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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 10, 
AILING ANIMALS. 
Lame Cow. 
I have a young cow that has lately 
gone lame, seems to he sore in the 
shoulder, walks sore and stiff as if it 
might be rheumatism. Could you advise 
treatment? G. F. M. 
Michigan. 
It is quite impossible for one to de¬ 
termine the cause or location of myster¬ 
ious lameness, without making a personal 
examination. Rheumatism is rare in 
young cattle and scarcely a likely cause 
of the lameness. Better make a careful 
examination of the foot. A. S. A. 
Wound. 
I have a mare that stumbled and cut 
her kneecap. The skin is off four inches 
square. I have been bathing it and using 
powder (disinfectant). Is it advisable 
to take the scab off every time I bathe it, 
or should I let the scab remain on the 
sore and what should I put on it? 
Pennsylvania. N. M. 
Make a lotion of one ounce of sugar 
of lead and six drams of sulphate of zinc, 
in one pint of soft water and apply this 
three times a day. Do not remove the 
scab, unless it is quite loose, or if pus 
is exuding from under the scab. Tie 
horse so that he can not lie down, or 
bump the knee. A. S. A. 
Bog Spavin. 
How shall I go about it to treat a bog 
spavin on a horse? The injury is of 
quite long standing. Will it be necessary 
to blister it so as to take the hide and 
hair off, or is there some better way 
known at present? I want to cure it so 
that she will go sound, and the joint is 
very sore now. P. n. g. 
Bog spavin of long standing and caus¬ 
ing lameness and soreness is practically 
incurable; but firing and blistering may 
be tried, together with a prolonged rest, 
and the “hide” need not be taken off, al¬ 
though the hair will have to be removed 
by clipping. Only an ignorant empiric 
would maltreat a horse by removing “hair 
and hide.” Employ an up-to-date grad¬ 
uate veterinarian. A. s. A. 
Wounded Horse. 
I have an old mare injured with barbed 
wire in hind leg. The wound refuses to 
heal, and the horse limps increasingly. 
I am not working her now; she holds leg 
up, evidently in pain. The wound has 
proudflesli growth in it, bleeds and is 
a deep and ugly looking one. I have 
frequently bathed to keep clean and ap¬ 
plied powdered alum. What can I do 
for it? C. D. 
New York. 
Cleanse the wound perfectly and when 
dry swab well with tincture" of iodine 
and apply the iodine at intervals of 
twenty-four hours, for three days. Do 
this at noon. Night and morning on days 
iodine is used wet wound freely with a 
mixture of one ounce of sugar of lead 
and six drams of sulphate of zinc in a 
pint of water and after discontinuing the 
use of iodine tincture use the latter lo¬ 
tion several times a day until the wound 
heals. A. S. A. 
Scours. 
Can you tell me what to feed my 
calves to keep them from having scours? 
I feed separated milk. Start them on 
whole milk, then mix with separated 
milk. To begin I feed one quart three 
times a day and gradually increase. 
When they are two weeks old they are 
having two quarts three times a day. I 
keep them clean and spray with orcolin 
and not one of them has escaped the 
scours. o. s. B. 
New York. 
Do not feed frothy milk. See that the 
milk utensils are perfectly scalded and 
sun dried. Contaminated feeding vessels 
commonly induce scours. The trouble 
probably starts there. Isolate a calf as 
soon as it starts to. scour. Clean up, 
disinfect, whitewash, perfectly ventilate 
and sun light the calf pen. If you then 
have any trouble with scours mix one 
teaspoonful of the following mixture with 
each pint or pound of skim milk fed: 
Formeldehyde, half an ounce; distilled, 
or freshly boiled, water, fifteen and one 
half ounces; to be kept in an amber or 
yellow colored bottle to prevent chemical 
changes. Give the scouring calf a two 
or three ounce dose of castor oil, shaken 
up in milk, before starting the formalde¬ 
hyde medicated milk. A. s. A. 
Eczema. 
I have a colt and filly that were three 
years old last June; they have run in 
pasture during Summer. Neither one 
has done well; the filly is completely cov¬ 
ered all over her back and some down on 
her sides and legs with little bunches 
with scabs; pick off the scab and there is 
just a little pimple with moisture coming 
out of it. They do not rub much, but 
like to be rubbed or curried. The colt is 
not quite so bad, but has some sores. Can 
you tell me what it is and what to do 
for them. J. H. W. 
New York. 
Have the animals clipped at once; then 
wash affected parts of bedy with I-100 
solution of coal tar dip and repeat as 
often as found necessary. Give two 
drams of Fowler’s solution of arsenic 
night and morning, after smaller doses 
have been given for a week; then con¬ 
tinue the treatment until the animals are 
in good condition, at which stage the 
medicine may be discontinued, taking at 
least a week to the work. Feed roots 
or silage along with whole oats, wheat 
bran and mixed hay. Let the colts run 
out every day, unless in stormy weather. 
Blanket if stable is warm until coat has 
grown sufficiently to protect the animals. 
If yon do not care to clip them wholly, 
clip the hair from the belly and from the 
legs above the knees and hocks. A. s. a. 
Cough and Catarrh. 
I have a horse 13 years old in good 
condition and feeling fine, but has had a 
cough and discharge of nose since Juno. 
Now his cough is somewhat better except 
that when he rolls or gets up he coughs, 
and sometimes discharges from nose. Let 
me know what to do for him to break up 
cough. P. E. 
Pennsylvania. 
On general principles have his teeth 
attended to by a graduate veterinarian 
who will make sure that a diseased tooth 
is not present and causing the discharge. 
This is scarcely probable, however, as 
you do not say that a bad-smelling dis¬ 
charge is present. It seems more likely 
that the old horse has a cold and cough. 
Wet all feed. Keep the stable clean and 
perfectly ventilated. Give half an ounce 
of Fowler’s solution of arsenic night and 
morning until one quart has been used; 
then gradually discontinue the medicine, 
taking at least a week to the work. If 
the cough persists and is troublesome it 
might be relieved by giving one ounce of 
giyco-heroin three times a day. A. s. A. 
Lameness. 
I have a nine-year-old horse, which 
started to get lame beginning of July. I 
had a veterinarian who blistered the 
horse, and when he had stood at rest 
one week I took him out for a drive. He 
went pretty well for about one mile, but 
all of a sudden he went very lame and 
stiff. The veterinarian came the second 
time and again blistered the horse, and 
after a week’s rest I drove him for a 
short distance; he again got lame and 
stiff. His trouble seems to be from the 
knee down and the right front of leg; 
as he walks he throws his foot out and 
walks very stiff. Could it be rheuma¬ 
tism? The veterinarian says no. The 
horse did very little work during the 
Summer. Can you advise me what to 
do ? F. o. 
New York. 
Rheumatism would not be likely sud¬ 
denly to lame a horse in the way 
described. The symptoms indicate high 
lameness; not in the leg below the knee. 
Possibly it is a case of embolism, from 
plugging of the artery. Have the veter¬ 
inarian make an examination for that 
when the horse is suddenly attacked. 
Nothing can be determined when the 
lameness has subsided. Such a trouble 
would prove incurable. We are taking it 
for granted that the horse does not in¬ 
terfere. and at such times bruises the fet¬ 
lock joint of the lame leg. In interfer¬ 
ing cases special showing should be done 
by an expert and ankle boots should be 
worn. a. S. A. 
Pigs With Cough. 
We have several pigs, and among them 
we have noticed some coughing. Can 
you advise us what to do for them or 
what is the nature of their disease? 
New Jersey. j. d. p. 
You do not state the age of the pigs 
or give particulars relative to their feed¬ 
ing or management. If they are little 
sucking pigs the cough may be due to 
dust in the bedding. This is a common 
cause, and often it leads to fatal pneu¬ 
monia. Bedding for pigs should be as 
free from dust as possible and for that 
reason oat straw usually is a poor mate¬ 
rial. Shredded eornfodder will be found 
suitable, and next to it comes wheat and 
then rye straw. We have found that 
peanut straw is sometimes used in the 
South, and it has, to our knowledge, 
caused wholesale losses among little pigs. 
If the pigs are weaned and have run on 
pasture the cough is due to lung worms 
(strongylus paradoxus), for which pest 
there is no specific cure. Turpentine may 
be given in dram doses for each 80 
pounds of body weight of pigs and con¬ 
tinued for three consecutive days and re¬ 
peated in two weeks or so if thought nec¬ 
essary. Some of the worms are free in 
the intestines and associated with other 
intestinal parasites, wnich are likely to 
be killed by the turpentine. Generous 
feeding is necessary to enable the pigs to 
withstand the ravages of the worms. Give 
them free range on clover, Alfalfa or 
rape; but keep them off old, contaminated 
pastures and especially from low-lying, 
wet pastures. Feed digester tankage at 
the rate of 10 per cent with other nutri¬ 
tious meals and grains in slop. Avoid 
contaminated drinking water and clean 
up, disinfect and whitewash the pens and 
houses. Also cleanse and sterilize all 
feeding and watering troughs and swill 
barrels. a. s. a. 
Belgian Hares. 
The question was recently whether Bel¬ 
gian hares pay where feed must be 
bought. I answer decidedly yes. For 
example, from October 3, 1913, up to the 
present date, I have sold 800 young rab¬ 
bits for meat alone, say nothing of stock 
sold for breeding and pets. I have to buy 
every ounce of feed they eat, and my 
books show a fine profit if they are car¬ 
ried up to a system of feeding, c. E. ii. 
Warren, Ohio. 
R. N.-Y.—There is little evidence in 
the markets that hares or tame rabbits 
would prove profitable except for a very 
limited trade. 
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