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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
July 12, 1924 
Believe, world’s champion Brown Swiss 
cow, and champion of all breeds for cows 
over 12 years of age. 
Left— George Minette, under whose 
care the record was made. 
Right—F. P. Minette, Sauk Center, 
Minn., owner. 
14-Year-Old Cow Makes World’s Record 
Milked with a De Laval 
Again a cow milked with a De Laval Milker makes a world’s 
record—probably the most remarkable of the many great records 
made by De Laval-milked cows. This record was made by Believe, 
a purebred Brown Swiss cow owned by F. P. Minette & Son, Sauk 
Center, Minn., who at the age of 13 years, 6 months and 5 days, started 
a yearly test and completed it by producing 25,847.8 lbs. of milk 
containing 1002.62 lbs. of butter-fat. This record not only makes 
Believe the greatest 'producer of all Brown Swiss cows, but also makes 
her the champion producer of all breeds for cows over 12 years of age. 
Believe was milked during the entire period with a De Laval 
Milker, and George Minette, under whose care the record was made, 
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"We have been using a De Laval Milker for over two 
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Ailing Aminals 
Answered by Dr. A. S. Alexander 
Heaves and Its Treatment 
Could you send ine prescription for 
medicine to give horse that has the 
heavesV j. r. b. 
New York. 
When heaves or emphysema of the 
lungs is fully established it is incurable 
for the reason that the partitions of 
many tiny air chambers or alveoli have 
broken down, forming larger chambers 
which are incapable perfectly of expelling 
the air they inhale. The horse therefore 
has difficulty in emptying its lungs i-n the 
normal way and brings the muscles of its 
abdominal walls into play to help in the 
act of expulsion. That explains why 
there is seen a double, bellows-like action 
of the flanks when one stands behind a 
badly affected horse. Dust from ripe 
Timothy or other old hay getting into the 
lungs greatly aggravates the condition, 
and also the cough, which is another 
characteristic symptom of heaves. The 
disease starts with indigestion, the pneu- 
mogastric nerve of the stomach being ir¬ 
ritated and then the branch of the nerve 
supplying the lungs becomes similarly 
irritated. The indigestion is indicated by 
thriftless condition, harsh, staring coat, 
hidebound skin, pot-belly, weakness, for¬ 
mation of gas. part of which is expelled 
from the rectum when the animal coughs 
spasmodically, and quick “playing out” 
at work. The affected horse usually has 
a gluttonous appetite and at first may 
have been tlie best and most willing 
worker on the farm. Such horses inherit 
a tendency to heaves, and it is induced by 
grossly overfeeding with bulky, woody 
hay, and then working the horse with its 
stomach and intestines so distended. The 
distension forces the diaphragm forward 
and so lessens the ability of the lungs to 
act. Indigestion also ensues. To pre¬ 
vent heaves, it is therefore best to feed 
but 1 lb. of hay for every 100 lbs. of 
body weight, in three feeds, as a day's 
ration, when the horse is idle or doing 
little work, and to allow not more than 
1 or 2 lbs. at noon when the hard-worked 
horse is cooling and resting. 
On no account should the gluttonous 
horse be allowed to eat all the hay he 
cares for when he lias to be worked di¬ 
rectly after eating. Distress of heaves 
may be relieved by giving half an ounce 
of Fowler’s solution of arsenic night and 
morning on the feed of oats and bran, or 
in a little water. If the breathing is 
especially bad in muggy, hot and damp 
weather, mix in each feed a teaspoonful 
of a mixture of equal quantities of ehlorid 
of ammonia and powdered stramonium 
leaves, instead of arsenic solution. Pro¬ 
prietary heave powders will also help. 
In addition to the medicinal treatment 
mentioned it is advisable to feed and man¬ 
age a heavey horse in the following way : 
Instead of feeding hay in Summer, let 
the horse live on grass. Also feed oats 
and one-ninth part of wheat bran (by 
weight) allowing 1 lb. of the mixture for 
each 100 lbs. of body weight, in three 
equal feeds, as a day’s ration. Do not 
allow much bulky feed at noon if the 
horse has to work hard, and do not work 
him immediately after a meal. In the 
Winter feed bright oat straw and corn 
stover instead of hay. Wet all feed with 
limewater. Make it by slaking quicklime 
with soft water at the rate of a lump of 
lime as large as a walnut per quart of 
water. Let the lime settle; then use the 
clear liquid. Keep the bowels active. 
Carrots help to prevent constipation, and 
if necessary bran mash may be fed in 
Winter, but usually is unnecessary when 
bran is given daily along with oats. Ear 
corn may also be allowed in Winter, and 
a few ears in Summer, if the work is par¬ 
ticularly hard. Lastly, it may be stated 
that allowing a heavey horse to inhale the 
fumes from a bucketful of Beaumont 
(Tex.) crude oil set in the manger tends 
to relieve the cough of heaves, and may 
even prove temporarily remedial. Other 
crude oil may also help. 
ment for lung worms infesting the wind¬ 
pipe and air passages of the lungs of pigs. 
Prevention is all important.. There need 
be no infestation of pigs with lung worms 
or round worms if.the following proced¬ 
ure is carefully followed : Have each sow 
farrow in a specially cleansed, disinfect¬ 
ed, whitewashed and freshly bedded pen. 
Wash her udder clean with soap and hot 
water before she farrows; also the nearby 
parts of the body. When the pigs have 
arrived, wash the udder and teats with 
soap and hot water and then rinse them 
with water containing all the boric acid 
it will dissolve, or with a 1 per cent solu¬ 
tion of hypochlorite of soda. Also syringe 
out the genitals of the .sow with blood- 
warm water containing one tablespoonful 
of Lugol’s solution per three quarts. That 
is best done before washing the udder. 
The pigs may then safely be allowed to 
nurse, and by doing this they will be pre¬ 
vented from contracting worm eggs or in¬ 
fection from soiled or contaminated teats. 
When the pigs are nursing well and 
strong on their legs, move the sow and 
her litter in a clean wagon to a specially 
cleansed, disinfected and whitewashed 
colony house on grass not used by swine 
since it was seeded. Then let the sow 
and pigs graze a succession of green 
crops, preferably legumes, from early 
Spring until late autumn. Feed mixed 
meals and skim-milk, and keep them ab¬ 
solutely away from all places used by 
other hogs. They will not be likely to 
contract worms after going into regular 
Winter quarters, and at that age are able 
to withstand fairly well the ravages of 
any worms they may happen to contract. 
The preventive measures here pre¬ 
scribed will also prevent little pigs from 
taking in embryo round worms at birth, 
which get into the blood stream and are 
carried into the lungs with disastrous ef¬ 
fect. These worms are a cause of one 
form of so-called “thumps,” and there is 
no remedy. AVhen pigs are known to be 
infested with lung worms, other worms 
are also usually present, and to expel 
them and any mature lung worms free in 
the intestines, withhold feed for 24 hours 
and then give 30 drops of oil of chenopo- 
dium and one-half ounce of castor oil for 
every 50 lbs. of body weight of pig. Give 
it from a bottle or by means of a dose 
syringe. Repeat the treatment in two 
weeks. If a veterinarian can be em¬ 
ployed, have him treat pigs by inhalation 
or injection of a chloroform mixture. 
Exposing them at night to the fumes of 
a 5 per cent solution of coal tar dip 
sprinkled on the floor of the sleeping pen 
and covered with straw may also help. 
Feed generously. 
Dying Chicks 
Chicks six weeks old are dying. The 
first week we lost a good many with 
white diarrhoea; then they got better of 
that, but did not seem lively. Now they 
are dying fast; they droop around and 
seem so weak. The liver looks very 
dark colored and the gall bladder is 
twice as large as it ought to be. Some 
of them had a hard cheesy substance in 
the appendix. We have fed semi-solid 
buttermilk, milk mash and little chick 
scratch grain. mrs. g. i\ 
New York. 
I am afraid that there is little that you 
can do for these chicks, which seem to 
have had a poor start in life. Very like¬ 
ly they are affected by coceidoisis, as you 
have evidently suspected, and are be¬ 
yond help. Perhaps they had true bacil¬ 
lary white diarrhoea when hatched and 
those that died early succumbed to that 
disease. There is little use in doctoring 
young chicks that are affected by such 
diseases as white diarrhoea and cocci- 
diosis; these affections should be pre¬ 
vented by hatching only from disease 
free stock and by keeping the young 
chicks away from exposure to other and 
infected birds and unsanitary sur¬ 
roundings. If one cannot start with 
vigorous, disease free stock and keep it 
in suitable quarters where there is little 
danger of infection, there is little use in 
raising chicks. The handicap on the 
start is too great. M. b. d. 
Lung Worms of Swine 
Do you know of any treatment for lung 
worms in young pigs? d. j. a. 
Virginia. 
There is no perfectly satisfactory treat¬ 
“Why don’t you go to-Congress and 
voice the needs of the agricultural popu¬ 
lation?” “I guess,” answered Farmer 
Corntossel, “if I was a smart enough pol¬ 
itician to do that I wouldn’t have been 
any farmer m the first place.”—Washing¬ 
ton Star. 
