6613 
THE RURA1) NEW-YORKER 
April 12, 
AILING ANIMALS. 
Horse With Itching Skin. 
I have a horse nine years old. in good 
flesh, has good life, but he keeps rubbing his 
neck, has the hair rubbed off his neck round 
over his head and keeps biting his body. 
Theer are some little lumps over his body 
under the skin. He seems to be very itchy. 
Please advise me what to do for this horse. 
Ohio. h. a. 
Chicken lice, or horse lice ai'e the prob¬ 
able cause of the itchiness of skin. See 
that chickens cannot get near the horse. 
Have him clipped ; then wash affected parts 
with 1-100 solution of coal tar dip as often 
as found necessary. Also clean up, disin¬ 
fect and whitewash the stable. a. s. a. 
What can I do to prevent my horse from 
tearing his blanket in shreds? He is very 
restless at night and makes a good deal 
of noise. I have tried him in single or 
box stall; it is just the same. He is a 
big young horse, eats well and has no 
other fault. a. d. c. 
New Jersey. 
See that the stable is kept perfectly 
ventilated and that the horse is thoroughly 
groomed and worked every day. If there 
is no work for him to do turn him out 
in yard and enforce exorcise. Do not 
blanket him. It is quite unnecessary. If 
he does not improve have him clipped; 
then the blanket may be used. If parts 
of skin are itchy wash them as often as 
required with a 1-100 solution of coal tar 
disinfectant. a. s. a. 
I have an eight-year-old horse that has 
itch on his hind legs. During the Winter 
he is not worked much and this is when 
it bothers him most. He stands in the 
stable and rubs one leg with the other till 
the hair comes off. It is on the inside of 
the leg from the fetlock to the hock joint. 
Can you give me a remedy for it? l. k. 
Pennsylvania. 
Never let a horse stand a single day 
idle in the stable. Keep the affected leg 
saturated with a mixture of two ounces 
of sulphur and half an ounce of coal tar dip 
in a pint of sweet oil. Give the horse half 
an ounce of granular hyposulphite of soda 
twice daily in feed any time the trouble 
appears. a. s. a. 
Indigestion. 
1. I have a four-year-old mare, which 
when riding her, gives down in her hind 
ankles, which seem weak. She has been 
doing this for about two months. She is 
lively, eats well, but does not seem to take 
on any fat. She also lies down some, but 
always willing to work. Could this be kid¬ 
ney trouble? 2. I have a year-old filly 
which is the same way, only not so bad, 
about her ankles, only seems to drag her 
hind feet and is poor. I do not work the 
mare much—about every other day—and 
she runs out on grass all the time. In 
addition to this I feed her about two or 
three gallons of bran and corn chop a day. 
New Mexico. J. a. w. 
1. It would be well to stop feeding so 
much bran and corn chop and to feed 
lightly on whole oats and bran along with 
best of mixed hay. Work the mare every 
day. Keep her feet level and the toes 
short. Hand rub the back tendons and 
fetlock joints twice daily and then bandage 
snugly. 2. We suspect that the filly is in¬ 
fested with worms. Treat according to 
directions often given here. A. s. a. 
Injured Calf. 
I have a calf about nine months old that 
has something the matter with her back 
or her hind legs. She is a Jersey heifer 
and has all appearance of being a good 
cow. When the calf was about two months 
old it got into the manger in the barn; 
when we got it out it could not x-aise its 
hind parts. By good care it has got a 
little bettei*. It can run and play, but it 
has not the. right use of its hind parts. 
What do you advise us to do with this 
calf? Do you think it would pay to raise it 
for a cow ? D. b. g. 
Pennsylvania. 
As considerable improvement has taken 
place since the injury occurred it may be 
that complete recovery will follow in time; 
but it would be impossible for anyone to 
give a confident opinion as to that. Treat¬ 
ment will not benefit the case. It will 
have to be left to nature and the calf 
should live outdoors as much as possible, 
while being generously fed. a s. a. 
Worms. 
I have a filly coming two years old; 
she has never done well since taking her 
from the mare. She does not have a very 
good appetite at any time, hair looks 
rough, will drink but very little water. She 
has some symptoms of worms, hut have 
not seen any of them. Her inwards rumble 
a good deal, does a lot of pawing, will 
not eat medicine in her grain. Could you 
advise something that would straighten 
her up and give her an appetite? 
New York. s. v. m. 
She is probably infested with blood 
worms (schlerostoma equinun) and they 
are difficult to get rid of. They often 
cause aneurisms of the mesenteric arteries 
and these are incurable. Clip the colt when 
the weather moderates. Feed a mixture of 
equal parts whole oats and wheat bran 
and allow all of the sound, mixed clover 
hay she will clean up. Give Fowler’s so¬ 
lution of arsenic in increasing doses start¬ 
ing with a dram twice daily. Go back to 
first dose and repeat as soon as derange¬ 
ment is caused by the medicine. It may 
produce scouring when a poisonous dose is 
given. Allow free access to salt and try 
to have the colt take a mixture of two 
parts salt and one part each of sulphur and 
dried sulphate of iron. The dose will be 
a small tablespoonful twice a day in feed. 
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Garget. 
I have a cow that had an obstruction In 
one teat. The veterinarian put in a glass 
tube and drew out a small lump. She is 
not giving much milk out of it; will be 
fresh in August. I am feeding good clover 
hay three times a day, all she can eat, 
and one bushel of cut corn stalks twice 
a day with four quarts of middlings. The 
te.at does not milk freely yet. Will It 
come back in time and is there anything 
else I can do? J. H. s. 
New York. 
She will not be likely to come back to a 
full flow’ of milk from that quarter before 
a second calving and even then the quarto* 
will be likely to give trouble. A bad 
attack of infective garget is never quite 
recovered from. Gently massage the quar¬ 
ter three times a day and at night rub in 
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Ridgling Colt. 
I have a colt coming three that is a 
blind stud. Can I have him castigated? 
Vermont. c. n. n. 
An expert can castrate such a colt; but 
do not employ anyone who has not had long 
experience and success in such work, it 
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Tobacco for Stomach Worms. 
“I am a firm believer in tobacco as a 
remedy for stomach worms for sheep,” says 
T. L. Oswald, Delaware county, Ohio. “I 
have some pastures that are 25 and 30 
years old, and in spite of this my flocks 
are kept free from stomach worms. 1 use 
tobacco, and the sooner Ohio farmers 
awaken to its value, the more dollars will 
jingle in their jeans. I secure cigar clip¬ 
pings. According to United States laws, 
sweepings must be mixed with lime to make 
them unfit for human use, but this seems 
to make no difference in its use with 
sheep. I crumble the leaves carefully with 
my hands. Do not buy stems, for these 
will not mix well, and will not be satis¬ 
factory. I moisten the tobacco in the 
operation, and aim to get each particle of 
tolxaceo associated with a particle of salt. 
I feed this to the sheep three times a week, 
one peck at a feed to a hundred sheep. Do 
not feed other salt. I find that sheep will 
do as well on this as on salt alone, should 
there he no infection, and should stomach 
worms infest the flock, the difference could 
be appreciated by the most inexperienced 
observer, and in dollars and cents this is 
a very inexpensive remedy.” 
WALTER JACK. 
Cure for a Balky Horse. 
I have a remedy, which I have never 
known to fail with a balky horse. Take 
a strip of hard wood board, six feet long, 
four inches wide, and one inch in thickness; 
plane this smooth and round the edges. 
Dot the first two feet serve for the handle, 
making it narrower and convenient to 
grasp with the hand. Then saw down 
through the width for four feet, taking 
out one-eighth of an inch from the thick¬ 
ness. When a blow is struck with this it 
will resound, making a loud noise. Have 
a driver with an easy, bit, and a light 
load. When he starts do not l’estrain him. 
Now. the driver picks up the reins and 
speaks to the horse, at the same time the 
man with the spanker strikes him a firm 
blow and continues to strike him until the 
horse moves. Strike hard and rapidly and 
the horse is sure to go. Let him go until 
he naturally becomes quiet. Then pat him 
and give him an apple or some corn, and 
you will soon find that you have con¬ 
quered him. w. k. a. 
Winthrop, Me. 
Feeding Clover Silage. 
What amount of clover silage is required, 
Winter and Summer, for the average dairy 
cow, and quantity of other feed (grain and 
hay)) necessary to go with same to make 
a good ration? I have fed clover silage 
in Oregon. p. e, t. 
Howard, Mass. 
Fifteen pounds daily of clover sliage, 12 
pounds of hay and seven pounds of grain 
would be an average ration for a dairy 
cow. Of course, it must not be under¬ 
stood that these figui’es are determined l»v 
hard and fast rules, but may be varied 
to suit circumstances. If cows are pas¬ 
tured in Summer much or all of the other 
feed may be omitted. c. l. m. 
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