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Man'll 15, 1919 
The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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The Swift Dollar 
for 1918 
AILING ANIMALS 
Answered by Dr. A. S. Alexander 
Snuffles 
Two of m.v rabbits arc affected with 
what seems to be a cold. They speeze 
and their noses run and are not very 
active. M. w. 
Domesticated rabbits often are afflicted 
with tuberculosis, and it is contagious 
and incurable. Catarrh or “snuffles” is 
u common symptom, but i-t does not al¬ 
ways indicate tuberculosis. We should 
advise having one affected rabbit killed 
and examined by a qualifieT veterinarian. 
If tuberculosis proves present all of the 
stock should be destroyed and the prem¬ 
ises cleansed, disinfected and white¬ 
washed or new quarters provided if you 
decide to start with fresh stock. If it is 
a simpler disease the veterinarian will 
prescribe appropriate treatment. 
Itching Skin 
A young Jersey cow looks and seems 
to feel in excellent health, but she is con¬ 
stantly rubbing herself against the stan¬ 
chion (an old-style affair of upright 
boards), and the hair is nearly rubbed 
off her shoulders, and is also nearly all 
rubbed off ’Tom her jaws and neck, and 
seems loose and easily rubbed off or pulled 
out all along her back and sides. What 
seems most strange is that the hair on 
her left shoulder has for two weeks past 
been quite wet. and when washed off with 
soapsuds and well dried, moisture soon 
appears again, just like very small 
globules of bright dew. reeady to drop 
from the ends of the hair. I feed her all 
the Alfalfa she will eat. and plenty of 
ground oats with a very little barley 
mixed in. H. 
New York. 
Move the cow into a box stall and 
cleanse, disinfect and whitewa ll the stall 
she has been occupying. Cut the Alfalfa 
hay down one-half and feed clover hay or 
corn stover and bright oat straw. If 
possible, allow roots or silage. Add wheat 
bran to the oats. Wash affected parts of 
skin with a 1-100 solution of coal tar 
diii and repeat as required. Lice prob¬ 
ably are present, or the disease may be 
ringworm (barn itchl, often mentioned 
here. See answers on that subject. 
Weak Legs 
The above diagram shows the distribution of the 
average Swift dollar received from sales of beef, pork 
and mutton,' and their by-products, during 1918. 
1919 Year Book of interesting and 
instructive facts sent on request. 
Address Swift & Company 
Union Stock Yards, Chicago, Illinois 
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I bought a pig last November and he 
has been doing fine until about two weeks 
ago he got weak in the legs. I feed him 
on 'boiled potatoes, turnips, and mixed it 
with warm water with middlings and a 
pinch of cracked corn. Is there anything 
that can be done for him? p. s. 
Stop all cooked feed at once and see 
that the pig takes outdoor exceise every 
day. Let him root for shelled corn and 
oats scattered on the ground or a big 
barn floor and well covered with litter. 
Feed milk, wheat middlings and ground 
barley or rye. 
Shoeboil 
This is a reply to the man with a horse 
that has a shoe boil. I have cared for 
horses, all kinds, sizes, shape and color, 
and never has one of them had a shoe 
boil in the past 40 years. It is only a 
long-coil tinned, agonizing torture that 
causes a shoe boil. The stall is too nar¬ 
row. so the horse is forced to lie full on 
the heel caulk of the shoe on that foot. It 
is the heel caulk, pressing and gouging 
into or onto that joint that finally forms 
into a boil. The obvious cure is preven¬ 
tion. by making the stall wider so the 
horse can lie over more on the side, keep¬ 
ing the foot away from that joint. To 
cure the boil already formed, roll a bran 
bag crosswise into a tight roll and tie 
around the pastern. Then bathe the boil 
with some good horse liniment and it will 
be cured in a week. Do not have a vet¬ 
erinarian cut it out. only adding more 
pain and agony to the poor horse. 
v. T. L. 
We are obliged to our correspondent 
for his letter, but like many horsemen, 
he has accepted and stated the common 
erroneous notion that shoe boil is caused 
by lying upon the heel caulkings of the 
shoe. It is possible for a horse to lacerate 
the skin accidentally in that way, hut 
shoe boil is caused by bruising of the 
elbows upon the bare floor, and this 
usually happens to the horse that habit¬ 
ually lies upon the chest instead of the 
side. A newly formed shoe boil should 
not be opened and may disappear if 
treated as our correspondent suggests, but 
a chronic shoe boil in which a fibroid 
tumor growth is present can only be re¬ 
moved with the knife. 
Depraved Appetite 
What is the cause of hogs and pigs eat¬ 
ing dung as fast as they make it l 1 hey 
have all tl. middlings they can eat. also 
oilmeul. bran and whole corn. Kvery 
hog wo have raised develops this habit. 
New York. k. k. *. 
We suspect that you are keeping the 
hogs too closely confined. Allow them 
their liberty, with free access to Alfalfa 
hay. wood ashes, wood charcoal and 
slaked lime. Feed shelled coru. wheat 
middlings and tankage from self-feeders. 
Also allow salt from a clean trough once 
a week. This should cud the trouble. 
