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AILING ANIMALS. 
Cough. 
M Y cows were taken sick during the 
dry spell which we had through 
-drinking dirty water. One new 
milch cow went dry and the rest of them 
gave but very little milk. They lost their 
appetite and got very poor and now they 
are starting to cough and not gaining in 
flesh, still giving but very little milk. I 
am feeding silage morning and night with 
one quart of middlings to each cow in 
silage and hay for noon. c. K. 
Connecticut. 
The cough may be due to lung worms 
from the contaminated water, but it is 
to be feared that the cows have tubercu¬ 
losis, and for that reason you should have 
them tested with tuberculin. Any grad¬ 
uate veterinarian cau do the work, and 
the test is entirely harmless to an unaf¬ 
fected cow. It is the only way of cor¬ 
rectly determining the presence of tuber¬ 
culosis. The eggs of lung worms can be 
detected in the discharge from the nose 
or mouth by a microscopic examination. 
Increase the silage and add bran and oil- 
meal to the middlings, or feed whole oats 
and coarsely ground corn. A. s. a. 
Wound. 
I HAVE a cow that cut her teat last 
Summer on barb wire and it has not 
all healed up yet. She is due to 
calve the first of February. The cut was 
on the side. What can I do for her? 
Maine. a. M. n. 
Cleanse the wound and every. other 
day swab it with tincture of iodine. 
Twice daily, every day, wet the teat with 
a lotion composed of two drams of sugar 
of lead and one and one-half drams of 
sulphate of zinc* in eight ounces of water. 
Label the bottle “poison” and shake the 
lotion before use. A. s. A. 
Nux Vomica for Horse. 
I HAVE a horse that is not doing well 
and have been advised to give him 
powdered nux vomica but have never 
used any of it. Will you tell me how 
much to give for a dose? K. \V. W. 
If you care to describe the symptoms 
shown by your horse we shall be glad to 
prescribe suitable treatment. That is 
the province of this department; but we 
do not give advice as to the indiscrim¬ 
inate use of poisons like nux vomica. 
Worms. 
W E have a mare that passes worms 
about three inches long; would 
like to know what to do for the 
animal. c. M. 
New York. 
If the mare is in foal give her a table¬ 
spoon of sulphur and one of salt each 
night for a week; then skip 10 days and 
repeat. If she is not in foal she may 
have in her feed twice daily for a week 
a tablespoonful of a mixture of equal 
parts of salt, sulphur and dried sulphate 
of iron; then skip 10 days and I’epeat. 
Cat With Eczema. 
W ILL you tell me what to do for my 
cat? lie is half Angora, 12 years 
old, has never been sick, will eat 
only meat, which he wants raw. He is 
fed twice a day on raw meat and what 
milk he will eat, which is very little, 
'with occasionally a meal of fish. Sev¬ 
eral months ago I noticed a black soft 
scale around and in his ears and the 
hair growing thin over it. Now there 
is a large spot over one eye, black and 
the hair all off. It does not itch for he 
is not troubled at all with it. I have 
washed it with medicated soap, and put 
on ointment. Some of the black will 
scrub off where I can reach it. 
Maine. m. l. f. 
Reduce the rations and increase ex¬ 
ercise. Wash the affected parts once a 
week, to get rid of scales, and when dry 
rub in sulphur ointment, repeating the 
application every other day. _ The dis¬ 
ease is a form of eczema. If it persists 
mix a pinch of sulphur in the milk every 
other day. 
Effect of Sulphur Salt. 
W ILL you let me know wdiat effect 
sulphur salt has on cattle in Win¬ 
ter? Does it cause cows to lose 
their calves? P- 
Arizona. 
The mixture does not cause abortion if 
fed judiciously. It might have a bad 
effect if suddenly used in very large 
quantity. The sulphur is unnecessary, 
but animals require salt. One ounce of 
salt a day is enough for a dairy cow. 
Lameness. 
A LIVERY stable owner gave me a 
horse which is very lame. One hock 
is swollen up all around about as big 
as my two fists. The owner said it was 
caused, either by becoming entangled in 
fence or by being kicked by another 
horse. This happened about three 
months ago and the horse has been in 
pasture since, and has improved. One 
hip is different from the other but I 
think it is caused by the horse favoring 
that leg. He is young and sound in 
other ways. Could you tell me how to 
fix him up so that he will be workable 
by next Spring? w. c. 
Massachusetts. 
A personal examination is necessary 
in such a case if one is to arrive at a 
confident diagnosis; but it seems prob¬ 
able that it will be necessary to have 
the hock joint line-fired and blistered by 
a qualified veterinarian, and then tie the 
horse up in his stall for six weeks of rest. 
Lame Horse. 
I HAVE a horse 15 years old that is 
very lame. She seldom lies down at 
night, but when out in pasture will 
get down to roll, but is much worse after 
it. She eats well. The veterinarian said 
she had muscular rheumatism. He gave 
her a hypodermic injection, also some 
medicine and liniment. I have used five 
bottles of liniment but it does not seem to 
do much good. I would like to know if 
there is any cure. A. o. 
New York. 
Without having an opportunity to 
make a careful personal examination we 
are unable to diagnose mysterious lame¬ 
ness and you will therefore have to de¬ 
pend upon the judgment and skill of 
some other local graduate veterinarian. 
Y’ou may have been using the liniment 
upon the wrong part. A. s. A. 
Pitch Mange. 
I HAVE young pigs which have some 
kind of skin disease; they get scabby 
all over the body. They begin with 
the trouble when about six to eight weeks 
old. Instead of going ahead they go back, 
do not care to eat and they get some kind 
of a cough. We feed them brown mid¬ 
dlings and stale bread slops, and corn in 
between. We have warm stables; the 
pens are about 80 feet long and 25 feet 
wide and have them penned off to 6x10 
each pen, five-foot alley; bedded with 
salt hay and rye straw. What is the 
cause? M. L. 
Filth is the common cause along with 
lack of exercise and overfeeding. Dust 
in beddiug may also cause cough. Make 
it possible for the pigs to take abundant 
exercise every day. Perfectly cleanse the 
pens every day and see that the bedding 
is kept elean and fresh. Use a 1-50 
solution of coal tar disinfectant to wash 
the pens twice a week and if possible use 
gypsum (land plaster) freely upon the 
floors. Do not use marsh hay as bedding. 
Rye straw is suitable. Spray and scrub 
the pigs with a 1-100 solution of coal 
tar dip as often as found necessary. 
Biting Horse ; Salt for Cows. 
C AN you tell me how to break a horse 
of its biting habit? She will not bite 
when one looks at her, but as soon as 
not watched she will bite. 2. Would it 
be advisable to put rock salt in the cows’ 
mangers for them to lick at will? j. b. 
1. Punishment is deserved and useful 
in such a case. One man that we know 
of cured the habit by a rather cruel ex¬ 
pedient. He hid a red hot poker behind 
him as he went into the horse’s stall and 
let it bite on that as he turned around. 
Lucky the horse did not kick him 
through the window. Side check lines 
from the halter rings to a surcingle will 
do much to prevent biting in the stall, 
but will not cure the habit. Better keep 
the horse in a box stall and use the whip 
when necessary. 2. Cows need only an 
ounce of salt daily as an average and 
take some of it from their feed. Con¬ 
stant licking of rock salt may make the 
tongue sore. Better give barrel salt as 
required, or let the cows at the rock salt 
for a short time daily. a. s. a. 
Hog Cholera. 
H OW can I tell when hogs have hog 
cholera and can they have it more 
than once? L. I. 
One attack of cholera recovered from 
leaves the hog immune to subsequent at¬ 
tacks. The disease may be suspected if 
hogs become ill and die one after the 
other. The sick ones will stop eating, 
have high fever, seek to hide in dark 
corners or places, cough, scour and show 
red discoloration of the belly and under 
the legs. After death red spots will be 
found on the lining membrane of the blad¬ 
der and the surface of the kidneys under 
the outer covering or capsule. Similar 
spots or ulcers may be found on the lin¬ 
ing membrane of the intestines and es 
pecially of that of the first large intes¬ 
tine (cecum). a. s. a. 
Blind Quarter. 
I HAVE a good Jersey cow seven years 
old; came in fresh November 6; had 
one teat swollen and hard. I bathed 
with hot water, got the swelling down to 
nearly the same as the others and got 
milk from it but it is swollen again and 
I cannot get any milk from it. She gives 
16 quarts per day but dropped to 12 the 
last three days. What can I do for it? 
New York. A. H. 
The condition is incurable and the best 
course would be to dry off all milk secre¬ 
tion in the affected quarter. Rub in a 
mixture of equal parts of camphorated 
oil and fluid extract of belladonna leaves 
twice daily. As tuberculosis of the ud¬ 
der possibly is present you should have 
the cow tested with tubereufin. If she is 
tuberculous she should be destroyed. 
A. s. A. 
