582 
March 
Vht RURAL NEW-YORKER 
AILING ANIMALS 
Answered by Dr. A. S. Alexander 
Mange 
I bought a bull out of a bunch that 
came from Buffalo about a month ago. 
lie now has the mange badly all over. 
The hair came off. leaving a dry, wrinkled 
skin. I put oil and carbolic acid on. 
What should I do? s. j. e. 
I cannot tell whether it is mange or 
not without making a personal examina¬ 
tion. but on general principles I should 
advise you to scrub the affected parts 
clean and then wet them with a solution 
of one pound of sulphate of copper (blue- 
stone) in two quarts of hot water. Do 
not so treat all of the body at one time. 
Apply the solution to some spots and to 
others the next day, and so on. Repeat 
the application at intervals of five to 
eight days. A. s. a. 
Itching Skin 
What can I do-to relieve our little rat 
terrier? lie scratches himself almost 
constantly, and his hair is getting rough 
and thin in places, lie is not troubled 
with fleas. I. M. C. 
Have the terrier live outdoors as much 
as possible and feed only one small meal 
each evening. Tub him in a bath of coal 
tar disinfectant or dip made and used 
according to directions furnished by the 
manufacturer. Keep the bowels active 
and after the bath brush the coat thor¬ 
oughly every day. a. s. a. 
Thriftless Horse 
We have a horse about 10 years old. 
very much run down, and it is impossible 
for me to get him in good condition-. I 
feed him 5 qts. of oats to each mess and 
all the hay he will eat. The grain passes 
through him whole. I thought perhaps 
the trouble was with his teeth, so had ' 
them attended to about a year ago. but it 
has not remedied the trouble one bit. 
About three weeks ago we found in his 
manure a worm about nine inches long. 
Do you think worms could be the cause 
of his not chewing his grain and the cause 
of this run-down condition? C'. w. 
New York. 
It is quite evident that the teeth need 
attention, so take the horse to a different 
graduate veterinarian. It is likely that a 
split or diseased molar tooth is present, 
and. if so, it should be removed: or a 
sharp object may have lodged in the 
tongue: or a stone (calculus) may have 
formed in the salivary duct (Steno’s). 
Meanwhile, add dry wheat bran or hard 
pease to the whole oats and feed from a 
very large box, to make fast eating ini- | 
possible. Bed with sawdust or shavings 
if he eats his bedding. Give the worm 
powders often prescribed here. 
Sick Dog 
I have a sick dog. She has a good ap¬ 
petite and her coat is in good condition, 
but her abdomen is terribly swollen for 
the whole length. She has a sore or lump 
on one of the teats (has had this for 
some few years) which runs a little some¬ 
times. Her bowels are irregular and the I 
feces are covered with worms; these are 
white, about one-half inch long and about 
as large around as a piece of string. 
Sometimes her abdomen is hard, but gen¬ 
erally soft, as though it were filled with 
gas. and she wants to drink a great deal 
of water. She is nine years old. a Boston 
bull terrier; has had puppies only once, 
some years ago. m. e. w. 
Virginia. 
It may be that ascites (abdominal drop- 
sey) is present as a result of worms and 
derangement of the heart, liver or kidneys. 
If so, it is practically incurable, but a 
veterinarian should draw oil some of the 
fluid by means of a trocar and canula and 
then give tonics and diuretics. If it is 
ascites the liquid can be heard to slosh 
about when the abdomen is bandied. If 
it is not ascites, give medicine for destruc¬ 
tion of worms, which you can buy at the 
drug store ready for use and with full di¬ 
rections on the label. 
Sick Guinea Pig 
I have a guinea pig with a lump on her 
throat about as big as a black walnut. 
It was quite hard but seems to be getting 
softer. Her appetite is very good, but 
it seems very hard for her to chew and 
swallow. It'is also very hard for her to 
breathe. She is getting very thin and 
weak. Could you tell me what the trou¬ 
ble is and what remedy is best, if any? 
Massachusetts. K - B - 
Goitre is apparently present, but explor 
atiou of the lump with a grooved needle 
may show that it contains pus. which 
should be liberated. If pus absorption 
(pyemia) is the cause of the thin condi¬ 
tion there is no hope of recovery, and if 
you have other pigs we think it would 
be best to put the sick one out of its 
misery and burn the body. Apply to a 
dealer in pet stock for a book on guinea 
pig management. 
Congested Udder 
I have a two-year-old heifer that came 
in about a week ago: she went 12 days 
over her time. She is giving about 12 qts. 
of milk a day. We milk her three times | 
a day as she has a swollen udder which is 
very hard on three teats, the other not 
swollen up at all. We wash it with warm 
water three times a day and then rub it 
in with lard, but it still is the same as 
the day she came in. Can you tell me 
what I should put on, so I can get her 
udder back to normal condition again? 
New York. j. s. 
Open the bowels with four ounces of 
glauber salts, given once daily in warm 
water, and after the medicine has operat¬ 
ed mix in food twice daily two teaspoon¬ 
fuls each of powdered poke root and salt¬ 
peter. if the swelling of the udder has not 
subsided. Bathe the udder with hot water 
three times a day. massaging it well each 
time, and also milking clean, and in the 
evening rub in thoroughly a mixture of 
one part each of turpentine and fluid ex¬ 
tract of poke root and belladonna and 
eight parts of warm melted lard or sweet 
oil. Give very little rich food while the 
udder is congested. Allow walking exer¬ 
cise daily, but blanket the cow at the 
time. 
Feeding a Work Horse 
I expect to have the entire charge of a 
horse this Summer, and I would like you 
to tell me when to feed and water him 
through the day. I shall have him to 
work from T :30 to 12. and from 1 to 4 
p. m. Can I give him water, feed and 
hay together? If so, in what order? 
Closter, N. J. w. A. m. 
Theoretically a horse should have drink¬ 
ing water first, then hay and then oats, 
but in nature the animal takes drinking 
water after, and. having that opportunity, 
does not take too much at one time or 
derange digestion by drinking. Water 
almost . all passes quickly through the 
stomach, which has a capacity of but two 
to four gallons, and goes to the first large 
stomach (cecum) after passing through 
76 feet, or thereabouts, of small intes- 
tiue. The theory is that a big drink of 
water after a meal of grain tends o wash 
the feed into the small intestine before it 
has been properly acted upon by the gas¬ 
tric juice of the stomach, which deals 
with the protein-containing portions of 
the food. Should this happen, indigestion 
would result. For that reason we give a 
horse but a sip or two of water when he 
comes in hot and tired, but let him eat a 
pound or so of hay while cooling off. then 
allow him all the drinking water he cares 
for. and then his oats, or mixed feed of 
grain and bran. Figure that a horse re¬ 
quires approximately one pound each of 
grain and hay for each 100 lbs. of body- 
weight as a day's ration. Divide the 
grain ration into three equal portions 
and feed them morning, noon and at night. 
Allow a little hay first thing in the morn¬ 
ing. a pound or so at noon in hot weath¬ 
er. and the bulk of the hay at night, say 
about seven or eight o'clock, if the grain 
has been eaten up clean by that time. 
Increase grain when the horse has hard 
work to do, and decrease hay. Corre¬ 
spondingly increase hay and other rough- 
age when the horse is idle. Dampen all 
feed at meal times and do not work a 
horse immediately after a meal. Working 
a horse soon after a meal, and especially 
whea tl > digestive organs are distended 
with bulky food is the common cause of 
heaves. Remove all feed that the horse 
does not consume and keep the feed box 
clean and tbe hay manger or rack free 
from chaff, coarse stems and weeds. It 
is best to feed sound, plump, old o.:ts 
and add one-niutli to one-sixth part of 
wheat bran, by weight. Increase or de¬ 
crease the bran according to the state of 
the bowels, whether costive or relaxed. 
If corn is fed, allow it in the ear form as 
the evening meal. Do not feed ground 
feed, other than bran, to any horse that 
has sound teeth so that he can perfectly 
chew grain. Carrots are excellent as an 
adjunct to the grain ration, allowing just 
enough of them to regulate the bowels. 
If carrots are not available, parsnips are 
the next best root, and after them come 
rutabagas and beets. A few raw potatoes 
fed now and then tend to keep a horse 
free from worms, but all changes of feed 
must be made very gradually, else colic 
may result. Bran mashes are unneces¬ 
sary and a fertile cause of colic. Bran 
fed with the oats and carrots keep the 
bowels sufficiently active. 
Bed the horse with wheat or rye straw, 
or shavings or sawdust. The latter bed¬ 
ding materials are preferable to straw 
if the horse starts eating his bedding. 
Make the bedding deepest at the sides 
of the stall each night, as a horse lies 
on his side and needs tbe bedding under 
that part of the body. Remove all soiled 
bedding and feces often. Do not pile the 
soiled bedding under the manger. Re¬ 
move it to a box stall or out of doors and 
shake it up and dry it thoroughly before 
it is put back in the stall. Groom the 
horse out of doors, whenever the weather 
will permit, so that tbe dust will not be 
inhaled and also settle back upon the 
body. Pick out the soles and frogs of the 
feet each time the horse comes in from 
work to prevent nail prick. The nail 
often lodges in the crevices and mud in 
the hoof and is tipped up and driven 
inward when the horse paws in the sta¬ 
ble. Bathe the shoulders, neck and other 
harness-touched parts with salty cold wa¬ 
ter each time the horse comes in from 
work. Remove the collar and other har¬ 
ness at noon; then wipe the collar clean 
and set it in a sunny place to dry. Have 
it fit properly and keep its bearing sur¬ 
faces smooth. Give other bearing parts 
of tbe harness similar attention. Have 
the shoes reset once a month and the 
teeth attended to by a veterinarian in 
Fall and Spring. A. s. A. 
He went into a shop to buy a comb. 
He was a man careful of other people’s 
grammar, and believed himself to be care¬ 
ful of his own. “Do you want a narrow 
man’s comb?” asked the assistant. “No,” 
answered the careful grammarian. “I 
want a comb for a stout man with tor¬ 
toiseshell teeth.”—Variety. 
A cow’s stomach holds as much as a barrel. 
A cow needs bulky feed. 
To keep her contented, with her four stomachs full, the 
dairy cow must have feed that is not over-concentrated. 
Bulk is necessary. Feed that is too fine passes directly into 
the third stomach without being chewed as the “cud” and 
and acted upon by the saliva, resulting in poor digestion 
and less milk. 
Purina Cow Chow is much more bulky 
than the average grain feed — you can 
see that this feed is good before you try it. 
A part of its bulk is due to the ground alfalfa it contains, w 
furnishes two necessary protein elements, entirely lack¬ 
ing in corn, and deficient in other grains. Purina Cow 
Chow is a blend of feeds of recognized value. 
Linseed meal (old process) 
Gluten feed from corn 
Hominy feed 
wmn 
Cottonseed meal 
Western alfalfa meal 
1% salt Molasses 
Ask your dealer for two sacks of Purina Cow Chow for 
each of your cows. 
Purina Mills, 
Ralston Purina Co., Prop., 827 Gratiot St., St. Louis, Mo. 
Sold in checkerboard bags only. 
