£32 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 15, 
AILING ANIMALS. 
Quidding Feed. 
Have you a remedy to keep horses from 
throwing back their feed ? I feed four 
quarts of grain and half bushel of corn 
fodder to each horse three times a day. 
They appear to be in good condition, but 
the food is wasted. G. H. 
Maryland. 
When a horse rejects its food, and es¬ 
pecially when it comes away in “quids,” 
diseased molar teeth are commonly found 
present in the mouth. If the teeth are 
sound and the horses do not care for the 
food offered, you will have to give a change 
of feed, and we would suggest mixed clover 
hay, instead of corn fodder. a. s. a. 
Poor Hoofs. 
I have a mare about 14 years old with 
a hollow foot (right front). The hoof 
gets so that it will hardly hold the shoe. 
She is not lame except when on hard road, 
but she seldom works on hard road. Can 
you tell me what to do for her if there 
is a remedy? p. c. g. 
Maryland. 
Keep the foot trimmed to normal propor¬ 
tions, but do not cut away any of the 
sole, frog or bars. Twice daily soak the 
foot in cold water for 15 minutes to half 
an hour, then apply any simple, greasy 
hoof ointment. If she does not get over 
going lame on hard roads, better put a thick 
sole leather pad under the shoe. She will 
probably travel best with bar shoes. When 
you can spare her from work for two or 
three weeks, clip the hair from the hoof 
heads of both fore feet and blister them, 
one at a time, with cerate of cantharides, 
to stimulate growth of new sound horn. 
a. s. A. 
Colt With Worms. 
Since weaning my colt has become thin, 
his hair rough, and now he will not eat 
any grain of any account; will pick a 
little and eat a few potatoes. We are com¬ 
pelled to give him what he eats to keep 
him from starving. He will eat little hay, 
some cut corn fodder but he only eats the 
verv best. Is there anything to do for 
him ? E. R. 
Pennsylvania. 
Intestinal worms no doubt cause the lack 
of thrift in this colt. Give the colt all he 
will clean up twice daily of a mixture 
of equal parts of whole oats and bran, and 
in addition feed well saved clover hay or 
mixed clover and Timothy hay. Better 
not feed the corn fodder at present. There 
is no likelihood that the colt has been 
foundered. For worms mix in the feed 
twice daily two teaspooufuls of a mixture 
of two parts salt and one part each of 
sulphur and dried sulphate of iron. 
A. s. A. 
Trouble With Hog. 
Can you tell me what ails my pigs? 
Last Fall I bought two sows that had 
weaned their pigs. In about three weeks 
one of them refused to eat anything, be¬ 
came constipated ; I gave her a dose of oil 
and she seemed better, but in about a week 
died. The discharge from bowels was green 
in color and her skin was covered with red 
spots. I kept pigs in the same place all 
Summer and feed them hotel swill, but did 
not have any loss. a. a. b. 
When pigs become constipated, mix raw 
linseed oil in their slop, allowing about 
two ounces to each hundred pounds of body 
weight: or Epsom salts can be used in the 
same way. In the cases you describe, how¬ 
ever, something more serious than eostive- 
ness was present. The red spots on the 
skin may indicate the presence of hog chol¬ 
era, which is incurable. If a veterinarian 
should And that cholera was present, he 
should vaccinate the remainder of your hogs 
with protective serum. llogs frequently 
show somewhat similar symptoms and die 
in large numbers when fed hotel slop con¬ 
taining large quantities of soap powder or 
soap. Better avoid such feed in future. 
a. s. A. 
Paralysis. 
I have a horse somewhere between the 
ages of 15 and 25, that has always eaten 
extremely well, and anything offered him, 
but a few days ago I noticed he left his 
feed and upon examining him I found both 
upper and under lips hanging down loosely 
as though he had lost all control of them 
and consequently could not hold his food 
in his mouth. Did you ever hear of any¬ 
thing of that kind, and from this meagre 
description can you tell me what the 
trouble is and the remedy, if any? 
n. w. c. F. 
The horse is afflicted with partial paraly¬ 
sis of the facial nerves, and it is quite un¬ 
likely that he will perfectly recover. This 
trouble may be caused by bruising from a 
tight halter or bridle, pulling back in the 
stable, or receiving a blow or bruise upoij 
the face or head. Blister the poll of the 
head with cerate of cantharides. Twice 
daily give half a dram of fluid extract of 
nux vomica and gradually increase the dose 
until the horse is taking one dram twice 
a day in a little water. a. s. a. 
, Stumbling; Feeding Horses. 
1. Is there any remedy for a horse’s 
stumbling? I have a young horse three 
years old that would be a good saddle 
horse but has the fault of stumbling. Can 
you tell me if there is any cure for carry¬ 
ing the tail on one side? Many horses in 
this part of the country do that and it is 
considered a defect in the value of the 
horse. 2. What ought a small horse 
weighing between 900 and 1,000 pounds 
have to eat? We feed ours three times 
a day, cut feed and chop and corn, once 
a day. How many ears of corn ought 
they to have at a meal? When a horse 
lias just returned from a drive does it 
harm him to give him water or food at 
once or ought he to rest for a half hour 
or hour? The man I have to care for the 
horse is not experienced and I have to 
superintend him. j. l. j. 
Virginia. 
1. A very common cause of stumbling in 
saddle horses is failure to have the shoes 
reset at least once a month. Where this 
is not done, the hoof drags the shoe out 
of place and makes it uncomfortable upon 
the- foot. Stumbling may also be due to 
corns and these should be pared out thin 
once a month when the shoes are reset. 
Keep the toes short, but do not lower the 
heels or cut the frogs. 
2. A horse should be fed from 1 1-5 to 
1 1-3 pounds of grain and from one to 
1% pounds of hay per hundred pounds of 
body weig'ht, as a day’s ration. It is best 
to feed a mixture of one part of whole 
oats and one part wheat bran tw T ice a day 
and to feed ear corn at noon. When a 
horse comes in hot and tired from work, 
allow a sip or two of cold water; then 
feed one or two pounds of hay until he is 
cooled off. He may then be allowed all 
the cold water he wants to drink and after 
that his grain; with the exception of the 
amount of hay mentioned, he should not 
be fed bulky food at noon. a. s. a. 
Worms; Obstructed Teat. 
1. I ■ have a 15-year old mare that has 
worms and does not seem in thrifty con¬ 
dition. Her feed consists of Timothy hay 
and a small amount of sorghum for rough- 
age, and her grain ration consists of about 
equal parts of oats, barley, buckwheat and 
bran, the amount fed depending on the 
work she is doing. She eats ravenously 
but is not in as good flesh as she should 
be. I have tried giving her a worm 
remedy in her feed but she refused to eat 
the feed. Can you suggest a remedy, as I 
would like to get her in good condition 
for Spring work. 2. I also have a promis¬ 
ing four-year old Holstein heifer. Within 
the past week a small lump has seemed 
to form on the inside of one teat near the 
end, and a scab forms over the opening 
in the teat. I can pick this scab off and 
the milk comes through the opening, but 
with some difficulty. When I first noticed 
the scab I thought it was a small wart, 
as she has had them on her teats, and I 
applied castor oil until I found the bunch 
inside the teat. Will you advise what 
you think best for these cases? 
New York. d. f. l. 
1. Mix together two parts salt and one 
part each of sulphate of iron and sulphur, 
and of this mix one tablespoonful in the 
feed night and morning for one week, then 
skip 10 days and repeat. Omit the iron, if 
the mare happens to be in foal. The grain 
ration you are feeding may scarcely be 
suitable. It would be better to drop out 
the barley and buckwheat and make the 
bran one-fifth of the ration along with 
whole oats. The feeds we suggest omitting 
tend to cause indigestion. Barley is par¬ 
ticularly likely to cause skin eruptions. It 
seems likely that the feed you have been 
using has caused some of the lack of con¬ 
dition mentioned. Have her teeth attended 
to by a veterinarian. If her coat is long, 
coarse and rough and she sweats in the 
stable, clip the hair from her belly to a 
line with breast collar and breeching straps 
and from legs above knees and hocks. 
Substitute planing mill shavings or saw¬ 
dust, if she eats her bedding. Allow free 
access to rock salt. 
2. Night and morning immerse the end 
of the teat in a hot saturated solution of 
boric acid and after milking apply a lit¬ 
tle balsam of Peru to the sore. If found 
necessary after this treatment has been 
given for a week or so, the obstruction 
should be either cut out by a surgeon 
or he will slit through it in four differ¬ 
ent directions by means of a teat bistoury. 
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