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THE RUKA.lv NEW-YORKER 
COWS POISONED BY SALT. 
Saturday morning, going in the pasture 
to drive in the cows, I found a four-year- 
old cow dead. She was ail right the even¬ 
ing before, and gave the usual amount of 
milk, was noticed chewing her cud. She 
would have been fresh in December. She 
lay in a natural position, head against her 
side and warm, no sign of any discomforts. 
After breakfast I went out again and she 
was bloated; when her head was lifted 
around water arid air bubbled from the 
nose. The evening before some of the 
“help" put about four quarts of salt down 
before her and let her eat nearly all, and 
remarked how eagerly she ate it, as if it 
were grain. She was in fine condition. 
Did salt kill her? a. s. 
Yes; four quarts of salt might well 
poison a cow. It is a gastric irritant, and 
four to five pounds is considered the 
poisonous dose for a cow. It would be 
most apt to poison when taken without 
large quantities of water. A. s. a. 
TUBERCULOSIS AND FEVERED CALVES 
From Henry County, Ky., come letters 
telling that dairy cows tested for tuber¬ 
culosis have since failed to drop calves, 
or in the few exceptional cases, the 
calves dropped were weaklings that died 
within a few hours. The same bulls 
were used as in previous years when 
the cows were reliable calf producers. 
This report is based on the experience 
of a half dozen farmers with an aggre¬ 
gate of something like 25 cows. Is the 
explanation to be found in the testing, 
or in the material used, or is it just a 
freak of nature? morton watkins. 
Tuberculin could not possibly cause 
the results mentioned. It is perfectly 
harmless to an animal that is not af¬ 
fected with tuberculosis. The trouble 
mentioned merely is incidental, and apt 
to happen at any time, and especially 
when cows happen to become infected 
with the germs of contagious abortion. 
A few cases are on record where cows 
have suffered from pus infected by in¬ 
jections of tuberculin which had become 
decomposed, or where dirty injection 
needles were employed. Fresh tuberculin 
always should be used, and with sterilized 
needles and with due care to sterilize 
the skin at point of injection. a. s. a. 
CAMELS AS DAIRY ANIMALS. 
It is not likely that many of our people 
will ever go into the business of running a 
camel dairy. It is on record, however,-that 
shortly before the Civil War our Govern¬ 
ment bought a number of camels and un¬ 
dertook to breed them in Texas, it was 
thought at that time that trains of camels 
would be useful in carrying mail or even 
light packages through the deserts across 
the country. These camels were neglected, 
and dually died except a few which were 
sold for circus purposes. Consul Frederick 
Simpich sends the Government a report 
from Bagdad regarding camels. He says 
90,000 of them are used as beasts of burden 
in that section. A camel caravan consists 
of seven camels with two men in charge, 
with each camel carrying about 450 pounds. 
Such a camel will travel about two miles 
per hour. The swiftest camels lightly 
mounted can make 40 or even 50 miles with¬ 
out stopping. The ordinary camel costs 
$30, but the trotters are worth more. The 
young camel can often be bought at $3 and 
$4. The camel is a useful creature not 
only in carrying burdens, but supplies fair 
quantities of milk. Shoes are made from 
the hide, and in time of famine the meat is 
eaten, although it is very strong-tasting 
flesh. A condensed milk made by boiling 
the milk of the camel until it evaporates is 
greatly prized. They rub this substance 
between their hands to a powder and then 
mix with warm water. Many of the val¬ 
uable horses are also fed on warm camel 
milk. In a march across the desert the 
young camels are led, but when they are 
tired they are often tied upon the backs of 
the mother. Valuable dogs are also car¬ 
ried in this way. It appears that the 
habit of going without water requires spe¬ 
cial training. When marching near rivers 
the camel will drink twice a day. They are 
peculiar animals, seeming to have no fond¬ 
ness for human beings, although they will 
not wander far if left at night. Fakers 
and boomers are using so many new things 
as the basis of their stock companies or 
selling stocks that we shall not be sur¬ 
prised if some of them organize camel farms 
in the Southwest and offer stocks and bonds 
for sale. Such investments would be just 
about as- practical and valuable as some of 
the rubber or similar farms now on the 
market. 
Marking Pigs. 
The system of marking pigs which I 
pursue is this: With a small punch such 
as harness-makers use r cut a hole or notch 
in the ear of the little ones, varying the 
position of the hole or notch with each lit¬ 
ter. This does not disfigure the ear, and 
the little pigs suffer no inconvenience by 
the operation. Gutting half a circle at the 
extreme lower edge of the ear in one litter, 
and the oppposite ear in another litter, and 
cutting farther into the ear in different po¬ 
sitions for other litters, will enable one to 
keep tab on the various litters and not get 
mixed up. These marks, however, are not 
permanent, but will become obliterated with 
age. As the pig grows older we use the 
labels with numbers, and keep track of 
them in this way, but the marks made with 
the punch can easily lx* distinguished for 
six or eight months, when the labels are 
put on to take their place. 
New York. cai.vin j. huson. 
Ruptured Hogs. 
I visited a hog breeder, intending to buy 
a couple of female pigs and raise for 
brood sows. He had several sows with 
pigs, and there were so nfany ruptured 
ones tlrtit I concluded not to buy. Has any 
breed of swine any more disposition that 
way than others? Is there much probability 
of a sow inheriting a disposition to give 
birth to blemishes in the form of ruptured 
pigs, etc.? I would like to know if there 
is any more disposition on the part of pure¬ 
bred sows to give birth to females that 
are ruptured than common cross-bred sows. 
Ohio. s. 
We have seen many cases which seem to 
indicate that either a ruptured sire or dam 
may transmit a like imperfection or tend¬ 
ency thereto. Animals in the wild state 
are not prone to these weaknesses. They 
are most seen in highly-bred and unfor¬ 
tunately weakened and pampered animals, 
the result of long domestication. To avoid 
these unsoundnresses breed to sound animals 
and so far as possible keep them in natural 
conditions. YY e would not use a ruptured 
sow or bo'ar for breeding purposes. 
a. s. A. 
Curing a Shoe Boil.— I see .T. R., page 
GOO, wants to know about removing a shoe 
boil from a horse. I am a horse owner 
and have cured several shoe boils without 
expense or trouble. Boils are caused by 
a horse doubling his foot up under him 
while resting. Let a man whose h-orse is 
affected nail a slat two inches thick 
across the stall about where tlx* horse will 
lie on it. This will cause the horse to 
stretch his feet out and thereby remove 
the cause. Then a little salve or liniment 
can be used to reduce the old swelling. I 
write this in the hope that some one may 
profit by It and that horses may not be 
disfigured by the unsightly sores. 
New Jersey. a. n. c. 
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