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THE RURAE NEW-YORKER 
April 11 
AILING ANIMALS. 
Pin Worms. 
Six of my horses have had pin worms 
badly all Winter. I think they came 
from feeding fodder early in the Fall. 
They have had more feed than the rest 
and look the worse. I have fed salt, sul¬ 
phur, and sulphate of iron (equal parts). 
1 have injected milk and turpentine. 
Have fed oats, bran and the best Tim¬ 
othy hay, and then change back to corn 
again. I admit that after the use of 
the milk and turpentine I saw live worms 
pass, but even after careful treatment for 
days there seem to be just as many 
worms as before and the an nals do not 
improve. I have not fed fodder for two 
months now. I have also used the old 
remedy, “hickory ashes.” These horses 
are hunters and race horses and now is 
the time to put flesh on for the Spring 
training and they do not respond. Can’t 
you suggest something else? w. M. A. 
Pin worms live in the rectum and are 
not killed by internal medication. Worm 
mixtures containing copperas in sufficient 
quantities turn the manure black and 
destroy the worms in the intestines so 
that they do not appear in the manure. 
Pin worms commonly are associated with 
intestinal worms. Better give each horse 
two ounces of turpentine in a pint of 
raw linseed oil as one dose, after starv¬ 
ing the animal for at least 12 hours. Re¬ 
peat in two weeks if thought necessary. 
Three times a week inject into the rec¬ 
tum two or three quarts of soapy warm 
water containing one cupful of tobacco 
decoction made by steeping tobacco stems 
or leaves in boiling water; or use a de¬ 
coction of four ounces of quassia chips 
to the gallon of hot water. a. s. a. 
quart molasses, three quarts of shorts, 
warm water to make one pailful. Let 
the sow drink this and as soon as she 
goes blissfully to sleep return the pigs, 
letting each suck and when the sow 
wakes up she will take to the pigs kind¬ 
ly. Remember it is the soic that is to 
have the rum ! a. s. a. 
Sore Shoulders; Eczema. 
1. I have a fine work horse about 
seven years old that I have owned for 
two years; every time I work him in 
a plow or harrow his shoulders get sore 
and all of the hair comes off. I have 
tried different collars and harness, both 
new and old, and the result is just the 
same. 2. A fine riding horse about the 
same age, every Spring has a breaking 
out under her stomach that extends from 
her breast to her hind legs, about a foot 
in width, and all of the hair comes off. 
It seems to itch a groat deal and contin¬ 
ues all Summer. We have tried differ¬ 
ent remedies that our veterinarian gave 
us, and it seems to do no good. What 
do you advise? d. a. g. 
1. Fit the horse with a strong breast 
collar and twice a day bathe the should¬ 
ers with a lotion composed of half an 
ounce of tannic acid to half a gallon of 
soft, cold water; or use strong white 
oak bark tea. 2. Clip the mare. Bed 
her box stall with planing mill shavings 
or sawdust. Keep the bedding perfectly 
clean and dry. Do not feed corn or 
green grass. Feed whole oats, wheat 
bran and mixed clover hay. Keep the 
harness clean and dry. If any trouble 
starts, wash the parts once and then 
apply freely two or three times a day a 
salve of two parts sulphur, one part coal 
tar dip. and five parts of lanolin, or un¬ 
salted lard. a. s. A. 
Rabbits With Sore Ear». 
I have some rabbits which have a 
scab inside of the ear, and under this 
scab there are little specks about half 
as big as a pinhead, and they seem like 
lice. Could you advise some treatment? 
I have been using boracic acid diluted in 
water, putting it in the ear a drop at 
a time. j. m. 
Cleanse the parts, removing the scabs; 
then keep them smeared with a mixture 
of one part of sulphur to five parts of 
lard or vaseline. a. s. a. 
Pig-eating Sows. 
What causes my brood sows to kill and 
eat their young, immediately after birth? 
I feed them to prevent them 
J. C. s. 
Mow 
doin 
can 
so? 
This vice generally is brought on by 
pampering, stuffing sows on corn and 
other rich feed, withholding succulent or 
laxative feed and failing to enforce ex¬ 
ercise every day while in pig. Such sows 
are flabby, soft, constipated, cross and 
nervous. The popular preventive is to 
feed salt pork to brood sows. The feed¬ 
ing of digester tankage as a part ration 
also is said to prevent the trouble. Make 
the sows take abundant exercise every 
day and feed mixed rations. Exercise 
may be encouraged by letting the sows 
root for whole oats sprinkled on a big 
barn floor well covered with litter. Feed 
Alfalfa or clover hay, adding a pound 
of silage or two pounds of beets, mangels 
or rutabagas. Give little or no corn to 
a brood sow. Enforce exercise. Handle 
the sow in her box stall every evening 
until she gets accustomed to the presence 
of man. Bring her to the farrowing 
time with her bowels relaxed and her 
muscles in good order. Then she will 
not be likely to have trouble in farrow¬ 
ing, and will be unlikely to kill and eat 
her pigs. A “Down East” reader of this 
paper once suggested a novel plan of 
preventing pig-eating and vouched for 
its efficacy. It was to remove the pigs, 
one by one, as soon as dropped, placing 
them in a cotton lined basket to be set 
near the stove. As soon as all the pigs 
are born give the sow the following 
“toddy” mash; One pint of rum, one 
Rickets. 
I had 17 pigs born last November. 
Being late and the weather bad I could 
not let them run out on the ground very 
late in the Fall. I put them in the pen, 
each litter separate. When about two 
months old, one litter got something like 
rheumatism, could hardly get out of their 
nest to eat; then joints seemed to get 
enlarged and three of them have died. 
The other lot has done well up till now. 
I have just noticed one of them is getting 
in the same condition. These pigs have 
had good dry pens, been kept clean with 
plenty of oat straw for bedding; have 
been on double floors, so there was no 
circulation of air from below that could 
harm them. I fed them the same kind 
of feed I fed the sows, ground oats and 
barley and wheat middlings. Of late I 
have fed more corn ; have had some separ¬ 
ator milk that I have fed with the ground 
feed. Can you tell me the cause, and a 
remedy? c. L. 
Such cases will not occur if you make 
sows and pigs take abundant exercise 
every day and feed some laxative or suc¬ 
culent feed. Sprinkle whole oats on a 
big barn floor and cover with litter; 
then let the pigs root for the oats. Stop 
feeding corn. Add roots and Alfalfa hay 
to the ration. Mix lime water freely in 
the slop. a. s. A. 
Infected Eyes. 
When lambs are a day or two old, 
and sometimes younger, their eyes turn 
red and become inflamed. Some'of their 
eyes seem to have a white scum over 
them. I have been using hydrogen per¬ 
oxide, but it does not seem to help 
them. What can I do for them? 
West Virginia. h. c. s. 
At birth wash the eyes with a satur¬ 
ated solution of boric acid applied on 
new swabs of absorbent cotton; then 
drop into each eye two drops of a one 
per cent, solution of nitrate of silver. 
Clean up, disinfect and whitewash the 
lambing stable and pens. Use the boric 
acid solution twice daily if any lamb has 
sore eyes after the preventive' treatment 
has been given. a. s. a. 
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