Tht RURAL NEW-YORKER 
627 
Ailing Animals 
Answered by Dr. A. S. Alexander 
Milkless Quarter; Cribbing 
1. I have an eight-year-old Guernsey 
cow that has just freshened. Her udder 
filled out well but I am unable to get any 
milk from one quarter, although it is 
swollen and hard. Is there any chance to 
save that quarter, and what is it? I am 
washing with hot salt and water twice 
daily, but unable to start a bit of milk. 
2. I have a 10-year-old mare, good flesh, 
that has lately taken to cribbing. What 
was the cause, and is there any cure for 
it? G. H. F. 
New York. 
1. The quarter will not be likely to 
yield milk. Garget (mammitis) no doubt 
caused the present condition, and may 
have occurred unnoticed at “drying off” 
or weaning time. Bathe the quarter with 
hot water twice daily if inflamed, and 
then rub in warmed camphorated oil. 
2. Cribbing is incurable. It may be 
caused by tooth-cutting irritation, idle¬ 
ness in the stable, or by irritation. Sta¬ 
ble the horse in a box stall containing 
nothing upon which the teeth can be set. 
If windsucking is associated with crib¬ 
bing, as commonly is the case, buckle a 
wide strap fairly tight around the neck 
just behind the throat latch. 
Distemper 
I have a very good foxhound dog two 
years old that has had distemper. This 
Winter he was very sick and is very weak 
in his hindquarters. lie cannot get over 
stone walls and will fall down while walk¬ 
ing along. It has been a month since he 
started to move around alone. His hair 
is coming out in bunches, but his skin 
seems to be clean and he does not scratch 
himself. II. r. n. 
Massachusetts. 
We suspect that the dog is afflicted 
with chorea (St. Vitus* dance), which 
commonly remains after a debilitating at- 
task of distemper, especially in pedigreed 
dogs, and practically is incurable. Some 
improvement may follow if you feed gen¬ 
erously, give emulsion of codliver oil twice 
daily and put the dog upon a course of 
Fowler’s solution of arsenic. Start with 
three drops at a dose and increase a drop 
a dose each day, but go back to the first 
dose and repeat at the first sigu of poison¬ 
ing. such as diarrhoea or any other un¬ 
natural condition. 
Shrink in Milk 
A Jersey cow, fresh in September, was 
giving about IB qts. of milk per day in 
December, and kept it up until the mid¬ 
dle of January, when she began to shrink, 
and now she is only giving about 7 to S 
qts. per day. I have had her tested by a 
veterinarian and she is all right. I no¬ 
ticed along in December that on her neck 
and on the side of her head the hair came 
o in spots about the size of the palm of 
the hand, but not on any other part of 
the body. She seems to like to be carded, 
particularly about the head and neck. I 
have been feeding a mixture to which I 
add gluten and cottonseed meal. I have a 
good quality of clover hay for roughage, 
and she cleans it all up; drinks from four 
to six pails of water daily, which I take 
the chill off. e. j. b. 
Vermont. 
Add wheat bran freely to the mixture 
and allow 1 lb. of it to each SV 2 lbs. of 
daily yield of milk. If she dowTnot. im¬ 
prove in milk flow, make the meals into a 
mash with warm water and sweeten with 
blackstrap molasses. Cleanse the spots on 
the skin and apply sulphur and lard if 
crusts are not present. If the spots are 
covered with crusts and scabs, scrub clean 
and when dry apply at intervals of five to 
eight days a solution of four ounces of 
sulphate of copper to the pint of hot 
water. 
Heaves 
Would you prescribe treatment for my 
horse, as I am afraid she is developing 
heaves? Mare, rising nine ; weight, 1,800 
to 1,400; 17 hands high; sleek and fat, 
fine silky coat. Fed as follows: Morning, 
one good feed of ripe oat sheaves run 
through a chaff cutter, with a quart of 
bran mixed in and fed wet, and a small 
amount of good mixed Timothy and clover 
hay; noon, a 8-qt. pail of raw carrots, 
two-thirds, and one-third raw potatoes; 
only as much hay is fed as I think she 
ought to have, and that dampened down 
with water. She coughed a little for the 
last two Winters and had discharge from 
nostrils; is all right, in Summer, as she 
lives on grass, but this Winter she has a 
bad cough, breathes fast at times and 
heaves at flank. When she takes a long, 
deep breath there si a kind of bubbling 
sound up in nostrils. There is no discharge 
from nostrils this Winter, and she seldom 
blows down her nose. She does no work 
in Winter, only a drive to town three or 
four times per week ; we live one mile out 
of town. She is of a rather nervous dis¬ 
position. Heaves is very prevalent in this 
country. Our Winters are long and very 
wet and snowy; we often have four feet 
of snow on level and very little sunshine 
through November, December. Jauuary 
and February. Farm horses have to stand 
in the stable a great deal of the time in 
Winter. There is no veterinarian here, 
the nearest 90 miles away. Government 
veterinarians come around once a year 
cow testing; otherwise we never see one. 
British Columbia. h. c. 
We should suggest feeding the oat bun¬ 
dles without cutting, but wet. and omit¬ 
ting the hay entirely. Also omit potatoes, 
but continue to allow bran and a little 
whole oats wetted at feeding time. Do 
not feed any straw or hay - just before 
work, and, if possible, allow her the run 
of a big shed if you cannot have her take 
outdoor exercise daily. If the cough and 
heaving continue after you have made 
these changes in management, give her 
half an ounce of Fowler’s solution of ar¬ 
senic night and morning for 10 days and 
then three times a day until no longer 
needed, when it should be gradually dis¬ 
continued, taking at least 10 days to the 
process. Heaves is incurable when es¬ 
tablished. but distress may be relieved by 
this treatment. In Summer let the mare 
live on grass. 
Calk Wound; Scours 
1. I have a horse which calked himself 
at the front side of the ankle joint on the 
hind leg six weeks ago and it has not 
healed up yet. I washed it with warm 
soft water with a little boracic acid every 
day. It suppurated a long time. The 
gash does not heal together. What can I 
do to make this gash heal up? 2. I have 
a horse which scours all the time. I feed 
mixed hay, clover and Timothy, corn and 
oats for grain. What is the remedy? 
New York. j. J. n. 
1. The sore should be thoroughly curet¬ 
ted for removal of foreign bodies and dis¬ 
eased cartilage or other tissue, then swab 
it with a saturated solution of corrosive 
sublimate and iirect some of the solution 
into any pipe (sinus) that may be pres¬ 
ent. Afterward cover with a mixture of 
one part each of calomel and subnitrate of 
bismuth and six parts of boric acid on ab¬ 
sorbent cotton, to be kept in place with 
clean bandages. Renew the dressing twice 
daily, and once a week use the corrosive 
solution if seen to be necessary. 
2. If the horse has a weak, washy 
coupling, he will always scour when 
worked until hot and tired. Mix browned 
wheat flour with his feed of oats, but omit 
corn. If that does not suffice, mix in each 
feed a tablespoonful of two parts of pre¬ 
pared chalk and one part each of sub¬ 
nitrate of bismuth, powdered catechu and 
alum. 
Thin Mare 
Would a mare 18 years old look better 
if all her grain was cooked for her? Her 
teeth need fixing, as she eats so slowly 
this Winter and looks much thinner. I 
•have been feeding her a peck of oats a 
day. She does not look as she ought to. 
Connecticut, w. h. k. 
Feed should not be cooked for any 
horse. The feeding of boiled or steamed 
mashes to horses, happily, is dying out as 
a practice, never was worth while, and al¬ 
ways was a fertile cause of indigestion, 
colic, grease and lymphangitis. Have the 
teeth attended to by a veterinarian. Then 
feed whole oats and one-sixth part of 
wheat bran, by weight. Dampen it at 
feeding time and allow one pound of this 
mixture for each 100 pounds of body 
weight, in three feeds, as a day’s ration, 
and allow a similar amount of hay, but 
none at noon when work has to be done. 
Carrots also may be fed. and a few ears 
of corn given each evening. 
Lame Horse and Cow 
1. I have a horse about eight years old 
with a bad foot. It looks like a spavin. 
When I used him on wet ground his foot 
swelled up and afterwards turned into a 
bad wound. What would you advise me 
to do? 2. I have a cow that has loose teeth 
and has not -been able to eat hardly any¬ 
thing but little hay and grain. She is 
supposed to calve in a short while. She 
is also lame in the stifle. What do you 
advise me to do? t. p. 
1. Spavin is a bone disease of the hock 
joint and is not associated with a wound. 
From your description we cannot decide 
what condition is present, but the wound 
may improve if you wet it three times 
daily with “white lotion,” made by mixing 
one ounce of acetate of lead and six drams 
of sulphate of ziuc in a pint of soft water. 
Label the bottle “poison” and shake it 
well before using. You should have a 
veterinarian examine and treat the horse. 
2. The incisor teeth of cattle are some¬ 
what loose naturally. The condition of 
the teeth do not probably prevent eating, 
and, all things considered, we suspect that 
the cow has tuberculosis, so have the vet¬ 
erinarian test her with tuberculin when 
he comes to examine the horse. 
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