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THE RURAIs NEW-YORKES 
January 3, 
AILING ANIMALS. 
Death of Sows. 
I lost recently two brood sows. One 
had four pigs, the other eight. At night 
I fed as usual milk, which was partly 
sour and part water, about six quarts 
each with about a one-lialf pail apples, 
both sweet and sour. In the morning I 
found both sows dead, but pigs were all 
right. The oldest litter eat from same 
trough as its mother, the other was too 
young. If it was the milk, why should 
it not kill the little ones, also four shotes 
which were fed from same barrel of milk? 
The shotes had a much heavier feed. 
New York. E. c. 
This certainly is a strange case; but 
it seems that the sows must have died of 
apoplexy, which sometimes follows far¬ 
rowing, if sows are too heavily fed. It 
was a mistake to feed the apples, along 
with sour milk slop. For the first feed 
a sow that has farrowed should merely 
have warm water with a little middlings 
stirred into it and it matters little if she 
gets nothing more in the first 24 hours. 
The slop may then be gradually increased 
in richness-and amount; but no sour 
feed of any kind should be allowed. In¬ 
judicious feed was apparently the cause of 
the sickness and deaths. A. s. A. 
Enteritis. 
A neighbor has a fine Clydesdale mare, 
six years old. She is passing through a 
severe attack of enteritis, and recovery 
is still doubtful. Upon questioning I 
found that the mare is in foal. Now this 
mare foaled a colt last April and when 
the colt was nine days old she was bred 
again. What effects would such methods 
have on the mare, also upon the offspring? 
T. M. 
Horses do not recover from severe at¬ 
tacks of enteritis (inflammation of the 
bowels) so it may be taken for granted 
that she has had some other less serious 
ailment. A severe attack of colic, or im¬ 
paction, treated with the usual drugs, 
may result later in abortion. A mare 
is most sure to conceive if bred nine 
days after foaling and it is the general 
custom to have mares bred at that time. 
No bad results to either mare or foal re¬ 
sult, for the mating is natural and would 
happen were the mare running free with 
the stallion, on the plains or range. 
A. s. A. 
Stiffness. 
I have a Jersey (grade) about nine 
years old, due to calve December 1; has 
been out to grass in good weather. She 
is stiff or lame, forward, and “off her 
fed.” I have been giving her two quarts 
bran with little oil meal twice daily, also 
sugar beets and tops, a few cornstalks, 
and hay. Has not been exposed to bad 
weather. Can you suggest what the 
trouble probably is? c. L. 
Long Island. 
Rheumatism may be the cause, and we 
would stop all rich feed and give simple 
ration of hay, roots and fodder. If she 
is constipated give her a.physic of epsom 
salts one pound, ground ginger root one 
ounce; salt one-half cupful, blackstrap 
molasses one cupful and warm water 
three pints. Give this slowly and care¬ 
fully, from a long necked bottle, as one 
dose. Keep her in a box stall while un¬ 
der treatment. 
Cow Pox. 
My cow has sores on teats and lower 
part of udder. I have healed some of 
the sores, but more are coming back. 
When the sores first appear they look 
red with yellow head, and about 10 days 
ago one side of her udder became hard 
and there the sores came out more plenti¬ 
fully. The cow acts as though it hurts 
her quite badly. A. J. 
New York. 
Isolate the cow and milk her last. 
Wash the hands well before milking other 
cows, as the disease is spread from cow 
to cow by the milker’s hands. Wash the 
udder twice daily with a lotion composed 
of one ounce of granular hyposulphate of 
soda in a quart of soft water. Piant 
the sores with glycerite of tannin, as 
often as found necessary. a. s. a. 
Loss of Calf. 
Could you tell us what was the matter 
with a calf which we just lost? Between 
the skin and flesh there was an inch 
or more all over the body and hind parts 
of a substance which looked like meat 
jelly. It has had nothing but frosted 
corn fodder for roughage for several 
weeks and oats for grain, has been tied 
in barn. She would not drink like the 
others; bloated badly. c. w. F. 
New York. 
Such effusions of lymph under the skin 
are seen in anthrax and in other diseases 
such as hemorrhagic septicemia. With¬ 
out an examination we could not say 
confidently what disease was present; but 
the latter is most likely and would prove 
incurable. The frosted fodder was quite 
unfit for feeding of a young animal and 
might cause sickness in any animal. We 
suspect that acute indigestion was present 
and the chief cause of death. a. s. a. 
Staggers. 
I have a horse that appears to be all 
right except that when I leave him 
hitched he goes to sleep and falls down. 
He will stand in the pasture under a 
tree with no sign of going to sleep. I 
have had him nearly two years. He is 
in the pasture most of the time, and I 
never saw him lie down but once, ex¬ 
cepting to roll. He rolls a great deal. 
I don’t use him much as I don’t have 
much use for a horse. He works and 
travels all right and is in fair condition. 
1 don’t give him much grain. I have 
heard that there was what they called 
sleepy grass in some places out west that 
makes them sleepy but mine only gets 
sleepy when he is hitched. Have tried 
him hitched to a post without the harness 
on, he goes to sleep just the same. Do 
you know of any cause or if there is any 
cure? d. a. 
Overfeeding and lack of work cause 
such conditions. Clip the horse and put 
him to steady work every day and if 
there is no work for him to do make him 
take abundant exercise out doors. Cut 
down the rations. Make him earn every 
bite that he eats. Allow him a box 
stall when in the stable. The horse is 
in about the same condition as the big 
rich, idle fat man who asked a doctor to 
prescribe for his gout. “Earn twenty- 
five cents a day” advised the doctor and 
then he added “and live on it!” If the 
horse is free from brain disease he should 
brighten up wonderfully under the work 
and spare diet regime. A. S. A. 
Itching Skin. 
I have a mule which has dirt and 
dandruff in its hair. It seems to itch 
and causes it to nip itself and pull its 
hair up the wrong way. What could I 
do to prevent this? A. L. w. 
Delaware. 
Clip the hair from the belly and from 
the legs above knees and hocks; then 
groom the mule thoroughly once a day. 
Feed carrots in addition to oats, bran 
and hay. Make the mule work or take 
plenty of exercise every day. If the 
trouble continues give half an ounce of 
Fowler’s solution of arsenic night and 
morning until a quart has been used; 
then gradually discontinue the medicine, 
taking a week or 10 days to the work. 
A. s. A. 
Stringy Milk. 
I have a cow that has been milked two 
years last October. She lost her last calf 
November 23, 1911, about four months 
before she was due, but milked right 
along just as though nothing had hap¬ 
pened, and has up to this time and now 
her milk seems to be quite cheesy and 
stringy. The feed consists of corn, rye 
and oats. J. G. N. 
New Jersey. 
Bacteria in the milk utensils are the 
common cause of stringy or ropy milk, 
and the condition comes on after the 
milk has been standing for some time. 
If you find that the milk comes from the 
udder in a stringy condition, garget 
(mammitis) is the most likely cause, but 
extended lactation, as in this case, may 
result in abnormal quality or composition 
of milk. Such milk is unfit for use, and 
we would advise you to dry the cow off 
at once, or sell the cow to butcher if in 
good flesh. There is great likelihood that 
she will again abort her calf. a. s. a. 
Feeding Old Horse. 
Can an old horse be kept on ground 
feed and do well without hay or whole 
grain of any kind. I have a mare, prob¬ 
ably 30 years of age. She has done nearly 
all the work on my small farm for a 
number of years. She has been running 
out to pasture during the Summer with 
but little other feed except that for the 
last few weeks she has had some apples 
besides the grass; is now in fine condi¬ 
tion, strong and works well. When I 
put her in the stable for the Winter she 
does not do well. She cannot or will 
not eat hay, and oats go through without 
being digested. If I cut the hay and put 
meal on it she will try to lap the meal 
off and leave the hay. Would molasses 
feed or ground Alfalfa with ground grain 
bo good for her? How would you recom¬ 
mend to^ feed her leaving out hay. 
New York. g. o. t. 
She may be able to eat good corn silage, 
along with crushed oats, wheat bran and 
cornmeal. It is necessary to feed some 
comparatively bulky feed to keep the 
meal particles apart and properly distend 
and stimulate the muscular action of the 
howels. Alfalfa meal may be used, or 
finely cut clover hay, soaked in hot water 
until soft, and then well sprinkled with 
blackstrap molasses diluted with hot 
water. If you can get her to eat the 
following mixture she will be likely to 
do well; Dilute one quart of blackstrap 
molasses with three quarts of hot water 
and stir among fine cut hay, 5 pounds; 
corn meal, 4 quarts; coarse bran, 2 pints, 
and feed this night and morning, allowing 
dry meal at noon. If found necessary 
much larger quantities of molasses can be 
fed with safety and benefit. Sweet skim 
milk may also be given to an old horse 
that cannot chew feed and minced roots 
may be tried. a. s. a. 
Nasal Gleet. 
I have a very valuable mare, about 
six years old, very strangely affected. 
East Winter she had what I at first 
thought was distemper but later conclud¬ 
ed was only a cold, as there was no at¬ 
tendant _ cough—this continued through 
the Spring, but the discharge was from 
one nostril only—the left side—and be¬ 
came very offensive, both to sight and 
smell. The discharged matter was very 
thick and sticky and light yellow in color. 
At times it comes in small lumps, for 
the disease, whatever it is, continues 
now. There is no veterinarian here, and 
no one seems to know what it is. The 
mare’s general health seems good—is in 
fine condition and eats v.ery heartily. Any 
help you can give will be thankfully ’-e- | 
ceived. b. h. w. 
Virginia. 
This is a serious matter, as there is 
great danger that glanders is present 
when a nasal discharge persists and is 
sticky in character. In such cases the 
animal should at once be isolated and 
then a veterinarian should be employed, 
or if there is no graduate practitioner in 
the immediate vicinity it will pay to take 
the animal to one a distance. Glanders 
is not only incurable and terribly conta¬ 
gious among horses, but also communi¬ 
cable and fatal to man ; hence the danger 
of treating a suspicious case. As there 
is a bad odor from the discharging nos¬ 
tril it is quite likely that a diseased mo¬ 
lar tooth, in the upper jaw on the side 
corresponding to the discharging nostril, 
is the cause and the qualified veterinarian 
could remove the tooth by trephining 
and giving suitable treatment until dis- 
charge ceased and the trephining hole 
healed up. If he should find glanders 
present, however, the horse would have 
to be destroyed, according to State law, 
and the stable cleansed, disinfected, 
whitewashed and placed under quaran¬ 
tine. The quarantine would be lifted as 
soon as it was discovered that other 
horses had not become infected. As 
home treatment will not avail in this 
case, whether it be glanders or a dis¬ 
eased tooth, it should be evident that a 
graduate veterinarian must be employed. 
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