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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October IS, 1924 
buddy boot 
THE boot illustrated 
is the Top Notch 
Buddy, the famous 
boot with the muscles. 
If you want a boot 
that will wear like 
iron without being 
heavy or clumsy, ask 
for the Top Notch 
Buddy and see that 
you get it. 
T ested— 
for long , hard service 
U NDER the; hardest possible wearing 
conditions, test pairs of Top Notch 
Rubber Footwear are thoroughly tried out. 
We make sure in advance by actual service 
tests that the construction and workman¬ 
ship will stand hard knocks. We give them 
a worse punishment than you ever will. 
Then when these test pairs have made 
good and proved that they will still be giving 
service when ordinary rubber footwear is 
worn out, every single pair of that particular 
style or kind of Top Notch Rubbers, boots 
or arctics, in future, is made with the same 
exacting care. 
All materials—rubbers, canvas or linings 
—have special qualities for toughness, elas¬ 
ticity or appearance. We make each pair 
by hand from start to finish—the work¬ 
manship is never skimped or hurried. 
Make sure of tested service in your 
rubber footwear by looking for the Top 
Notch Cross on the soles. All styles and 
all sizes for men, women and children— 
boots, arctics, heavy and light rubbers. 
The best stores carry Top Notch Rubber Foot¬ 
wear or will be glad to get it at your request. 
BEACON FALLS RUBBER SHOE COMPANY 
Makers of Top Notch Rubber and 
Canvas Rubber Sole Footwear 
Beacon Falls, Connecticut, U. S. A. 
Ailing Aminals 
Answered by Dr. A. S. Alexander 
Indigestion in Horse 
I have a horse 12 or 14 years old: 
have had him about three months. He 
Was full of life when I bought him. Now 
h< is the other way; has no life about 
him as he did at first. lie just pokes 
aloug the road and does not care whether 
lie goes or not. He weights around 1,200 
lbs. Once a day I feed him four quarts 
of whole oats. 1% quarts bran, one pint 
molasses feed with a handful of oilmeal; 
at the two other feedings I give him four 
quarts of ground horse feed, 1% quarts 
of bran, one pint of molasses feed, one 
handful of oilmeal at each feeding. I 
mix a little water with this._ When I 
do not use him I give him 15 quarts a 
day with plenty of hay and water. He 
is in good condition but not what he 
ought to be for what lie eats. M. w. 
We judge from your account of the 
way in which the old horse is being fed 
that you are overfeeding and in that way 
causing indigestion, which accounts for 
all of the symptoms described. A horse 
should do his own grinding of grain, un¬ 
less his teeth are in such condition that 
perfect mastication is impossible. Ground 
feed, while suitable for a cow, quite 
commonly causes indigestion in a horse, 
unless a considerable amount of cut hay 
and oat straw is added to make chewing 
necessary. It would be advisable as the 
first step in this case to have the teeth 
put in order by a veterinarian and then 
feed crushed or whole oats and one- 
ninth part of wheat bran, by weight. Of 
this mixture aliow one pound for each 
100 lbs. of body weight of horse in three 
feeds, as a day’s ration, when he works, 
and practically stop the grain ration 
when he is idle. Never let him stand 
for a single day without working or tak¬ 
ing outdoor exercise.. 
The grain and bran allowance may be 
slightly increased when the work is extra 
hard. Allow a similar amount of hay. 
but give most of it at night and only a 
pound or so of it at noon, while he is 
cooling and resting before being watered 
and then fed grain. Put a lump of rock 
salt or block salt in the manger. Other 
salt is unnecessary. If the coat is long 
and rough, the horse would do a great 
deal better if clipped. That alone has 
a wonderfully beneficial effect in all 
cases of chronic indigestion. 
When the horse has been so fed for 
a time medicinal treatment should be 
given to rid him of worms. That will 
consist in withholding feed for 36 hours 
and then having a veterinarian admin¬ 
ister four or five drams of oil of cheno- 
podium in a gelatin capsule to be fol¬ 
lowed immediately with a quart of raw 
linseed oil. Only one treatment of that 
sort will be necessary and it is the most 
effective method of ridding a horse of 
worms that has been tried by research 
veterinarians to date. If he bolts his 
feed give it from a large, shallow box. 
If he eats the bedding substitute saw¬ 
dust or planing mill shavings for straw 
or marsh hay. A. S. A. 
Dropped Sole 
We have a horse weighing 1400 lbs. 
that has a dropped sole. He is perfect 
in every other way but we cannot get a 
shoe to stay on his foot. Is there any 
cure for it? A. c. B. 
New London Co., Conn. 
The diseased condition of a horse’s 
foot called “dropped sole” results from a 
severe attack of laminitis or founder. 
In a majority of instances both fore feet 
are affected in that way, but we have 
seen a few cases in which the sole of one 
fore foot dropped when the other foot, 
being intensely painful from nailprick or 
some other cause, made necessary for 
all of the weight to be placed upon the 
sound one. The dropped condition is due 
to displacement of the pedal or coffin 
bone of the hoof, so that its toe or front 
part is tipped up and pressed directly 
down upon the sole. Some rotation of 
the bone may also occur upon that point. 
The consequence is that the sole instead 
of being somewhat cup-shapped bulges 
downward at the point of the frog, and a 
crack runs forward from the point of 
the frog, and there is another crack on 
each side of the point and running to 
the borders of the hoof. Such a condi¬ 
tion is incurable. The worst cases we 
have seen affected mares that had Suf¬ 
fered from infection of the womb cue to 
retention of a portion of the afterbirth 
after foaling. 
In addition to the sole being dropped 
we generally find an unhealthy, mealy 
or powdery condition of the horn of the 
hoof wall and formation of rings around 
tire wall, the toes also being abnormally 
long. The cause of the rings and growth 
of the toe is that secretion of horn ma¬ 
terial which should take place from the 
coronary band of the hoofhead now takes 
place irregularly, imperfectly and from 
the sensitive tissue underlying the wall, 
toward the toe. 
An affected horse may, in many in¬ 
stances, be enabled to work fairly well 
on,the land by the following treatment: 
Have the smith put flat, thin-heeled, 
wide-webbed bar shoes on the fore feet 
after covering the soles with lanolin 
(sheeps’ wool fat), oakum and thick 
leather pads. Do not have him cut away 
any of the frog or sole. The shoes 
should bear only upon the frogs, and a 
small rim of wall and sole. After ad¬ 
justing the shoes, which should be reset 
once a month, clip the hair from the 
hoof-heads of both fore feet and blister 
them 2 or 3 times, one at a time, by 
rubbing in for 15 minutes a mixture of 
2 drams of powdered eantharides, 2 
drams of biniodide of potash and 3 
ounces of lard. Then tie the horse up 
short so that he will -be unable to lick or 
bite the parts and in 48 hours wash off 
the blister. Then apply a little lard 
daily. Blister the second foot a day or 
two after washing the blister from the 
one first treated. Nails will hold better 
after the first blistering. a. s. a. 
Vermin on Dog 
e have a black and white fox terrier. 
Lately lie has been bothered with what 
seems to me, lice. Will you tell me what 
I can do to rid him of them ? j. e. 
New York. 
Dogs are more commonly infested with 
fleas, but they also harbor lice. A dog 
so infested should not be allowed to as¬ 
sociate with children as the vermin carry 
tape worms in one form of their lif“ 
cycle and can communicate them to peo¬ 
ple. Every dog that is to be a compan¬ 
ion to children should be dipped periodi¬ 
cally to keep it free from fleas and lice, 
else it must be considered a serious 
menace to their health. That also ap¬ 
plies to cats which are even more dan¬ 
gerous, for they sometimes are affected 
with a form of diphtheria which is al¬ 
most identical, if not exactly the same, as 
the disease diphtheria of children, 
and is communicable to them. They also 
suffer from tuberculosis, but that disease 
is practically unknown in the dog. horse 
and sheep. The dog should at once be 
dipped in a solution of coal tar made ac¬ 
cording to directions given by the manu¬ 
facturer. In bad cases it is well to add 
flowers of sulphur freely to the solution. 
Nits are not killed by the dipping, so 
that a second dipping is necessary in a 
week to 10 days after the first. Nits may 
also be got rid of by soaking with strong 
vinegar and then using a brush and fine 
tooth comb. When the weather is too 
cold to make dipping safe for a dog or 
cat, dust the infested skin freely with 
freshly powdered pyrethrum, or with a 
mixture of equal parts of that powder and 
tobacco snuff and flowers of sulphur. 
Then wrap the animal in a blanket or 
large bath towel for 15 minutes or so 
after which it should be thoroughly 
brushed and combed outdoors. Repeat 
the application as often as is seen to be 
necessary. For a small dog or cat it is a 
good plan to sprinkle a large towel freely 
with spirits of camphor; then wrap the 
animal in that for 10 minutes or more. 
The vermin migrate to the towel which 
should then be immersed in boiling water. 
Repeat the treatment as required. It is 
also necessary to provide a clean sleep¬ 
ing place for the animal after treatment. 
A sandy place is objectionable as always 
most likely to breed vermin. If it must 
be used cover the ground with the tar 
that is used in road surfacing and then 
with gravel or sand and bedding. This 
will serve, fairly well in the exercise yard, 
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