1914. 
THK RURAL NEW-YORKER; 
AILING ANIMALS. 
Garget. 
Will you inform me what you would 
rub on fresh cow whose udder is caked? 
New York. H. H. \v. 
Foment with hot water three times a 
day, massage perfectly at the same time 
and then rub with a mixture of one part 
each of fluid extracts of poke root and 
belledonna leaves and six parts of warm 
sweet oil or molted lard. Feed light, lax¬ 
ative rations. Dissolve two teaspoonfuls 
of saltpeter in the drinking water twice 
daily for three or four consecutive days 
a week, until the dder is normal. 
a. s. A. 
Cholera. 
I had a drove of 27 hogs. They all 
had the cholera and all died but two 
sows. I expect both sows to farrow in 
March. The boar died with the cholera 
and both sows had it. but got well and 
are now in good condition. Would the 
pigs from those sows, be immune? Would 
it be necessary to build a new hog pen, 
or do you think it is all right to leave 
them where they are? c. f. 
Pigs of immune sows have a slight de¬ 
gree of immunity for a few weeks, but it 
is not worth counting upon as protection. 
The pigs should be vaccinated with ser¬ 
um alone and when 50 pounds or so in 
weight should be vaccinated with serum 
alone and in one week with serum and 
virus simultaneously. They will then be 
immune for life. Clean up, disinfect and 
whitewash the hog house and pens, in¬ 
cluding the floors; then use nothing but 
immunized hogs. a. s. a. 
Greaseheel. 
Will you give me a cure for grease- 
heel on horses? I have one that the vet¬ 
erinary gave me medicine for. YY hile 
I use the treatment it seems to dry up 
and be all right and when I stop using, 
it breaks out again. p. s. o. 
The disease is constitutional, so that 
local treatment alone is insufficient. 
Make the horse run out daily or work 
every day and live on corn fodder, hay, 
straw and roots in Winter and grass 
alone in Summer. Groom him every day. 
Poultice the affected parts for a few 
days with hot flaxseed meal, mixing in 
each poultice two ounces of powdered 
wood charcoal and two teaspoonfuls of 
coal tar disinfectant. Wash clean and 
dry perfectly on discontinuing the poul¬ 
tices ; then apply several times a day a 
lotion composed of one ounce each of 
sugar of lead and sulphate of zinc to the 
quart of soft water. Write again later, 
if this does not suffice. It may be added 
that in bad, chronic cases it is well to 
give the horse a tablespoonful of Fowl¬ 
er’s solution of arsenic right along until 
well; then gradually discontinue the 
medicine, taking at least a week to the 
work. A. s. a. 
Lice. 
I have about 60 hogs and pigs that 
are lousy. How can I get rid of the lice? 
Can I spray them at night when they 
lie down? Will kerosene, not diluted, 
Injure the hogs? What is the best thing 
to use and how? P. F. 
Spray and scrub with a solution of 
coal tar dip made and used according 
to the directions given by the makers, or 
apply a mixture of equal parts of kero¬ 
sene and machine oil along the backbone 
by means of an oil can. Do not use full 
strength kerosene and do not use kero¬ 
sene or a mixture of it on a sow with 
pig, as it will be likely to cause abortion. 
A. S. A. 
Indigestion. 
1. A 1,500-pound brood mare has what 
the doctor calls anaemia, and now and 
then gets indigestion. We feed one quart 
oats, one quart bran, one pint linseed 
meal, four ears corn, mixed hay and 
corn fodder. Advise me what to do. 2. 
A cow is down in flesh; eats well but 
does not seem to thrive. They seem to 
have lice. 3. How best get rid of lice 
on cattle and horses? 4. I raised twin 
colts; I would like to have a formula to 
mix feed for them of right proportions 
to be a good economical feed, and how 
much of same a day? c. A. o. 
Massachusetts. 
1. Have mare's teeth attended to by 
the veterinarian; also have the hair 
clipped from her belly and from her legs 
above knees and hocks. Allow free ac¬ 
cess to rock salt, give the drinking water 
before feeding and work or exercise her 
every day. Feed whole oats and one- 
sixth part of wheat bran, by weight, 
allowing l 1 /* pounds per hundred pounds 
of body weight of mare as a day’s ration. 
Also allow a few ears of corn at noon, 
while weather is cold. Give a like amount 
of good mixed clover hay per hundred 
pounds of body weight. Carrots would 
form a beneficial adjunct to the rations. 
Give her half an ounce of Fowler’s solu¬ 
tion of arsenic night and morning for a 
week, then three times a day until she is 
doing well when the medicine may be 
gradually discontinued, taking 10 days or 
more to the work. 2. Have the cow 
tested with tuberculin, as tuberculosis 
is to be suspected. 3. Lice may be killed 
by using a solution of coal tar dip at 
intervals, as advised by the manufactur¬ 
ers. The stables also should be cleansed, 
disinfected and whitewashed. 4. The 
colts will do well if fed equal parts of 
whole oats and bran, by weight, allow¬ 
ing one pound per hundred pounds of 
body weight as a day’s ration, along with 
all the good mixed hay they will clean 
up. Roots may be added with benefit 
and if you wish to obtain maximum 
growth and weight sweet skim-milk may 
be fed. a. s. a. 
Pining Cow. 
I have a cow five years old, whose ap¬ 
petite has been failing for the last year; 
have had to change grain often to get her 
to eat any. Now she will eat no grain 
of any kind; will eat about one-third as 
much hay as she should. She appears 
bright and active but is growing thinner 
every day. I have noticed during the 
last week or two that her manure is be¬ 
coming hard. I think that she was 
grained too heavily before I got her, 
which is nearly a year ago. What can 
I do for her? w. G. B. 
New Hampshire. 
Have her tested with tuberculin, and if 
she has not tuberculosis she may do bet¬ 
ter if you give her a physic and follow 
with half ounce doses of Fowler’s solu¬ 
tion of iirsenic and dram doses of fluid 
extract of mix vomica twice daily right 
along. Feed plenty of nutritious feed; 
but she may not improve before she can 
run on grass in Spring. a. s. a. 
Warts. 
I have a two-year-old heifer which has 
a large wart on her nose and a dozen or 
more the size of buttons, coming. The 
large one is ragged and as large as a 
teacup. What can I do to take it off 
and stop the others growing larger? 
F. II. L. 
Twist off the large wart, or ligate its 
neck tightly with a fine cord. If it is 
not a cancer it will not be likely to re¬ 
turn ; but also lightly cauterize its base 
with lunar caustic pencil. If it is a 
cancer it will return worse than ever 
and is incurable. Masses of small warts 
may be removed in time, by rubbing 
daily with best caster oil or fresh goose 
greese. A. s. a. 
Paralysis. 
I have some pigs that can hardly get 
up; they have been fed warm water meal 
and white middlings. They are in good 
order. They have rather a cold place. 
They squeal and act helpless; eat a very 
little whole corn. The place they have 
been in is just cold enough so it froze 
the top part of the hens’ combs which 
were next to their pen. They weigh 
from 100 to 150 pounds live weight. l)o 
you know any help for them? c. w. K. 
New York. 
Overfeeding and lack of exercise bring 
on this condition, which usually is as¬ 
sociated with rickets. Worms may be a 
complication. Add limewater freely to 
the slop, and make digester tankage a 
10 per cent, addition to the ration. Make 
the pigs work for any corn or whole oats 
they get, by rooting for it on a big barn 
floor covered deeply with litter. Exercise 
is imperative. Allow free access to slaked 
lime, wood ashes and charcoal. Feed 
roots to regulate the bowels. A. S. A. 
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Mrs. Green (reading) : “Cows, after 
Rosa Bonheur.” Mr. Green: “By gosh! 
I see the cows, but where is Rosa Bon¬ 
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