1914. 
THE RURAb NEW-YORKER 
139 
FROM A VETERAN JERSEY BREEDER. 
Your correspondent on page 1373 gives 
good advice, but I would advise local 
cow-testing associations such as Vermont 
has in both purebred and grade communi¬ 
ties. Recently I talked to some Jersey- 
breeders at Alliance, Ohio, who are or¬ 
ganizing and found there a number of 
wide-awake- farmers who are interested. 
The point I advrse is,, do not run your 
cows dry for months, heavy fed before 
calving, then force for every drop and call 
or believe it an advanced registry or 
register of merit test honestly made. It 
is a “make believe” to fool yourself or 
others. This may be considered a fool’s 
advice; if you do not agree, with me, read 
the remarks made at ibe dinner of one of 
the great cattle clubs, at the last Chica¬ 
go Dairy Show, 1913. One of our good 
breeders said: “I am satisfied that the 
carrying of cows a period of 13 months 
in their tests is not in the best interests 
of the cow or her owner, it is a violation 
of a natural law, and we cannot violate 
Nature’s laws without suffering for so 
doing. I think everyone will agree with 
me when I say many cows have been 
practically lost or ruined during these 
tests; and besides, we are misleading the 
man who is simply a general farmer, be¬ 
cause it is misleading to hold up a tre¬ 
mendous record, which he would like to 
live up to but cannot possibly make. I 
would like to know how many men there 
are here today, if they told us what really 
occurred in their experience would tell us 
they have crowded through this long per¬ 
iod, crowded to the extreme limit in or¬ 
der to make a great record.” Another 
asked. “How many dare publish their 
cash accounts for tests?” lie said: 
“Through the 'Breeders’ Gazette’ I have 
challenged my colleagues to render a 
statement. Our dairy cattle breeders, 
and I do not specify or except any breed, 
are publishing records that are fabulous, 
and can we believe them?” 
My advice to the Alliance breeders 
was: “Get Txie R. N.-Y. and Hoard’s 
Dairyman.” R- F. s-hannon. 
Pennsylvania. 
AILING ANIMALS. 
Worms. 
For the past three years I have fed 
my horses cornstalks during the Winter, 
with plenty of root vegetables such as 
potatoes and carrots, but I notice each 
year that they are bothered with intes¬ 
tinal worms. One of my neighbors told 
me to mix hard wood ashes with salt 
equal parts and keep this constantly be¬ 
fore them. Are the ashes harmful? If 
so what are the effects upon the horse, as 
they will lick twice as much of this mix¬ 
ture as they will of salt alone? C. F. L. 
It appears that corn fodder, like swale 
hay, tends to infest horses with worms. 
At any rate many farmers assure us that 
is the fact. It might be better to feed 
the horses mixed clover and Timothy hay, 
instead of corn fodder. Horses should 
have access to rock salt at all times; but 
there is no need of feeding wood ashes 
right along. The ashes supply alkaline 
matters, such as potash salts and lime 
salts, and may prove somewhat consti¬ 
pating. They are not especially hurtful. 
For worms give a tablespoonful night and 
morning of a mixture of equal parts of 
sulphur, dried sulphate of iron and salt. 
Continue for a week, then skip 10 days 
and repeat. Omit the iron for a mare in 
foal. A. S. A. 
Indigestion. 
I have a mare five years old ; she keeps 
moving in stall most of the time, puts her 
front feet forward one at a time, bump¬ 
ing the manger, stands with her hind legs 
wide apart. When she works she is lim¬ 
ber as a colt. She is thin, cannot get 
much flesh on her. When she stands in 
barn sweats easily ; will be all wet if she 
is working or driving. F. H. 
Reduce the graiu ration one-half and 
feed not over one pound of hay per hun¬ 
dred pounds of body weight as a day’s 
ration. XevT'r let her stand for a single 
day idle in the stable. Allow her a roomy 
box stall in the stable. Clip the hair 
from her belly and from the legs above 
knees and hocks, and that will soon stop 
sweating in the stable, provided the stable 
is perfectly ventilated. The feed may be 
gradually increased in amount as soon as 
she is doing well. The trembling and 
position taken at some times indicates 
the presence of chorea (St. Vitus’ dance), 
and that is incurable. A. s. A. 
Eczema. 
I have a mare, about 1.390. clean, 
clever and a handsome one; works well 
and eats well, but every so often—gener¬ 
ally once a mouth or so, sometimes twice 
a month and sometimes once in two 
months—she has a water blister, some¬ 
times on her neck, side and hind quarters. 
If treated immediately with hot applica¬ 
tions the discharge flows slowly, and in 
time tin’ skin peels off, not affeeting the 
hair. If she gets to rubbing it before I 
can do anything for it she rubs all the 
hair off and the skin looks bloodshot, dis¬ 
charges foul-smelling water. The hair in 
time all grows out again the natural col¬ 
or. and she is all right again. Some say 
it is mallenders; if so. what can I do to 
stop it; also what is the proper cure for 
lampas in a horse? Her upper gums at 
the roof of her mouth have swollen and 
dropped almost even with the bottom of 
the teeth, and she continually chops and 
rubs her tail to pieces. M. A. c. 
Massachusetts. 
Mallenders is an eczematous disease af¬ 
fecting the back of the knee, and the cor¬ 
responding disease known as sallenders 
affects in the same way the skin in front 
of the hocks. The condition you describe 
apparently is eczema, and it seems evi¬ 
dent that* indigestion is the cause, seeing 
that the mare rubs her tail and also has 
“lampas” or “Tampers.” The latter con¬ 
dition is not a disease, but merely a swol¬ 
len state of the bars of the hard palate, 
just back of the uppei lnersor teeth. It 
generally is sympathetic and associated 
with like swelling of the entire buccal 
membrane and gums of the mouth. The 
cause is cutting of teeth, or irregularities 
of the teeth. These too commonly cause 
indigestion. Have the teeth attended to 
by a qualified veterinarian and at the 
same time clip the hair from her belly 
and from the legs above knees and hocks. 
The clipping alone often greatly benefits 
indigestion. Never let her stand for a 
single day idle in the stable. If there 
is no work for her to do, turn her out 
and cut the rations down materially. Al¬ 
low her a box stall when in the stable, 
and to prevent tail rubbing put a wide 
plank on brackets around the inside of 
the box. shelf wise, just high enough to 
prevent tail rubbing. Treat tail by scrub¬ 
bing clean, and when dry pour on and 
rub in a little mixture of equal parts of 
kerosene and machine oil. Repeat three 
days in succession, then apply every three 
days a creamy mfixture of sulphur and 
sweet oil. Internally give half an ounce 
of Fowler’s solution of arsenic night and 
morning until a quart has been given; 
then gradually discontinue the medicine, 
taking at least a week to the work. Feed 
whole oats, wheat bran, mixed clover, hay 
and carrots. If a sore is seen, to be com¬ 
ing upon the body paint it daily with 
tincture of iodine, after removing the 
hair, and open it when soft; then swab 
daily with the iodine tincture until well. 
A. s. A. 
Strained Tendons. 
I purchased a stallion April 4. 1913. 
I owned him about two months when 
he went lame, seems to have a thorough- 
pin. I sent him to a hospital (at this 
time he was up on his toe) to be treated. 
They blistered his hock but seemed to do 
little good. He came down on his foot 
flat, although an ordinary drive of about 
eight or 10 miles will put him back on 
his toe for a day or two. I have done 
nothing for him lately. He gets neither 
better nor worse. He is about ten years 
old. I keep him in a box stall where he 
gets exercise. E. F. it. 
Maryland. 
The symptoms suggest strained tendons 
rather than thoroughpin and it would be 
well to have the veterinarian line-fire the 
back tendons and then blister them, after 
which the horse should rest for six weeks. 
If you do not care to have the horse fired, 
blister the tendons repeatedly with cerate 
of cantharides, applied at intervals of 
three or four weeks. Clip off the hair and 
brush the skin clean ; then rub the blister 
in, a little at a time, for fifteen minutes, 
wash the blister off in two days and then 
apply a little lard daily. A. s. A. 
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Malanotic Tunior; Garget. 
1. I have a gray mare with a growth 
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the throatlatch buckle comes. It is soft, 
black, about the size of a hickory nut 
and seems to contain considerable blood, 
and bleeds a little at times. What is it 
and how may it be removed? 2. I have a 
registered Guernsey cow that has garget 
in two diagonal quarters of her udder. 
She is naturally a heavy milker, and is 
due to freshen in March. What care 
should be taken to avoid trouble at that 
time? Would it be safer to milk her 
right up to freshening time? J. M. 
Allegany Co., N. Y. 
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