1911. 
THE HI 1RAL N E W-VORKKK 
AILING ANIMALS. 
Hygroma. 
I have a two-year-old registered heifer 
that has a bunch or bruise on front knee. 
Is there any hope of taking it off per¬ 
manently? She is a valuable animal, and 
it spoils her beauty. f. m. s. 
New York. 
Bruising on manger is the cause and 
fluid no doubt is present in a cyst. It can 
be successfully operated upon by an expert. 
External applications will do no good. 
A. s. A. 
Thrush. 
I purchased a brood mare a short time 
ago, and she has thrush in the fore feet. 
What can I do for it? I notice some ad¬ 
vise not to cure if in the fore feet, as it 
is liable to cause the horse to go lame. Is 
this true? F. w. c. 
Pennsylvania. 
Keep stall floors clean and dry. Clean 
out cleft of frog and pack with calomel 
once daily, retaining it in place with 
pledgets of oakum or cotton. Thrush should 
be cured as soon as possible in either fore 
or hind feet. It very rarely causes lame¬ 
ness. a. s. A. 
Bone Spavin; Catarrh in Sheep. 
1. Will you give treatment for bone 
spavin on a horse? 2. I have a flock of 
sheep, most of them run at the nose. I 
notice some of the lambs are running at 
the nose same as the old ones. What can 
I do for them? T. m. w. 
1. When lameness is present the best 
treatment is to have the spavin and hock 
Joints fired and blistered by a qualified vet¬ 
erinarian, and then tie the horse up short 
in stall for six weeks absolute rest. 2. Keep 
the sheep out of doors as much as pos¬ 
sible, but protect from wet and from 
driving winds. Dirty, badly ventilated 
stables often cause catarrh in sheep. 
a. s. A. 
Periodic Ophthalmia, 
I have a horse that has sore eyes; some¬ 
times one eye will be sore and sometimes 
both; the eyes water, and are real red 
inside of eye. In Summer time they are 
all right; Fall and Winter they will get 
sore. Some say it is moon blindness. 
Could you tell me what is wrong and what 
to do for it? J- H - B - 
Pennsylvania. 
The disease is periodic ophthalmia (moon 
blindness), and incurable. It causes blind¬ 
ness after successive attacks. Bathe the 
eyes twice daily with a 10 per cent, solu¬ 
tion of boric acid when inflamed. Darken 
the stable. This will afford some degree 
of relief. Giving a dram of iodide of potash 
in the drinking water night and morning for 
five consecutive days a week will tend to 
retard blindness. a. s. a. 
Ringworm. 
How can we destroy a parasite which 
is giving both man and beast great trouble 
here? Our local veterinarian has been 
treating this for two months; he gave re¬ 
lief but no cure as yet. He told me to 
apply the wash with my hand, and I did 
once too many times for my own good. I 
got 12 of the parasites lodged in one hand 
and wrist. They were the most interesting 
little colony that I ever had anything to 
do with. I applied blue vitriol and iodine 
to stop their spreading, but could not. The 
veterinarian calls this disease mange or 
Mexican itch. A. T. 
The disease is no doubt ringworm, due 
to the vegetable parasite Tricophyton ton¬ 
surans. Scrub each spot clean, and when 
dry rub in castor oil freely. Repeat ap¬ 
plication of iodine every other day, and 
use the oil once or twice daily. 
a. s. A. 
Ailing Cow. 
I have a young cow that came in last 
Summer with her second calf. About four 
weeks or so after calving she acted very 
strangely one milking time, staggering up 
to be milked and apparently blind, as she 
would walk into trees and over rocks. I 
called in two veterinarians, one of whom 
thought she had a stroke. We doctored her 
quite a while. She improved and regained 
her sight, keeping to her milk all the time 
but she is growing poorer and losing in 
flesh, although apparently feeling well. She 
frolics and acts lively and looks well every 
other way, only growing poor. What feed 1 
would you recommend? Do you think it ; 
possible that she might have shingle nails 
or anything of that sort in her internal 
organs? We shingled barns this Summer. 
What would you advise? farmer. 
New York. 
In the first place we would suspect that 
the staggering and temporary blindness was 
associated with some severe derangement of 
the digestive organs. In some instances it 
Is due to impaction of the third stomach 
(leaves or manyplies) ; in others' to some 
other form of indigestion or to poisonous 
or irritating matters in the feed. As other 
cattle do not seem to have been similiarly 
affected we can scarcely take this to be a 
case of weed poisoniug.or forage poisoning 
from molds. It is possible that foreign bod¬ 
ies, such as shingle nails, have been taken 
in; but where such foreign bodies cause 
derangement of the digestive organs it is 
almost certain that the animal will suffer 
from chronic bloating of the rumen (pauneb, 
on left side). We do not think it likely that 
she is in calf. Taking the history and cir¬ 
cumstances into consideration we are unable 
to advise as to treatment which would 
probably restore health and on general prin¬ 
ciples, would consider it highly advisable 
to have her tested with tuberculin, lest 
tuberculosis should happen to be present. 
That disease is always to be suspected 
when a cow gradually fails and becomes 
emaciated from unknown cause. a. s. a. 
Hoofs Sloughing. 
I desire a little information in regard 
to a sick mare. She is a little aged, but 
otherwise she lias always been very hearty. 
Recently I drove her a few miles and when 
I came home with her she was apparently 
as well as ever; she ate her dinner and 
supper as usual, but the next morning 
■when I went to the stable, I found her 
with her left hind leg very much swollen 
and refused to eat. I applied hot water 
and hot vinegar and salt, and the next 
morning when I went to the stable both 
hind legs were considerably swollen. I 
again applied hot vinegar and water again; 
seeing no satisfactory results I called a 
veterinary. He said she had a little kidney 
trouble, but would be all right in a few days. 
On the following Monday she had a yellow 
ring around the top of hoofs, with a nasty 
discharge and the hoofs were loose all 
around and looked as though they were 
coming off. I called in the veterinary again v 
he said she was, going to lose her hoofs 
and the best thing to do was kill her. 
I have not done so yet, and at present 
time she eats heartily and gets up herself 
and walks real well, but her hoofs are still 
loose behind. I don’t think they are 
quite as bad in front as they were. I have 
had old men who have had quite an ex¬ 
perience with horses and they all say they 
have never seen such a case before. I 
would like to know what this is and what 
is the cause, and I would also like to 
know if there is such a thing as a horse 
losing its hoofs. j. m. p. 
Reisterstown, Md. 
It is not uncommon for sloughing of the 
hoofs to take place when horses have been 
poisoned by ergot in their hay or in ripe 
grain, or in pasture grass. Late cut June 
grass is particularly liable to cause “er¬ 
gotism.” Sloughing may also happen in 
acute eoronitis, suppurating corn, nail 
prick and founder. We cannot say what 
has caused the condition in the case of 
your mare or promise much hope of re¬ 
covery. Home treatment will not avail. 
Call in a graduate veterinarian in place of 
the man you have previously employed. 
a. s. A. 
Troubles with Swine. 
Will you tell me what to do to eradicate 
a sort of “scurf” which comes on my pigs? 
Is it contagious and must pens be disin¬ 
fected to kill it? It appears mostly on 
the backs of the pigs, a sort of scabby sur¬ 
face and at times scales off. I have washed 
them with disinfectant soap, also greased 
them with sulphur and lard; as yet have 
been unable to kill it. Pens are kept clean 
and mostly dry and have washed pen out 
and sprinkled slaked lime on the floors. 
I have a young pig about five months old, 
which has some trouble with its legs. 
While standing at trough feeding it fell 
to the floor and seemed to be helpless. 
Hind legs act like being weak or rheumatic, 
standing slanting toward head and at times 
shivers as though cold, although in warm 
pen in bank barn. This pig has been kept 
in dry pen and bed, allowed to run around 
stables, feeding it wheat middlings, with 
bran mixed and wet, also corn on cob, be¬ 
side slop from house. It might be that It is 
overfed or that has been kicked by a cow 
while rooting around the excrement at the 
cow’s stall. I am interested in hog rais¬ 
ing and am having some discouraging ex¬ 
periences. Can you recommend some au¬ 
thority on hog raising in book form that 
would cover diseases and remedies, as well 
as rearing same? t. j. l. 
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Dirty skin in hogs simply means lack 
of health and thrift, and particularly in¬ 
activity of the excretory organs and blood 
circulation. Penning the pigs and feeding 
heavily explains the trouble and local 'rem¬ 
edies will not avail. One must remove 
the cause; then the skin will become 
healthy in unison with health of all of the 
other organs of the body. Turn the pigs 
out, but provide a dry, clean pen, bedded 
with shredded corn fodder for them to run 
to at night. Feed roots and Alfalfa hay or 
mlage may take place of roots. Stop feed¬ 
ing <oin. Skim-milk and middlings may be 
f ven once daily. Apply to skin a mix¬ 
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Heaves. 
V<? - a mai ’° eight years old 1 bought 
last Spring. Last Summer she began to 
cough and has a rattling in her head or 
throat, but think it is in the head. This 
Winter she is much worse; sometimes 
coughs up a mattery substance, breathes 
hard at times, and sides work like a horse 
that has the heaves. She is in good work¬ 
ing order. After working her a while she 
sei ms to be better, and if she sweats any 
w iile working she coughs worse next morn¬ 
ing. I bred her last May. I feed her six 
ears of corn three times a day, and bran 
ith corn ; give fodder at evening and hay 
In the morning dampened with lime water. 
Can there be anything done for her? 
° hio - N. g. 
There can be no question that this is 
a bad case of heaves, and incurable. Dis¬ 
tress may, however, be lessened by feeding 
wet oat straw in Winter and grass in place 
of hay in Summer. Feed whole oats and 
bran in place of corn. Do not feed any 
bulky food at noon. Do not work her soon 
after a meal, it is not wise to breed from 
a mare afflicted with heaves, as tendency 
to the disease is hereditary. a. s. a. 
Lameness. 
I have a mare about 12 years old. When 
taken out of the stable she walks stiffly, 
when in a slow trot goes lame on the off 
fore leg, and nigh hind leg, not very badly, 
but so that it is noticeable; after driving 
three or four miles it passes off, and she 
travels free. Then if allowed to stand 
for a short time even she will act the same 
way; stiff and lame for a time and then 
get over it. Is it likely to be caused by 
rheumatism? She is in good condition, but 
rather a light feeder. I have only owned 
her about 10 days and know nothing of her 
previous to that time. She did not show 
any lameness at the time I bought her, but 
started to go lame on the way home and 
the next night there was a slight swelling 
of the cords between the knee and fetlock of 
the “off” fore leg, which I easily reduced 
by bathing with hot water. A . w. b. 
Massachusetts. 
Rheumatism may be present, but it Is 
much more likely that you have had a 
chronic case palmed off upon you by a 
sharp dealer. Without an examination we 
are unable to say what causes the lame¬ 
ness, so it will be necessary to employ a 
qualified veterinarian. A . s . A . 
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farmers, as it has brought out the fact 
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game worked here, and strange to say, there 
were 24 suckers found who would put up 
IH’A 00 for „ a horse that was worth perhaps 
$600 or $800. As usual the agent came 
here and got two well-known men to head 
the list of stockholders (and it is a well 
settled fact that these two “leaders” got 
their stock free) and then had little trouble 
in getting the rest of the signers. It is a 
shame that there can bo men found in a 
community who will lend their influence to 
help swindle their neighbors, when there is 
a graft in it for themselves. 
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