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The “Yankee” Trap Nest 
Dining the late Winter and Spring 
many of our readers ask us about the 
trap-nest which is used at the egg-laying 
contest conducted at the Connecticut Ag¬ 
ricultural College. We therefore print 
on this page figures taken from a blue 
print, showing how this nest is construct¬ 
ed. It is not a complicated affair. The 
door is simply held up by a button on a 
screw or pin, so constructed that when 
the hen enters the nest she pushes up the 
Shape and Dimensions of Trigger. 
door and the bottom turns down, so that 
when the door comes back there is notil¬ 
ing to hold it up, and it therefore falls 
to the bottom and closes the entrance to 
the nest. All who are interested in this 
trap nest, or in the record of trap-nested 
fowls, should obtain the bulletin on the 
egg-laying contest which was mentioned 
on page 1149. This is the best state¬ 
ment of the contest that has yet been 
printed, and in this pamphlet will be 
found a full description of this trap-nest 
and how to make it. Many of our read¬ 
ers keep writing us asking where this 
egg contest is conducted. We have men¬ 
tioned many times that it is located at 
the Connecticut Agricultural College at 
Storrs P. O. In fact we have men¬ 
tioned this so many times that we felt 
our readers must know about it, and this 
was why the address was not repeated. 
Our readers will do well to obtain a copy 
of this pamphlet if possible. 
Frothing. 
My horse has not been well for some 
time. She is off her feed and has no am¬ 
bition to do anything; besides she froths 
at the mouth considerable. What do you 
suggest? °- R - 
Rhode Island. 
Have the teeth examined by a qualified 
veterinarian who will correct any ir¬ 
regularities present; or he may find some 
diseased condition of the tongue, or lin¬ 
ing membrane of the mouth requiring at¬ 
tention. It is quite likely that the hard 
palate is swollen, from irregularities of 
the teeth causing irritation, and this con¬ 
dition constitutes “lampas.” A salivary 
calculus or stone in Steno’s duct, the 
large salivary duet entering the mouth 
alongside of the upper molar teeth also 
may cause salivation and necessitate an 
operation. A. s. A. 
Stiffness. 
I have a horse that is stiff; her joints 
creak mornings. It is not bad and soon 
wears off when working, but when she 
stands a while, her joints begin to creak 
again. She is nine years old and weighs 
the rurA'l ne'\V'-yoTrker 
October 2, 1915. 
about 1100 pounds; is fed five quarts of 
feed mixed with about one-third pint mo¬ 
lasses and what hay (mixed hay, no clov¬ 
er) she wants three times a day, and a 
scoopful of silage twice a day. I am 
working her hard at regular farm work, 
with heavier horse. She is in fair work¬ 
ing flesh and feeds good except for the 
stiffness. E. J. c. 
New York. 
Stop giving the mare cow-feed and 
feed her properly on whole oats, wheat 
bran and good hay. She may also have a 
few ears of corn at noon, if she does not 
thrive properly on the other feeds. Have 
her teeth attended to by a veterinai’ian. 
Allow her a box stall in the stable, so 
that she will move about and so exer¬ 
cise her joints. No medicine is necessary. 
A. s. A. 
Unnerving. 
Reading A. S. A.’s reply about navicu¬ 
lar disease on page 9.31 prompts me to 
ask the following questions: 1. Does the 
operation of unnerving affect the life or 
usefulness of the horse in any way? 2. 
Must the horse be rested before or after 
unnerving? 3. Is it hereditary? 4. Does 
it require great skill on the part of the 
veterinarian? F. B. 
Michigan. 
1. The operation merely removes sen¬ 
sation (feeling) but does not remove the 
disease causing lameness. The foot may 
contract or even slough off following the 
operation of “high unnerving” (between 
fetlock and knee). The sole of the foot 
has to be kept covered with a thick leath¬ 
er pad to prevent nail prick. 2. Two 
weeks rest may be necessary after un¬ 
nerving, but none is needed before the 
operation. 3. Navicular disease is not cer¬ 
tainly hereditary but the tendency may 
be so. It is unwise to breed from an 
affected horse. 4. Yes, and he should also 
have had experience. A. S. A. 
Lazy Horse. 
What can I do with my horse to make 
him liven up a bit? I bought him just 
a year ago, unbroken. He was quite 
easily broken except for a little balki¬ 
ness, which he has now outgrown. He 
is now five years old, but travels along 
like an old nag. He is just now shedding 
skin from around his mouth and nostrils, 
lie also has a scaly substance i-esembling 
dandruff under his tail, which I took as 
a symptom of worms and treated accord¬ 
ingly, but he showed no improvement :n 
action or flesh. w. II. 
New Jersey. 
The horse may have been “born that 
way,” in which case treatment will not 
be likely to do any good. The symptoms 
seem to point to the presence of worms, 
however, and it would be well to give 
medicinal ti'eatment on that account. 
Have the teeth attended to by a veter¬ 
inarian. Give half an ounce of Fowler’s 
solution of arsenic night and morning 
and with it thirty drops of fluid extract 
of mix vomica in a little water. Inci’ease 
the mix a drop or so daily; but go back 
to the first dose and repeat, if any alarm¬ 
ing symptom appears. When the arsenic 
no longer is necessary gradually discon¬ 
tinue the medicine taking 10 days to the 
work. A. s. a. 
Lameness. 
A mare seven years old this June has 
been lame for nearly three years. I have 
had three horse doctors look at it, and 
two were sure it is a spavin, but I can¬ 
not believe it. She goes lame about all 
the time, though lamer after a long drive, 
but very seldom goes dead lame. She 
never drives out of this lameness. In 
making her stand over in the stall she 
limps over, but can step over a pair of 
shafts. I cannot see any bunch on the 
gambrel. Could you give me any in¬ 
formation concerning this? E. D. F. 
New York. 
Unfortunately we cannot diagnose 
mysterious lameness without making an 
examination. It would be well to take 
the mare to a graduate veterinarian in¬ 
stead of the “horse doctors” you men¬ 
tion, for time and money are wasted in 
employing such empirics. A careful ex¬ 
amination should be made for ringbone, if 
it is certain that a hidden (occult) spa¬ 
vin is not present. Test for spavin by 
having the mare led out to halter, in¬ 
structing the groom to instantly ti’ot her 
when the word of command is given. 
Pick up the foot of the lame leg and hold 
it well up to the abdomen for two or 
tlnce minutes, then drop it and have the 
mare trotted. If she goes much lamer 
than before, the trouble in all probability 
will be in the hock joint, although the 
spavin may not be apparent to the eye. 
Heaves. 
Will you advise concerning a valuable 
young farm horse, age six years, which 
about a year ago had an attack of dis¬ 
temper which left him with a cough and 
later developed into the heaves? I had 
him treated by a veterinarian who did 
not do him any good. I also tried a 
commercial heaves remedy without any re¬ 
sult. He coughs and also runs at the 
nose, but in his breathing it is hardly 
noticeable. b. l. c. 
New York. 
Heaves when established is incurable; 
the small air chambers of the lungs be¬ 
ing broken down into comparatively 
large cavities upon which medicine has 
no effect whatever. The disease proper¬ 
ly is termed pulmonary emphysema and, 
while indigestion is present, the disease 
cannot be correctly termed indigestion. 
The lungs, when seen on post-mortem 
examination, are enlarged, puffed up, 
quite different in appearance from healthy 
lungs. The fact that the lungs are bro¬ 
ken down is indicated by the inability of 
the horse to properly expel air from the 
lungs, and it is for that reason that the 
abdominal muscles are used to assist ex¬ 
pulsion, giving rise to the characteristic 
bellows-like action of the sides. Patent, 
proprietory or commercial remedies re¬ 
lieve the indigestion, stop cough and ex¬ 
pulsion of air from the rectum, for a 
time at least, but they do not restore the 
normal, healthy condition of the lungs, 
therefore the disease is incurable. Use 
commercial remedies, or give Fowler’s so¬ 
lution of arsenic night and morning, 
starting with a half ounce dose, and if 
necessary increasing to three such doses 
a day and then increasing the doses grad¬ 
ually. Do not work the horse soon after 
a meal, or feed any bulky feed at noon 
when work has to be done. Wet all feed. 
In Summer feed grass and in Winter feed 
wet oat straw in preference to hay. 
Bloat. 
This week I have lost a fine, thrifty 
heifer calf that I was feeding about four 
quarts of warmed sweet skim-milk twice 
a day and all the grass she would eat 
when tied out of doors, no grain. About 
three hours after she had her moniing 
feed of milk one of my family called to 
me asking if the calf was choking. I 
went to see and found her badly swollen; 
gave her an ounce of essence of pepper¬ 
mint in warm water but she died in about 
30 minutes in great distress. What was 
the cause? c. F. I. 
Maine. 
The calf bloated and died of suffoca¬ 
tion. The gas should have been liber¬ 
ated by passing a rubber tube into the 
gullet, or by tapping the distended 
paunch, high up in the left flank, by means 
of a trocar and canula. The bloating 
was induced by eating wet clover or 
grass too soon after the milk was taken. 
The milk may have been drank too fast. 
It is a mistake to let a calf pasture just 
after a meal of milk. Remember that 
the calf’s stomach is intended to digest 
milk, not grass or hay. The paunch is 
not yet developed so that very little 
roughage should be allowed at first. The 
digestion of milk is done in the fourth 
stomach which is developed at birth, 
while the paunch gains its full capacity 
gradually and slowly. A. s. A. 
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Um-m-m-m 
A RE you prepared for 
. those cola winter morn¬ 
ings and those times when 
there’s company for supper 
and you reach up to the 
rafters of your "cold room” 
for the best you’ve got ? 
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For farm use, Worcester Salt is 
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Get a bag from your grocer. 
Write for booklet '’Curing 
Meats on the Farm,” also the 
Worcester Cook Book. Both free. 
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