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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 19, 1924 
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Ailing Animals 
Answered by Dr. A. S. Alexander 
Ailing Dog 
I have a c-oach dog which at times 
seems to be ail right, and a few minutes 
afterwards seems to be sick, going around 
with his head down and his tongue hanging 
out and water dripping from his tongue 
quite freely. F. K. 
We suspect that the dog is threatened 
with fits and that intestinal worms or 
indigestion cause the derangement. If 
he has a very heavy coat, however, dis¬ 
comfort in hot weather might cause some¬ 
what similar symptoms. Flies, heat and 
lack of shade and water sometimes so af¬ 
fect a dog in extra hot weather that his 
distressed actions are taken for those of 
rabies and the animal destroyed. Close 
observation is therefore necessary, in in¬ 
stances, to determine just what ails a 
dog and owners should be careful to pre¬ 
vent distress and discomfort from the 
avoidable causes mentioned. On general 
principles we should advise you to have 
the dog clipped, if li is coat is heavy, but 
that seldom is necessary for a coach dog; 
then treat him for expulsion of worms, in 
the following way. Confine him in a 
clean swept box stall. Withhold feed 
for 24 hours, but allow water. Then 
give the dog one dram fluid extract 
of male shield fern and 20 grains of 
freshly powdered areca nut in a table¬ 
spoon of simple sirup or soup, for every 
25 lbs. of his body w r eight. Repeat the 
dose in four or five days and then burn 
the droppings. It is well to give a dog 
such treatment every six months when he 
has been troubled with worms as re¬ 
infestation is liable to occur, especially 
when a dog is allowed to visit garbage 
boxes for his feed. Let the dog take 
plenty of outdoor exercise every day. 
Feed him raw and cooked beef and raw 
beef bones. Also let him have thick 
vegetable soup poured upon stale bread 
and he may also have some stale bread 
and milk: or dog biscuit is suitable. Do 
not feed pork, chicken containing bones, 
cornmeal, potatoes, sweets or dainties. 
A full meal in the evening and a very 
light one in the morning will suffice. At 
time of each attack give the dog 20 
grains of bromide of potash in a little 
water and if necessary repeat the dose 
in 20 minutes. After the attack subsides, 
give him a purgative, such as two table¬ 
spoons of a mixture of equal quantities 
of fluid extract of caseara sagrada, cas¬ 
tor oil and olive oil. Whenever he is 
constipated one tablespoon of this mix¬ 
ture, given each morning for four or five 
days, will relieve that condition and im¬ 
prove health and spirits. 
Thriftless Vermin-infested Cat 
I have a pet cat, that has little white 
worms, and it is awfully poor, and it 
licks itself as though it had fleas. I 
give it lots of milk and raw eggs, hut 
still it is poor. MRS. d. b. ii. 
New York. 
It is not well to make new. warm milk 
the chief feed of kittens or grown cats. 
Strange as it may seem we have known of 
numerous instances in which kittens and 
cats so fed failed to thrive, suffered from 
mysterious disease and soon succumbed. 
In some cases the herd of cows supplying 
the milk was affected with tuberculosis 
which is incurable and makes the milk 
dangerous for use by man or animals. 
For that reason we always advise having 
the cows tested with tuberculin when kit¬ 
tens fed on their milk fail to thrive and 
die. Every dairy cow, for that matter, 
should be tested ; otherwise milk cannot 
be depended upon as being safe, especially 
as food for children. Apart from the 
danger of tuberculosis, kittens do better 
when fed milk that is 12 hours old and 
that has been skimmed before feeding. It 
should be remembered that the cat is a 
carnivorous, or flesh-eating animal, and 
therefore should be fed meat, both cooked 
and raw. Kidney is cheap and suitable. 
Also, make every cat hunt for its living, 
but, so far as possible, keep it from kill¬ 
ing song birds. To rid a cat of intestinal 
worms, withhold feed for 24 hours and 
then give an adult cat one grain of calo¬ 
mel and three-fourths grain of santonin 
in a capsule, or give one or two drops of 
oil of chenopodium in two drams of 
glycerine or medicinal mineral oil. Five 
fo 10 drops of fluid extract of spigelia 
and senna, or 10 to 15 drops of syrup of 
iodide of iron in a little water, after with¬ 
holding feed for some hours, is also ef¬ 
fective treatment for worms of kittens. 
To rid a cat of fleas, wrap it for 10 min¬ 
utes in a big towel on which spirits of 
camphor have been freely sprinkled. The 
fleas migrate to the towel and are 
numbed. The towel should then be im¬ 
mersed in boiling water. Dusting the in¬ 
fested parts of the body with freshly 
powdered pyrethrum and then wrapping 
the cat in a towel for 10 minutes is also 
effective treatment. It will then be neces¬ 
sary to give the cat a thorough combing 
with a fine-tooth comb, to be followed by 
a good brushing. Afterwards provide a 
new, clean sleeping place. Sprinkling 
some flowers of sulphur in the bed helps 
to keep fleas and lice away. Repeat the 
treatments for worms and vermin as 
often as seen to be necessary. 
Milkless Cows 
We have two cows here that do not: 
give over 1 lb. of milk to milking. They 
eat as much as the other cows do ; still no 
milk. The one cow was bred a little over 
three months ago. She is fairly well in 
shape, has no fever, bowels move, clear 
eyes, good grinders, etc. The milk veins 
have small bunches or lumps on them, 
the udder is soft, but the milk comes out 
in strings, something like garget. The 
other cow gives about % lb. to a milk¬ 
ing. This cow has a big udder, nothing 
in it; the back half must be milked with 
a milk tube every day, and she gives all 
cream. j. m. 
Both of the cows in question appar¬ 
ently are affected with mammitis (gar¬ 
get), and therefore should at once be 
isolated, as they are liable to infect the 
other cows. There is nothing cei-tain as 
to that, but when germs (streptococci) 
are «the cause of disease of the udder the 
infection possibly may be carried from 
cow to cow by the milker’s hands or cups 
of the milking machine. There is also a 
possibility of infection spreading from 
ground or floors contaminated by the ab¬ 
normal milk or pus from affected udders. 
Cleanse, disinfect and whitewash the 
stalls the affected cows have occupied, 
including the floors and gutters. As a 
disinfectant use a mixture of one part of 
compound cresol solution and 30 parts of 
water, or of one part of coal tar disin¬ 
fectant and 20 parts of water. Also mix 
1 lb. of fresh chloride of lime with each 
three gallons of limewash, Milk the af¬ 
fected cows last, or, better still, have 
them milked by one who does not attend 
to the other cows. Catch the abnormal 
milk in a pail containing a disinfecting 
solution and then throw it out in a place 
to which cattle have not access. Dry off 
the remaining milk secretion as soon as 
that can be managed. It is unlikely that 
the cows will give sound milk when they 
calve. It would be best to let them raise 
their calves and then to dry off the re¬ 
maining milk secretion and fit them for 
the butcher. During all of this time 
they should be kept apart from the sound 
cows. You do, not tell us what feeds you 
have available, but if you have sound 
clover or Alfalfa hay, give each cow 10 
lbs. of that a day, along with 30 to 35 
lbs. of corn silage. As a concentrate, 
along with such hay and silage, feed a 
mixture of equal quantities of ground 
barley, ground oats and wheat bran, al¬ 
lowing 1 lb. of the mixture for every 3% 
lbs. of milk produced daily, or if the milk 
yield is very low, allow at least 1 lb. of 
the mixture for every 100 lbs. of body 
weight of cow* as a day’s ration. If you 
can only allow mixed hay feed as a con¬ 
centrate, a mixture of 100 lbs. each of 
ground barley and corn, 200 lbs. of 
ground oats, and 300 lbs. of linseed meal, 
or a mixture of equal quantities, by 
weight, of ground barley, ground oats and 
gluten feed. Give free access to rock or 
block salt, and see that the cows are at 
all times well supplied with pure drink¬ 
ing water. 
“I WAS only acting the part of peace¬ 
maker,” exclaimed a prisoner. “But you 
knocked the -man senseless!” said the 
magistrate. “I did,” was the answer. 
“There was no other way to get peace.” 
—Pearson’s Weekly. 
