The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Ailing Animals 
Answered by Dr. A. S. Alexander 
Death of Pigs 
My two brood sows did not come in 
until three or four days after due, and 
both lost their pigs. Would the feeding 
of rotten apples cause the death of the 
little pigs? I was informed that it 
would, but would like to be convinced. 
New York. S. A. J. 
We never heard of anyone feeding rot¬ 
ten apples to a brood sow, so cannot 
assert that .so doing would be certain to 
kill the unborn pigs, but on general prin¬ 
ciples it may be stated that such damaged 
fruit would be unsuitable and probably 
dangerous. A breeding animal should 
only have sound, choice food, and moldy 
food ofteD has been blamed for causing 
abortion. 
Heaves 
A Percheron horse 10 years old has a 
cough and his nose runs a yellow mucus 
at times; he is also constipated and has 
trouble making water. The doctor here 
says he has yellow jaundice. This horse 
was sick a short time ago and doctor 
said he had indigestion. ITis cough is 
worse now than then. A farmer told me 
he has heaves. He is a nice horse and 
in good order. I feed him ground oats 
and bran; corn does not agree with him. 
I put in his feed a good handful of Glau¬ 
ber salts and two handfuls of charcoal 
and oilmeal; has grass and hay. 
New Jersey c. w. n. 
Indigestion is always present in heaves 
(emphysema of the lungs) and it is quite 
common in such cases for the liver to be 
sluggish and for the visible membranes 
of the eyelids, nostrils and mouth to be 
more or less stained with bile. That, 
however, scarcely causes jaundice, nor 
would cough necessarily be present in 
that disease. Distress may be relieved 
by letting the horse live on grass in Sum¬ 
mer and in Winter feeding with oat straw 
or oat sheaves instead of hay, allowing 
no bulky feed at noon and never working 
the horse soon after a meal. Keep the 
bowels active by feeding plenty of wheat 
bran and if necessary add carrots or oil- 
meal. If the trouble does not "abate give 
half an ounce of Fowler’s solution of 
arsenic night and morning and if neces¬ 
sary increase to three such doses a day. 
Gradually discontinue the medicine when 
no longer needed, taking at least 10 days 
to the process. 
Pasturing a Brood Mare 
Will you advise me as to a mare ex¬ 
pected to foal in six weeks? Would it 
be best to turn her out on grass? She 
has been working as a third horse all the 
Spring and has not had grass. B. M. F. 
New York. 
A sudden change from dry feed to grass 
would be unwise, and might prove dis¬ 
astrous. Let the mare have a little grass 
at a time, then gradually increase this 
until she becomes accustomed to green 
feed without it causing scours or colic. 
Always feed hay before she is turned out 
and do not entirely stop feeding oats. It 
is important that she should not lose her 
muscular condition as foaling time ap¬ 
proaches and as important that she arrive 
at foaling with her bowels active. Grass 
tends to cleanse and cool the system and 
insure a good flow of milk. 
Gaunted Mare 
A mare about 11 years old is thin, 
especially about the flanks. She has been 
so all Winter. She is fed oat bay, mixed 
clover hay, corn fodder, middlings and 
corn, and is always hungry at feed time. 
She gets at least one-third more than 
another mare of about same weight and 
age, which is in fat condition. No signs 
of worms in feces, coat in good condition. 
She works willingly. Got a chill with 
shivering during cold days in April; seems 
to brace herself more than usual when 
urinating. What is the probable trouble? 
Maryland. j. b. k. 
The mare possibly has a long, ■weak, 
“washy” coupling, and if so naturally 
will always be a poor keeper. If not of 
that conformation she may have chronic 
indigestion. On general principles we 
can only advise you to have her teeth 
attended to by a veterinarian and in ad¬ 
dition to feeding plenty of good oats, 
wheat bran, ear corn and and mixed hay 
give half an ounce of Fowler’s solution 
of arsenic night and morning until about 
a quart has been used. Then gradually 
discontinue the. medicine, taking at least 
10 days to the process. Reduce the grain 
feed one-half to start with, and then grad¬ 
ually increase the amount daily. Have 
her work or take exercise every day. A 
run on good grass might do more good 
than any medicine. 
Feeding a Young Foal 
I have a colt a week old whose dam 
will not own her. and has no milk. I 
am feeding the little mare cow’s milk, 
but she does not seem to thrive. She 
drinks as well as any horse, and sucks 
the cow twice a day. How often should 
she be fed, and bow much? She is a fine 
colt, and I would like to raise her. 
Connecticut. w. a. w. 
A new born foal should be fed once an 
hour at first, gradually lengthening the 
time between meals and increasing the 
amount of milk. Six feedings a day 
should be the minimum. Feed milk of a 
fresh cow, but that is poor in butterfat. 
Bring it to blood heat by adding hot 
water and sweeten well with sugar. If 
there is any disturbance of the howels 
add an ounce of lime water to each pint 
of milk fed. If the foal scours give it 
a dose of castor oil in milk and feed it 
on sweetened warm water and lime water 
instead of milk for two or three feeds. 
Allow oatmeal and bran as soon as the 
foal cares to eat; also grass or fine hay. 
After six weeks sweet skim-milk grad¬ 
ually may replace whole milk. 
Up-State Farm Notes 
Exhibitors of Live Stock Favored. 
—Owners of fancy horses, cattle and 
other live stock, who exhibit at fairs and 
expositions, will be interested in the new 
rules of the Railroad Administration per¬ 
mitting stock sent to single fairs or on 
circuits, if no change of ownership occurs, 
to be sent by rail at one-half the former 
rates. Men in charge of exhibits should 
have copies of the new tariff, giving full 
details governing the handling of these 
exhibits. They should ask for Boyd’s No. 
145 of any local railroad shipping agent. 
Valuable animals have to be insured by 
the owners, who must do this or run their 
own risks, as by the new rules the com¬ 
pany will be responsible for only a nom¬ 
inal value on such shipments. 
Finger Lakes League.— Steps to¬ 
wards better highways in the finger lake 
region have been taken, in the organiza¬ 
tion of. the Finger Lake League, composed 
of business men of Canandaigua, Mora¬ 
via, Groton, Lodi and other places in 
Tompkins and Cayuga counties. The 
League has petitioned the State Highway 
Department to complete the nine-mile gap 
in the State road between Auburn and 
Ithaca. The historical societies of the 
various towns will co-operate in furnish¬ 
ing valuable historical data of the 
legendary points along the highway, and 
appropriate markers will be set up de¬ 
signating each. Thirty-four highway 
signs, some of them 7x12 feet in size, 
have been arranged for, also panels and 
art pieces, to be put up in the leading 
hotels from Boston to Chicago, and in 
the main railway stations. Steps to im¬ 
prove fishing have been taken, and all 
vacant hotels and Summer resorts will 
be listed in an effort to be made the 
coming month to interest Eastern capital 
in developing the possibilities of these 
and of the boat service of the lakes. 
Victory in Rural Mail. —According 
to the reports of the biggest delegation 
that ever left this State for Washington, 
the farmers have won a victory in the 
contest for rural mail service. The chief 
point made was in convincing the postal 
committee of Congress that the farmer 
of today demands a daily door mail serv¬ 
ice. and that in all matters pertaining to 
rural mail routes the patrons are to be 
consulted. The committee was so well 
pleased with the hearing that an invita¬ 
tion will later be extended to several of 
the delegates to appear in Washington in 
the Fall to argue in regard to the postal 
appropriation before the committee. 
There is a new spirit of good will be¬ 
tween the postal authorities and the 
farmers’ representatives. Even the Post¬ 
master General and his assistants are 
well pleased with the hearing, as it placed 
the needs of farm patrons before Con¬ 
gress as never before has been done. 
New Potato Disease. —Growers of 
Central New York are now warned 
against a new disease, the “potato wart.” 
which is seriously damaging the crop in 
some sections, to an estimated loss of 
.$1,000,000 this year. No reports of the 
disease have been made in Onondaga 
County or other nearby localities, but 
growers are warned to watch for warty 
outgrowths near the eyes of the tubers. 
At first, these growths are light brown, 
becoming-darker with age. and they may 
turn the whole potato into a useless 
spongy growth. All cases should be re¬ 
ported at once to the College of Agricul¬ 
ture at Ithaca. 
State Bureau Ftnds Farm Labor.— 
The Syracuse Employment Bureau re¬ 
cently placed 45 men on farms in one 
day. as there seems to be a renewed in¬ 
terest in this line of work. “Farmers’ 
Day” this week. Friday, is expected to 
place many more. The public markets 
of the cities of the State are suffering for 
lack of patronage by farmers, who are 
too busy to attend to this line of oppor¬ 
tunity. At one recent market day in 
Cortland there was nothing at all but 
meat offered to disappointed would-be 
patrons of the market. 
Smalt, Notes of Interest. —The IT. 
S. Department of Agriculture recently 
made motion picture films of loading the 
pooled wool of the Tompkins County 
Sheep Breeders. Similar pictures were 
taken in Essex County. The department 
is preparing a series of films showing the 
different stages of wool production and 
marketing. The old Welch grape juice 
factory at Watkins is being made into a 
milk condensery by Nestles Food Com¬ 
pany. 
Potato Inspection. — Representatives 
of Cortland County’s Certified Seed Pota¬ 
to Association, who recently toured Long 
Island and New Jersey inspecting the 
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