THE KURAb NEW-YORKER 
907 
AILING ANIMALS 
Self-sucking Cow, 
I have a herd of seven cows, one a 
valuable young Jersey that will be fresh 
in six weeks. This cow sucks herself, 
and the other cows. The rest of the herd 
are starting to do the same thing. What 
is the cause of this and what can I do 
to stop it? ir. j. s. 
Ohio. 
This habit is learned when calves are 
penned together. Put a spiked halter on 
the cow so that she will not suck herself. 
The spikes also will make other cows 
run from her when she attempts to suck 
them. a. s. A. 
Feeding a Draft Filly. 
I am growing a purebred Percheron 
filly; she has the run of a good-sized 
yard, Alfalfa hay and I am feeding bran 
and ground oats (one part bran to 1 y 2 
of oats). At nine months she weighs 
975 pounds. Is this feed suitable, and 
how much in weight can I feed to each 
100 pounds of colt? I would like to grow 
her to the full size of her breed. Is she 
at nine months up to standard? G. s. 
New York. 
Do not overfeed the filly. She is of 
good weight now, and should weigh close 
to 1200 pounds at 12 months old. Feed 
whole oats and one-sixth part of wheat 
bran, by weight, allowing on? and one- 
fifth pound of the mixture ner 100 pounds 
of body weight. If the filly “goes back” 
slightly, the feed may be increased in 
quantity, but do not allow more than 
will be cleaned up perfectly at each 
meal. ‘ A 3. A. 
Diseased Horse. 
I have a horse with swollen legs and 
scratches, also skin has blotches which 
shows some blood irregularity. One leg 
is swollen larger than the others with a 
hard growth on front of leg. Is this 
grease heel? What can I give to purify 
blood, reduce swelling, and cure scratches? 
R. B. L. 
The horse may have scratches, or possi¬ 
bly grease heel, and the condition of the 
front of the hock, if that is its location, 
suggests a form of eczema ; but the svmp- 
toms also suggest farcy, the skin form of 
glanders, and for that reason we should 
not feel justified in prescribing treatment. 
Glanders-farcy requires destruction of the 
affected animal, according to State law, 
and the disease is communicable and fatal 
to man, as well as contagious and incura¬ 
ble among horses. Have an examination 
made by an educated veterinarian. 
Wind-gall. 
I have a valuable hors" I bought about 
two weeks ago, which has a small soft 
hunch on his right foreleg, just above the 
first joint; it is about as large as half 
a hen’s egg on the outside, and smaller 
on inside of leg. It does not seem to 
bo sore, but the hors? stumbles occasion¬ 
ally. They told me where I got him that 
it was a wind-puff. He is all sound and 
smooth but that. What is it and what 
will cure it and take the bunch off? 
Maine. h. L. >r. 
Such c puff is generally known as a 
‘wind-gall” but is filled with synovia 
(joint oil) from a bursa of the joint or 
tendon. It is practically incurable, but 
may be reduced somewhat by hand rub¬ 
bing and bandaging each time the horse 
comes into the stable. Twice a week, 
swab the part with tincture of iodine 
It may not he the cause of stumbling. 
Loss of Lambs. 
Can you tell me whether barley when 
fed to sheep on the straw will cause them 
to lose their lambs? I took some sheep to 
Winter, very poor and full of grubs. A 
number of the lambs were dead at birth. 
He said it was the barley that caused it. 
I gave them a quart per sheep a day of 
ground oats and mixed feed, some apples 
and potatoes and once in a while in the 
yard threw them some barley. j. w. n. 
The barley unless strongly infested 
with ergot, would not cause loss of lambs 
or ewes. The ewes apparently were in¬ 
fested with intestinal worms, as well as 
grubs, and the combination might prove 
deadly. Too much bulky, coarse rough- 
age, without a succulent food such as 
roots or a little silage, commonly proves 
injurious to brood ewes and their lambs. 
Lack of exercise is a eontributive cause 
of trouble. a. s. a. 
Hygroma. 
1. I have a cow about 10 years old, 
which has a swelling in heir front knee 
.loint and is lame; sedms to stand on three 
legs. She has been so for about six 
weeks; some days it appears larger than 
others. She will not move unless obliged 
to; has a good appetite and has been out¬ 
doors for water every day. What can be 
the cause of it, and what can be done to 
reduce the swelling? 2. My horse has a 
slight nose bleed once in a while; some¬ 
times I find a few drops in the manger, 
sometimes when he has been out I notice 
it. He is 14 years old and in good con¬ 
dition. Is it likely to become serious, 
and how can it be reached to stop it? 
H. A. R. 
1. Such enlargements commonly are 
caused by bruising upon the manger or 
floor and contain serum in a sac or cyst. 
The popular treatment is to run a tape 
seton down through the sac and pull the 
tape up and down daily to cause the fluid 
to flow. The tape may be smeared with 
turpentine once daily. Such cysts rarely 
cause lameness, so your case may be more 
serious and requiring intelligent treat¬ 
ment from the local graduate veterinar¬ 
ian. 2. There may be a tumor (polypus) 
in a nostril and if so you should have it 
removed by a competent surgeon, a. s. a. 
Crops and Farm News. 
Prices on almost everything are just 
now below the cost of production. We 
have been inclined to feel a little blue. 
But there are worse things than low 
prices. Last night we had a hailstorm 
that just covered the ground with chunks 
of ice as targe as cherries. It looked for 
a while as though everythin'-; would be 
ruined, but the hail came straight down 
without a bit of wind to drive it, and the 
damage was only slight. Had a heavy 
wind accompanied it there would not have 
been a thing left on the place except 
plenty of sand to give us the grit neces- 
sarv io start over. trucker jr. 
Gloucester Co., N. J. 
In Western Washington and Oregon 
the promise of favorable Spring weather 
conditions did not altogether come true. 
The strawberry crop, was greatly dam¬ 
aged by excessive rains, and for several 
weeks scarcely any local berries were 
marketed. Potatoes have been selling 
high all Spring, retailing for as much as 
*>2.50 per hundred pound sack. New po¬ 
tatoes .$3 per hundred wholesale. Truck 
growers are having a great deal of trouble 
with maggots. The plum crop will be 
very light in most localities. There is a 
fine stand of hay. but damp and cloudy 
weather has continued until it interferes 
with early haying; curing is verv diffi¬ 
cult. Clover, or Alfalfa is worth'if 1 7 a 
ton; Timothy, .$20 a ton; wheat, Blue 
Stem is down to 90 cents a bushel; other 
grades a little lower. Corn is $36 a ton ; 
barley, $27 ; oats, $31; bran. $29 ; shorts, 
$01. Dressed hogs are $11 a hundred, 
and dressed fine steers, $12. Poultry is 
10 to 14 cents, live weight; ducks,' 12 
cen^s. Butter, 26 cents pound; eggs, 20 
to.22 cents a dozen. These are wholesale 
prices. There has not been so good de¬ 
mand for hogs as there was a while ago. 
Milch cows hold up well in price; real 
good cows often bringing $100 or upward. 
Horses a little higher than a year ago. 
Not much land changing hands, but prices 
have not come down. r. s. d. 
Washington. 
Ear corn, $22 per ton ; baled hay, Tim¬ 
othy or mixed, $18; baled wheat straw, 
$9; oats, 50c. per bu. ; wheat, $1.20. 
Home-grown strawberries are selling at 
11c. per quart by the crate; strictly 
fresh eggs, 24c. per dozen in the local 
markets. Wholesale milk, 14c. per gallon 
at the farm. Veal, 8*4e. live weight. 
Good milch cows will command a price 
of $85 to $90. f. T. L. 
Alpha, N. J. 
.Tune 23. Beef cows, 3c. to per 
lb ; bulls. 6c. to 7c.; steers, 7c. to 8*4c.; 
calves (live weight), 914c.; milk, 4% e. 
to 4 1 / 4e. The creamery where we have 
shipped our milk paid 35c. per pound for 
butter fat, the test being 4.20. Dressed 
pork, 1014c.; Timothy hay, $15; clover 
hay (mixed), $12; meadow hay, $10; 
wheat, $1.20; butter, 34 to 36; eggs. 21; 
old hens, 15; roosters, 15; Spring chick¬ 
ens, 25; strawberries, 6c. to 12^c. per 
box; cherries, 9c. to 10c. per box. *3. s. 
Zion Hill, Pa. 
Fruit is looking well here. Cherries 
about three-fourths of last year’s crop; 
apples much fewer; peaches a heavy crop 
and pears a plenty. Taking the ‘entire 
situation I should say that our fruit re¬ 
ceipts should be ov?r 85 to 100 per cent, 
of last year. Last year, however, being 
the banner cherry year, we shall hardly 
expect this year to quite come up to it. 
Ontario Co., N. Y. w. l. 
June 26. Cows, $75 to $100. Cheese 
for April, $1,417 per 100 pounds milk. 
Milk per 100 pounds as to test: Borden’s, 
June, 3.8 per cent., $1.20; 3.6 per cent., 
$1.14; Phoenix, per 100 lbs., June, $1.15, 
butter, 33c. per lb.; strawberries, per 
quart, 15c.; potatoes, per bu., 35c.; beans, 
per bu., $3. r.. w. 
Leonardsville, II. Y. 
Fat cattle at semi-monthly .uction, 6*4 
cents per lb.; average price of milch cows, 
$80; sound horse, well broken, good color, 
six years, 1,200 pounds, $200; pork, $9 
per 100; baled hay, $20 per ton; loose 
hay, $18; straw, baled, $14; corn, 90c. 
per bu.; oats, 65; wheat, $1.40; bran, 
$1.60 per 100; strawberries, 10c. per box ; 
sour cherries, 5c. per box; Oxhearts, 10c. 
per box; peas, 15c. per half peck; new 
potatoes, 50c. per basket; old potatoes, 
60c. per bu.; eggs, 24c.; poultry, fat. good 
quality, 16c. per lb. w. b. w. 
Pine Forge, Pa. 
Eggs per dozen, 25c.; butter, 28c.. 
good ; potatoes, old, 50c.; new. 90c.; cu¬ 
cumbers, per bushel hamper, 95c.; chick¬ 
ens, old, live weight, 18c.; fresh milch 
cows, good, $85; dressed lamb, per lb., 
20c. ; veal calves, hog-dressed. 10c. 
Preserve, Pa. a. t. b. 
June 19. We have had a very cold wet 
Spring; wheat, oats and grass luxuriant, 
but corn and gardens backward. We had 
a foot of snow May 18; had to shovel 
walks. mrs. f. c. j. 
Platner, Col. 
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