The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
829 
Ailing Animals 
Answered by Dr. A. S. Alexander 
No Trouble to Milk 
with an Empire 
ANYONE can milk a herd with the Empire, because there is so 
* *■ little to do. Simply start the engine, attach the milker by hose 
to the pipe line, apply the teat cups to the cow, and carry away the 
milk after the machine has done the work. One man with an Em¬ 
pire can milk more cows than three men by the hand method. 
Congh 
I have a team of horses, one of which 
is coughing, and both of them are con¬ 
stantly scratching themselves. They have 
good appetite. What should I do for 
them ? H. b. L. 
New Jei’sey. 
Have the horses clipped, and then wash 
itching parts with a 1-100 solution of coal 
tar dip, to which add flower of sulphur 
freely. Chicken lice, or horse lice, prob¬ 
ably are causing the irritation. If so, 
better cleanse, disinfect and whitewash 
the stable. Add a little lampblack or 
yellow oo'ire to the lime wash, as a horse 
stable s’ ould not have pure white walls. 
Dazzling T^ht from such walls is injuri¬ 
ous to the eyes of horses. The cough may 
be a symptom of heaves. If so, treat as 
often advised here, or give proprietary 
heave remedy. We cannot give an opin¬ 
ion as to the cause unless you give us full 
particulars. 
Milkless Quarters 
One of our cows freshened a week ago. 
On the second day we took the calf away 
from her. When we started to milk her 
no milk came from the two front teats. 
More than a week later no improvement is 
noticed. Could you tell me whether there 
is anything that could be done? M. M. K. 
Pennsylvania. 
Such a condition is incurable and the 
cow therefore should be fitted for the 
butcher as soon as the flow of milk from 
the other quarters fails to prove profit¬ 
able. 
Eczema 
I have a horse 14 years old which has 
a breaking-out on his hips. It is in form 
of small bunches about the size of a 
match head, and after a few days the hair 
comes off and dry scales and matter forms. 
It has happened before, and only comes 
on in the Spring. It heals- up in about a 
month. What is the cause, and what 
treatment do you recommend? L. A. B. 
New York. 
This form of skin disease is associated 
with change of coat and outdoor tempera¬ 
ture. It would be best to clip the horse 
at once and then bathe affected parts with 
a 1-100 solution of coal tar dip as often 
as seems to be necessary. Do not feed 
corn. Reduce the grain ration if it is a 
generous one, and mix half an ounce of 
granular hyposulphite of soda in the food 
each evening. See that the horse is 
worked or exercised every day. 
Buck Knees 
We have a colt just three years old, 
bought after he was broken. lie is “go¬ 
ing over on his knees” ; that is the way 
horsemen express themselves about him. 
It seems as though the cords in his legs 
do not relax when he runs or pulls a little 
hard : his knees quiver. Is there anything 
we can do for him? He is a beauty 
otherwise. w. it. 
Ohio. 
The colt no doubt was over-driven when 
too young to stand hard work, and it is 
unlikely that the legs ever will become 
normal. Allow him a box stall and feed 
everything from the floor: also allow him 
to pasture grass as much as possible. 
Two or three times a day hand rub and 
massage the back tendons and knees of 
the forelegs, and at night give them a good 
rubbing with a mixture of equal quanti¬ 
ties of extract of witch hazel, druggists’ 
soap liniment and alcohol. 
White Scours 
Will you give me a cure for white 
scours in calves? P. s. 
New York. 
You should have given full particulars. 
If you mean that the calves die in a few 
days after birth after scouring, the disease 
is calf dysentery or white scours, also 
termed “calf cholera.” It is infectious 
and born in the calf or contracted at birth 
by way of the mouth or navel. There is 
no specific remedy, hut the disease may 
bo prevented by immunization with poly¬ 
valent calf dysenteric serum, or a white 
scour bacteria at birth. Consult your 
veterinarian about this treatment. Also 
saturate the stump of the navel with tinc¬ 
ture of iodiue at birth, disinfect the udder 
and teats before the calf is allowed to 
suck, and provide a new. clean pen for 
new-born calves. 
Garget; Worms 
1. What can I do for a cow that gives 
no milk in oue of her teats? The milk 
used to come out hard, and sometimes a 
little blood. She will calve iu about six 
weeks. 2. What is good for pigs that 
have worms in the stomach? j. l. 
New Jersey. 
1. The quarter is spoiled from garget 
(mainmitis). due to germs and never will 
resume its function of milk secretion. It 
is not well to retain such a cow for dairy¬ 
ing. Tn cases where there is a discharge 
of abnormal milk or pus from the affected 
quarter, that cow should be kept isolated, 
as such disease may be carried from 
cow to cow by the milker’s hands, or con¬ 
tracted from floors contaminated by the 
discharge. 2. To kill worms in hogs, 
starve the animals for IS hours or more; 
then give each hog santonin, 2 y 2 grains; 
areca nut, powdered, 1 dram ; calomel, *4 
grain, and bicarbonate of soda, dram, 
for each 100 lbs. of body weight. 
Pica 
I have a herd of eight cows and all of 
them chew the board fences and every¬ 
thing wooden they can get hold of. Can 
you tell me what should cause them to 
do so, and what to do for it? J. H. s. 
New York. 
This disease, also termed “depraved ap¬ 
petite,” usually indicates indigestion, or 
lacking of some necessary ingredients of 
a complete ration. It also is due' to the 
pregnant condition in many instances. 
Allow free access to salt, and mix wheat 
bran freely with the other feed. In some 
cases bonemeal or precipitated phosphate 
of lime, mixed with the feed, proves rem¬ 
edial. Start with a tablespoonful of either 
twice daily, and if necessary, increase the 
dose. An ounce of bicarbonate of soda 
given twice daily as a drench in water 
has given us very good results. 
Nodular Disease of Intestines 
What was the trouble with my sheep? 
It looked well and iu a healthy condition 
up to a week before it died. It stood up 
all the time; when it did drop could not 
get up again; just about two weeks before 
lambing time. It would not eat. had a 
high fever. On examining it found intes¬ 
tines all covered with small hard knots. 
Sheep, was well covered with fat. I lost 
two in the same way before this. H. S. 
New York. 
On post-mortem examination you found 
the nodules characteristic of nodular dis¬ 
ease of the intestines (“knotty guts”), 
caused by the worm known as esophagas- 
toma columbianum, for which there is no 
satisfactory remedy. One stage of the 
worm is passed in the nodes filled with 
cheesy substance, but free worms also 
may be found in the intestines in Sum¬ 
mer and Fall. This disease, however, 
rarely if ever kills sheep. Thousands of 
fine fat sheep slaughtered in the great 
abattoirs of the large cities are found 
similarly affected. It is certain, however, 
that nodular disease, when associated with 
disease of the liver, impaction, or tape or 
stomach worms, helps to make the com¬ 
bination fatal. Most ewes that die just 
before lambing time are, however, usu¬ 
ally found affected with constipation and 
liver disease from overfeeding and rich 
food, prolonged, excessive feeding of 
coarse, dry. bulky fodder, without laxa¬ 
tive or succulent feed, and lack of exer¬ 
cise. Death in such cases probably is due 
to absorption of poisonous matters from 
the digestive tract (toxemia), and preven¬ 
tion is all-important. Medical treatment 
rarely does ony good. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings 
American Guernsey Cattle Club, annual 
meeting. Hotel Commodore, Pershing 
Square, New York, Wednesday. Mav 14. 
at 10 a. m. 
New Jersey State Horticultural So¬ 
ciety. Summer meeting, locality not fixed. 
July 11-12. 
Union Agricultural Association, sixty- 
fourth annual fair. Burgettstown, Pa- 
Sept. 30-Oct. 1-12. 
New Jersey State Horticultural So¬ 
ciety. annual meeting, Atlantic Citv, 
probably Dec. 3-5. 
Coming Live Stock Sales 
May 15—Guernseys. J. L. Hope, Mad¬ 
ison. N. J. 
May 22-23—Ilolsteins. A. W. Green, 
Middlefield. Ohio. 
May 24—Ilolsteins. Lamb & Langwor¬ 
thy. Hamilton. N. Y. 
May 27-30—Ilolsteins. Pine Grove 
Farm, Elma. N. Y. 
June 5-7—Ilolsteins. Moyer National 
Sale. Philadelphia. Pa. 
June 12—Ilolsteins. J. B. Sissons’ 
Son, Poughkeepsie. N. Y. 
June 12—Ayrshires. National Ayrshire 
Sale. Springfield. Mass. A. II. Sagen- 
dorph, Spencer. Mass. 
June 13—Ayrshires. New England 
Ayrshire Club Consignment Sale. A. II. 
Sagendorph. Spencer. Mass., sales mana¬ 
ger. 
June 1(>—Jersey^,. L. ,T. Coburn. San- 
gerville. Me. 
June 17-18—Ilolsteins. Purebred Live 
Stock Sales Company. Brattleboro. Yt. 
July 4—Ilolsteins. Otsego County Hol¬ 
stein Club. Richfield Springs. N. Y. 
Oct. fl-S—Ilolsteins. Quality Holstein 
Company. Chicago. 
Oct. S-9—Ilolsteins. Annual Dairy¬ 
men’s Sale. E. M. Hastings Co., I.aeoua. 
N. Y- manager. 
Oct. 9—Central Illinois Shorthorn 
Breeders’ Association, Paris, Ill. 
Soldier (putting feed-bag on his 
horse! : "Do you know that this horse is 
sure wise? Why, the first time that I 
put this feed-bag on him he closed his 
eyes and held his breath, thinking it was a 
gas mask.”—Judge. 
Not only does the Empire Milking 
Machine cut dairy costs, but it enables 
you to increase your herd and still handle 
it successfully with your present help. 
And the bigger your herd, the bigger 
should be your dairy profits. 
The action of the Empire teat cups 
is always soothing and perfectly uniform, 
thus tending to make the cows give 
down their best. No trouble need be 
looked for, even with the nervous kickers 
and the “hard milkers”; they will like 
it better than hand milking, because of 
the absolute uniformity. 
Why should you continue the drud¬ 
gery of milking by hand ? Why should 
you disregard those extra dairy profits 
which can easily be yours? Send for 
our catalog 23 and ask us for the name 
of the nearest Empire dealer. 
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