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Live Stock and Dairy 
A Practical Dairy Barn 
Regarding that dairy barn I would 
.suggest center 14 feet and barn 70 feet 
long. Set the barn on a dry knoll. Level 
the ground, but don’t dig a hole. Let the 
concrete floor be one foot above surround¬ 
ings. Make the drive floor eight feet 
wide (no more), with at least one inch 
crown. 
Gutters should be seven inches deep 
next to drive and 10 inches next to stalls, 
12 inches wide. Length of stalls 4)4 feet 
with one inch .larit from a point 18 iuche.s 
from stanchions. The bottom rail of 
stanchions should be in concrete with an¬ 
chor irons for stanchions. The manger 
may be made with slant of four inches in 
70 feet to water if you do not want 
part of bran by weight with whole or 
crushed oats and allow a trifle over one 
pound of the mixture per hundred 
pounds of body weight as a day’s ration. 
It may be given at three feeds, and good 
clover hay allowed in addition. Twice 
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force them into normal position. Band¬ 
aging or boots will have to be resorted 
to if these simple measures fail. 
A. s. A. 
Colic 
Will you advise me of any ration or 
auy medicine that can be used to avoid 
colic in a horse that is very liable to 
it? C. T. 
Portland, Maine. 
Chronic attacks of colic are often due 
to the presence of calculi in the intes¬ 
tines or to mesenteric aneurysm caused 
by blood worms and these are incurable 
Windows foil Jenyth of 
3ase7neni on both, sides 
Ground Plan of Barn Basement for 40 Cows 
'^feed Shuie 
for Silaye. 
Also open on Barn 
for/fap andStraw 
buckets. The space in front may be used 
to store grain, for calf pen, water vat, to 
store stalks to feed from lot, etc. 
Put two inches depth of concrete in 
front of cows, all concrete made four to 
one, for floors. Gravel must be clean 
and sharp. Do not drive into hay loft 
but have doors in end of barn and hay 
track run about two or three feet. Sup¬ 
port by 2xS-inch stufT. Head the team 
in lower door and let rope down at other 
end of stable to pulley hitched to hook 
auchored iii concrete floor. 
There should be a four-foot door on 
each side of barn near middle and a walk 
across the barn opposite them, with two 
ir)x.3G silos at one of them, the other to 
bring in stalks, etc. I recommend plank 
frame previously described iii R. N.-Y. 
New York. w. w. steele. 
I send a floor plan of barn basement to 
contain 40 cows, asked for on page 1481. 
The diagram is as near self-exidanatoiy 
as I could make it. The dimensions are 
better proportioned than 40x00 to make 
a handy stable in the least amount of 
space and at the same time have plenty of 
room. They could be cut down some, 
however, if necessary. T. s. P. 
New York. 
AILING ANIMALS 
Grease Heel 
I have a horse which has the grease 
heel in his front legs. What can I do 
for it to effect a cure and is it cur¬ 
able? 1'. A. J. 
New York. 
The disease is obstinate and often 
practically incurable. I.et the hor.se live 
outdoors so far as possible and cat no 
grain. In Summer he should subsist on 
grass aud iu Winter on hay. straw, corn 
stover and roots. Twice daily bathe the 
affected parts wnth a weak solution of 
concentrated lye. Make the solution 
stronger gradually if it does not prove 
quickly effective. To make the solution 
dissolve a can of lye in one-half gallon of 
water and use two ounces of that iu a 
small bucketful of soft water for the 
bathiug of the leg. A. S. A. . 
Knuckling 
Have a colt five mouths old which 
has a tendency to be “up’’ on his ankles 
—the right more than left. I think this 
is due to injury. Has been noticeable 
about 10 days. Is it likely to be per¬ 
manent? lie does not limp. What 
treatment would you prescribe? Have 
been feeding mixed hay, mostly clover 
and a pint of oats and quart of bran, 
three times a day, as he is very large. 
Is that too much? F. ii. 
New York. 
Keep the colt off board floors and 
make him live outdoors just as much 
as the weather will allow. Feed one-sixth 
conditions. Otherwise colic will be less 
likely to occur if you make no sudden 
changes of food, feed always at the same 
time unless the horse is hot and tired. 
Give the drinking water before feeding, 
prevent bolting of feed by feeding from 
a very large feed box. Keep the bowels 
active, do not give ground feed, have 
teeth iu good order and make the horse 
work or take active outdoor exercise 
every day. A. s. A. 
Worms 
1. A friend tells me there is nothing 
better to rid hor.ses of worms than salt, 
sulphur aud wood ashes. What is your 
opinion? A. F. G. 
New .Jersey. 
1. Add an equal part of dried sulphate 
of iron (copperas) to the salt and sul¬ 
phur and put a tablespoonful of the mix¬ 
ture in the feed night and morning for 
a week, then skip 10 days and repeat. 
This will he far more effective than the 
combination with wood a.shes. Omit 
iron for a mare in foal and increase salt 
and sulphur. a. s. a. 
Periodic Ophthalmia 
Some time ago I wrote you in regard 
to a three-year-old colt I own ; Lis eye.s 
were bad. A doctor came and found he 
had wolf teeth. He pulled them and .said 
Ills eyes would get all right, but they do 
not; first one one and then the other will 
be bad. What can you suggest that 
would cure his eyes? c. E. G. 
Periodic ophthalmia (moon bliudoess)^ is 
pre.sent and it is incurable aud will end 
in blindness of one or both eyes from cat¬ 
aract. Wolf teeth never ca,.se weakness 
or disease of the eyes, common erron¬ 
eous belief to the contrary, aud need not 
be extracted. This has oRen been stated 
in these columns. Blindness may be re¬ 
tarded somewhat by bathing the eyes with 
a saturated solution of boric acid night 
and morning and every other day putting 
a few drops of a 15 per cent, solution of 
argerol between the eyelids. A. s. A. 
Indigestion 
We have a filly coming four in the 
Spring. The man we bought her from 
worked her very hard. AVhen we got her 
she had an attack of kidney trouble. She 
does not have any more attacks of it. but 
she does not do well. Her skin seems 
tight; she has not shed much. We feed 
her a few ground oats, two quarts to a 
mess three times daily. We do not work 
her very hard, only on the road two or 
three times a week. What can I feed her 
to better her condition? N. G. 
New York. 
Have a veterinarian attend to the 
teeth. A milk tooth crown may have 
lodged or sharp point be making perfect 
mastication impossible. Then work or 
actively exercise the colt every day and 
feed whole oats, wheat bran, ear corn aud 
mixed clover hay. Carrots would prove 
beneficial by acting upon the bowels and 
skin. A. s. A. 
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hundred years ago?” Little Boy: “i\Ie.” 
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