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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 17. 1020 
NEPONSET ROOFS 
Good Old Paroid 
‘‘Good old Paroid’ ’—That’s what farmers call the best roll 
roofing ever made. 
For more than 20 years Neponset Paroid has protected 
cattle, poultry, stock, tools, equipment, crops, and homes 
from the attacks of rain and sleet, sun and snow—at the low¬ 
est service cost per square foot per year. 
One farmer writes, ‘‘Neponset Paroid is the greatest roofing 
investment I ever made. Ten years ago 1 decided that to 
keep my prize stock warm and healthy I needed on the roof 
and siding of my barn the best roofing that money could buy. 
I bought good old Paroid. It’s still good old Paroid—it 
hasn’t cost me a penny for repairs and it still looks good for 
another ten years.” 
Three Colors—Red, Green, Gray 
Paroid si ate-surfaced comes in 
two colors—natural slate-red and 
slate-green. It is the most beau¬ 
tiful slate-surfaced roll roofing 
made. Just what you need for 
your house or barn—right over 
old wooden shingles. Paroid gray 
conies in two weights. Build and 
repair NOW. You owe it to 
yourself to use Paroid. There’s 
a Neponset Roofing for every 
need and every purse. If you 
do not know who is your nearest 
dealer in Neponset Roofs write 
to us. Send fox full informa¬ 
tion. 
BIRD & SON, incorporated (Established 1795) East Walpole, Mass 
0he plug 
■with the 
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plugs—once installed you say “Good-bye” to spark 
plug troubles. And Splitdorf Green Jacket Spark 
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AILING ANIMALS 
Answered by Dr. A. S. Alexander 
Cough 
My horse has a cough, especially when 
he drinks water. lie will take a few 
mouthfuls, then stop and swallow hard a 
few times, then dunk again, then start 
to eongli. Can you give me any remedyV 
New York. A. c. 
Have a veterinarian put the teeth iu 
order and see if a foreign body has 
lodged in the tongue, cheek or throat. 
Wet all feed. Give equine cough syrup 
or glyco-lieroin for the cough, if the 
veterinarian does not. prefer to prescribe 
some other remedy. 
Interfering 
I wish your advice in regard to diffi¬ 
culty I am having in getting a colt shod 
so that he will not interfere behind. lie 
is four years old and 15 hands high, has 
pasterns slightly longer than usual, and 
from the way he stands can be classed 
I as a cow-hooked horse. He did not inter¬ 
fere before being shod, but after six trials 
in three weeks we find him striking worse 
than ever. When he raises his hind feet 
from the ground he swings the inner heel 
inward and strikes the rear quarters of 
the ankle. From the appearance lie strikes 
with the side of the hoof and not with the 
shoe. 11 is first shoes were a pair of light 
plates, which simply fitted the hoofs. 
Finding that he touched himself occasion¬ 
ally with these, they were changed by 
putting an extension calk on the outside 
heel. When those wore out heavier shoes 
were tried, and my blacksmith has been 
changing them in various ways, but with 
increasing interference. When he is at 
rest the rear hoofs point outward. I 
have been driving him only three weeks. 
Now York. «t. g. g. 
In such cases the trouble often starts 
from trimming the hind hoofs too much 
at the first shoeing. When the hind feet 
have been left unshod, and especially if 
the horse has been at pasture, the walls 
often grow in a bulging or flanging fashion 
at the quarters, giving them a triangular 
appearance. When that is the case only 
a little of this abnormal horn should he 
trimmed the first time, the shoe to follow 
the peculiar shape of the foot and the 
walls to he trimmed a little more each 
shoeing time until at last they may ap¬ 
proximate normal shape. As the horse 
is cow-hocked this is the more important, 
and we should advise letting the horse 
go barefoot until the hoofs return to. the 
shape they were before the first .shoeing; 
then shoe as we have suggested. There 
is no certain way of correcting the fault 
at present. 
Eczema 
I have a two-year-old Holstein heifer 
with skin broken out from the root of 
her tail all the way down her legs, which 
seem to he raw sores that keep dripping 
and glues on her legs and take the hair 
off. She has it on the back of her front 
logs and under her stomach and a little 
around the eyes. I am giving her some 
salts and sulphur for her blood, and am 
using some ointment on the sores. One 
of my neighbors had some cattle in the 
Summer that seemed to have the same 
thing, and it was pronounced to be poison 
from wet Alsike clover. E. E. W. 
Alsike may cause soreness of white 
skin in Summer time, hut your heifer 
more likely has a form of eczema. Cleanse 
the affected parts and then apply two or 
three times daily a lotion composed of 
four ounces of Goulard’s extract, two 
ounces of glycerine and soft water, to 
make one pint. Then dust sores with a 
mixture of equal quantities of zinc oxide 
and boric acid. Twice daily mix half an 
ounce of granular hyposulphite of soda 
in her feed or dissolve it iu water and 
give it as a drench. 
Suppurative Arthritis 
I have a valuable 10-year-old mare 
which got a swollen hock joint about six 
weeks ago. Previous to this she did not 
get much work for a couple of weeks, 
and was fed a liberal amount of corn by 
her teamster. One day I hitched her 
with another horse and drew a heavy 
load about 10 miles. On the following 
day I noticed her stiff, and the right hock 
joint was swollen. I called in a veter¬ 
inarian and he gave a liquid to rub on. 
In two (lays four liples broke around the 
joint, from which a lot of pus ran for a 
week. The. holes are healed over now. 
but the hock is much swollen, and the 
marc keeps the leg mostly off the ground, 
and when walking in the box stall drags 
it along, seldom putting her weight on 
it. There is considerable heat around the 
joint and sometimes she seems in pain. 
What do you consider the cause, and can 
! I do anything to help her? r. i>. 
Infection of a wound, such as a prick 
with the fork, no doubt has caused this 
desperate condition, and there is little 
promise of recovery. The mare should 
he supported with veterinary slings in a 
box stall and be given hypodermic treat¬ 
ment with a bacteria against pus infec¬ 
tion. The veterinarian should also clip 
the hair from the skin of hock, cleuuse the 
skin, and when it is dry apply a blister. 
Home treatment will not avail in such 
a case. 
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308 River Street Fitchburg, Mass. 
99 Chambers St.. New York 
717 Market St., San Francisco 
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(st.vndahdtzed) 
WILL 
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BY KEEPING 
All Livestock and Poultry Healthy 
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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 
inauge. arthritis, sore mouth, etc. 
We will send you a booklet on how 
to build a hog wallow', which will keep 
hogs clean and healthy. 
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DETROIT. MICH. 
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