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THE RURAb NEW-YORKER 
April 6, 
Trouble With the Pigs. 
Three sows farrowed six pigs each : each 
sow had from one to three undeveloped pigs 
in different stages of development. The 
living pigs are doing well, also the sows. 
The sows farrowed in January; for three 
months before they had the run of 640 
acres. They had wheat and Alfalfa for 
rations, and before that were on Alfalfa 
pasture. What was the trouble? 
Colorado. H. a. w. 
A few dead, undeveloped pigs in a 
litter is -not of frequent occurrence, 
though it occasionally happens, and un¬ 
less the loss is great but little atten¬ 
tion is given the matter by hog raisers. 
I cannot see that the feed and treat¬ 
ment of these sows should be the cause 
of the trouble in this case, provided 
there was no marked change in the 
amount and kind of feed, nor does it 
appear that they could have been in¬ 
jured or unduly exposed. Hog breed¬ 
ers who let the hogs follow feeding 
cattle say that such troubles are quite 
marked when brood sows are allowed 
to follow such cattle, and also sows so 
treated will not breed. These results 
may not follow in every case, but the 
effects of the kind and condition of 
feed are as well marked as those re¬ 
sulting from care and handling. Should 
this trouble occur again the inquirer 
may be able to find the cause of the 
trouble, remembering that condition of 
feed, whether too rank, too rich in pro¬ 
tein, or spoiled, and external shocks, 
have a profound influence upon breed¬ 
ing animals. Conditions that would 
cause abortion in horses or cattle would 
possibly kill one or two pigs in a litter, 
all of which would be carried full 
time. The ration of the sows men¬ 
tioned above was rich in protein, prob¬ 
ably containing more than was needed 
for best results. w. E. duckwall. 
Ohio. 
“Horse” or Mare. 
Is a man at a public auction compelled to 
accept a team of mares when the auctioneer 
sold them for horses? This is not a matter 
of law, but would like to find out. I was 
at a sale the other day and the auctioneer 
sold a team of horses for $675. The man 
who bought them saw they were mares when 
he gave them a thorough looking over, and 
went to the auctioneer and told him that 
he bought a team of horses, and not mares, 
and would not accept them. The auctioneer 
safd, “That’s right, and put them up again 
for sale and brought just $40 less. I would 
like to lind out who was right in this case, 
the buyer or seller? G. J. 
Hicksville, N. Y. 
It is common understanding among horse 
men that a “horse” refers to a male horse 
as distinct from a female or mare. It 
usually but not always refers to a gelding. 
NVben the auctioneer said he offered a team 
of horses the buyer would understand that 
they were male animals—otherwise the 
auctioneer would have called them mares. 
Most farmers would pay more for a 
"horse” than for a mare for work purposes, 
and in the case mentioned we think the 
auctioneer did right. 
AILING ANIMALS. 
Thumps. 
Will you advise me what to do with an 
ailing hog? It has a poor appetite, always 
the last one for its feed. It throbs or 
puffs out rapidly and has a rattle and 
noisy cough. I am feeding corn and Al¬ 
falfa leaves. It is eight months old, always 
thin, and does not grow much. It has had 
salt and charcoal. 2. Please give me a good 
cure for cough for the rest of the hogs. 
Nebraska. h. t. 
1. It is unlikely that the affected hog 
will recover sufficiently to become profitable. 
Evidently it is afflicted with chronic thumps. 
The common cause is overfeeding and lack 
of exercise. Make it live an outdoor life 
and feed on milk and limewater for some 
time, but add middlings, a little cornmeal 
and a little flaxseed meal if it improves. 
It may also have green feed of any kind. 
2. Remove dusty bedding and keep pigs 
from sleeping in damp beds. Cough should 
gradually disappear. It may be due to 
dust or damp, or to lung worms. There 
is no certain cure for the latter, but mix¬ 
ing a teaspoonful of turpentine in the slop, 
for each 80 pounds of pig and continuing 
for three successive days and again the 
following week, proves beneficial a. s. a. 
Old Scar. 
Last Summer, my mare, a grade 
Percheron, burnt herself with a rope on 
the left hind ankle. I thought I had 
it cured, and the hair grew long and 
covered the scar, and as she showed no 
signs of being in trouble from it I gave 
it no more notice. Later I drove her about 
live miles, and she appeared to be all 
right. The following morning I found that 
leg swollen to double its normal size. 1 
called in a veterinarian who pronounced 
the trouble lymphangitis, and she was 
treated for that for a couple of weeks, or 
till the medicine was used, but she was 
not better. He told me not to bathe the 
leg. More than the mere swelling the 
disease showed none of the phases of 
lymphangitis. I observed that there was 
heat and pain in the ankle and concluded 
to blister. I cut the hair as short as I 
could and discovered a bunch much larger 
than one’s finger the whole length of the 
burn. By 1 , repeated applications of hot 
water and a sedative lotion the leg soon 
became reduced to its normal size and 
the heat disappeared except in the ankle. 
Since then I have been trying to remove 
the bunch by the use of cantharides blister 
and vaseline and burnt alum used alter¬ 
nately, and cleaned carefully With my 
knife. I have reduced it about half and 
thought that the burnt alum would com¬ 
plete the cure, but it is increasing in 
size again and I am baffled and at my 
wit’s end. On the outside of the bunch 
there is a tough, skin-like substance, under 
that it is red, and appears to me to be 
granulated, and when the outer covering 
is removed it bleeds a little, not much. 
I am not sure that it is proud flesh. I 
have thought of burning it with caustic 
potash, but hesitate to do so.. The mare 
is quite poor and I can’t get her to take 
on flesh ; feed corn and vetch. Her hair 
looks all right. Her appetite is good. Can 
you tell me what to do? She is about 14 
years old. s. C. D. 
Delaware. 
Poultice the part with hot flaxseed meal 
for a few days and then wash it clean, 
and apply twice daily a little oxide of 
zinc ointment. Do not cauterize the scar. 
The treatment given to date does not seem 
to us as having been necessary and it is 
most probable that after all the mare had 
an attack of lymphangitis. If the leg 
swells bandage it from foot to hock, each 
time she comes into stable. Work or ex¬ 
ercise her every day. A. s. a. 
Acorn Poisoning. 
1. Do acorns affect the flow of milk? 
There are white oak trees in my cow 
pasture. Last Fall they were loaded with 
acorns; the cows ate them and shrunk in 
milk. Were the acorns the cause? 2. 
What ails the sheep? I keep a few ; last 
Fall I saved a ewe lamb. This Winter 
she is eating the wool off the rest of the 
sheep; she will grab them wherever she 
can get a mouthful and eat it as if she 
liked it. They are housed nights and 
stormy days, feed mixed hay and corn 
fodder, grain 100 pounds bran, two bushels 
oats mixed one pint to each sheep; potato 
skins once a day, salt and worm powder 
before them all the time. w. h. 
1. Acorns not only will cause indigestion 
and shrink of milk but will kill cattle 
if taken in large quantities, during a time 
of drought when lack of grass tempts them 
to eat such “foreign bodies.” 2. Indiges¬ 
tion often induces wool eating. Isolate 
that sheep and reduce feed. If improve¬ 
ment does not take place mix in feed for 
the affected animal two teaspoonfuls, twice 
daily, of a mixture of two parts powdered 
woo'd charcoal and one part bicarbonate of 
soda. a. s. a. 
Lameness. 
I have a mare 15 years old that I bought 
in the city two years ago and drove home 
240 miles. I thought she was pavement 
sore, but now think she is weak in the 
knees. She does not like to go out of a 
walk going down hill, but is free to travel 
on the level or up grade. Can there be 
anything done for her? D. p. 
Pennsylvania. 
This is chronic lamness and unlikely to 
prove curable. Try effect of blistering 
the hoof-heads of both fore feet, one at a 
time, with cerate of cantharides and repeat 
in two weeks. a. s. a. 
Horses With Cracked Lips. 
1. My horses have had their lips 
cracked open for nearly three months. I 
have treated them with borax which cures 
them for a while, but they soon crack 
again. I am feeding straw fodder and 
hay occasionally, as it is scarce, and corn 
and middlings for grain ration. The 
horses slobber some. 2. I bought some 
cattle last October a year ago in West 
Virginia, wintered them and in the Summer 
noticed a lump or knot on the forehead 
of two of them. I still have the cattle 
and the lump is getting larger. Do you 
know what is the matter? J. F. j. 
Virginia. 
1. Coarse, sharp fodder has lacerated 
the lips and then they become infected. 
Scrape each wound clean and then very 
lightly cauterize with a lunar caustic pen¬ 
cil. Afterward paint twice daily with 
glycerite of tannin. Try to supply less 
harsh feed. Wet the hay and straw. 2. 
without an examination we cannot explain 
the lumps at the location mentioned. Were 
they on the face or cheeks we would con¬ 
sider them actimonyetic and they would 
constitute “lumpy jaw.” a. s. a. 
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