THE KURAb NEW-YORKER 
April 26, 
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AILING ANIMALS. 
A Bad Horse. 
Will you tell me how to tie a bad horse 
to file his teeth ? I have tried all kinds of 
ways, but he always gets away the victor. 
I would very much like to have his teeth 
fixed, as he is a good horse. g. w. r. 
Pennsylvania. 
Put on strong loose open halter with two 
halter ropes or straps. Lack the horse 
into a narrow stall. Tie the halter strap 
tightly to the stall posts on each side 
of the horse. If ho is a kicker put a door 
or high, heavy packing case in front of him, 
and let him kick, so long as he cannot 
kick the operator. Now, go at the work, 
and if it is still found an impossible matter 
put a twitch on his nose. Where a horse 
is very vicious we would give him half to 
one ounce of chloral hydrate in a quart of 
water as a drench half an hour or so 
before attempting to operate. a. s. a. 
Supernumerary Teat. 
I have a good Jersey cow, that has ail 
annoying defect on the udder. In the place 
of the two rudimentary teats at the back of 
the udder, the small milk ducts continue 
down the udder, one opening just above 
one of the true teats. This one does not 
bother. The other reaches farther down 
and opens about one-third of the way 
down the teat. Here is where the annoy¬ 
ance is, as it discharges in milking and 
thus is kept in flow. Can this opening be 
cauterized or scarified and thus made to 
heal if closed up? If so, which is the 
better way to do it? The cow is now 
dry and will be some four or five weeks 
yet to come. In the event of the above 
mentioned operation, what would be the 
treatment during healing process? If such 
operation should prove successful, a valu¬ 
able cow will be made more valuable. 
Michigan. F. p. w. 
Such conditions are best operated upon 
when the cow is dry. The duct may be 
cauterized by use of a red hot knitting 
needle, or the fine point of a thermo-cautery 
or pygrography apparatus. It would be 
best to have this done by a qualified veter¬ 
inarian. A little balsam of Peru applied 
twice daily to the wounds will promote 
speedy healing. A. s. a. 
Breaking a Bull to Lead, 
I have an Angus bull six months old 
which I have been trying for about 10 
days to break to lead. He has no ring 
yet, so I use a two-ring lead halter. He 
will lead when I have a rope around his 
body, but without it he stands. He has 
no particular hking for the use of a whip. 
Can you give me a few pointers on how 
to proceed? H. o. n. 
Michigan. 
If you do not care to put a ring in 
his nose at the present age starve him foi 1 
24 hours; then let him follow the feed. 
If he won't do so then let him do without 
the feed until he will. a. s. a. 
Warts. 
I have a number of young heifers that 
are being covered with warts. Most of the 
warts appear on their jaws or about their 
eyes. What remedy can I apply? Heifers 
are coming fresh for first time in two or 
three months. Warts seem of dry crusty 
growth, some of them three-eighths of an 
inch in diameter. a. t. t. 
New Jersey. 
Rub the affected parts twice daily with 
best castor oil and the warts will disap¬ 
pear after a time. Warts that have nar¬ 
row necks will drop off after a while if you 
tightly ligate the base of each with a fine 
string. A. s. a. 
Lameness. 
1. I have a mare 13 years old, weight 
1300, received in a trade. She had her for¬ 
ward hoof hurt by a wagon tongue falling 
on it. The hoof came off and new one has 
grown nearly to the shoe on toe and heel, 
lacks nearly half inch on sides. She has a 
bunch just above the hoof that is hard. 
She is very lame; with that exception she 
is well and healthy. What can I do for her 
and how should she be shod? 2. I have a 
collie dog nine months old; his bead and 
back are all covered with a scabby scurf, 
which is getting sore; he digs it so much. 
I have washed him in strong solution of 
zouleum and water but seems no better. 
What shall I do for him? e. w. 
Pennsylvania. 
1. Put on a flat bar shoe. Clip the hair 
from hoof-head of lame foot and blister with 
cerate of cantharides several times at inter¬ 
vals of two or three weeks. When grass is 
ready turn mare on low, wet pasture daily. 
2-. Scrub the dog clean with the coal tar 
dip solution and then rub in sulphur freely 
on sore places. Repeat the treatment as 
often as found necessary. a. s. a. 
Colic. 
I have a 10-year-old horse who has the 
colic every few days, generally after a 
little harder drive than usual. lie has 
for feed 12 quarts of bran and hominy, 
equal parts when working, which I cut 
down to about six to eight quarts when not 
working. Is there anything I can do for 
him to prevent these attacks? I have used 
a tonic all Winter. f. f. w. 
New York. 
Stop feeding tonic and any other sort of 
drug. Such doping of animals is abso¬ 
lutely unnecessary and often highly injuri¬ 
ous. No well man or beast needs a drop of 
medicine, and when sick should have the 
right medicine prescribed by a qualified 
practitioner. The feeding is all wrong and 
causing the trouble. Have the horse’s teeth 
attended to by a veterinarian ; then feed 
whole oats, five parts, wheat bran, one part, 
dampened with water, and also allow mixed 
clover and Timothy hay. No horse that has 
sound teeth should be fed ground feed. Mas¬ 
tication is absolutely necessary for perfect 
insalivation of the feed. Feed regularly, 
give the drinking water first and do not 
feed when horse is hot and tired, a. s. a. 
A Good Sow. 
What is the value of this sow? I bought 
the place two years ago last November; 
there was a young sow on the place. She 
had had four litters of pigs, 48 in all, and 
I have lost four out of the 48. E. v. b. 
Butler, N. J. 
R- N.-l\—In our section the 44 pigs 
would have brought $176 when about six 
weeks old. The cost of keeping the sow 
might have run to $35 per year, or $70 
for the two years. This would depend on 
how much waste you had to feed her. A 
single sow would cost less than 10 per 
cent of the cost of keeping 10. Such 
a sow can usually be bought for $25, but 
what is she worth? 
Rickets. 
I have four pigs, six months old, that 
have something which seems like rheuma¬ 
tism. They appear to be in good health, 
are fat, and eat well, but don’t want to get 
up on their feet. The joints are swollen a 
little bit. Will you give me your advice 
about what to do in this case? t. b. m. 
Ohio. 
The disease is rickets and it is due to 
malnutrition. Worms sometimes are the 
cause; or it may be due to overfeeding and 
lack of exercise or to improper feeding. 
Stuffing on corn is a common cause. Feed 
on light slop, adding limewater at the rate 
of one ounce to the quart of slop, and also 
allow roots, green feed or Alfalfa hay. Make 
the pigs run out daily. Physic affected 
pigs; then feed as directed and each other 
day paint affected joints with tincture of 
iodine. a. s. a. 
Death of Sow. 
What caused the death of my sow? 
She would have weighed 400 pounds," due to 
farrow in a day or two. I fed her in the 
evening and she at well; next morning I 
found her in the pen dead. She got out 
and ate a few wood ashes. Would that 
prove fatal ? e. J. w. 
Ohio. 
The wood ashes would not kill her. A 
post mortem examination should have been 
made to determine cause of death ; but it 
is likely that she died of apoplexy. 
A. s. A. 
Skim-milk for Colt. 
Is skim-milk good to give to a 10-months- 
old colt that has been weaned at the age of 
six months? How much would be con¬ 
sidered enough for a day? He has a great 
liking for skim-milk. o. L. 
Skim-milk is excellent food for a wean¬ 
ling colt; but care must be taken not to 
feed so much of it that scouring or “pot 
belly” is caused. Watch the bowels and 
if there is any tendency to derangement 
too much milk is being fed. See that the 
utensils are kept scalded and air dried. 
A good way of feeding skim-milk is to mix 
one quart of it with grain and bran twice 
daily. One cannot prescribe the exact 
amount of milk that can be given safely. 
The feeder has to be the judge as to that. 
a. s. A. 
The Sausage Fraud. 
We know a man who likes to think he is 
a vegetarian, or at least part of one. He 
says he eats what he wants, but as he 
grows older has less desire than ever for 
meat food. In telling about this a friend 
challenged him to say what he had bad 
for dinner that day. He said he went out 
and found it very cold and blustering, and 
expected to have fried potatoes and rice, 
but he finally compromised, on country sau¬ 
sage, as he felt that the sage in the sausage 
would keep him in the vegetarian class. It 
appears that he was closer to this class 
than lie thought, for most of the sausage 
on the market is largely adulterated with 
cereal. The Michigan Dairy and Food Com¬ 
missioner states that in 1907 he found the 
manufacturers of sausage were putting into 
it large quantities of cereals. The object 
was not only to adulterate, but to give a 
mixture which would absorb and hold more 
water, this material being a cheap product 
to sell at the price of meat. The Michigan 
Supreme Court finally decided that sausage 
containing the cereal might be sold in that 
State, provided it was labeled “sausage with 
cereal.” The Supreme Court did not state 
how much cereal might be placed in the 
sausage, but in Iowa 5 per cent was al¬ 
lowed. It is n >w said that 90 per cent of 
this cereal sausage is not labeled as such. 
Complaints come to the Food Commissioner 
in regard to sausage purchased on the gen¬ 
eral market. In one case 22 per cent of 
the uncooked sausage and 17 per cent of 
the cooked product was found to lie cereal, 
and this stuff was appropriately named 
“clover top.” Analysis of one sample of so- 
called pork sausage showed the following: 
Water .45% 
Corn flour ..-.20 to 25% 
Spices . 2 to 3% 
Moisture free meat. :....30 to 35% 
The cereal is generally corumeal or corn 
flour, and this, of course, absorbs extra 
water. Thus these gentlemen are selling 
from 65 to 70 per cent of water and corn- 
meal and calling it sausage. When the con¬ 
sumer pays 15 cents a pound for this so- 
called sausage, be pays about $300 a ton 
for cornmeal, and something like $500 a ton 
for water, or 15 cents a pint for that fluid. 
There is considerable talk about the high 
cost of living, and $1.20 a gallon for a 
very inferior quality of water may be said 
to be a very low-down method of contribut¬ 
ing to high living. This is one of the 
worst of the petty swindles worked upon the 
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