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AILING ANIMALS. 
Scours. 
T HAVE a six-year-old cow that has al- 
ways given a big flow of milk (14 
quarts to a milking* on freshening, 
but this time since she freshened, about 
three weeks ago, she has only given about 
four or five quarts to a milking. f>he 
looks bright and eats very heartily, but 
she has scours. I feed hay twice a day 
and cut corn stalks and about five 
quarts of grain (vats and corn ground to¬ 
gether ). I have quit feeding grain, but 
it does not seem to make any difference; 
she scours just the same. What would 
you advise me to do to bring her milk 
How back? F. w. c. 
New York. 
Isolate the cow at once and clean up 
and disinfect the place where she has 
stood, as the disease probably is Johne’s 
disease which is contagious, incurable 
and always fatal. To have the disease 
correctly diagnosed it will be necessary 
to send piuchings of mucous from the 
rectum and a sample of the liquid feces, 
to the veterinary department of the State 
Agricultural Experiment Station. 
Ringworm; Lameness. 
W ILL you tell me what sort of a dis¬ 
ease* it is that has come to my 
two-year-old heifer? A kind of 
scale has broken out around her eye. It 
is about a half inch in width and all 
white. The hair has all gone away from 
that part. It does not seem to affect her 
in any way. as she lias a good appetite 
and gives about 20 or 21 pounds of milk 
to a milking. She is a good grade Hol¬ 
stein. 2. I also have a 10-year-old mare 
that goes lame on the right foreleg. 
After driving her for a while she gets 
over the lameness, but just as quickly 
as she stands a while she is lame again. 
There is no bunch or swelling. She 
seems always to put her foot out to 
the front of her, and favor it. A black¬ 
smith examined her hoof, but nothing 
seemed to ail her there. He said it was 
in the shoulder, and caused from driv¬ 
ing on pavement, but I do not think as 
he does; I still think it is down in her 
foot. w. a. v. 
Ohio. 
1. Scrub each affected spot of skin 
clear of scales and scabs and when dry 
rub in a little iodine ointment repeating 
the application every other day until well. 
Clean up, disinfect, whitewash, sunlight, 
and ventilate the stable. The vegetable 
parasite causing ringworm lives on damp 
woodwork and walls as well as on the 
skin. 2. The trouble plainly is located in 
the foot, and probably is navicular dis¬ 
ease, requiring unnerving. If you cannot 
have the operation performed by an ex¬ 
pert clip the hair from the hoof-head of 
the affected foot and blister J twice a 
month with a cantharidine ointment. 
Bloody Milk. 
I HAVE a cow five years old that fresh¬ 
ened in April, 1914, and never had 
any trouble at all with her until about 
< >et. 30. In the evening, after returning 
from pasture one forward quarter of 
udder gave great lots of blood; there was 
no swelling or soreness then or at any 
time since. Next morning the milk looked 
very bloody, but had no clots. Gradually 
the trouble wore away and milk seemed 
ail right, but after about two weeks we 
had the same trouble over again, and 
have since at intervals of two or three 
weeks. Any bathing with hot or cold 
water seems to increase the trouble; 
after any application or rubbing, milk 
seems almost clear blood. Is there any 
reason to hope that after freshening she 
may be all right and can I do anything 
for her? ‘ J. S. 
New York. 
Irritation of growths in the teat of the 
affected quarter no doubt causes the 
bleeding, or it might be due to injury, or 
to congestion following chill of the ud¬ 
der. It is not a case for which we can 
prescribe confidently without making an 
examination. Avoid causes mentioned, so 
far as that is possible. If growths are 
present an operation would be necessary. 
If you cannot remedy the trouble dry off 
the milk flow in that quarter. 
Epidemic Among Tigs. 
E ARLY in November, 1914, I bought 
80 pigs said to be eight weeks old. 
When they arrived they seemed to be 
in fairly good condition and healthy, al¬ 
though they were not as closely bred as I 
expected they would be. Within a few 
days they showed signs of disease and 
commenced dying, one at a time, a few 
days apart, the symptoms were a slight 
cough, then the pig would have a sort 
of a fit and soon (lie. Nothing I could 
do did any good. Thinking it might be 
foot-and-mouth disease I notified the 
Agricultural Commissioner and he sent a 
man to investigate with the rsult that it 
was not the suspected disease, and he 
could not tell what it was; furthermore, 
that it was out of his jurisdiction and he 
could take no further action. I have re¬ 
peatedly tried to find some State, town 
or city official or commission, whose bus¬ 
iness it is to investigate such cases. The 
only satisfaction I get is, “Call a veter¬ 
inarian.” Can you tell me of any com¬ 
mission or authority in this State whose 
business it is to investigate such cases, 
or can you give me any advice or sugges¬ 
tions? Have you any knowledge of any 
such cases in this or adjoining States? 
I have but nine of 80 pigs left. Even 
the largest and healthiest ones die.' I 
am anxious to find out whether anyone 
else has had a similar experience with 
pigs and if the trouble could be traced 
to the breeder I bought from. w. A. w. 
Connecticut. 
Such cases do not come under State 
supervision, and should be attended to by 
the local graduate veterinarian, who will 
make a post mortem examination and de¬ 
termine whether or not cholera is present. 
< >ne cannot decide the matter without 
such an examination. There was no 
reason to suspect foot-and-mouth disease. 
If cholera has not killed the pigs we 
should suspect ptomaine poisoning from 
some source or another. It may come 
from contaminated swill barrels or feed¬ 
ing troughs, from garbage or from tank¬ 
age slop allowed to sour. Soap and soap 
powders in hotel or restaurant slop also 
have caused such losses in many in¬ 
stances. You do not tell us what you fed 
the hogs, so we cannot give a confident 
opinion relative the feed question. 
Ailing Cow. 
I HAVE a cow five years old; she has 
a good appetite but she is poor in 
flesh. At times she holds her head out 
straight higher than her shoulders, and 
runs her tongue out and licks the sides 
of her mouth and nose as far as she can. 
Sometimes she seems to try to swallow 
her tongue; at such times she will drool 
a little. While she is doing this she will 
swing her head from side to side, occa¬ 
sionally looking to her right side. When 
she can reach another animal she will 
suck its hair with a loud disagreeable 
sound. She has a great liking for lick¬ 
ing an old hog trough or about any old 
thing she can find, or any old boards. 
Her food is Hungarian hay and corn 
silage. Bowels loose, droppings clay col¬ 
ored. She has always had what salt she 
cared to eat which is not more than any 
of the other cows. She seems to do bet¬ 
ter when she is out to pasture than when 
she is stabled, but then she seems to lack 
life and does not gain in flesh. G. c. T. 
Maine. 
Have the cow tested with tuberculin, 
as tuberculosis is to be suspected in such 
a case. Meanwhile keep her isolated. If 
she does not react give her two ounces 
of glauber salts each morning in water 
or feed until the manure is in normal 
condition and appearance. Allow free ac¬ 
cess to a mixture of salt, sulphur, char¬ 
coal and slaked lime. 
Bitter Milk. 
I HAVE a cow, in good order, 13 years 
old, due to freshen about May 15. 
About a week ago the milk became 
lumpy, stringy and bitter. The milk had 
been all right during the Summer, Fall 
and first of Winter, about 15 to 20 quarts 
a day. A week ago she gave only about 
six quarts and gives less now. Feed the 
last month was about four pounds bran 
and two pounds so-called “honest cow 
feed,” four small cabbage heads or four 
or live pounds beets in place of cabbage, 
hay in / tly Timothy. I have stopped 
feeding cabbage; feed beets instead; gave 
cow 1% pounds Epsom salts and am giv¬ 
ing a piece of saltpetre about as big as a 
chestnut pulverized in and —fixed in feed 
twice each day. The cow has good appe¬ 
tite but the milk is no better. What 
would you advise in this case? 
m. o. B. 
Give the cow an ounce of granular hy¬ 
posulphite of soda twice daily in her 
feed, and if the taste of the milk does 
not improve add powdered wood charcoal 
at the same rate. Stop feeding roots and 
Timothy hay. Give clover or Alfalfa 
hay. Timothy is poor stuff for a dairy 
cow. Bacteria in the milk utensils often 
cause stringy and bitter milk, so cleanse, 
scald and air-dry them thoroughly every 
day. Milk three times a day. 
Indigestion. 
I HAVE a 16-year-old mare that is not 
doing well, is in a run-down weakened 
condition; hair looks dull and rough, 
and stands toward her head: sweats 
easily; upon being driven a short dis¬ 
tance will be thorough!. wet. Last 
Spring she had an abscess under her jaw 
which was lanced by a graduated veter¬ 
inarian who gave me a wash to use in 
a syringe but it still continues to dis¬ 
charge and inside of upper lip is covered 
with small white sores. Hind legs swell. 
Appetite is good and she grinds her feed 
as well as a young horse. Fed oats and 
rye three to one and Timothy hay. 
New York. • t. w. f. 
Have her clipped, or at least clip the 
hair from her belly and from the legs 
above knees and hocks. Stop feeding rye. 
Substitute one-ninth part of wheat bran 
by weight, along with the whole oats. 
Allow ear corn at noon in cold weather. 
Make her work or run out every day. 
Give her half an ounce of Fowler’s solu¬ 
tion of arsenic night and morning for a 
week, then increase to three such doses 
a day until she is in good shape when the 
medicine is to be discontinued gradually 
taking at least ten days to the work. 
A. S. A. 
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glum, Mrs. Nuricli?” I’m not sure ex¬ 
actly, but the doctor says he’s suffering 
from a reduced plurality.”—Buffalo Ex¬ 
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