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AILING ANIMALS. 
Paralysis of Hog. 
Can you recommend anything for a hog 
which is disabled in hind parts? He has 
been in this condition for two weeks; eats 
well, but is unable to handle himself. 
Ohio. A. J. M. 
If the hog is in good flesh better slaugh¬ 
ter the animal for meat, which is perfectly 
good for use when actual disease is not 
present. Paralysis most often is induced by 
lack of exercise and heavy feeding. Stuffing 
a hog on corn is the commonest cause. All 
hogs should have mixed rations and be 
made to take abundant exercise every day. 
Rickets commonly is present when young 
hogs lose tlie use of their hind parts. 
A. S. A. 
Looseness of Bowels. 
I have a horse 14 years old, have had 
no roughage to feed but Alfalfa and straw. 
He doesn’t eat much straw ; was very loose 
in the bowels. I reduced the feed of Al¬ 
falfa as much as 1 dare, and would 
allow only one bucket of water morning, 
noon and night. He is crazy for more 
water, hut the bowel trouble continues, 
otherwise seems in good shape, lie has 
been on present rations for three months. 
What might have caused the trouble? 
Michigan. 8. fe. it. 
Alfalfa hay loosen the bowels and may 
cause scouring if at all moldy. Give the 
drinking water before feeding. Add oats 
and bran to the ration. Change to mixed 
clover and Timothy hay. A. s. a. 
Nervous Horse. 
Some renders may know of a way to pre¬ 
vent an old horse (that will not learn) 
Jumping sideways on meeting an auto. 
There may be some way of temporarily 
blindfolding him by an extra line. Has 
anyone tried this? L. A. R. 
Wisconsin. 
It is a difficult matter to teach an old 
horse new tricks and we fear that your 
nervous horse will never be quite safe to 
drive on roads where automobiles will be 
met. Blindfolding will not be likely to cure 
the nervousness, as the noise of the car will 
be sufficient to cause shying. Possibly he 
may do better, if hitched double with a 
quiet, reliable horse and a still better plan 
is to pasture such a horse in a small in¬ 
closure, tightly fenced, and quite close to 
a road where automobiles are frequently 
passing. In time the horse so treated will 
be likely to become accustomed to the cars. 
The same practice is a good one where 
horses are afraid of railroad engines and 
cars. A. s. a. 
Ailing Pigs. 
Could you tell me what is the matter 
with my pigs? I had 11, four months old. 
They eat fairly well. Two weeks ago one 
stopped eating for half a day and then died 
and the other day 1 found one dead in the 
morning. I am feeding them ground feed 
which is composed of seven bushels of corn 
on cob, three bushels shelled corn, three 
bushels of wheat. 35 to 40 pounds of malt 
sprouts, well mixed with two quarts of 
salt and six quarts of stock food. J. G. 
Long Island. 
You are probably killing your hogs with 
the feed and dope added. Animals do not 
require stock feed of any kind and hogs 
need not have more than a pound or so of 
salt per hundred pounds of mixed feed. 
Feed lightly on thick slop of hot water or 
sweet skim-milk, middlings, bran, cornmeal 
and a little digester tankage. Make the 
hogs take plenty of exercise every day. 
Roots or Alfalfa hay may be added to the 
ration. What shelled corn is fed should 
be rooted for among litter on a big barn or 
shed floor. A. s. a. 
Paralysis. 
My neighbor has two shotes, and one 
of them is sick, seems to he paralyzed in 
the hind quarters; has to be lifted to the 
trough at mealtime and lifted back after 
rating. His bowels do not move easily. 
The shotes are fed slop from the kitchen 
together with apples, also bran and meal, 
two parts meal to four parts bran. They 
have a warm dry place but not very large. 
For three Winters he has kept pigs in 
the same place and every Winter some 
of them have had the same trouble. Can 
you tell the cause and prescribe treat¬ 
ment? a. H. 
Pennsylvania. 
Lack of exercise is the chief reason for 
such troubles with hogs and improper feed¬ 
ing is the other. It is absolutely necessary 
to make hogs take abundant exercise out 
of doors, or rooting for shelled corn 
sprinkled on a large shed or barn floor, 
and covered deeply with litter, every day 
during the Winter season. Feed five parts 
meal and one part bran and mix linjo 
water freely in all slop fed. Give free 
access to wood ashes, charcoal and slaked 
lime. Feed roots, silage or Alfalfa hay 
in Winter, in addition to other feeds. 
a. s. a. 
Indigestion. 
I have a six-year-old gelding that seems 
not to he doing as well as I would like, 
lie sweats very easily and is very easily 
fatigued. When put to an unusual task or 
pulling heavily he seems to pant or puff 
considerable. He has a rough, heavy coat 
of hair but has not passed any worms. 
He eats very heartily. Ho you think it 
possible that his heart is the cause of his 
short-windedness and poor condition? 
Ohio. G. D. B. 
This is a plain case of chronic indiges¬ 
tion and in such affection the heart often 
is imperfect or irregular in its action. 
If the indigestion can be remedied, the 
heart action will gradually resume normal 
tone. Worms may have nothing to do with 
tlia trouble! Clip the hair from the belly of 
this horse to a line with the straps of the 
breast collar and breeching and from the 
legs above knees and hocks, and ns soon 
as the weather moderates in Spring, clip 
the remaining parts of the body, if the 
animal continues affected with indigestion. 
Give the drinking water before feeding and 
do not feed any bulky roughage at noon or 
work the horse soon after a meal. Feed 
a mixture of five parts whole oats and one 
part wheat bran dampened. Give this 
night and morning and at noon feed ear 
corn. At first give only about one-half of 
the grain ration you have been using; 
but gradually Increase the feed ns the horse 
can digest it perfectly. If oats pass whole 
in the droppings, have the teeth attended to 
by a graduate veterinarian. If the horse 
bolts his feed, substitute a very large shal¬ 
low feed box for the one now in use. This 
will prevent taking large mouthfuls of feed. 
If he eats his bedding, use planing mill 
shavings or sawdust instead of straw. Al¬ 
low free access to rock salt. a. s. a. 
Fits. 
I have a purebred Holstein bull calf 14 
weeks old that has spasms or fits similar 
to cats. The calf grows well and appears 
healthy. It is a very good individual and 
has good breeding. Until two weeks ago 
the entire roughage he received was silage, 
and I though perhaps too much of it acted 
as a poison, as the fits would come on 
with the first mouthful lie took, lie has 
not had any silage since. I have substi¬ 
tuted hay and stalks. A few days ago he 
had another fit with the first mouthful of 
oats he ate. Ho will begin eating and 
before he has swallowed any will suddenly 
jerk his head out of the pall closing one 
eye and turning his head sideways as 
though some dirt had gotten into the eye. 
Every muscle becomes taut, and he gradu¬ 
ally settles down on the ground holding 
his breath, digging his nose in the dirt 
and rocking his head sideways. After about 
30 seconds he throws himself about trying 
to get up, his breath coming in snorts 
several seconds apart. He gradually comes 
to, after which he breathes very fast and 
trembles all over, and does nob attempt to 
eat any more of the feed which seemed 
to cause it but goes to the meadow and 
eats it. In all the fit lasts from 00 to 90 
seconds. Is it anything serious and is 
there any remedy fo’r it? g. t. r. 
New Jersey. 
Examine the mouth ns it may be blocked 
with coarse fodder that may have lodged 
between the teeth and cheek. Put the calf 
on a ration of milk, meal and a very little 
fine hay. A young calf has not a developed 
paunch and cannot properly care for much 
roughage. Nature intended the fourth 
stomach (abomasum) to do most of the 
receiving and digeating of feed in a calf 
of the age stated. A sucking calf, left to 
nature, would be eating green grass and 
not coarse, dry, bulky forage, in addition 
to taking its mother’s milk. Change of 
feed may end the trouble. Give the calf 
a full dose of castor oil in milk, or epsom 
salts in warm water to clear the bowels 
of irritants. a. r. a. 
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