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'I*t RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Ailing Animals 
Answered by Dr t A. S. Alexander 
Bloat 
Would there be likely to be any trou¬ 
ble from bloat in cattle if pastured on 
Sudan grass or drilled corn, also buck¬ 
wheat in full bloom? I would like some¬ 
thing of the kind as temporary pasture. 
New' York. c. D. N. 
Any rank green crop fed when wet or 
suddenly to hungry cattle not accustomed 
to such feed may cause bloat. Sudan 
grass and corn fodder should be cut green 
and fed as soiling crops or in form of hay 
instead of being pastured, and the value 
of buckwheat is in the grain rather than 
in fodder or hay. 
Garget 
A cow that I have just bought has one 
teat where milk comes in thick lumps, 
and when it stands a few minutes becomes 
stringy and thick. The cow has good 
clover pasture and plenty of green fodder 
at night, also has dairy feed m^nt and 
morning. What is the trouble? I also ha\e 
five shotes that are getting weak and 
stiff in back legs, seem to lie down all the 
time. They have not been eating much 
for a couple of days. They have good 
shelter in an Alfalfa field. I feed them 
milk, hog feed, red dog, middlings, oil- 
meal and tankage. I give them what they 
will eat morning, noon and night. Do 
you think I am overfeeding them? 
New Jersey. w. e. 
1. This is a chronic case of mammitis 
or garget affecting one quarter, and it 
probably will prove incurable. Indeed, it 
would be best, if possible, to dry off all 
secretion in that quarter. If you do not 
care to do so, then strip the quarter clean 
four times a day and twice daily rub in 
a mixture of equal quantities of tur¬ 
pentine, and fluid extracts of poke root 
and belladonna and eight parts of lard or 
lanolin. If that does not suffice try the t 
effects of a mixture'of one part of mer¬ 
curial ointment and three parts of lard 
rubbed in once daily. Also give inter¬ 
nally a tablespoonful each of powdered 
saltpeter and poke root, once daily in 
water or feed for four 'consecutive days 
a week, for two weeks. 2. You no doubt 
are overfeeding the hogs. Feed wheat 
middlings, shelled corn .and tankage dry 
from a self-feeder, allowing it sparingly 
at first and graduallly increasing the 
amount as the hogs improve. They may 
have milk once or twice daily, if you have 
it to spare. If fever appears employ a 
veterinarian at once, as a contagioxis 
disease, such as cholera or hemorrhagic 
septicemia (swine plague), would be the 
likely cause, and vaccination should be 
done. 
acid solution. Every other day dust the 
eyeballs with a mixture of finely pow¬ 
dered iodoform or calomel and boric acid. 
If an eve remains badly affected after in¬ 
flammation subsides, paint it once daily 
for 10 days with a solution of two grains 
of nitrate of silver and one ounce of dis¬ 
tilled water, to be kept in a blue glass 
bottle, and give one dram of iodide of pot¬ 
ash in water night and morning for five 
consecutive days. 
Worms 
Undoubtedly you have published the 
best remedy for the long round worms in 
horses numbers of times, but I cannot 
seem to find such. Will you let me know 
what you recommend? E. n, 8. 
Connecticut. 
Mix together two parts of salt and one 
part each of dried sulphate of iron (pow¬ 
dered copperas) and sulphur and of this 
mix one tablespoonful in the feed night 
and morning for a week; then stop for 10 
days and then give the powder for an¬ 
other week. This kills the worms inter¬ 
nally and they are digested, so don’t look 
for them in the manure. Omit iron for a 
mare in foal and increase salt and sul¬ 
phur. Veterinarians give stronger and 
possibly more effective medicine than this, 
but we cannot afford to prescribe them 
for general use. The mixture here pre¬ 
scribed has given very good results in 
most instances; Colts take less doses, ac¬ 
cording to age and size. 
Warts 
I have a young cow that is getting 
peculiar warts on her udder, one the 
size of a man’s thumb. It is rough and 
sticky like a burr. The warts are spread¬ 
ing. Is there anything I can do to stop 
them or take them away? A. E. 8. 
Maryland. 
Saturate the warts twice daily with 
water containing all the baking soda it 
will dissolve when hot. Snip off any wart 
that has a slim neck ; but only remove a 
few at a time in this way. Lightly rub 
with a lunar caustic pencil upon the base 
of any wart that starts growing again. 
Castor oil well rubbed in twice daily is 
the favorite remedy for small warts on 
the teats, but we think the soda solution 
gives quicker and more certain results. 
Hemorrhagic Septicemia 
A neighbor of mine has been losing his 
calves mysteriously. They are running 
on good pasture in orchard, and fed skim- 
milk ; look well, seem all right every way 
until they are taken sick. They just 
stand around stupidly, head drooped; a 
little blood trickles down from eyes and 
out of nose, and they live only about 24 
hours. Stomach seems all right; no bloat 
or anything appears unnatural, except 
that a little blood is found settled among 
intestines. R. w. «T. 
Oregon. 
The disease is contagious and fatal 
and is caused by the bacillus bipolaris bo- 
visepticus. Its name, hemorrhagic sep¬ 
ticemia, indicates that it is characterized 
by hemorrhages or bleedings, and septi¬ 
cemia means blood poisoning. Sheep, 
swine and chickens are attacked by this 
bacillus in forms* peculiar to these ani¬ 
mals. In all, the after-death appearances 
show blood spots under the skin and upon 
the lining membrane (serous) of all en¬ 
closed cavities, and blood flows or drips 
from the nostrils or mouth, or bloody 
foam comes away. The disease is con¬ 
tracted from affected animals or in low, 
wet pastures, or on wild land where there 
September 20, 1910 
is surface drinking water. Commonly it 
is brought in with new-bought animals, 
so that they always should be quaran¬ 
tined for two weeks or more to determine 
whether they are healthy before turning 
them in with the home herd. Treatment 
rarely succeeds, but the disease may be 
prevented with a fair degree of success 
by vaccination with bacterins, which are 
dead culture of the germ. Fine success 
has been had in stopping the disease 
among sheep by the use of these bacterins. 
Consult your veterinarian about this at 
once, and meanwhile keep stock off the 
infected pasture. 
Carbolic Acid for Abortion 
Will you tell me amount of carbolic 
acid to give cows for abortion? e. ii. 
New York. 
Carbolic acid is not a certain remedy 
for contagious abortion, but is commonly 
used and by many thought to be helpful. 
The dose is two drams of pure carbolic 
acid, well diluted with water, and given 
in soft feed every other night during alter¬ 
nate fortnights, starting at the end of 
the eighth week of gestation and continu¬ 
ing until the end of the seventh month. 
Another plan is to inject 10 cubic centi¬ 
meters of a three per cent solution of 
carbolic acid under the skin every 10 
days during gestation. On account of the 
high price of pure carbolic acid some 
breeders are now using the crude acid for 
internal use, and say it is as useful as 
the pure article. No perfectly successful 
remedy has been found for contagious 
abortion, but disinfection of the stables 
and of the cows, under direction of a 
q alified veterinarian, offers the best 
chance of eventually ridding a herd of 
the disease. 
Wife: “Did you kill that fly, dear?” 
Aviator Husband: “No, but I drove him 
down in a badly damaged condition.”—• 
Melbourne Australasian. 
Hygroma 
One of my cows has, in the past few 
days, developed on the front of her knee 
a bunch about the size of my fist. There 
seems to be no swelling except in this one 
place. It does not seem to be sore, but 
it causes just a slight lameness. The 
bunch is loose and flabby. What do you 
think causes this bunch, and what can I 
do to reduce it? r. ,T. T. 
New York. 
Bruising is the cause of the condition 
described, and it generally is done when 
a cow reaches over to eat feed from the 
alley floor in front of her feed trough. 
The knees bruise upon the floor or upon 
the curb of the stanchion. Remove the 
cow r to a box stall. . The cyst or sac no 
doubt contains serum, and if this is not 
reabsorbed, when you remove the cause 
and apply tincture of iodine daily to this 
lump, it will have to be opened at the 
lowest part for liberation of serum and 
possibly clots of blood or fibrin. After 
liberating the fluid tincture of iodine 
should be injected and the cavity then 
packed daily with antiseptic gauze or 
oakum saturated w r ith a mixture of one 
part of turpentine and two parts of sweet 
oil or raw linseed oil. We usually ban¬ 
dage the leg from the foot up and over 
the knee after the operation to apply 
necessary pressure during the healing 
process. 
Pink-eye 
I have two heifers; one was three years 
old April 20 last. The other two years 
old April 4, due to freshen with first calf 
September 12. About 10 days ago I no¬ 
ticed they had sore eyes, one each. Water 
runs out of them quite badly, and they 
have a tendency to keep the eye shut most 
of the time. Now I notice a white spot 
on the ball of the eye, close to pupil, or 
almost on sight. The two-year-old’s eye¬ 
ball seems to be getting a white scum all 
over. I keep them staked out in meadow ; 
quite a lot of tall weeds, and rather wet 
at times during this Summer. I have 
washed them with a weak wash of salt 
and water (lukewarm). Anything you 
can advise me to do will be appreciated. 
New Jersey. A. M. 
The disease described is contagious and 
known as pink-eye, or, technically, as con¬ 
tagious keratitis or ophthalmia. Isolate 
affected cattle in a darkened stable and 
feed them light, laxation rations. Night 
and morning bathe affected eyes with a 
saturated solution of boric acid, or keep 
the eyes covered with a soft cloth or 
compvess, to be kept wet with the boric 
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