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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
November 22, 1924 
Buy NOW 
for Winter 
and Spring 
Supply 
MORE MILK. 
and Bigger Profits 
Fully 90% of all dairy rations are lacking in bulk and succu¬ 
lence, say authorities. Bulky feeds, mixed with concentrates, 
aid digestion. They also keep the bowels open. 
Make DRIED BEET PULP 
A part of your dairy ration 
This succulent vegetable feed gives bulk in a remarkably 
palatable and healthful form. It is laxative, easily digested 
and rich in carbohydrates. It is a wonderful milk producer, 
promotes health and increases profits. You can use Dried 
Beet Pulp with corn silage or to replace it. 
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Ailing Aminals 
Answered by Dr. A. S. Alexander 
Cowpox 
I have a cow that has sores on her 
teats; she has been affected about 30 
days. Thin scabs form and often peel off. 
leaving the skin rather raw and tender, 
but not deeply affected. At their worst 
the two front teats were a mass of sores 
covered with dry, crusty scabs. L. A. w. 
Ohio. 
There can be little question that cow- 
pox originally was present, and that the 
skin and sores then became infected with 
germs from the milker's hands, or a dirty 
floor or yard. The milk is unfit for fam¬ 
ily use or calf feeding at the outset of an 
attack of cowpox, when there is a fever¬ 
ish condition present, but it may be used 
later, when the sores crust over and heal¬ 
ing is progressing well. It is, however, 
necessary to cleanse the teats before start¬ 
ing to milk, and be sure that no scabs 
of scales get into the milk. A calf would 
better not nurse, as the disease may at¬ 
tack the skin about its mouth and muzzle. 
Cowpox may also affect the milker’s 
hands. If that occurs he becomes im¬ 
mune to smallpox, that being the basis on 
which vaccination originally was discov¬ 
ered and applied. It may also be of in¬ 
Bog Spavins; Urinary 
Disorders 
What can I do for my horse. His 
hind legs at the knees are badly swollen, 
and he has trouble passing water. He 
does not do much work and we give him 
cornmeal besides having him in pasture. 
New York. A. K. 
Pardon us if we suggest that the joints 
of the hind legs, referred to in this com¬ 
munication, properly are called the hocks, 
not the knees. Correctly speaking the 
knee of a horse is the stifle joint at the 
flank, in front of which will be found 
the patella or knee cap. It corresponds 
to the knee of man, while the knee of the 
foreleg corresponds to his wrist. The 
distensions mentioned are no doubt due 
to an excessive supply of synovia or 
joint oil, constituting bog spavin, some¬ 
times called “blood spavin.” In the worst 
cases thoroughpin is also present and 
that is a distension of the sheath of the 
tendon with lubricating fluid. In some 
cases, where the swelling subsides with 
work or exercise, the hocks are merely 
“filled” and bog spavin is not present. 
That condition is commonly associated 
Not many colts are raised on eastern farms now. and we are sorry, for a colt 
is one of the fine companions for a boy of some size. This colt is three weeks old— 
a Jerseyman. 
terest to state that a cow may contract 
cowpox from a milker who is affected 
with smallpox, convalescing from an at¬ 
tack, or who has recently been success¬ 
fully vaccinated against the disease. It 
is also brought into a herd by a new 
milker who has been milking affected 
cows, or by an affected cow. 
When a case occurs the animal should 
at once be isolated and then milked by 
one who does not attend to the other 
cows. Also cleanse, disinfect and white¬ 
wash the stall the affected cow has occu¬ 
pied, including the floor and gutter. Use 
a mixture of one part of compound cresol 
solution and 30 parts of water, or one 
part of coal tar disinfectant and 20 parts 
of water for disinfecting purposes. Also 
mix 1 lb. of fresh chloride of lime in each 
three gallons of freshly made lime wash. 
Flood the wash on the floor after the 
cleansing and disinfecting process. Twice 
daily for 10 minutes, immerse the affect¬ 
ed teats in hot water containing all the 
boric acid it will dissolve, or in a hot 1-to 
1.000 solution of chinosol, or bathe the 
affected parts with the solution several 
times daily. Then dry the teats gently 
and apply a mixture of equal parts of 
earbolized vaseline and benzoated oxid of 
zinc ointment, to each ounce of which add 
one dram of bismuth subnitrate, by rub¬ 
bing. If any sore is obstinate in heal¬ 
ing, scrape it clean, paint with tincture 
of iodine when bleeding has subsided, and 
then apply strong iodine ointment once 
or twice daily. An old, ulcerous sore on 
the teat sometimes has to be lightly cauter¬ 
ized with a lunar caustic pencil, after 
cleansing, and afterward wetted two or 
three times daily with a mixture of one 
part of tincture of iodine and three parts 
of compound tincture of benzoin. 
with indigestion, high feeding and lack 
of work or exercise. 
We think your description of the 
symptoms, that the horse in question is 
afflicted with chronic indigestion which 
is also the chief cause of urinary diffi¬ 
culty or disorder. Cornmeal should not 
be fed. A horse should do his own grain 
grinding, unless his teeth are in unfit con¬ 
dition. Have the teeth put in order by 
a veterinarian; then feed whole or 
crushed oats and one-ninth part of wheat 
bran, by weight. Of the mixture allow 
1 lb. for each 100 lbs. of body weight, 
in three feeds, as a day’s ration. When 
the horse works hard slightly increase 
the oats, or add a few ears of corn, at 
noon. Allow a similar amount of good 
mixed clover and Timothy hay, but feed 
most of it at night. Increase hay and 
reduce grain when the horse is idle. 
Cleanse the sheath by packing it full of 
wet wheat bran and massaging thor¬ 
oughly from outside. Then remove the 
bran and rinse out the sheath with cold 
soft water containing a tablespoonful of 
powdered borax per quart. Do not apply 
lard, grease or oil of any kind after 
cleansing the sheath. Doing so aggravates 
the foul condition by clogging the pores 
and catching dust. At the same time re¬ 
move a “bean” of hardened sebulous sub¬ 
stance which you will be likely to find 
blocking a little pocket or sac close to 
the opening of the urinary passage. If 
the condition of the hocks is chronic we 
fear the swelling cannot be materially 
reduced; but try the effect of a thorough 
rubbing, twice daily, with 10 per cent 
iodine vasogen or petrogen. or use a 
proprietory reducing preparation to he 
bought at a drug store. a. s. a. 
