The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
187 
Ailing Aminals 
Answered by Dr. A. S. Alexander 
Grease-heel 
Is there anything that can be done for 
a horse that has what is called a grease- 
heel? This horse of mine has been af¬ 
fected about two years. It is very bad 
this Winter. There are deep cracks across 
his hind foot abpve hoof, flesh is red and 
inflamed. There is a white discharge that 
lias a bad odor. h. j. g. 
New York. 
Before starting to treat a case of chron¬ 
ic grease heel it should be understood that 
the disease is constitutional so that local 
treamtent will not suffice. Some horses 
are born with a tendency to grease, or to 
kindred diseases of the skin, such as an 
eczematous condition in front of the bock 
joint, called sallenders, and behind the 
knee joint, called mallenders. They are 
usually heavy draft horses of phlegmatic 
or sluggish temperament. The hairy- 
legged breeds are, perhaps, most suscep¬ 
tible to the disease. In a majority of in¬ 
stances the condition is brought on or in¬ 
duced by overfeeding during idleness, lack 
of exercise and lack of grooming and 
cleanliness in the stable. All such dis¬ 
eases invariably are most prevalent and 
most troublesome in iior, badly ventilated, 
damp and somewhat dark stables. Keep¬ 
ing these things in mind it may be pos¬ 
sible to “cure” the disease if you can re¬ 
move all of the causes mentioned, other 
than the hereditary susceptibility. Have 
the stable properly lighted and ventilated ; 
then keep it clean and not over o5° F. 
in Winter. Never let a horse stand for a 
single day without being worked or ac¬ 
tively exercised out of doors. When there 
is no work for a horse to do, greatly re¬ 
duce the grain ration, and withhold it en¬ 
tirely when a horse has tendency to skin 
diseases or lymphangitis (“Monday morn¬ 
ing disease”). Groom the horse every 
day. Keep the bowels active. In the 
case in question let the horse live an out¬ 
door life so far as possible, and let him 
1 ive on grass alone in Summer. In Win¬ 
ter do not give him grain of any kind, 
but let him have bran, carrots or pars¬ 
nips and rutabagas, bright corn stover, 
good mixed clover and Timothy hay, and 
some bright oat straw. Night and morn¬ 
ing for 10 days give him one-half ounce 
of Fowler’s solution of arsenic in a little 
water and then give him three such doses 
a day, or increase the evening and morn¬ 
ing dose accordingly. The dose may then 
be gradually increased, if found neces¬ 
sary, but go back to the original dose and 
repeat the treatment if any alarming 
symptom appears. The arsenic treatment 
should be carried to the verge of arsenic 
poisoning, usually indicated by scouring. 
It may be repeated when such symptoms 
subside. Local treatment consists in 
bathing the leg or affected parts twice 
daily with soft water containing a tea¬ 
spoonful of concentrated lye per quart at 
first, and gradually increasing the 
strength. 
Meat of Tuberculous Cow 
We had a farrow cow that we selected 
to kill for beef. She was fed well and 
when she seemed in good shape we killed 
her, to find her infected with tuberculosis. 
We had a veterinarian look at her, and 
he said that one hindquarter was not in¬ 
fected and was fit to eat, and that the 
other hindquarter, which had a very few 
small spots on, he had no right to say 
was all right for us to eat, but that he 
would eat it if he owned it. Would it be 
all right to can? The doctor said any of 
the meat was ail right to feed the dogs, 
and if the infected parts were cut off, 
might it be given to pigs and hens? 
St. Lawrence Co., N. Y. R. J. B. 
We cannot advise you to eat any of the 
meat mentioned, and canning it would not 
help. If the muscles or lymphatic glands 
of the hind leg contained tubereules char¬ 
acteristic of the disease, the animal must 
have been pretty generally affected, and 
such a carcass would be condemned under 
Federal veterinary inspection at the 
stockyards packing houses. We take it as 
likely that evidences of the disease were 
also found in other lymphatic glands, 
such as those under the tongue, under the 
lower jaw, about the throat, along the 
course of the gullet or in the glands of 
the mesentery or web of tissue which sus¬ 
pends the small intestines. In less gen¬ 
eralized cases one may find the lining 
membrane of the chest cavity or abdom¬ 
inal cavity studded with tiny millet seed 
tubereules. They look like minute pearls. 
When the lungs are affected they contain 
tubereules or collections of pus in sacs. 
In old cases the pus has a gritty feel, 
from presence of lime concretions. The 
meat may be fed to hogs after it has been 
cooked. Dogs are not susceptible to 
tuberculosis. Poultry suffers from avian 
or bird tuberculosis, ‘which is different 
from bovine tuberculosis and not likely to 
be contracted by chickens from eating 
meat of a tuberculous animal. Neverthe¬ 
less it is always thought best to cook the 
meat of affected animals before feeding it 
to poultry or even to dogs. Hogs are very 
readily infected by drinking the milk of 
an affected cow, or following affected cat¬ 
tle in the feeding yard, and might con¬ 
tract it from eating the uncooked flesh. 
The mistake was in not having the cow 
tested with tuberculin, as every cow 
should be tested, to determine whether she 
was or was not affected with tuberculosis. 
If you have other cattle, each of them 
should be tested, and until that has been 
done the raw milk should not be used, 
especially by children or young animals. 
Sterilization or pasteurization should be 
resorted to when there is any suspicion 
that the milk may contain injurious 
germs. Now, we have only given you an 
opinion at long distance, and it would be 
well for you to have the meat examined 
by a government veterinary inspector, or 
to send a specimen of it, on ice, to the 
veterinary department of the State Agri¬ 
cultural Experiment Station for labora¬ 
tory examination. There is a possibility 
that the condition found was due to 
some other cause than tuberculosis. 
Old Jersey Went Down the Road 
Old Jersey went down the road this 
morning. As the drover led her away she 
turned and gave a low murmur; it was 
her good-by. The farm papers say so 
much about boarders. Jersey has been a 
boarder for the last three years. We 
bought her out of a drove years ago, so 
many that I have forgotten just when. 
Her skin was as yellow as butter, her 
milk better than some of the so-called 
cream that is sold. There are taxes to 
pay and so many ways for money. Old 
Jersey brought $18. Old Jersey could 
drive the rest of the cows home. If the 
feed was good old Jersey did not care, but 
start old Jersey for home and all of the 
rest would follow. There was scarce a 
black hair in old Jersey’s hide. Think of 
it; all of old Jersey’s family are blacks. 
Old Jersey was a knowing old cow. As 
long as the feed was good you could bank 
on old Jersey’s staying in the pasture, 
but if the feed was short she had a way 
of rubbing her nose on a post to see if it 
was solid, or working her head between 
the wires, and you might be sure that it 
would not be long before she would be the 
other side of the fence. Faithful old Jer¬ 
sey; only this morning she washed Di¬ 
nah’s face and neck, and combed her hair. 
Someway it is hard to get to work today; 
there is a kind of lonesome feeling since 
old Jersey went down the road. w. D. G. 
New York. 
.*. MISCELLANEOUS 
Don’t Pay Exorbitant Prices milch cows 
100 Federal Tested and Accredited cows for sale. Or wil. 
buy same direct from farmersoii reasonable commission 
Telephone at once,my expense. JOHN F. BENJAMIN. Oarre.Vi 
Chester White Pigs, Collie, Beagle and Police Pups 
MEADOW SPRING FARM Chalfont, Pa. S. H. NULL & SON 
USE A PURE-BRED BULL 
Brom time to time we have for sale bull calves from 
dams with Advance Registry records — Ayrshires, 
Guernseys, Holsteins, Jerseys, Milking Short 
Horns. Price, SSSO at 30-days-old, registered, 
crated and delivered to express company. Address 
DEPARTMENT ANIMAL HUSBANDRY. Cornell University 
ITHACA NEW YORK 
JERSEYS 
ForSale R jer*ey e<! Bulls, Cows, Heifers & Calves 
carrying tile most, popular blood lines. Send me your in¬ 
quiries. J>. A. CCRTI8 - Jamestown, S.V. 
SWINE 
Fer Attention EASTERN Breeders or Buyers ef 
DiUROC-JERSEY SWINE 
BRED SOWS AND GILTS 
One year and older. Bred to 
CREST DEFENDER 
Grand Champ. Conn. State Fair 1923. 
and 
ORION CHERRY LAD 
also 
LAST SPRING’S OPEN GILTS 
and 
This Fall’s Boar and Sow Pigs 
All reasonably priced. 
Satisfaction Guaranteed. 
VVe solicit correspondence. 
The CREST Farm, Millbrook, N. Y. 
nilDArC Bred Sows and Gilts. Boars. Fall Pigs. 
l/llKlIlll ELMWOOD FARMS 
P. O. Box 15 Bradford, N. Y. 
H 'll Orion and Sensation Breed- 
ing. All ages for sale. 
F. M. Pattingtou Si Son Merrilieid, N. Y. 
FEEDING PIGS 
6 Weeks Old, $4.00 Each. 8 Weeks Old, $5.00 Each 
These pigs are the (li st cross between Yorkshire and 
Berkshire Large Type Swine. All healthy and fast 
growing pigs. Sows or Barrows. 
Also Purebred Yorkshire or Berkshire Pigs, 6 to 8 
weeks old, R>8. OO each. Can furnish sow and unre¬ 
lated boar pigs. All pigs 0.0 D. on approval. 
Dr. P. F. WALLINGFORD, M D. V., Box 51, Waltham, Mass. 
ZF’ANCY O. I. C.’s 
The big, smooth type of superior quality and breed¬ 
ing. Bred gilts, service boars and Spring pigs at 
reasonable prices. W. W. WEIMAN, P, O. 
Box No. 469, Hu mm els town, Pa. 
(IIP 1 , Choice Registered Pigs, SI O each. Bred Sows, 
U, Ml, 5 *35. R. HILL - Seneca Falls, N. Y. 
LARGE BERKSHIRES 
AT HIGHWOOD 
Service boars, weanling pigs, bred gilts and sows. 
We have bred the leading Grand Champion boars of 
recent years. These animals are close kin to them. 
H. C. & H. B. HARPENDING Box 15 Dundee. N.Y. 
BERKSHIRE of Size and Quality 
Service boars, boar pigs and bred gilts. All stock guar¬ 
anteed. We won Grand Champion boar and many of the 
highest prizes at the Interstate Fair, Trenton, N J and 
Far Hills, N J. Itlchui-d E. Wain, Lebanon, N, J. 
“ BIG TYPE CHESTER WHITES ” 
Service Boars, Fall Pigs, Gilts and tried Sows, Bred for 
March and April farrow to my Big Grand Champion Boar 
Immune and Best Blood lines (‘‘Oakdale Farm”: 
Clyde B. Thomas Boonsboro, Maryland 
Registered O. I. C. aad CHESTER WHITE Pins 
11 E. P. ROGERS - Wayvii.t, k> Nkw 
Registered SPOTTED POLAND CHINA PIGS 
of all ages for sale at very reasona ble price. Pairs and 
trios not akin. Write Brookside Farm, Middleton, Va 
AMPSHIRES” 
A customer writes: "My boar, purchased ^Mm-" wMWll 
of you last year, now weighs over 400 lbs. aft 
under a year old.’’ Get our prices and 
circular. LOCUST LAWN FARM <i~y 
Box R . ELVERSON, PA. 
P ATMOOlt II KltKRlII It KS. Breeding stock of good 
quality at fair prices. PATM00R FARMS, llartfleld, N. Y 
SCHOOL IN DUAL PURPOSE JUDGING 
A School in Judging Dual Purpose Cattle will be held by Professor J. C. McNutt, of 
New Hampshire Agricultural College, at the National Milking Shorthorn Congress at 
Batavia, New York, on the afternoon of April 11th, following the judging in the morn¬ 
ing. Arrange to be there. Tell us how many cows you milk and why you are inter¬ 
ested in Milking Shorthorns, and we will send you a copy of the January MILKING 
SHORTHORN JOURNAL, full of information about Dual Purpose Shorthorns. 
MILKING SHORTHORN SOCIETY, Independence, Iowa 
Winners of Every Class in Which They Were Shown at 
Recent New York State Fair, Including Both 
Grand Champion Boar and Sow 
We Breed Our Show Hogs and Show Our Breeding Hogs 
AVERAGE per litter at Resthaven Farm: In 1922, 8 pigs. In 
1923, 7% pigs. Average over more than 100 sows. Rest- 
haven sows share honors with sires as best on earth. 
Satisfaction Guaranteed 
Resthaven Farm—the world’s largest Poland-China plant 
offers spring yearlings, half sisters, full sisters and htter- 
mates, fall sows of same breeding, spring boars and gilts 
at very conservative breeding. 
Catalog free. Write for it and for description and prices 
of animals that interest you. 
RESTHAVEN FARM 
BOX 265 TROY. OHIO 
DOGS 
DOG 
'BOOK, 
82 page book—how to keep your 
dog well — how to care for him 
when sick. Result of 86 years’ experi- 
fP9, e ,WJllr CVer V known dog disease. 
Mailed FREE. Write today. Dept, d'liw 
, H.CLAY GLOVER, V. S 
^ -3 Want, 24th St. N,w York 
POLICE AND ARMY DOCS 
formally known as the German Shepherd and stock I>ogr. 
Three Litters of very fine wolf-gray puppies with five 
Champions in Pedigree. 
Goo. Rauch, Cafskill Mountain Stock Farm. Freohold, N. Y. 
Fancy Collie Puppies JO,,N ° ^ a \2\ 
COLLIE PUPPIES and Grown Dogs 
Finest Quality. Bred for Brains and Beauty. Registered. 
Priced l.ow; SHERMAN BOWDEN FARM. Mansfleld.Ohio 
Hnlliae 2 mHles < *« O each. 6 females, sa each, 
uu 11105 fi Sable print,2 black marks. Registered. 
f't. SWEET Smyrna j Sew York 
pedigreed Collie Pupa. Males, *15 and *20. FemnleR 
« $10. EmbdenGanders,*0. PLUMMER McCULLOUGH.Mcrcar. P* 
Redlgreed Collie Pups. The handsome and Intelligent 
r kind. Also Fox Terriers. NELSON BROS., drove (illy, r*. 
UUhite Collie Pupa. Pedigreed. 2 months old, 815 up. 
»■ Chotola Kennels . Rock Creek, Ohio 
FnrSfllfl— - Airedale? six weeks to 1 year. Toy Irish, ilx 
lUI dale AircUalBS W eeks old. Best of p e d i g r eed 
stock. WALTER N. SNELL Medina. N. Y. 
Airedale Dogs hei.vin e. krkymkr’ m u 'warwu*.N.i. 
Rartrain 7 ‘ raos 01(1 Coon Hound, unbroke, $ 10 . Bea- 
Ifki, $15. Chas. Toth Honderson, Maryland 
EUREKA Collie Kennels 
Quality Puppies, 2 to 6 in os. old, farm raised, Champion 
stock. Bred for intelligence and beauty. 
L. B. Walter Box 66 R West Chester, Pa. 
JEPOLICE T>OG JPuppfes 
3 mgs. old: very well bred. Registered. Price. $50 
t» $75. Both sexes. A. M. STEBBINS. Silver Creek, N.Y, 
Beautiful and Intelligent “ h h Shepherd Pups 
»° d r * ve your cows home next Summer. 
(rEOKGK BOOR M AN - Mnrut hon, N, Y. 
GOATS 
COR SALE—Ten Grade Toffigeitberj? Does, 2-yr -old. Due 
■ to freshen in February and March. Price, $25 apiece, 
three Saanen Swiss Grade Does, due in Feb. and March. 
$25apieee. Bred-to Pure Bred Buck. EARL WHITE. Arcade, N.Y. 
GOATSf Nubians ’ Toggenbergs, pure 
e a ] „ *>>'eds and high grades. 
SACRIFICED I MT. KEMBLE FARMS, Morristown. N. J. 
| .*. SHEEP 
Registered Shropshire Ewes iS ft 
April Reasonable price. Arthur B. Rydor, Barnerville.N.Y. 
Registered Hampshire-down Ewes and Rams r4i£ 
tered South down Ewes for sale. ELLIS TIGER. Glidilon*. N. J. 
neg. Shropshire Hams and Ewes. Wooled to Nose. 
U Priced Low. LeROY C. BOWER, Lodlowville, N. Y. 
Reg.Hampshire Ewe Lambs V" X'ersc 
C. P. & M. IV. ltIGHAM Gettysburg, Pa. 
MILKING SHORTHORNS 
Dairy Shorthorn Bulls n U? hB 8 
Best producing strains. Prices $60 to $ 1 OO. Let us tell 
you more about them. E. J. Easterbrook, Corning, N.Y, 
MEillting Sliortlioriis 
Dual purpose. Increase milk production by using sires 
of known heavy milking ancestry. It can be done. In¬ 
quiries invited. Walgrove Herd, Washlngtonvlllo, N.Y. 
GUERNSEYS 
GUERNSEY BULLS 
For Sale at reasonable prices, from A. R, dams 
with type and production. Sire has blood of 
the three May Hose 1.U00 lb, cows close up in 
his pedigree. May Rose—Golden Secret-King 
of the May — Ne Plus Ultra blood. Ages: one 
month to one year. Priced right. Satisfaction 
guaranteed. Accredited herd. 
FR1TZLYN FARMS. PIPERSVILLE, PA. 
Albamont Guernseys 
Federal Accredited 
| Real top-notch quality. Heifers, yearlings 
and calves. Bulls ready for service and calves. 
Write for our new sales list. 
There s money in it for you. 
J. C. HAARTZ, 138 Cambridge St., Wincheiter, Man. 
*_#un ivco a I JLJcHgdlll i IlCCS 
We offer Farmers and Breeders of Guernseys an on 
portunity to secure exceptionally bred, healthy 
bulls, from a clean, Tuberculin Tested Herd at rea- 
Bonable prices. King of the May—Dolly Dim ole— 
Golden Secret, and Glenwood breeding out of A R 
da '"8 o': dams that will be tested. Write for sales'list 
and Pedigrees, a,.*,. __ _ 
_ WAWA DAIRY FARMS. S. 1M Si.. Phil*., p. 
Registered Guernsey Bull y?.™ in jC f ^i r 
condition. Sire. Comet of Greenfield. Dam! 
. u S 8 noc t r < j r S enflal< j- Can be had reasonable. Apply 
to H GREEN. Beaver Farms, Point Pleasant, N. J. Box 24B 
For Sale—Reg. Guernsey Cows pi oo r "to d hetfei 
apiece. Also herd bull. 
eT P. PATTI son” m. Morfijf N? 1 
TARBELL FARMS GUERNSEYS 
Bull calves and bulls of serviceable age. A. R. breeding. 
Prices very reasonable. Write For pedigrees. 
SMITHViLLE FLAT* Chenanoo Co. New York 
GUERNSEYS 
For the Empire State! 
The average Guernsey record in 1923 was 10134.3 lbs. of 
milk and .300.00 lbs. of butterfat. Guernseys are good 
producers. 
THE QUALITY-QUANTITY BREED 
for information write to 
THE AMERICAN GUERNSEY CATTLE CLUB 
Box NY-102 Retertwo, N. H. 
