1910 . 
701 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
HENS WITH BARE BACKS. 
Will you please tell me what to do for 
nr Wiens? Their saddles are bare or 
fea'tffrs broken off. After a time there 
arc sores or the skin comes off in patches 
where the hens pick themselves. The hens 
have been rubbed well with lard and kero¬ 
sene and sprinkled with lice killer. Coops 
are whitewashed thoroughly with carbolic 
acid whitewash. Can you tell me what to 
do for those hens quickly? G. e. b. 
Connecticut. 
I used to think that the male was the 
only cause of the backs of some hens 
becoming bare of feathers, and probably 
that is the cause of the trouble in most 
cases. If the spurs of the male wound 
the hen’s back so as to make it bleed, 
then the other hens will pick at it and 
cause sores. Several of my R. I. Reds 
have bare backs, but I never see any 
hens picking at the bare places, and 
there are no sore spots. Very few of 
my White Wyandottes are affected in 
that way. It is difficult to tell what to 
do to remedy this. I think smearing 
the bare places with tar would stop the 
hens from picking, and the tar is heal¬ 
ing to the sores, but how the hens would 
look, especially if they were white 
fowls! On black fowls it wouldn’t look 
so bad. I do not do anything for mine, 
just let them go bare until moulting 
time. The bare heads are caused by the 
depluming mite which works under the 
skin. Anointing the head with vaseline 
will generally cure. There is usually a 
fiery red appearance to skin where the 
depluming mite is the cause. On the 
backs of my fowls there is no such red 
appearance. I would advise G. E. B. to 
feed plenty of beef scraps and green 
food, and he can cure feather eating 
hens by paring off the hard part of end 
of the hen’s beak, so that she can’t pinch 
a feather tight enough to pull it out. It 
is not necessary to cut close enough to 
make it bleed. geo. a. cosgrove. 
AILING ANIMALS. 
Farcy. 
I have a mare that has farcy. It shows 
itself in one hind leg. There are a dozen 
sores on the leg, and there is one on her 
stomach just a little front of the leg, and 
a swelling near her navel about a foot long 
and four inches across, which hangs down 
an inch and a half. The leg is not much 
swollen now. The swelling has gone 
down, and she bears weight on the leg now 
nearly all the time. She eats oats and 
grass well, seems to have a good appetite. 
She is as bright as can be, no running at 
nose or eyes. I am giving her Fowler’s 
solution and renovating powders. Can she 
be cured, or, in other words, can farcy be 
cured ? I am bathing the parts in carbolic 
acid and water, and putting on carbolated 
vaseline. The sores are running well. 
Connecticut. E. a. 0 . 
It is a crime in most States to hide 
the presence of a case of “farcy,” which 
is the skin form of “glanders.” Glanders 
is a terribly contagious, incurable dis¬ 
ease, and communicable and fatal to 
man. Death from it is horrible in the 
extreme. Farcy is of the same nature, 
contagious and incurable. An affected 
horse has to be destroyed according to 
State laws and the premises quaran¬ 
tined, disinfected and whitewashed un¬ 
der professional direction. This may 
not turn out to be a case of glanders- 
farcy, but it is clear that the right thing 
to do will be immediately to notify the 
health officer of the district and have 
him notify the State veterinarian, who 
should personally examine the animal 
or have this done by a qualified deputy. 
Owners should be careful not to attempt 
treatment in such cases. A. s. a. 
Grease Heel. 
I noticed on page 595 of The R. N.-Y. an 
inquiry by W. H. C. for grease-heel. I have 
seen the same question asked and answered 
before, but have never seen it answered to 
my satisfaction. Tell W. II. C. to go to 
a drugstore and get five cents worth of 
litharge, place in a half-pint bottle and fill 
with good vinegar. Shake well and apply 
thoroughly once a day for four days, then 
wait a week or so, and report results. 
New York. m. j. 
Litharge is yellow oxide of lead, insolu¬ 
ble in water, but soluble in acetic acid or 
strong vinegar. We have not prescribed it 
in this way here, as we and other veteri¬ 
narians prefer Goulai'd’s extract (sub¬ 
acetate of lead), which is made of acetate 
yjl 'ead and yellow oxide of lead boiled to¬ 
gether in water. Unfortunately, however, 
this extract will not cure an old standing 
case of “grease” or “grease heel.” If the 
simple combination of yellow oxide of lead 
and vinegar will cure this disease we cer¬ 
tainly shall be surprised, but delighted to 
report such a success in these columns. The 
trouble is that what we call “grease” or 
“grease heel” is often an altogether differ¬ 
ent disease from what our correspondents 
may have in mind or write us about. Sim¬ 
ple or even acute “scratches” is compar¬ 
atively easy to cure, easily with the Goul¬ 
ard's extract solution and no doubt with 
the mixture our correspondent mentions. 
That is not to say, however, that these rem¬ 
edies will cure real grease or grease-heel, 
which is a constitutional disease associated 
with sluggish circulation, gross feeding and 
fattening propensities and laziness often 
seen in coarse, gummy legged, heavy draft 
horses. In the disease we have in mind 
there is a constant foul smelling discharge 
accompanied by cracks, sores and grape-like 
growths about the fetlocks and heels and 
sometimes extending from the fetlock to the 
hock and even surrounding the coronet. We 
have yet to see a true case of this form of 
grease cured by any simp'e external remedy. 
Systemic treatment also is necessary and 
usually several changes of local treatment 
have to be made. We shall be glad to have 
a description of a case of the kind of 
“grease heel” our correspondent’s lotion has 
cured and also hope that our readers will 
try the treatment and report results 
through these columns. a. s. a. 
Swelling; Obstructed Teat. 
1. I have a mare which injured her knee 
on a barb wire fence. The cut has healed 
up, and she is no longer lame on that leg. 
The knee is considerably enlarged. What, 
if anything, will reduce this? 2. I have a 
cow with one partially obstructed teat. The 
obstruction is a little less than half way 
down. The milk runs but slowly past this 
and has to be squeezed past in milking her 
out. She had a small lump there last Fall, 
when she dried up, which did not obstruct 
the teat. The lump is now about the size 
of a pea, and there seems to be more 
thickening of the tissues. What is the 
cause? Is there danger of complete ob¬ 
struction? Is there any cure? d. g. 
New York. 
1. Poultice the swollen joint with hot 
antiphlogistine covered with cotton batting 
and bandages. Renew the poultice each 
time the clay tends to become dry. After 
swelling subsides, should the animal go 
lame clip off the hair and blister with ce¬ 
rate of cantharides. 2. A veterinarian may 
be able to remove the growth by dilating 
the duct and using a special instrument; 
but infection is very apt to affect the udder 
when an operation is attempted in such 
cases. Dilators may be introduced between 
milkings and will be likely to improve the 
condition. When the tumor, or polypus, as 
it is called, has a narrow neck it sometimes 
may be snared in a loop of fine brass wire 
passed in through a milking tube from 
which the end has seen filed away. When 
caught the wire is pulled tight and twisted 
round until the growth is cut off. It may 
then be milked out or will come away with 
the b’eeding. a. s. a. 
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