1913. 
THE RURAIs, NEW-YORKER 
1381 
AILING ANIMALS. 
Worms; Scurfy Pig. 
1. I have a four-year-old black mare that 
passes a great many worms about half 
a finger long. What can I do to rid her 
of them? Iler hair seems long and rough, 
and she is not as fat as she should he 
for the amount of feed she gets. She 
doesn’t work very much. She has plenty 
of good clean hay. I have been feeding 
ground rye and oats but now she gets 
bran with a little salt on it, and whole 
oats. 2. I just bought two little white 
pigs, and they have scurf on them. Wliat 
is good for that? j. H. b. 
1. Rye is poor feed for a horse. Feed 
oats and bran along with mixed clover 
hay and add roots or a little silage. If 
the mare is not in foal give her twice 
daily in her feed a tablespoonful of a 
mixture of equal parts of salt, dried sul¬ 
phate of iron and sulphur and continue 
for a week; then skip ten days and re¬ 
peat. If in foal omit the iron, but give 
the other medicines. Avoid feeding swale 
hay. It gives horses worms. 2. Wash 
the pigs in a 1-100 solution of coal tar 
dip and give them clean, dry beds and 
pens. _ A. s. A. 
Eye Disease in Bull. 
I have a young Guernsey bull (eight 
months) which has a very sore eye. I 
first noticed it about a week ago, but on 
examination could find nothing in it. 
There seems to be a yellowish abscess 
on the ball at one end of the pupil. I 
have bathed it with salt and water solu¬ 
tion. Please advise me as to treatment. 
There is also a film over the greater part 
of the surface. c. w. M. 
Maryland. 
Bathe the eye with a 10 per cent solu¬ 
tion of boric acid, twice daily, each time 
applying it with a fresh swab of cotton 
batting. Each other day dust the eye¬ 
ball with a mixture of equal parts of 
finely powdered calomel and boric acid. 
If it is contagious ophthalmia, winch is 
a common disease of cattle, recovery 
should be prompt; but if it turns out to 
be a case of fungus hematodes. which is 
a cancerous disease and somewhat rare, 
that will prove incurable. Isolate the 
bull while under treatment. A. s. A. 
Lameness. 
I have a nine-year-old horse, which I 
use for driving purposes. For over a 
year he has had an inclination to place 
his front left foot ahead of the other 
when standing and occasionally curving 
that leg, supporting it on the toe of hoof. 
When I drive him he trots perfectly 
square and shows no lameness for about 
10 miles, but is inclined to go more and 
more lame after going that distance so 
that at the end of a two hour’s drive his 
lameness is perceptible but not at all 
severe. If I rest him for several hours 
he starts all right going through the same 
experience. There is no indication of any 
sore spot in hoof, leg or shoulder, as far 
as I could ever see. What is the trou¬ 
ble? L. C. 
New York. 
If the enlargement is located on the 
inner, lower front aspect of the hock 
joint (not knee) it is a bone spavin and 
should be let alone if lameness is absent. 
If lameness is present puncture-firing of 
the spavin and line-firing of the joint, 
followed by blistering and a six weeks’ 
rest tied up short in a narrow stall, 
would be the approved treatment. If 
it is a puff or enlargement not in the 
seat of spavin rub the part with oleate 
of mercury each other day, but stop for 
a time, if the skin becomes irritated. 
A. s. A. 
Cow Pox. 
I have a cow about 10 years old whose 
teats are covered with blisters contain¬ 
ing serum. The teats become raw, and 
I notice same condition on her muzzle. 
What is the trouble, and what should 
be done for it? j. y. 
New Jersey. 
This is cow pox, a common, contagious 
disease of the cow and it is spread by 
the milker’s hands. Milk the cow last 
and keep her away from other cows. 
Twice daily wash the udder with a lo¬ 
tion composed of one ounce of granular 
hyposulphite of soda to a quart of soft 
water and then apply glycerite of tannin 
to the sores, as often as found necessary. 
A. S. A. 
Ailing Cats. 
Our cats are badly troubled with a 
small red lice and diarrhoea. They have 
abnormal appetites, want to eat all the 
time. Can you suggest a remedy? 
New York. G. B. 
Give each affected cat a dose of eas- 
toria as a physic and to help get rid of 
worms which doubtless are present; or 
give worm medicine to be bought, ready 
for use, at the drug store. For vermin 
use Dalmatian insect powder. Put some 
of the powder, and the cat’s body in a 
gunny sack. Hold the sack about the 
cat’s neck and then shake well to get the 
powder into the hair. a. s. a. 
Disease of Hogs. 
How should I feed young pigs when 
taken away from sow? I have no milk. 
I have just lost five out of a litter of 10; 
eight or 10 weeks old. They have been 
looking puny for about a week, shiver. 
kick and die. I have fed white mid¬ 
dlings stirred up with water to pudding. 
Are black teeth the trouble? Are the 
sharp little prickles at the back of the 
mouth black teeth and should they be 
pulled? J. c. B. 
Black teeth have no significance what¬ 
ever, do not cause disease and need not 
be pulled. They are the little sharp 
teeth mentioned. We suspect that chol¬ 
era is killing the pigs; but they should 
have been running out right long and 
fed light, laxative slop, instead of thick, 
heating “pudding.” Have a veterinarian 
immunize remaining pigs with serum if 
he finds cholera present and meanwhile 
turn the pigs on grass and feed light 
slop of milk, middlings and limewater. 
A. s. a. 
Bloating. 
I have a two-year-old heifer coming 
three in the Spring; she freshened last 
Spring. About two weeks ago I saw 
that she bloated on the left side, but in 
a day or two it was all gone. At that 
time she was on dry pasture daytimes, 
and kept in stable nights; fed a light 
feed of cornstalk, millet or hay once a 
day. I am milking her and for grain 
was feeding a mixture of 100 poundsi 
bran, 100 pounds cornmeal, 100 pounds 
cotton-seed meal, with a little middlings 
added. The bloating has come back 
again, and it does not go out entirely as 
it did. I am feeding her the same kind 
of coarse fodder as before once daily, 
pasture daytime, give one quart of the 
mixed grain with one quart gluten and 
three quarts ground oats added daily. 
Is it the feed that causes it? F. B. B. 
New York. 
Chronic bloating often is due to tuber¬ 
culosis, so that an affected animal al¬ 
ways should be tested with tuberculin. 
A PET B. I. RED. 
In other cases it simply indicates indiges¬ 
tion and the feed and feeding are to 
blame. If she is not tuberculous give 
her a full dose of physic and then feed 
more carefully, omitting millet hay and 
adding some succulent feed, such as roots 
or silage. Let her take plenty of out¬ 
door exercise every day. a. s. a. 
Spavin. 
I have a horse about 25 years of age 
that is in fairly good condition except 
that she has a spavin on both hind legs 
at the hock joint. The veterinarian told 
me that it would not pay to doctor her 
on account of her age. What is your 
opinion? a. M. 
New Jersey. 
It would not be worth while treating 
spavins in a 25-year-old horse and if 
lameness is not present they certainly 
should be let alone. If lameness is pres¬ 
ent and you have to use the horse she 
might be laid up six weeks and treated 
for spavin, by the veterinarian, or with 
spavin remedies. a. s. a. 
Bone Tumor. 
Is there any remedy for an enlarge¬ 
ment on hind leg of my horse just below 
and alongside knee joint? The local vet¬ 
erinarian gave me some tincture of iodine 
and potash to apply. There seems to 
be no result from this treatment and I 
am afraid to apply too frequently. Horse 
is a three-year-old colt, 1,200 pounds 
weight, and quite valuable. w. w. 
Delaware. 
The fact that the foot of the lame 
leg is “pointed” when the horse stands 
at rest indicates lameness in the foot, and 
navicular disease would be the most likely 
cause; but a horse warms out of that 
lameness when driven. This fact elim¬ 
inates the likelihood of navicular disease 
and one would next suspect corns, ring¬ 
bone, or sidebone. The latter disease is 
practically restricted to draft horses. 
Ringbone can be readily detected by the 
presence of an enlargement of' the 
pastern, just above the hoof, or between 
hoof and fetlock. Try effects of a roll¬ 
ing motion bar shoe put on over a leather 
sole, or a three-quarter rolling motion 
plate put on over a rubber pad with thick 
heels. Repeated blistering of the hoof- 
head would be indicated if different shoe¬ 
ing fails. a. s. a. 
Sawdust for Litter. 
Is there any truth in the statement 
that the henmen of the West use saw¬ 
dust and baled shavings for their hens 
to scratch in? d. g. 
Nashua, N. H. 
I do not know what the practice of 
Western poultrymen with regard to the 
use of sawdust and shavings for litter is, 
but I know of no reason why they should 
not be used if convenient. I have used 
sawdust in my henhouse, though I pre¬ 
fer vegetable matter for litter. I be¬ 
lieve that there is some objection to saw¬ 
dust on the ground that the hens will 
pick it up with their grain, but I have 
never observed this, if true. si. b. d. 
Hens With Colds. 
I have 12 White P. R. pullets pur¬ 
chased in September. I feed a little more 
than a pint of scratch food morning and 
afternoon, keep growing mash in hopper. 
I mix about 20 per cent cut Alfalfa and 
five per cent meat scrap with dry mash, 
supply fresh water, charcoal, grit, etc. 
Clean drop board every morning and 
spray with disinfectant every week. Mid¬ 
dle of October I put muslin curtains in 
swinging frames of windows and closed 
them every night. Later I hung a cotton 
curtain on a wire in front of roosts; have 
let the birds out of house but very little 
since October 1st. About the middle of 
October I noticed several birds with 
dirty bills and I found they had colds. 
I used permanganate of potash in drink¬ 
ing water and cleaned out nostrils night 
and morning with kerosene. More birds 
became affected. They sneeze and have 
slight discharge from nostrils, but no bad 
odor or diarrhoea. Birds are all bright 
and lively and seem to gain in weight 
but not so much as I think they should. 
Lately I have been leaving the window’s 
wide open at night and letting the cur¬ 
tain in front of the roosts sag an inch 
or two at the top. I am using a small 
syringe with permanganate of potash to 
clean out their nostrils. Some of the 
first victims seem to be nearly cured but 
several more fowls appear to be affected. 
Massachusetts. w. M. b. 
You have coddled your hens to their 
detriment. There has been no occasion 
up to this time for the use of curtains 
in windows, and certainly not in front 
of perches; in fact, you do not need the 
latter in your house at all. The window’ 
curtains should be dropped only on the 
coldest nights through the Winter and 
the hens should be at liberty to go in and 
out regardless of w’eather or depth of 
snow. When you have occasion to dress 
one of your fowls you will find that they 
have a suit of underclothing that would 
be the envy of an Arctic explorer. The 
dust, of the floor will not injure your hens 
hut it is possible that the spray that you 
are using upon the perches gives ' off 
fumes irritating to their nostrils. A dry 
loam floor is superior to one of board's 
for your little house. Renew it at least 
once a year and let the hens wallow in 
it. Use a little permanganate of potash 
in the fowl’s drinking water but save 
yourself the trouble, and the hens the 
irritation, caused by the use of the syr¬ 
inge. _ at. b. d. 
Intestinal Trouble. 
Please tell me the cause and remedy 
for thin yellow droppings. My hens are 
yearlings, have free range, running water 
and in addition have water pans in house 
which are rinsed out daily. I feed the 
Cornell formula for dry mash and at pres¬ 
ent am using commercial scratch feed, and 
at other times have fed corn, wheat, and 
oats. Hens have laid heavily all Win¬ 
ter and Summer up to six weeks ago. I 
have noticed some of the yellowish drop¬ 
pings all along and there are a few in 
among my pullets, which are laying 32% 
at present writing. Pullets are kept in 
semi-confinement; that is, they are al¬ 
lowed under the house which is raised 
five feet from the ground. Houses are 
the curtain front, shed roof style, 20 feet 
deep. a. j. l. w. 
New York. 
Your hens are probably getting a lit¬ 
tle too much laxative food in their ra¬ 
tions and you may need to lessen the 
amount of beef scrap, oil meal, skim- 
milk, green food, or other laxative por¬ 
tion of their feed until the droppings as¬ 
sume a more natural consistency and 
color. Look carefully, also, to the qual¬ 
ity of the meat scrap that you are using 
to see that it is not in the least tainted, 
and do not feed any grain that show’s evi¬ 
dence of mold. With the correction of 
any defects in quality and quantity of 
the foods used, I think that the trouble 
you speak of will disappear. m. b. d. 
Cutting Roosters’ Spurs. 
I had a rooster who had a Mexican 
disposition and was a woman-hater. He 
would fight my wife at every opportunity, 
so relieved me of some of my obligations, 
lie does not bother men, and my little 
four-year-old girl catches him by the tail 
and drives him for a horse and he won’t 
hurt her. I was afraid he would injure 
some one, so took off his spurs. I had 
another person to hold him still and 
sawed them off with a hack saw. A 
butclier’s saw would do as well. The 
knife is too hard work, and tin snips or 
pruning shears stand a good chance of 
cracking the horny casing of the spur 
and of cracking the bones. They don’t 
seein to mind it. ai. A. p. 
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