1908. 
THE RURAIv NEW-YORKER 
693 
AILING ANIMALS. 
“ Wind-Sucking ” Pigs. 
We have some pigs several months old 
that suck their tongues; I suppose they 
would be called wind suckers, and do not 
thrive. Is there any remedy, and what is 
best to destroy the lice? N. M. B. 
Dip the pigs in a mixture of coal tar 
dip made according to directions given by 
the makers of (he dip. Give the pigs 
plenty of nutritious food to eat and we 
fancy (hoy won’t waste time sucking their 
tongues. We have never seen pigs “wind 
suck” as do cribbing horses. Mix lime- 
water freely in the slop. Do not feed 
corn. Allow plenty of range on clover or 
other green food. a. s. a. 
Urticaria in Colt. 
I have a three-year-old colt that Is 
badly broken out with pimples or hives; 
has been so for about three months. He 
has been out on pasture, but does not ap¬ 
pear to be any better. Can you tell me of 
any cure for it? lie is quite itchy, but the 
pimples do not tyreak the skin. 
Pennsylvania. i. h. s. 
Keep colt off grass for a time, and feed 
lightly on oats, bran and hay. Give him 
steady work or plenty of exercise. In 
drinking water mix twice daily a table¬ 
spoonful of glauber salts and increase dose 
if necessary to keep bowels acting freely 
but not scouring. Sponge itchy parts as re¬ 
quired with a lotion composed of a dram 
each of carbolic acid and dilute sulphuric 
acid in a pint of water. a. s. a. 
Spavin. 
I have a horse that has a bone spavin 
on hind leg. How can the spavin be 
killed? Also when horse lowers his head 
to eat grass he has a discharge from his 
nose, but it is only when his head is 
down. What can be done? j. t. b. 
New Jersey. 
If lameness is present it may be cured 
by having the spavin fired and blistered 
by a veterinarian; then *keep the horse 
tied up in stall for six weeks or more. 
Allow horse to graze if you do not have 
the spavin fired (and it only should be 
done if he is lame) and in feed twice 
daily mix a tablespoonful of a mixture of 
equal parts of dried sulphate of iron, and 
ground gentian root, nux vomica and fenu¬ 
greek. If a diseased molar tooth happens 
to be the cause of the discharge it should 
be removed by trephining. a. s. a. 
Cow With Warts. 
I have a grade Jersey cow six years old 
that has a large seed wart extending from 
the navel to the front part of udder, and 
has a dozen on each shoulder about the 
size of a half dollar to three or four inches 
in diameter. The one on the navel is 
about a foot long and nine inches wide, 
and hangs down three or four inches and 
causes the skin on belly to drop nearly even 
with the bottom of udder. Is there any 
cure for same? I have used kerosene oil 
on them but they seem to grow larger. 
New York. I. l. 
The warts on the shoulder should be re¬ 
moved by twisting or cutting them out 
and then cauterizing the bleeding bases 
with a red-hot iron. The large wart mass 
on the belly should be thoroughly rubbed 
with cold-pressed castor oil twice daily. At 
same time twist out parts that can be so 
removed. a. g. A . 
Horse With Abscess. 
This Spring I bought a young horse 
six years old. He was poor and had not 
been worked much all Winter. I put a 
collar on him that was too big, and plowed 
part of the day, and it bruised his right 
shoulder. A bunch came on it and for a 
few days it would go down, then come 
back when I worked him. I took him to 
a horse doctor about six weeks ago. He 
said in order to cure it he would have 
to put a rowel in it, so he did, and told 
me to syringe it out twice a day with six 
ounces dioxygen diluted with one-third 
water. I did as he told me. About two 
weeks ago he sent me word to take the 
rowel out and he would come and see to it, 
but has not come near me. I have kept 
on doetoring it as before, but it does not 
seem to get much if any better, and it is 
swollen worse now. I think the horse hurt 
his shoulder more in the pasture. I do not 
work him, only drive him with a wide 
breast collar on to carry the milk. What 
can I do for the horse? w. j. 
Vermont. 
Clip the hair from the affected parts; 
then with a clean sharp knife open the 
abscess freely and remove the rowel and the 
pus. After syringing out clean pack the 
cavity with oakum saturated in a mixture 
of equal parts turpentine and raw linseed 
oil, and renew this dressing once daily 
until it no longer can be inserted, when 
the wound will care for itself. Rowels 
are practically useless in such cases, and 
the dioxygen injections are much too ex¬ 
pensive for use on farm horses. a. s. a. 
THE AYRSHIRE COW. 
PART I. 
[Extracts from an article by C. M. Wins¬ 
low. Secretary Ayrshire Breeders’ Associa¬ 
tion.] 
The county of Ayr, in which the Ayrshire 
breed of cattle originated, is situated in the 
southwest of Scotland, backed by mountains 
on the east and washed by the ocean on 
the west, having the form of a crescent 
and embracing the Firth of Clyde in its 
circle. The face of the country is hilly, 
and rises from the level of the sea some 
2,000 feet to the top of the mountains on 
the cast. The soil is strong and somewhat 
heavy, being a clay and clay-loam, but 
thinner on the tops of the hills and moun¬ 
tains, the whole being originally covered 
with a dense growth of timber. The cli¬ 
mate is moist, with a temperature ranging 
from about 25 to 65 degrees, with a mean 
temperature of about 47 degrees, regulated 
by its proximity to the sea, and with fre¬ 
quent rains, which are favorable to growth 
of grass, giving luxuriant pasturage, though 
sometimes the country is swept by fierce 
coast storms. 
The Ayrshire is probably the youngest of 
the purebred dairy breeds, and though her 
origin is veiled in some obscurity there are 
many things that confirm the theory tljat 
the native wild cattle of the country are 
the foundation of the Ayrshire of modern 
times. The original native wild cattle of 
the country were said to be white, w r ith red 
ears and black noses, high white horns 
with black tips, with an animal now and 
then having more of the brown, black or 
red, very wild, and the bulls fierce, but when 
calves are taken young grow to be quiet 
and tame. This theory seems the more 
reasonable when we consider how easily the 
Ayrshire color reverts to the white; then 
too, there is frequently an Ayrshire that 
has a strong tendency to that wild, alert 
bearing that characterized the foundation 
stock. 
Ayrshires were very early brought into 
Canada by the Scotch settlers, also were 
brought over on ships from Glasgow to 
supply milk during the voyage, and were 
sold on arrival at Montreal or Quebec, and 
so popular were these cows that shipmasters 
were commissioned to bring over one or 
more cows from Ayrshire. More recently 
Ayrshires have been imported into Canada 
in large numbers. The importation to the 
United States began about 1837, by the 
Massachusetts Society for the Promotion 
of Agriculture bringing a few head into 
the State and scattering them among the 
farmers of Massachusetts. Other impor¬ 
tations from Scotland followed at intervals 
into different parts of the United States, 
as the value of this breed for dairy pur¬ 
poses was made evident, and as the demand 
became greater than the home breeders 
could supply. 
The Ayrshire cow in general is a hand¬ 
some. sprightly looking cow of medium size, 
weighing at maturity about 1,000 pounds, 
red and white in color, the relative pro¬ 
portions of red and white being greatly 
varied and readily yielding to the taste of 
the breeder, from his skill in selecting 
breeding animals. There has of late seemed 
to be more inquiry for Ayrshires with 
white preponderating, but color is merely 
a matter of fancy and carries with it no 
excellence of dairy quality. The Ayrshire 
has a small, bony head, large, full eyes, 
dish face, broad muzzle, large mouth, up¬ 
right horns, the size, whether slim or large, 
being a matter of local taste in breeding, 
long, slim neck, clean cut at throat, thin, 
sloping shoulders, with the spine rising 
a little above the shoulder blades, back 
level to setting on of tail, except a rise 
at the pelvic arch, broad across the loin, 
barrel deep and large, with ribs well sprung 
to give abundant room for storing coarse 
fodder, and wide through the region of 
the heart and lungs, nips wide apart, 
rump long, hind legs straight, thighs thin 
and incurving, giving room for udder, legs 
short, bones small, joints firm, udder large 
and square, and on young cows it is nearly 
level with belly, wide, long and strongly 
hung, teats from two and a half to three 
and a half inches long, of good size, placed 
wide apart on the four corners of the 
udder, with udder level between the teats 
and not cut up, milk veins large and tor¬ 
tuous, entering the belly well forward 
toward the fore legs. Skin soft and mel¬ 
low, covered with a thick growth of fine 
hair. 
While an Ayrshire cow should be shapely 
and handsome to look at as she stands or 
walks, she should when handled reveal 
much looseness of vertebra, flatness of rib, 
and width between the ribs indicating large 
dairy capacity. The Ayrshire is a tough, 
hardy cow, with a vigorous appetite, and 
not too particular what she eats. She is 
always hungry, eats greedily and chews her 
cud rapidly. You can rarely see an Ayr¬ 
shire cow when not either taking in food 
or chewing what she lias already gathered. 
While at pasture she does not wander 
around looking for sweet patches of grass, 
but goes to work rapidly gathering what is 
most conveniejit. either of grass or browse, 
and when full lies down to chew her cud 
with no time wasted; and when going to 
and from pasture will chew’ her cud while 
walking, and often continues to chew when 
started into a run. 
The general appearance of an Ayrshire, 
as you look at her, is striking, being alert 
and full of life and reserved energy. She 
is a healthy cow, rarely having ailments of 
body or udder, and you seldom see an 
Ayrshire cow but that has four healthy 
quarters in her udder and gives a uniform 
quantity of milk from each. S\he is a very 
persistent milker, giving a uniform quantity 
well up toward calving, and many of them 
are dried off with difficulty. She is very 
intelligent, quick to learn and of a re¬ 
tentive memory, easily taught to take the 
same place in the stable and, if required to 
change, will in a few days readily take the 
new place. She is quiet and pleasant to 
milk, not easily disturbed, and will as a 
rule yield her milk as readily to one milker 
as to another, and does not seem disturbed 
by any amount of noise in the stable. 
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