1913. 
'THE) RURA.E> NEW-YORKER 
140 
AILING ANIMALS. 
Thrush. 
I have a six-year old horse. His four 
feet are cracked right in the back of each 
hoof, from the bottom up to the top of his 
hoof. On the right front foot he goes lame 
when this festers. What is good for it? 
Pennsylvania. a. s. 
Perfectly cleanse and dry the parts; 
then pack calomel into the cleft of the frog, 
and on each side of it, and keep it in 
place by means of pledgets of oakum or 
tow. Renew the dressing once a day and 
keep the stall floor clean, dry and bedded 
with planing mill shavings or sawdust. The 
disease is caused by the horse standing in 
wet and filth in the stable. a. s. a. 
Sweating in Stable. 
What is the trouble with my mare? She 
is about 1G years old And has no work to 
do in the Winter; feed is mostly mixed 
hay. She eats well and seems to feel well, 
but sweats on the neck and flank; the 
flank is very warm at times. She does not 
sweat on any other part of the body and 
does not cough. I have a warm barn and 
do not use a blanket. a. s. 
New York. 
The stable should not be warm. A tem¬ 
perature of 45 degrees, or thereabouts Is 
quite warm enough. Ventilate the stable 
perfectly. Make the mare work or run 
out every day. Clip the hair from her belly 
to a line with the straps of breast collar 
and breeching and from legs above knees 
and hocks, and the sweating will cease. 
She should have some grain, roots and 
bright oat straw as well as mixed hay. 
a. s. A. 
Cow with Eye Disease. 
I have a cow, mostly .Durham and an 
easy keeper; last Spring I noticed some¬ 
thing the matter with her right eye, in 
which I threw fine salt, and afterwards 
used an eye water. Neither seemed to do 
any good. At intervals since then it seemed 
to get better and then again worse; now 
it discharges as it has for some time a 
thick white matter and the whole of the 
white of the eye is a deep red. She eats 
well, but is thin in flesh and seems weak. 
Will you advise me what to do for the 
eye, and what to give to tone her up? 
s. E. L. 
The cow is afflicted with a cancerous, ma¬ 
lignant, incurable disease of the eye. known 
as “fungus hajmatodes.” She should have 
been sold for slaughter when in good flesh ; 
but that course is now out of the question, 
as the flesh of an emaciated, fevered cow, 
should not be used for human food. 
A. s. A. 
Inherited Bovine Tuberculosis. 
I have a fine heifer (springer) from a 
registered Guernsey bull and a Jersey 
mother, both fine stock, but we have found 
that the mother had tuberculosis and she 
has been killed. She was undoubtedly in¬ 
fected when heifer was dropped. Wili the 
heifer inherit the disease of the mother? 
Pennsylvania.' g. c. w. 
Bovine tuberculosis is seldom, if ever, 
transmitted to a calf before birth ; the 
fact, therefore, that the dam of this heifer 
had tuberculosis need give you no uneasi¬ 
ness, provided that the calf did not suckle 
its dam after birth. If this was per¬ 
mitted. however, the calf may have been 
Infected through its mother's milk, and the 
quickest way to ascertain whether the 
heifer is free from tuberculosis would be 
to have a tuberculin test made by a com¬ 
petent observer. M. b. d. 
Indigestion. 
I have a colt coming five that is run¬ 
ning down in flesh ; he has a good appetite, 
eats up everything clean he can reach, bed¬ 
ding and all, but still he grows poor. I 
give him four quarts of chop twice a day 
and four of oats for dinner with plenty of 
good hay. He is used very little, only for 
light driving; he drives poor lately, seems 
to feel tired. He is a fine driver when in 
good trim. What shall I do to get him 
back? p. b. s. 
Connecticut. 
Bed with shavings or sawdust, as eating 
of the bedding tends to aggravate indiges¬ 
tion, which is the cause of the bad habit. 
Clip the hair from belly, to a line with 
straps of breast collar and breeching and 
from legs above knees and hocks. Work 
the horse fully every day, or make him live 
outdoors as much as possible, if there is no 
work for him to do. At first cut the ration 
down one-half and gradually increase feed 
as the horse improves. Have his teeth at¬ 
tended to by a veterinarian to start treat¬ 
ment. Allow free access to rock salt. If 
worms are present give medicine to destroy 
them as often advised here. a. s. a. 
Moldy Hay. 
Is moldy clover hay of benefit as feed 
for any kind of stock? Cattle seem to rel¬ 
ish it. Will it injure them? If so, in 
what way? If the hay is shaken up and 
the dust blows away freely, will the in¬ 
jurious properties, if any, be gone? Are 
there different kinds of mold in hay, some 
injurious to stock and some not? If so. 
how distinguished? If hay that is slightly 
musty may safely be fed, and that having a 
heavy moild be injurious, what is the rule 
for dividing' the two grades? If the moldy 
hay is unlit for food, could it be in any way 
profitably treated to cause it to become 
wholesome? E. L. 
Indiana. 
Moldy hay is unfit and dangerous feed 
for all classes of stock independent of the 
kind of mold present, or the degree of mold 
affecting the fodder. It is most injurious 
to horses, and especially to mares in foal. 
It is likely to cause staggers or cerebro¬ 
spinal meningitis among horses, when badly 
infested and in some particular seasons. 
This proved to be the case in Nebraska and 
some other Western States last Fall; but 
one cannot tell when the bad effects will be 
experienced, or when any moldy feed will 
prove detrimental. It is molds in corn 
fodder that cause so-called “cornstalk dis¬ 
ease” among cattle; but one cannot predict 
when an infested field Is going to prove 
dangerous. Moldy silage often will kill 
horses as sure as a shotgun. Moldy hay 
always acts injuriously on the kidneys of 
horses and this is indicated by excessive 
urination (diabetes) which often proves 
very weakening and causes loss of flesh. 
Feeding cattle are least affected ; and many 
feeders use moldy hay (clover) when well 
shaken out and then made but a very small 
part of the ration, along with an abundance 
of sound mixed hay, corn fodder, silage, 
grain and other feeds. It would be prefer¬ 
able to use the molded hay as mulch and 
then turn it under when plowing. It sel¬ 
dom pays to run chances; and so it is 
best, on general principles, only to use ab¬ 
solutely sound feed fog animals. 
A. S. A. 
Pawing in Stable. 
What will cure a horse of pawing the 
manger and striking sides of barn with 
his fore feet at night? He begins some 
nights at six or eight o’clock and keeps 
it up continually until about two or 2.30 
a. m. Some nights he kicks. I have had 
this horse about two months; had his 
shoes reset and have filled his hoofs with 
vaseline, also pine tar on his hoofs; they 
look all right. He is kind and gentle and 
a good worker. c. a. h. 
Missouri. 
Keep the stable free from rats and mice. 
They often keep a nervous horse from 
sleeping and so induct; pawing. The 
horse will be likely to rest better in a 
box stall, and should be given a full feed 
of good hay the last thing at night, the 
oat feed being fed at six o'clock. See that 
the stall is kept well bedded with planing 
mill shavings. Horse should be freed from 
worms, if they are present either in rec¬ 
tum or intestines. a. s. a. 
Fistula of Teat. 
I have a young cow. second calf due In 
April; one of her hind teats has a small 
opening about an inch from the end of the 
teat. After one milks a little the milk 
begins to spurt out at this side opening. 
Since the cow is a very promising one 
would like to know if there is some simple 
way by which this can be made to close 
up. I have wondered if cauterizing it with 
a hot iron or perhaps caustic and then heal¬ 
ing It would close it, and if there would 
be any great risk in doing so. I could turn 
her dry at most any time now to give time 
for healing. J. L. B. 
Michigan. 
When she is dry the fistulous opening can 
be obliterated by cauterization, but the 
better treatment is to rim out the pipe down 
to the duct, to make new fresh bleeding 
edges. Then dust with iodoform and band¬ 
age teat from tip to udder with a strip 
of surgeon’s plaster. The plaster may be 
removed in 10 days and the fistula then 
should be closed. It is best to employ a 
graduate veterinarian to do such opera¬ 
tions. as it is an easy matter to cause in¬ 
fection and so spoil the udder. a. s. a. 
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