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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 15, 
A DAMP HENHOUSE. 
On page 1075 is printed “Plain Talk 
for lien Men.” It says, “avoid draughts in 
the house, and allow plenty fresh air to 
enter through cloth curtaujs placed on one 
side of the house, which should be on the 
south cr east side.” Last Fall I built a 
house 12 by 24 feet, seven feet high in 
front and five feet in rear. There are 
four windows in the front or south, and 
one in the east, the glass in top sash re¬ 
moved and muslin substituted; glass in 
lower sash, 13% by 24 inches. This is all 
the ventilation there is. I have a good 
cement Poor. The roof is made of ship- 
lap boards, and covered with roofing, sides 
and ends are sheathed and clap-boarded 
with building paper between, and sealed up 
on the inside, but it is very damp. The 
roof boards and litter on the floor are very 
wet at times. Can you suggest any remedy 
that will do away with these conditions? 
Does it need more ventilation, and how 
can it be done? j. si. 
Troy, N. Y. 
If your house is damp it is an indica¬ 
tion that you either have insufficient 
ventilation or the cement floor is laid so 
close to the ground without insulation 
that the water soaks up through the 
floor by capillary attraction. In the lat¬ 
ter case I would suggest either laying 
a board floor over the cement, or you 
could lay two thicknesses of tarred pa¬ 
per on the cement floor and stick them 
together with coal tar, and then lay one 
inch of cement on the paper. This 
would make the floor perfectly dry, but 
the cement should be laid in warm 
weather. You do not say anything 
about opening the windows. If you will 
open them wide during the warm part 
of every pleasant day it will have a 
beneficial effect on the atmosphere in 
the house, and also on the health of the 
birds. If this does not remedy the damp 
conditions you should increase the 
amount of muslin ventilators until you 
can keep the house comparatively dry. 
This can be done by either making the 
windows larger or making one or two 
more. By using cloth in all the windows 
at night, without any glass, you may get 
sufficient ventilation. Of course any 
house will become damp during a heavy 
rain, but it should not remain so during 
fair weather. c. s. greexe. 
would come back to her usual amount of 
milk, but by careful feeding she has and 
that inside of four weeks’ time. This is 
a case of milk fever, and does not only 
occur at calving time, but is liable to come 
on any time within three or four months 
after calving, as one of mine did. c. H. w. 
Vancouver, B. C. 
R. N.-Y.—This was the treatment for 
milk fever—inflate the udder hard with 
gas or sterilized air, make the cow com¬ 
fortable, and do not let her get her head 
on the ground. Our cow did not have 
milk fever. 
Treatment for Roup. 
I have a rooster with a soft lump in 
the side of his head, between the eyes and 
nostril. My neighbors have birds with 
much the same trouble. What is it? h. 
Very likely this is one form of roup or 
canker, which we usually consider as the 
same disease. Examine the head of this 
bird to see if that bunch formation is 
not connected with the nasal passages. Also 
smell of the nostrils to find out if the 
odor is extremely pungent. The rank, pun¬ 
gent odor is one of the surest signs of the 
presence of roup. As a treatment, I would 
suggest the removal and destruction of 
all birds showing an extremely large swell¬ 
ing on different portions of the head, and 
the removal to a separate pen of all the 
fowls which show a slight swelling or run¬ 
ning of the nostrils, or rattling in the 
throat, where they can be given nourish¬ 
ing foods and individual treatment of the 
following nature, either with a long-nosed 
atomizer or a small-sized oil can spout. 
Force a combined solution of five per cent 
carbolic acid and five per cent copper sul¬ 
phate through their nasal passages by in¬ 
serting the tip of oil can or the end of 
the atomizer into the nostril of the bird 
and applying pressure behind the liquid in 
the can or atomizer. Do not hold the j 
bird under this treatment for very long at ' 
one time, but allow it the freedom of its 
head so that it may shake out the mucous 
discharge loosened by the application of 
the above liquid. Then give the nasal pas¬ 
sages and the roof of the mouth a second 
wash of this same material. A daily treat¬ 
ment should in a few days’ time, overcome 
this disease. It is well to add a few crys¬ 
tals of potassium permanganate every other 
day to the drinking water in the pens 
where any sickness has been noticed. This 
makes the water a disinfectant, which 
cleanses the mouth and throat of the fowls 
drinking it. and destroys the getms of roup 
that might be present. The presence of 
this disease should stimulate poultrymen 
to seek to improve the conditions within 
their houses, making them as dry as pos¬ 
sible and allowing them an abundance of : 
fresh air without the possibility of a draft 
blowing on to the birds while eating or 
especially while roosting. On the other 
hand, this growth may simply be the result, 
of a swelling caused by an injury to the 
comb or head of the bird while feeding or 
fighting. C. A. ROGERS. 
A CASE OF MILK FEVER. 
On reading Hope Farm Notes, on page 
0 028, I find the story of a sick cow. I had 
a cow that had all the symptoms of those 
two cows. She was not only down on the 
ground, but her milk was gone, and her 
hind quarters were paralyzed. I could not 
lay it to apples and corn, as my cow was 
up to her knees in good Timothy and clover. 
She calved on Sunday morning, and on 
Tuesday she was down and very sick; I, 
being a city farmer not experienced in the 
care of cattle, was.at a loss to know what 
to do. The first thing I did was to call 
in the neighbors for advice. One of those 
neighbors had lost three valuable cows 
two years ago, and in consequence had 
bought an air pump made expressly for 
inflating udders. lie applied it, but being 
an amateur .at the business was afraid to 
hurt the cow if we should pump her up 
too hard. Of course this was a mistake 
which we soon found out. Everyone was 
trying to do his best, but poor Nellie was 
sick almost unt.o death, when my wife said 
we should better send for a veterinarian. 
Most of the veterinarians charged $10 to 
come to our neighborhood, and so seldom 
saved the animals they went to see that 
we hesitated. The cow was sinking fast 
and we got busy. I telephoned for a 
veterinarian; this was on the third day. 
He came at once, examined the cow. and 
said if we had called him three days before 
he could have saved her without any 
trouble, hut as he was here he would try, 
and do his best. lie took off his coat and 
got out his tools and I helped him to 
inflate the udder to its fullest capacity, and 
to tie each of the teats with tape or a 
piece of rag to keep the air from escaping. 
He said if this had been done well in 
the start, and we had drenched the cow 
with one pound of Epsom salts dissolved in 
one quart of warm water, she would have 
been all right in a short time, and would 
need nothing more. As it was a last 
chance for her he gave her a dose—the 
contents of which are only known to him¬ 
self. It would have done your heart good 
to see that cow improve; inside of half 
an hour she raised her head and seemed 
better. The next morning I pulled a pail 
of water just outside her reach: she strug¬ 
gled to get on her feet—we helped her, 
and from that on she was on the mend. 
She has forgotten all ab«ut her calf. The 
veterinarian said he did not think she 
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