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Ailing Animals 
Answered by Dr. A. S. Alexander 
Dysentery 
I have a 27-months-old Jersey grade 
heifer, fresh about 10 days before she was 
two years old. There was nothing the 
matter with her bowels before she fresh¬ 
ened, but since then they have been very 
loose. While she had grass I thought they 
would become normal when she got on dry 
feed—fodder, hay, etc. I browned, in the 
oven, middlings several times, which 
seemed to correct the loosiness. I cannot 
feed her bran or oilmeal without the 
trouble returning. What do you suppose 
can be the trouble and what can I do to 
correct it? A. B. L. 
We suspect that the heifer has Johne’s 
disease, also called chronic bacterial dys¬ 
entery. It is an incurable, contagious 
farm disease, the infection being spread 
by the feces. Isolate the heifer and 
cleanse and disinfect the place she has 
occupied. Keep her feces out of the 
yard and from contaminating feed. You 
can possibly arrange to have her tested 
with Johnin, which is similar to tuber¬ 
culin, or your veterinarian may arrange 
to have scrapings from her rectum micro¬ 
scopically examined by a pathologist of 
the State Agricultural Experiment Sta¬ 
tion. Meanwhile, feed boiled milk, browned 
flour and fine hay. 
Lame Pig 
A pig three months old eats well, seems 
well in all respects the same as its mate, 
but as far as I can judge has rheumatism, 
as it walks stiffly on its hind legs, seem¬ 
ingly worse on rainy days than on dry 
ones, and limbers up after running around 
for a while, but is very reluctant about 
taking exercise. o. w. B. 
New York. 
manufacturing and setting up such stills, 
lie pleaded not guilty and was held for a 
hearing before a United States Commis¬ 
sioner. , 
Indictments were returned February 13 
in the Federal Court in Brooklyn, N. Y., 
against 11 men arrested on February 3 
on a charge of having stolen $200,000 
worth of goods from the Army Base at 
Fifty-eighth street and First avenue. Bay 
Ridge. Nine of the men were employes 
at the base. They are accused of trying 
to bribe Edward Klein, a shipping clerk, 
with $30,000. Klein informed the au¬ 
thorities, who, at an opportune moment, 
arrested the men. 
Charged with being leader of a “whis¬ 
key ring,” with the object of marketing 
liquor stolen in Kentucky and Ohio, It. E. 
xoodenough, deputy internal revenue 
collector in charge of the Covington, Ky., 
office, and four other persons were ar¬ 
rested February 15, at Louisville, Ivy., on 
Federal warrants. The arrests followed 
disclosures of the robbery of a Covington 
warehouse of $50,000 worth of whiskey 
by means of an old tunnel running under 
the warehouse. Boards were removed 
from the floor and the liquor carried 
through the underground passage to a 
house some distance away. The whiskey 
was packed between mattresses on a truck 
and carried across the river into Ohio. 
Groodenough’s arrest was made following 
an affidavit recently by Alex Skilken, a 
Dayton saloonkeeper, who deelard he 
bought $35,000 worth of the whiskey 
stolen from the warehouse via the tunnel 
and sold it for $50,000 in a few days to 
“most conspicuous business and profes¬ 
sional men in Dayton.” 
In a series of raids began February 15 
in Paterson, N. J., a force of 100 agents 
of the Department of Justice from this 
city and from Newark arrested 29 “Reds” 
whom they declare to be members of “the 
most dangerous known anarchistic organ¬ 
ization in the United States.” They dis¬ 
covered also in the course of their search 
the records of the Chicago office of the 
I. W. W., which had been moved hastily 
out of that city to prevent them from fall¬ 
ing into the hands of Federal and State 
raiding parties. 
Indictments were returned February 17 
against seven persons who are alleged 
to be implicated in the $5,000,000 bond 
robbery eases in New York City. Five 
have been arrested and were held in 
$100,000 bail each by Judge William H. 
Wadhams in General Sessions. They are 
Irving and Joseph Gluck, Rudolph and 
Herbert Bunora and Edward Furey. All 
pleaded not guilty. Judge Wadhams is¬ 
sued bench warrants for the arrest of the 
other persons indicted. 
By decisive votes both houses of the 
Maryland Legislature refused February 
17 to ratify the Federal amendment for 
woman suffrage. After the defeat of the 
measure Mrs Donald Hooker of Balti¬ 
more, leader of the suffrage fores, an¬ 
nounced that no further move would be 
made to obtain suffrage in the State, and 
that her party was satisfied that suffi¬ 
cient other States would ratify the amend¬ 
ment to provide votes for women. Votes 
in favor of the measure .were cast by the 
Republicans. The opposition came from 
the Democrats. 
Fire in the Hotel Lorraine, Providence, 
R. I., February IS. caused the death of 
three guests and a property loss of $200,- 
000 . 
WASHINGTON.—John Barton Payne, 
chairman of the United States Shipping 
Board, has been nominated by President 
Wilson to succeed Franklin K. Lane as 
Secretary of the Interior. Mr. Payne 
will enter the Cabinet immediately upon 
Mr. Lane’s departure, March 1. 
Monthly compensation rates to disabled 
soldiers and sailors would be increased 
to $100 for single men and $120 for mar¬ 
ried men under a bill reported unani¬ 
mously February 17 by the House Edu¬ 
cation Committee. 
Radio facilities taken over by the Gov¬ 
ernment under the wartime powers of the 
President will be returned to the owners 
at midnight February 29, on authority of 
an executive order issued February 17 by 
the President. 
OBITUARY.—Roscoe G. Chase, one 
of the nurserymen who made Geneva. 
N. Y., famous as a nursery center, died 
January 10, 1920. Mr. Chase was bom 
November 3, 1837, and served in the Civil 
War. after which he spent some time in 
California. He then returned to his na¬ 
tive State of Maine, engaging in tree¬ 
growing with his father and brothers, 
George II. and Howard A. Chase. He 
and liis brothers founded the nursery at 
Geneva in 1872. Mr. Chase was a mem¬ 
ber of the Board of Education and a trus¬ 
tee of the Geneva City Hospital. He 
was also a director of the First National 
Bank of Geneva until April last year, 
and had been a member of the village 
Board of Trustees. Ilis wife survives. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings 
Winter Course State School of Agricul¬ 
ture. Cobleskill, Jan. 5-Feb. 27. 
Winter Courses, Ohio State College, 
Columbus, .Tan. 5-Feb. 27. 
Farm and Home Week. New York State 
School of Agriculture, Alfred University, 
Alfred, N. Y.. Feb. 18-20. 
Somerset - Hunterdon County Holstein 
Breeders’ Association consignment sale, 
New Jersey Agricultural College, New 
Brunswick. N. J.. March 19. 
Ilornell Fair, Hornell, N. Y., Aug. 31- 
Sept. 3. 
“Are you sure,” an anxious patient 
once asked, “are you sure that I shall re¬ 
cover? I have heard that doctors have 
sometimes given wrong diagnoses and 
treated a patient for pneumonia who 
afterwards died of typhoid fever.” “You 
have been woefully misinformed,” replied 
the physician, indignantly. "If I treat 
a man for pneumonia, he dies of pneu¬ 
monia.”—Credit Lost. 
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D O M E S T I C.—Ratification of the 
Woman Suffrage Amendment to the Fed¬ 
eral Constitution by a special session of 
the Arizona Legislature was completed 
February 12, when the Senate adopted 
the ratifying resolution following similar 
action by the House. Both branches 
made it unanimous. Arizona is the 
thirty-first State to ratify. Five more 
States must approve the amendment to 
make it a part of the Constitution. 
Woman suffrage was defeated in Vir¬ 
ginia February 12. when the House of 
Delegates adopted, 62 to 22. the l.eed.v 
resolution rejecting the Snsan B. Anthony 
amendment to the Federal Constitution. 
The Senate, by a vote of 24 to 10, pre¬ 
viously had adopted the resolution. 
Discovery reently of several whiskey 
distilling plants in Holyoke. Mass., caused 
the arrest February 16 of Richard A. 
Ruppert, a tinsmith, on the charge of 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
Such pigs usually are afflicted with 
rickets rather than rheumatism, or the 
partial paralysis present in some cases 
has been induced by overfeeding and lack 
of exercise. Encourage the pig to take 
exercise by rooting for shelled corn scat¬ 
tered on a big barn floor or clean ground 
and well covered with litter. Allow free 
access to Alfalfa or clover hay and also 
feed middlings, shelled corn and tankage, 
dry, from a self-feeder. Open the bowels 
freely with epsom salts in slop or warm 
water and then keep them acting freely. 
Itching Skin; Growth on Calf 
I. Could I trouble you again to know 
what is wrong with my horse? _ He is 
about nine years old and weighs 1,500 lbs. 
He was turned out to pasture after hay¬ 
ing. He will bite his sides and stamps a 
good deal, also sweats nights. 2. I have 
a registered bull calf that has a bunch on 
his belly about the size of a walnut. Some 
say it is a rupture; if so, can I do any¬ 
thing for it? L. w. G. 
New T York. 
1. Clip the hair from the belly and one- 
third of the way up on the sides of this 
horse and from his legs above hocks and 
knees. That should stop the sweating. 
Wash itching parts with a 1-100 solution 
of coal tar day at intervals of 10 days ; or 
if it is too cold to do so apply a mixture 
of 2 oz. of sulphur. oz. of coal tar dip 
and 1 pint of cottonseed oil, at intervals 
of three days. 2. Paint the lump with 
tincture of iodine two or three times a 
week. 
Itching Skin 
I have a young cow nearly three years 
old. She has had an itching neck for 
some time. I used quassia chips on hci 
neck, but it failed. What could I do for 
her?' MRS. A. 
New Jersey. 
Examination may show that lice are 
causing the irritation. If so, dust the in¬ 
fested skin freely with a mixture of 2 
parts of freshly powdered pyrethrum or 
sabadilla and one part each of flowers of 
sulphur and powdered tobacco leaves.. Re¬ 
peat the treatment as often as found 
necessary. If you are positive that lice 
are not present wet the affected parts once 
a week with a soluthrft of 1 lb. of pow¬ 
dered Milestone- (sulphsrte of copper) dis¬ 
solved in two quants yf hot water. 
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