when it was very difficult to cure and 
when there was very much wet weather in 
the Fall, and at a time also when we had 
room in the silo for the product. We sim¬ 
ply cut the Alfalfa, rake it up green, draw 
it to the barn and as the silage cutter had 
not been removed, simply run it through 
the same as corn. It always kept perfectly, 
came out bright and sweet, and I am sure 
the cattle enjoy it, eating it fully as much 
or more than the best corn silage, and I 
am also quite sure that the flow of milk 
is greater while feeding the Alfalfa silage. 
I have not tried clover, but I have every 
reason to believe that the result would be 
equally as favorable. If the farmer has 
room in his silo for the third cutting of his 
Alfalfa, my judgment is that the wisest and 
best plan is to put it in the silo and make 
silage of it. john m’lennan. 
I have not had personal experience with 
clover, but last season we put about 200 
tons of green Alfalfa in our silo and it 
made excellent feed. It was about the only 
way to save the first crop, owing to a very 
wet season, and it was a perfect success. 
I have read many accounts of siloing clover, 
and all have been favorable to it. Clover 
would not be as strong in odor as Alfalfa 
and as our Alfalfa silage gave no trouble 
I should not be afraid of it. If silage is 
fed as it should be just after milking there 
will be no odor or taste in milk. Siloing 
a soiling crop or clover for green feed beats 
going to the field every day for a load of 
feed. We used a Clean Sweep hay loader, 
and it loaded it right behind the mower 
green at the rate of a ton and a half load 
every 15 minutes with one man on the 
wagon. Remember he did his driving and 
stopped and loaded when he had to. Ilay 
can be loaded from swath, windrow or cock 
equally well. My experience goes back into 
the early nineties with hay loaders, and 
they have proved their value many times 
over. I like to make hay in cocks; it is 
the only proper way, and with the right 
loader it can be loaded from the bunch with 
ease. Never send more than one man to 
a field with a hay loader. If you have a 
loader that requires more than one man— 
well, smash it and get a better one. 
R. C. ANGEVINB. 
THE RICHEST COW’S MILK. 
It is impossible to say how rich a sample 
of milk can be. The richest sample of 
milk tested at the World’s Columbian Ex¬ 
position at Chicago in 1903 was 12.3 per 
cent. The cow was sick and gave only a 
few pounds. The highest week’s average 
in the same test was 6.86 per cent. This, 
I believe, has been exceeded since. Since 
I received your letter I have had a record 
as follows: The Holstein cow Urma Gelsche 
2d A at 10.30 p. m., May 17, gave 1.2 
pounds of milk testing 3.1 per cent. At 
4.30 a. m., May 18, she gave 17 pounds 
of milk testing 5.3 per cent. At 10.30 
a. m., May 18, 19.8 pounds testing 7.8; at 
4.30 p. m. May 18, 16 pounds testing 9.5 
per cent, and at 10.30 p. m., May 18, 12.9 
pounds testing 5.9 per cent. The milking 
at 4.30 p. m. on May 18 is the highest of 
which I have record where as great an 
amount of milk was given. I do not know 
that this answers your question, except 
to reiterate as I said at the beginning, 
that it is not known how rich milk can 
be as it comes from the cow. 
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