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November 20, 1020 
Stop Barn Cleaning Drudgery 
WM. LOUDEN 
Originator of 
modern labor 
saving barn 
equipment. 
LOUDEN 
Litter Carriers 
Take all the drudgery out of barn cleaning. 
There is no other job on the farm that the boy, 
the hired man, or even the farmer himself 
hate9 worse than to clean the barn with the time-wasting, 
back-breaking, dirty, old-fashioned wheelbarrow. The 
treacherous, slippery plank keeps you from going hub- 
deep into the slush — but it’s a real job to stay on it. 
Cleans Barn in Half the Time 
The Louden Litter Currier removes the manure from 
behind the animals and dumps it directly into a spreader 
or some out-of-the-way place. Cleans the barn in half 
the time. A 12-year old boy can do the work quicker 
and easier with a Louden Litter Carrier tha.i a husky 
man could with the old-fashioned method. 
The same labor-saving features and high quality work¬ 
manship which have been built into Louden Litter 
Carriers, are found in Louden Feed Carriers, Sanitary 
Cow Stalls and Stanchions, Animal Pens, Hay Unloading 
Tools, Power Hoists, Manger Divisions, Ventilators, Barn 
and Garage Door Hangers, Water Bowls—“Everything 
for the Barn." 224-page catalog giving full details, sent 
on request. No obligation. 
The Louden Machinery Company 
2644 Court Street (Established 1867) Fairfield, Iowa 
The New Way To Clean 
Dairy Utensils 
T HE only sure way to dis¬ 
lodge the bacteria nests in 
your separators, milking ma¬ 
chines, milk cans and pails is 
with Grade No, 3 American 
Steel Wool. These fine, flexible 
fibres, of tempered steel, force 
themselves into the remotest 
corners and remove every 
vestige of ^accumulated sludge, 
hardened milk, dirt, etc. Use 
American Steel Wool on all 
your dairy utensils inside and 
outside and note the improved 
quality of your product. 
Large quantities of American 
Steel Wool are used in the 
. dairies of Nestle’s, Mohawk Con¬ 
densed Milk Co., Borden’s and 
Sheffield-Slawson-DeckerFarms. 
Put up in one-pound packages and Household sizes. 
If your dealer cannot supply you send us his name and 
15c, and you will be supplied with a Household package. 
Department R 
American Steel Wool Mfg. Co., Inc., 9-11 Desbrosses Street, New York City 
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AILING ANIMALS 
Answered by Dr. A. S. Alexander 
Rickets 
What is the matter with my pigs? 
They are four months old. They look 
well and their appetite is good, but they 
get lame in the hind legs. Sometimes 
they can stand up fairly well, then they 
drag the legs along. I feed them corn 
and skim-milk. J. II. T. 
Michigan. 
The pigs no doubt are afflicted with 
rickets, which is akin to bowed legs of a 
child, and is caused by malnutrition. 
That may be induced by worms, but more 
often is the result of feeding improper or 
incomplete rations and not allowing 
enough exercise. Stop feeding corn and 
in addition to milk, fed twice daily, allow 
free access to a self-feeder containing 
wheat middlings, oilmeal and tankage. 
Corn may be allowed gradually as the 
pigs improve. Let them have free range 
on pasture and stubble and allow clover 
or Alfalfa hay as soon as green feed is 
unavailable. On general principles it 
would be well to give treatment for in¬ 
testinal worms, as follows : Starve the 
pigs for 24 hours; then give in slop for 
each HO pounds of body weight of pig 2*4 
grains each of santonin and calomel, one 
dram of powdered areca nut and one-half 
dram of bicarbonate of soda. If prefer¬ 
able the medicines can be given in water 
slowly and carefully as a drench. Re¬ 
peat the treatment in 10 days. Allow 
free access to slaked lime, wood ashes 
and wood or corncob charcoal. 
Cough 
What can I do to relieve a cough my 
hofse is troubled with? She is otherwise 
in good condition, eats heartily, and is 
plump and round. I have given her wet 
oats with condition powder, which seemed 
to relieve her somewhat. u. H. B. 
New York. 
Cough is merely a symptom of irrita¬ 
tion, the causes of which are many. The 
exact cause should, if possible, be deter¬ 
mined and removed. Have the teeth put 
in order bv a veterinarian; then wet all 
feed. Glyco-hcroin, or equine cough 
syrup, will be found helpful for ordinary 
cough, or that due -to sore throat, bron¬ 
chitis or pneumonia. If heaves is pres¬ 
ent, the horse will expel gas from the 
rectum when coughing, and a heaving or 
bellows-likc motion of the abdominal 
walls will he noticed while looking at the 
flanks as the horse exhales air. If heaves 
is present give commercial heave powders 
or half an ounce of Fowler’s solution of 
arsenic night and morning. Also follow 
directions as to feeding and management 
often given here. A. S. A. 
Worms in Pigs 
Will you tell me a cure for worms in 
pigs? My pigs have a cough, and I have 
been told that is a sign they have them. 
New York. c. J. M. 
To destroy intestinal worms starve the 
pigs for 24 hours, then give for each 50 
lbs. of body weight, in a little slop or 
water,' 2*4 grains each of santonin and 
calomel, one dram of powdered areca nut 
and one-half dram of bicarbonate of soda. 
Repeat the dose in 10 days. Cough, how¬ 
ever. more likely is caused by lung worms, 
which are not killed by medicine admin¬ 
istered by the mouth, nor has any quite 
satisfactory treatment been found. If 
you can employ a trained vterinariau he 
probably will give injections of a chloro¬ 
form mixture directly into the windpipe 
and also show you how to fumigate the 
pigs. Some owners have stated that they 
have had good results by spraying af¬ 
fected pigs at niglib with a 1-50 solution 
of coal-tar dip in a close pen. The 
fumes, they think, have the effect of kill¬ 
ing the worms, or causing them to be 
coughed up. Lung worms are contracted 
on low, wet pasture, or permanent pas¬ 
ture long used by hogs, and, therefore, 
contaminated with their parasite. Old 
hog wallows and surface water drinking 
places also are fertile sources of all kinds 
of worms of hogs. Change the pigs onto 
new, clean pasture and supply pure drink¬ 
ing water. Keep all feeding and water¬ 
ing utensils clean. 
Amaurosis 
I have a cat that had the distemper. 
The cat’s lungs tilled up and it coughed 
quite a bit. • its nose and eyes run some. 
I doctored it and it is now all over the 
disease, but of late I have noticed that 
the cat’s eyesight seems to be failing grad¬ 
ually. Is there anything that I can do 
for it? The cat’s eyes look all right, 
that is, clear and bright, except that the 
pupils are very large, and at night or in a 
ooorly lighted room the eyes look a vivid 
green. I know a cat’s eyes always shine 
in the dark, hut this is different from 
that. There is nothing growing over the 
eyes that I can notice. The cat cats weil, 
j has a good appetite and is all right other¬ 
wise. J. M. 
New York. 
From your description of the case we 
consider ir highly probable that the cat 
is becoming afflicted with paralysis of the 
retina and optic nerves of the eyes, also 
called "palsy of the sight,” or amaurosis. 
In this disease the pupils are permanently 
dilated. It is incurable, and commonly 
results from shock, loss of blood or de¬ 
bility from disease. 
Iunfi 
pROVE at our risk that you can 
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easily save one-third on high priced feed, 
cat 10 to 80 days off the feeding period and 
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injurious to hogs or poultry. It helps tone 
up the system, making hogs less subject to 
disease, practically insuring gains of 2 Ya lbs. a 
head per day. 
University Tested 
of Dairy Husbandry at Missouri University, 
conducted a scientific test which showed that 
MILKOLINE fed hogs made a profit of 82.67% 
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