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THE RTJRAIi NEW-YORKER 
April 5, 
AILING ANIMALS. 
Garget. 
What is the best thing to do with a 
spider teat, to lance it or burn the germ 
with carbolic acid? 1 have a cow fre¬ 
quently troubled with caked udder. I have 
tried quite a good many things, and all 
fail. The only thing I can do is to stop 
feeding for two days, and then she goes 
down from a pail to a half pail. Just 
as soon as 1 start at two quarts of grain 
she begins to suffer again. J. w. a. 
New York. 
As often advised here, it does not pay 
to treat such cows. They are unprofitable 
and a nuisance on a dairy farm and may 
infect other cows. Such troubles never 
prove perfectly curable. The trouble al¬ 
ways is likely to return at a subsequent 
calving. Sell her to the butcher, a. s. a. 
Warts. 
I have a cow that has bunches come 
on her teats and the front part of her 
udder has one that is about eight inches 
in diameter, it is round and smooth and 
hangs there like a tomato on a stem. The 
cow seems well, eats well and is in good 
condition. Please advise me what to do. 
Ohio. E. B. 
Tie fine cords tightly around the base 
of each growth and they will soon drop 
off. Masses of small warts on the udder 
and teats will disappear in time if rubbed 
daily with best castor oil. a. s. a. 
Vomiting Cow. 
My cow had a touch of pneumonia. I 
put mustard on her to blister her. It made 
her quite well, hut now she has a weak 
stomach, and vomits quite often. When 
I see she has to vomit I give her some 
baking soda. I have carrots and mangel 
wurzel, but I am afraid to give them to 
her because they seem to make her vomit. 
Would you tell me something that would 
make her stomach better and to stop the 
vomiting? c * E - 
New York. 
Indigestion probably was present when 
you treated her for pneumonia, as it causes 
grunting which seems to indicate lung trou¬ 
ble. Give two ounces of granular hyposul¬ 
phite of soda twice daily and add charcoal 
freely to the feed if vomiting persists. If 
no relief follows starve her for 24 hours, 
then feed half a meal twice a day for a 
time. It would be well to have her tested 
with tuberculin as such symptoms often are 
due to tuberculosis affecting the digestive 
organs. a. s. a. 
Pining Cow. 
What is the trouble with my cow? About 
four weeks ago she took a chill and stopped 
making manure. I finally got the bowels 
in working order by the use of salts with 
ginger, and linseed oil. She then started 
eating and appeared to be on the road to 
recovery. On the advice of a neighbor I 
gave her a piece of saltpetre, one-third size 
of egg, and since that time she has not 
eaten anything (that was three weeks ago.). 
I have tried her on grain, roots and sprouted 
oats, but nothing will tempt her. She is 
due to freshen May 3. She was in fine con¬ 
dition and perfectly healthy. If you can 
advise me what to do I should be very 
grateful. I have been giving her oat meal 
gruel for nourishment; does not care about 
drinking water now. L. a. 3. 
New York. 
The cow most likely has tuberculosis in 
an advanced state. To determine the mat¬ 
ter have her tested with tuberculin. This 
will only require 30 hours or so. If she 
does not react to the test give her two 
ounces of pure alcohol, half an ounce of 
fluid extract of gentian root and half a 
dram of fluid extract of dux vomica in a 
pint of flaxseed twice a day and increase 
to three doses a day if found necessary. 
A. S« A. 
Partial Paralysis. 
I have a hog that is broken down and 
I thought it was kidney worms, so I put 
turpentine on his back, lie got better in 
his hind parts, but is crippled all over, 
lie gets up and eats a little and lies and 
eats the remainder. What is the matter? 
j. h. s. 
Kidney worms are not the cause of a 
hog breaking down or becoming paralyzed, 
common erroneous belief to the contrary. 
The usual cause is rickets due to malnutri¬ 
tion, improper feeding and lack of exer¬ 
cise. Stuffing hogs on corn at all times of 
life, and depriving them of due exercise 
will be most likely to induce rickets and 
paralysis. It would be best to kill the 
bog for meat. Treatment does not pay 
-when a hog* is in fit condition for slaugh¬ 
ter. 
Trouble With Pigs. 
I killed two shotes recently, and largest 
one was red nearly all over; on backbone it 
goes down into the fat about one-fourth 
inch, and farther away from center of back 
it is only on skin, like a bruise. The other 
has a little on back, and it could be scraped 
mostly all off. I did not think they were 
sick, but they have not eaten as well for 
several days; thought I had overfed a lit¬ 
tle. Later I noticed one did not walk well 
as he came from bed to eat, and by rub¬ 
bing skin I could see the red underneath 
on back, close to shoulders. Are the two 
I killed good to feed to chickens and dogs 
after cooking? I have three more in pen 
with an open board partition between them. 
Hogpen is full of cornstalks that are thrown 
in from cow and horse manger when 
cleaned out; they have dry warm bed of 
wheat straw. J- J* B- 
Cholera discolors the skin and causes 
red spots on it and the internal organs; 
but the symptoms scarcely indicate that 
disease. A* more likely cause would be frost 
bite, from exposure in pen or yard. The 
meat will be fit for use when cooked, as 
you suggest. Without an examination we 
are unable to say just what is wrong; 
so it would be well to employ a qualified 
veterinarian if the trouble persists. 
a. s. A. 
Blind Quarters. 
We had a fine young cow come in recent¬ 
ly. At the first milking there seemed to 
be no milk in both left quarters. Later we 
saw something was wrong ; on closer exam¬ 
ination a small lump was found well up 
in each teat. We started the milk in the 
hind teat with the milk tube but cannot 
start the front one. Then we lanced it 
and the milk came well for a few days and 
then stopped; we made another slight cut 
but it has stopped. Will you tell us what 
to do? w. A. J. 
New York. 
It will not pay you to fuss with such a 
case. Cutting and use of milking tubes 
will be sure to end in infection and garget 
of the quarters. Better sell her for slaugh¬ 
ter, or feed off for the butcher. Rub the 
udder with camphorated oil twice a day to 
stop secretion of milk. a. s. a. 
Unsound Knees. 
I have a mare 17 years old; last Spring 
lumps came on her knees. They seem to 
go and come. While they are not present 
the knees are swollen. She shows but lit¬ 
tle lameness, seems more weak and inclined 
to stumble. What can I do for it? 
Pennsylvania. H. F. w. 
It is likely that the condition will be 
benefited by rubbing in 10 per cent iodine 
petrogen once daily ; then if bunches form 
clip off the hair and blister each of them 
with a mixture of one dram of biniodide of 
mercury and one ounce of lard. Rub the 
blister in for 15 minutes; then tie the mare 
up short in stall. Wash the blister off in 
three days and then apply lard daily. 
a. s. A. 
Wound. 
I have a mare that was injured by push¬ 
ing her foot under the partition of the 
stall just above the hock (inside the leg). 
At first only a slight scratch could be seen 
and very little lameness. After several 
days the skin came off from a spot about 
three inches long and two wide, leaving 
the knuckle 'of the hock exposed with a 
slight cavity in front of the knuckle about 
one inch long and size of a lead pencil. I 
have cleaned this wound with white Castile 
soap and water and dressed with vaseline 
and mutton tallow. There is very little 
swelling; the wound looks perfectly 
healthy, but will it ever heal if the fluid 
from the joint escapes? She is a strong, 
muscular, nervy animal in perfect health 
and condition. She is due to foal April 
1 and I have always given my breeders 
exercise and have never lost a colt or had 
any bad luck. I do not know whether It 
would be safe to turn her out in the yard 
with the leg in its present condition or 
how I would be able to bandage so as to 
kept it in place. There might be some 
substance that would stick the outside 
bandage to the leg above and prevent it 
from dropping down. There is no lame¬ 
ness and only slight .suppuration. Do you 
think it possible to draw that closer to¬ 
gether with wound plaster. Stitches would 
not hold in the flesh where there is so 
much movement. J. s. w. 
New York. 
Do not turn her out before the wound 
has healed. Do not use plaster. Twice 
daily dust the wound with a mixture of 
one part each of iodoform and tannic acid 
and six parts of boric acid. Stop washing 
the wound; but any time it looks wet 
apply peroxide of hydrogen freely. 
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