The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
661 
Ailing Animals 
Answered by Dr. A. S. Alexander 
Worms; Split Teat 
1. Could you suggest a cure or tonic 
for a horse with worms? What is a good 
preventive, and what causes the trouble? 
2. Could you suggest something for a 
split teat on a cow? We have tried quite 
a few things, with no result. H. D. G. 
Connecticut. 
1. Horses contract worms from con¬ 
taminated drinking water, dirty feed 
boxes, old grass pasture and swale hay 
or withered cornstalks. Allow free access 
to rock salt. Keep all feeding and water¬ 
ing mangers and troughs clean and if 
possible allow new grass pasture. Treat 
a horse for worms by mixing in his feed 
twice daily for a week one tablespoonful 
of a mixture of two parts of table salt 
and one part each of flowers of sulphur 
„vd dried sulphate of iron ; then stop for 
days, and then repeat the treatment. 
Omit iron for a mare in foal, and in¬ 
crease salt and sulphur. Colts take doses 
proportionate to age and size. 2. You 
should have described the condition of the 
teat, as we cannot be sure what “split” 
signified. Write again. Meanwhile im¬ 
merse the teat twice daily in hot water 
containing all the boric acid it will dis¬ 
solve, then dry gently and apply benzo- 
ated oxide of zinc ointment. 
Ringworm 
What is the matter with my calves? 
Tbev seem to be healthy, and doing 
very well, except that they have spots of 
hair coming off them, and the surface 
seems rough. These spots are about the 
size of a silver dollar. Mostly this is 
working on the head around their eyes, 
hair all off, and looks rough and scaly. Is 
it ringworm, and how shall I treat it? 
West Virginia. J. K. A. 
The disease is ringworm, due to a vege¬ 
table parasite that also lives on damp 
walls and woodwork. The disease is con¬ 
tagious. so affected calves should be iso¬ 
lated. then cleanse, disinfect and white¬ 
wash the stable they have occupied. Treat 
by saturating spots daily with sweet oil 
until they can be scrubbed free from 
crusts or scabs; then paint them with 
tincture of iodine twice daily. Rub iodo¬ 
form powder into spots on upper eyelids. 
Spots upon the body are well treated by 
wetting once a week with a solution of 
4 oz. of bluestone (sulphate of copper) 
to the pint of hot water. 
Obstructed Teat 
I have a cow that has recently devel¬ 
oped a bad case of hard milking in one 
teat; has previously lost a quarter from 
the same cause. It seemingly came on 
over night and neither gets worse nor 
better. She will soon be dry. freshens in 
April; grade Jersey and a good one. Can 
you prescribe a remedy? Difficulty seems 
at or near the extremity of teat; no lumps 
or hardness, nor soreness. MRS. N. L. 
New York. 
It was a mistake to have such a cow 
bred as a quarter had been lost from 
mammitis (garget) following obstruction 
of a teat. This condition is incurable and 
always liable to involve other quarters so 
that the cow becomes unprofitable tor 
dairying. It is possible that milking inay 
he made easier by use of a sterilized dila¬ 
tor of the glove-stretcher pattern, or a 
veterinarian may have to cut do\\ n 
through the obstruction or stricture with 
teat bistoury. Teat plugs also are used 
in such cases. If the quarter is affected 
with garget loss of milk secreting function 
probably will result. 
Warts; Fattening Pigs; Tuberculin Test 
I have a yearling Holstein heifer that 
has hardshelled warts on both upper and 
lower lid of one eye, also row of small 
warts ou edge of lower Jid. The large 
warts are about the size of walnuts. Is 
there any way that I can get rid of them. 
I also have two young pigs (April Utter) 
that I want to fatten up. They would 
dress now about 100 or 12S lbs., but I 
think that they should be a great deal 
fatter for their length. What should I 
feed to fatten them? Have just had my 
grade Guernsey tested for tuberculosis. 
No sign of any. Will the tuberculin anti¬ 
toxin that the veterinary uses bring on 
tuberculosis? How does the tuberculin 
work? Cow’s temperature went as high 
as 102 degrees in a 12-hour test. 
Massachusetts w. w. E. 
Once or twice daily rub best castor oil 
into the warty places. Warts having 
narrow necks may be snipped off with 
scissors, or will drop off after a time if 
ligated tightly with a fine cord. 2. Feed 
milk, middlings, ground barley or rye and 
a little bran and oilmeal. Also allow 
free access to clover or alfalfa hay and 
have pigs exercise daily. Shelled corn 
and digester tankage may be fed from a 
self-feeder, if obtainable, and if fed other 
feeds may be reduced, but no milk or 
hay. 3. Tuberculin cannot cause tu¬ 
berculosis as it does not contain bacilli of 
the disease, but only the killed bacilli 
and harmless products of their growth. 
Injected into a cow that has tuberculosis 
these products stimulate activity of live 
baccilli and cause a rise in temperature, 
'he normal temnerature of a cow is 101 
f ° lfl2.f> degrees Fahrenheit. 
S UPPOSE you could build your barn 
around a flowing spring which al¬ 
ways gave your dairy herd a plenti¬ 
ful supply of fresh, pure, even tempera- 
tured water, summer and winter. Would 
your bank balance at the end of the year 
be greater? Of course, it would—every 
dairyman knows that the milk flow is 
largely dependent upon the amount of 
water a cow drinks—that there never was 
a heavy milker that was a light drinker. 
FRESH, EVEN TEMPERATURED 
WATER is the most palatable—the cow 
will drink more of it. And that is the 
kind of water the NATIONAL NON¬ 
STORAGE FRESH WATER SYSTEM 
supplies — fresh even temperatured 
water from the depths of the well. Like 
the flowing spring, there is nothing 
added and nothing taken away. 
As for the addition to your profits read 
the following letter from a successful 
dairyman in your own state. 
Whitewater, Wisconsin 
We have been using the 
NATIONAL NON-STORAGE 
FRESH WATER SYSTEM 
in our dairy barn for several 
years past. By supplying 
fresh, even temperatured 
water the NATIONAL has 
caused an average increased 
milk production of five to ten 
pounds per cow per day. Give 
me fresh pumped water in 
preference to tanks with tank 
heaters every time. 
»* 
C. J. TAYLOR. 
Can there be any doubt that a 
NATIONAL NON-STORAGE FRESH 
WATER SYSTEM PAYS BIG DIVI¬ 
DENDS? Mr. Taylor is only one of 
thousands who have found their profits 
increased twenty-five dollars or more per 
cow per year by the installation of a 
NATIONAL NON-STORAGE FRESH 
WATER SYSTEM. 
Write for our Free Illustrated 
Booklet 
National Utilities Corporation 
Milwaukee, 328 Be,,eview p,ace Wisconsin 
Make More 
You can do it—if you follow the example of hundreds' 
of other farmers. Feed your calves the perfect substitute for new 
milk—the scientifically mixed feed — International Calf Meal 
INTERNATIONAL CALF MEAL\ 
Will Make and Save You Money 
With this great feed you can raise For a short time only we will ship 
four or five calves at the cost of prepaid a 100-lb. sack for $6.60 to 
raising one on new milk. One lb. any point east of Rockies. Send nc 
equals 1 gallon fresh milk infeed- money — pay when feed arrives, 
ing value. It is easily mixed, /• \ You can‘t go wrong. Weguar- 
calves like it and thriveon it. / antee satisfaction, international 
Cuts the cost of raising a / WO \ s«*.r F..d Co.. Minn..ooii». 
c*lf to 1-4 what It coats / f ▲ 
on new milk. / 1C? 
ffOW! 
Minn. 
IAm Salesmen 
Wanted. 
TARING OUT THE RINKS AND MAKING THE FAMILY GOOD NATURED WITH A 
WHITING-ADAMS 
I: 
SI 
HAIR BRUSH 
A family requisite. Beautiful designs, hand¬ 
somely finished. Best quality pure Russian 
bristles. Once used always preferred. 
Send for Illustrated Literature 
JOHN L WHITING-J. I. ADAMS CO., Boston, U. S. A. 
Brush Manufacturers for Over 109 Year* and the 
Largest in the World 
Kreso Dip No. 1 
( standardized) 
WILL 
PROTECT YOUR PROFITS 
BY KEEPING 
All Livestock and Poultry Healthy 
Effective. Uniform. Economical. 
Kills Lice, Mites and Fleas. 
For Scratches, Wounds, Scab, 
and Common Skin Troubles. 
PREVENTS HOG CHOLERA 
Experiments on live hogs prove that a 2 1 2 per cent 
dilution of Kreso Dip No. 1 will kill virulent 
hog-cholera virus in 5 minutes by contact. 
FREE BOOKLETS. 
We will send you a booklet on the 
treatment of mange, eczema or pitch 
mange, arthritis, sore mouth, etc. 
We will send you a booklet on how 
to build a hog wallow, which will keep 
hogs clean and healthy. 
We will send you a booklet on how 
to keep your hogs free from insect para¬ 
sites and disease. 
WRITE FOR THEM. 
Animal Industry Department of 
PARKE, DAVIS & CO. 
DETROIT, MICH. 
When you write advertisers mention The R. N.-Y. and you'll get a 
quick reply and a “ square deal.” See guarantee editorial page. 
A CCNTC U7 A NTCn Active.reliable, on salary, to take 
Avjt.nl O VI All 1 C.LI subscriptions for RURAL Nkw- 
ORKKK in Ohio. Prefer men who have borne or auto. Address 
J. C. MULHOLLAND, General Delivery, Columbus, Ohio 
or 
The Rural New Yorker, 333 W. 30th St.. New York City 
