1914. 
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AILING ANIMALS. 
Constipation. 
My collie dog is constipated, and has 
been so for a long time. He has table 
scraps to eat and is very fond of sour 
milk and buttermilk. What can we do 
for him? I. m. a. 
Make the dog live out of doors as much 
as possible and feed one small meal each 
night. Do not feed potatoes. Twice a 
week feed parboiled liver and increase to 
three times a week, if found necessary 
to keep the bowels active. If this does 
not suffice give a dose of castor oil in 
milk. A. S. A. 
Sick Hogs. 
A hog that I was fattening all at once 
stopped eating, for two weeks, and then 
staggered around and died. Hog was fed 
water and corn. Since then I have lost 
another. R. p. d. 
New Jersey. 
Your description does not make a con¬ 
fident diagnosis possible, but hog cholera 
has been so prevalent that one must sus¬ 
pect that it was present here. Acute in¬ 
digestion from irritating feed might cause 
somewhat similar symptoms. Stop feed¬ 
ing corn and feed light, laxative slop, 
adding roots and Alfalfa hay, and making 
the hogs take abundant exercise every 
day. If more are sick have a local, 
graduate veterinarian make an examina¬ 
tion and vaccinate the remaining pigs, if 
cholera is found present. A. s. A. 
Tumor. 
I had a one-year-old liog that some 
time ago almost stopped eating, and did 
not seem to have much life about it. It 
lived on about six months barely eating 
enough to keep it alive. I killed it a 
few days ago and on examination found 
that one kidney had grown to an enorm¬ 
ous size, weighing 51 pounds, and was 
filled with a watery substance. I would 
like your opinion as to what was the 
matter. S. tv. z. 
West Virginia. 
A cancerous tumor no doubt was pres¬ 
ent. and such a condition is uncommon 
and incurable. It may be set down as an 
accidental case, the like of which will 
never be seen again. No explanation can 
be given as to the cause of the tumor. 
A. S. A. 
Nailprick. 
Seven weeks ago my horse stepped on 
a nail, which entered the foot in the 
crease beside the frog. I did not discover 
it until next morning after having driven 
him six miles in that condition. I then 
drew the nail and filled the wound with 
balsam of myrrh. Next day had a veter¬ 
inarian cleansed the foot, gave the usual 
treatment to prevent lockjaw. Later I 
applied poultices and after a little blist¬ 
ered the ankle, but the horse is as lame 
as ever, and I cannot use him. Can you 
tell me what to do? A. K. K. 
The wound should have been freely 
opened to allow vent of pus. This may 
still be necessary. Clip the hair from the 
hoof-head and blister with cerate of can- 
tlmrides several times at intervals of ten 
days. This will suffice if the flexor tendon 
or navicular bone was not injured or the 
joint opened by the nail. In bad cases 
a skilled surgeon has to operate. 
A. S. A. 
Ringworm: Worms. 
1. Will you tell me what to do for our 
cattle? The hair comes off in patches 
leaving a thick white dandruff. It starts 
around the eyes. They are well fed and 
sheltered, have salt and aside from this 
skin disease seem all right. 2. I would 
like to know what to do for our Llew¬ 
ellyn setter, now five years old. AVhen 
six months old he had distemper, but 
owing to illness in the family was not 
properly cared for. His eyes have been 
bad since then, the haw nearly covering 
the ball at times. When he was a pup 
we gave him worm medicine, and he 
passed quantities of worms. Would he 
be likely to have worms yet? E. s. c. 
Idaho. 
1. Ringworm is present. Scrub each 
spot clean, and when dry rub in some 
iodine ointment, repeating the applica¬ 
tion each other day until recovery. 2. 
The dog no doubt has worms. Give him 
worm medicine to be bought ready for 
use at the drug store. Bathe the eyes 
twice daily with a ten per cent solution 
of boric acid. A. s. a. 
Obstructed Teat. 
(hie of my cows has due hind teat 
scabbed over; had to pick off the scab 
and milk with a tube. Seems to go up 
farther than just end of teat. That got 
better, then the other commenced; can 
get hardly any milk without a tube. 
What is it and what can I do for her? 
F. A. G. 
Such sores come from infected floors, 
or from infected matters carried by the 
milker’s hands. Often the sore starts 
from a scratch made with the finger nails, 
which are left too long. Do away with 
such causes. Treat by soaking the af¬ 
fected teats in a hot saturated solution 
of boric acid, night and morning, and 
then apply b 4"^^Peru to the sores. If 
a sore is tardy in healing paint it with 
tincture of iodine each other day, in ad¬ 
dition to the other treatment. Milking 
t ubes tend to carry infection into the ud¬ 
der. They must be carefully sterilized 
by boiling before use, otherwise they are 
an abomination. Where a warty growth 
forms in the end of the teat it should bo 
rimmed out with a small sharp scalpel, or 
cut through in four different directions 
by means of a sharp, clean teat bistoury. 
Such operations are best done by the ex¬ 
pert veterinarian. a. s. a. 
Obstructed Teat. 
In the lower end of the right front 
teat on one of my cows is something 
which prevents the milking. We have 
drawn the milk twice by forcing a quill 
in the teat about one inch deep, which 
allowed the milk to flow. The obstacle 
felt like a pea. From outside nothing 
can be seen on the teat. Sl.e has pain 
as soon as we touch the lower end of 
the teat. R. G. 
New York. 
Infective matters have already been 
carried into the udder by the quill and 
it is likely that the function of that 
quarter will be lost from destructive gar¬ 
get. The right treatment would be to 
have a veterinarian rim out the growth 
with a small, sharp knife, then soak the 
teat twice daily in a hot, saturated solu¬ 
tion of boric ntixl and each other day 
apply tincture ol' iodine if the sore is 
tardy in healing. If the veterinarian 
does' not care to cut out the growth he 
no doubt will slit through the obstruc¬ 
tion in four different directions, by means 
of a teat bistoury and then have a stream 
of milk stripped away several times a 
day while healing is proceeding. A. s. A. 
Eye Ailments in Animals. 
I notice on page 1334 two inquirers 
asking for advice in regard to eye ail¬ 
ments. May I take the liberty of crit¬ 
icizing the manner in which treatment 
is advised? In the first case of the injury 
to the ox a more definite statement should 
be asked for, viz., is there any circum- 
corncal injection, watering of the eye? 
These traumatic cases nine times out of 
ten result in an iritis, in which case the 
treatment would be the instillation of 
atropine, four grains to the ounce of 
water, in connection with the antiseptic 
application as suggested. In the case of 
the dog which is blind in both eyes we 
have a case of congenital cataract, or a 
case of corneal scar due to a recent ulcer. 
If the inquirer gives a history of water¬ 
ing of the eyes, a tendency to avoid the 
light and redness of the eye covering 
(conjunctiva) and above all that the dog 
did see when he was born, then your 
diagnosis is corneal scars. The treatment 
should then be a 1 % yellow oxide of mer¬ 
cury ointment, applied locally, internal 
remedies help but little. If the case is 
cataract remedies will not help. 
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