The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
Ailing Animals 
Answered by Dr. A. S. Alexander 
Cow Ubt!- _ ■ ' 
What ails my cow? She will not d" ! nk 
as a good milch cow should. I feed four 
quarts at a milking of gluten, bran, cot¬ 
tonseed meal, equal parts; besides I give 
her 15 or 20 nubbins of corn. She has 
grass and corn fodder at night, and some 
)bage. I make a slop of the mill feed. 
1 dose her with table salt, but she will not 
drink over a 10-quart pail of water in a 
da F- , J. H. w. 
Pennsylvania. 
Add as much bran as gluten meal and 
then feed only half a pound of cottonseed 
meal with an equal amount of oilmeal 
twice daily. Allow 1 lb. of the mixture 
of meals for each 4 lbs. of milk yielded 
daily. Feed it damp, but not in form of 
slop. The corn would be better used if 
ground and Combined with the other 
meals, and in addition the cow should 
have plenty of sound clover or Alfalfa hay 
and 20 to .*10 lbs. of corn silage daily. If 
silage is fed the ear corn mav be omitted. 
Allow free access to rock salt and do not 
salt the feed. 
Weak Eyes 
I have a young mule six years old; fine, 
big animal; sound as a dollar, but has 
something the matter with his eyes. It 
seems as though he imagines he sees 
something., and will stop and prance 
around a little, then go on. lie does very 
well in a team, but single one would think 
he was never driven alone before. His 
eyes look all right and are not smoky or 
glazy. Do you think any kind of eye¬ 
wash would help him? w. n. 
Test the eyes by trotting the mule up 
to an obstacle on the road. If the vision 
is defective he may bump into the obstacle 
or fail properly to clear or avoid it. It 
is unlikely that an eyewash would do any 
good. if. as we .suspect, there is impair¬ 
ment or paralysis of the retina and optic 
nerve. It is a case for the local graduate 
veterinarian to examine carefully and de¬ 
cide if treatment will help. 
Indigestion 
I have a mare, seven years old ; looks 
very healthy; eats well, and still loses 
flesh. She always has a rolling sound in¬ 
side. I feed buckwheat in the morning 
and ear corn for dinner and supper. What 
may be the trouble? “ f. s. 
Pennsylvania. 
Stop feeding buckwheat and substitute 
wheat bran to the amount of one-ninth 
part, by weight, of the oats, which should 
form the morning and evening meals. Al¬ 
low ear corn at noon. Carrots, parsnips 
or rutabagas would be beneficial. If pos¬ 
sible, have a veterinarian put the teeth in 
order. Allow free access to rock salt and 
have the mare work or exercise every day. 
Garget 
Can you tell me what ails my cow? At j 
times her udder, usually the right hind 1 
quarter, becomes swollen. The swelling i 
soon goes down and there seems’ to be no ! 
soreness at any time, but for a day or j 
two afterwards there are lumps in the I 
milk. There is never any blood. She is ! 
a black Polled Durham, is iu good health j 
and flesh. Y\ e have had her for a year 
and she has shown this trouble ever since 
we have had her at intervals of several 
weeks. We wrote our local veterinarian 
and he said to cut down the feed one-half, 
but at the time she was on pasture with 
no other feed, and the kind or amount of 
feed seems to have nothing to do with it. 
Washington. A. E. 
Germ infection of the quarter is the 
cause of the condition described, and 
chronic cases sometimes are due to infec¬ 
tion Avith tuberculosis, so that it always 
is well to have the tuberculin test. We 
know of no remedy for such chronic cases 
and an affected cow should be allowed to 
suckle calves or be fed for slaughter. If 
you do not care to do this, milk her three 
times a day, massage the udder each time 
and be careful to prevent the cow from 
chilling her udder by lying on cold, wet 
or frozen ground or a cement floor. 
Indigestion 
I have a horse about 14 years old which 
does not act right. I have four pigs, two 
cows and two horses in a basement. 
Would pigs in a basement with horses 
have any effect on the horses? I have 
been told it would. I have been feeding 
some cornstalks to my horses. Would 
that hurt them? Horse’s hair does not 
lie down as it usually does. d. c. a. 
New York. 
The pigs and cow should have separate 
quarters apart from the horse. It also is 
important that the basement stable be 
properly lighted and ventilated. Moldy 
corn fodder is injurious to horses and 
may even cause fatal disease. The horse 
probably is affected with indigestion and 
will be likely to improve if you give him 
a. more sanitary stable where there is 
sunlight and plenty of fresh air. Also 
substitute sound hay for the cornstalks 
and with it feed whole oats, wheat bran 
and roots. Ear corn may be fed twice 
daily, or form the entire grain ration if 
you cannot supply oats, and the horse can 
be given Alfalfa or clover hay. 
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