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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 21 
AILING ANIMALS. 
Limewater for Veterinary Work. 
Please tell how lime water is prepared? 
Pennsylvania. p. c. h. 
Pour a quart of water on a lump of 
quicklime the size of a walnut. After 
the lime is slaked and powdered strain 
off the clear liquid for use as lime water. 
A. s. A. 
Splints. 
Please advise me how to treat splint 
on a horse’s legs if it is curable. A. N. 
New York. 
Organized splints remain as permanent 
blemishes despite treatment. Lameness 
may be remedied and a splint somewhat 
reduced in size by early blistering with a 
mixture of one dram of biniodide of 
mercury and one ounce of lard. Rub it 
in for 15 minutes after smearing lard 
under the affected part. Tie the horse 
up short so that he will be unable to lie 
down or rub the part, 
apply lard, but do not 
Then apply lard daily 
horse liberty in a box 
peatedly at intervals ot tnree or 
In three days 
wash the part, 
and allow the 
stall. Blister ro¬ 
of three or four 
weeks if found necessary. 
Pig-eating Sows. 
A. S. A. 
I would like advice about what to do 
with sows that eat their pigs when they 
are a few weeks old. We have several 
that before they have pigs we put in a 
small pen to get them away from the rest 
of the hogs and when they farrow they 
sometimes eat them the same night, we 
keep salt before them at all times. 
Colorado. B. T. 
Allow sows abundant exercise and 
mixed laxative rations, get them accus¬ 
tomed to the presence of man and they 
will not be likely to eat their pigs. It 
is the soft, pampered, fat, sluggish, cross, 
nervous, constipated sow that eats her 
pigs. Adding 10 per cent of digester 
tankage to the feed of brood sows also 
tends to prevent the vice. a. s. a. 
Cribbing. 
What causes a horse to catch the 
front teeth of the upper jaw on manger, 
open the mouth and make the noise 
usually called cribbing? Is there any 
way of stopping it and what is the effect 
on the animal if it is left to indulge in 
the habit? M. n. 
New York. 
Cribbing and windsucking is an in¬ 
curable vice learned by colts when cutting 
teeth, or idle in the stable or by imitation 
from a confirmed cribber. It causes 
chronic indigestion and ill thrift. It may 
be temporarily stopped or greatly relieved 
by buckling a strap around the neck just 
back of the throat-latch. Keep the horse 
in a box stall from which has been re¬ 
moved everything upon which the teeth or 
chin could be set to practice the habit. 
Feed from the floor level. A. s. a. 
Indigestion. 
I have a mare eight years old, goes to 
station two miles each way morning and 
night; no work Sunday or Monday or 
Thursday night, or Tuesday or Friday 
morning; is in box stall. I feed 12 quarts 
oats a day; every three months her hind 
foot swells from hock down, different foot 
each time. If let stand while in harness 
she will lie down. She eats all the wood 
about the stall, and is very thin. j. c. 
Such treatment well might cause 
chronic indigestion. Have the teeth at¬ 
tended to by a veterinarian; then make 
the mare work or abundantly exercise 
out of doors every day. If her coat is 
long and coarse clip it from belly and from 
legs above knees and hocks. Bed with 
planing mill shavings or sawdust. Feed 
whole oats, wheat bran, carrots and 
mixed clover or Timothy hay. Medicine 
is unnecessary, but allow free access to 
rock salt. If her legs incline to stock, 
as they have in the past, from lymphan¬ 
gitis and poor circulation, rub them dry 
each time she comes into the stable and 
then bandage from feet to knees and 
hocks. A. s. A. 
Depraved Appetite. 
I have a Jersey heifer that has not 
done well in the last five months. She 
is 18 months old. She eats, assimilates 
and feels well and is bright and sprightly. 
Temperature, pulse and respiration are 
normal. Was tuberculin tested, with the 
rest of the herd, last January, with nega¬ 
tive results for all. In September she, 
with others, got at a pot of paint and 
one died as the result. Gave antidote, no 
bad effects observed in this one at that 
time. She has not grown like her mates 
and is very thin in flesh. I have not 
bred her because she is so thin. She 
craves soiled rags and straw, eats dirt 
and beach sand, tries to lap your hand 
and clothes, has an abnormal appetite 
for salt and drinks about a third more 
water than others of her size. What is 
the trouble and what the remedy? Would 
you advise breeding her? r. f. 
I)o not have her bred while she is in 
an unhealthy condition. Foreign bodies 
in the stomach, or an abscess or tumor 
often cause such symptoms of chronic 
indigestion, or a needle or pin or nail may 
be lodged in the wall of the heart. If a 
foreign body, abscess or tumor is the 
cause treatment will not avail; but it 
may be a case of chronic indigestion from 
more ordinary causes and if so treatment 
may do some good. Acidulate her drink¬ 
ing water with hydrochloric acid. Use 
just enough acid at first to slightly sour 
the water, but gradually increase the acid, 
taking care of course not to make it 
strong enough to cause discomfort- Make 
the heifer live out of doors as much as 
possible, but where she cannot pick up 
foreign bodies. Feed Alfalfa or clover 
hay and mixed grain ration, including 
wheat bran, flaxseed meal and silage or 
roots. Write later if necessary. 
A. s. A. 
Indigestion. 
Will you inform me what it means 
when cattle will lick sand. I have a herd 
of llolsteins (17 head) in good milking 
condition averaging 35 pounds of milk 
per day and fed on the following ration. 
They get all the corn fodder they care 
for. fed to them in the barnyard. I 
make up a mixture of 500 pounds dried 
brewer’s grains (moistened), 300 pounds 
hominy feed, and 200 pounds of cotton¬ 
seed meal (42 per cent protein). I feed 
about 15 pounds of this mixture to a cow 
per day and in addition to this each cow 
gets all the black grass hay they care for 
and 50 pounds of mangels. I have salt 
bricks attached in the manger. My cows 
have been licking sand some time. I 
think that something must be wrong with 
the feed ration. k. g. 
You are overfeeding and wasting feed 
and besides that causing indigestion. Add 
one part corn meal, and one part wheat 
bran to the ration and of the mixture al¬ 
low one pound for each four pounds of 
milk given daily by the cow. If possible 
allow good clover hay in addition to the 
corn fodder and roots. We are not posted 
regarding black grass hay, but take it to 
be some form of marsh hay. Give the 
cows outdoor exercise every day. 
A. s. A. 
Scours in Calves. 
I would like to know what to do for 
scours in calves six weeks old or under. 
When skim-milk and oil meal is fed, how 
much should be fed each week after the 
first till they are six weeks old? If 
calf meal is fed, should less oil meal 
be fed? At what age should young calves 
be treated to keep their horns from grow¬ 
ing and what is best for that purpose? 
What is the best remedy for colic in a 
horse? Are pumpkin stems good for colic 
in either man or beast? The stems should 
be grated in order to use, and then 
steeped. r. 
Oregon. 
Mix together half an ounce of formalde¬ 
hyde and lS 1 /^ ounces of freshly boiled 
water and keep it in an amber colored 
bottle; of this mixture add one teaspoon¬ 
ful to each pint or pound of skim-milk 
fed to a calf that has shown signs of 
scouring. If scouring has started give 
a dose of castor oil in milk before giving 
the drugged milk. In bad cases give one 
tablespoonful of alum in a pint of warm 
water at one dose 12 hours after feeding 
milk and repeat when seen to be neces¬ 
sary. Do not give alum when milk is 
being fed. We have also had good results 
from giving one or two tablespoonfuls of 
sulphur in milk or water as a drench to 
scouring calves. Give it every two or 
three hours, according to severity of case. 
Kill horns on calves thoroughly by rub¬ 
bing the dampened skin over the born 
buttons with caustic potash stick before 
the calf is a week old. There are many 
different forms of colic and no one remedy 
is suitable for all. Give us the symptoms 
of the form of colic you have in mind and 
we will be glad to prescribe. On gen¬ 
eral principles it always is safe to give 
a pint of raw linseed oil and half to one 
ounce of laudanum may be added for 
pain. We cannot answer relative to 
pumpkin stems for colic. We have never 
heard such a claim made. a. s. a. 
Five Seconds and the 
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