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•P* RURAL NEW-YORKER 
December 27, 1924 
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I clean—free from ALL dirt, muck 
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Ailing Aminals 
Answered by Dr. A. S. Alexander 
Lame Bull Calf 
I have a little bull about nine months 
old. He was kept tied up until the Fall, 
when he was turned out to pasture. As 
soon as he was loose a sharp limp was 
noticeable. He seems to be stiff in all 
four legs. The cold weather makes him 
worse. j. w. 
Without a personal examination we 
can only suggest some things that might 
account for such lameness. In some in¬ 
stances infection of the stump of the 
navel at birth, by pus-forming germs, 
causes formation of an abscess at the 
navel and then secondary abscesses in the 
joints. The latter condition is known 
technically as pyemic arthritis. In the 
acute form the attack usually proves 
fatal in a day or two. In mild attacks 
the animal may survive, but be left with 
affected joints, so that lameness is pres¬ 
ent. That form of arthritis is also incur¬ 
able, the hyaline cartilage covering the 
ends of the bones which come together to 
form a joint being ulcerated. In that 
condition the affected joint is enlarged 
and painful. There may also be more or 
less distension with synovia or “joint 
oil.” A veterinarian might he able to de¬ 
termine if that disease is present. 
It is even more likely that rickets is 
the disease present. In that ailment, 
which corresponds to bowed legs in a 
child, the bones lack mineral matter, 
•principally phosphate of lime. Au in¬ 
complete or inadequate ratlin, not sup¬ 
plying necessary mineral matters and 
vitamine, would be the probable cause. 
Failure to expose the calf to direct sun¬ 
shine out of doors on every fine day also 
helps greatly to cause rickets. Living in 
a dark, damp, or badly ventilated stable 
is also contributory to rickets. 
On general principles, we should advise 
you to move the 'bull into a clean, roomy 
box .stall or pen, in a sunny, dry, well- 
ventilated stable, and then have it take 
out-door exercise on all x citable days. 
Feed generously on skim-milk, ground 
corn or barley, ground oats, screened to 
remove hulls, and wheat bran and oil- 
meal ; or feed whole oats, shelled corn, 
bran and oilmeal. Also allow plenty of 
sound Alfalfa or clover hay, which sup¬ 
ply not only proteins but lime salts and a 
necessary vitamine. In addition, feed 
silage or roots, and allow free access to 
salt, wood ashes or bonemeal and ground 
limestone. 
This feeding may suffice, but improve- 
men would be likely to result quicker if 
you also give tlie calf two teaspoons of 
cod liver oil twice daily, in any way 
found most convenient, and gradually in¬ 
crease the dose, as seen to be necessary. 
If the calf is weak and sluggish it would 
also be well to give it five drops of fluid 
extract of mix vomica twice daily, in a 
little water, and graduallv increase the 
dose as required. 
Ear-sucking Calves 
I have two calves that run together in 
the fields of our farm. The largest one 
of the calves is always sucking on the 
smaller one’s ears. It has them raw, and 
I would like to know what I could put on 
to stop this. c. c. P. 
Might we suggest that the young calves 
would be likely to thrive much better if 
housed in a large, clean, well-ventilated 
pen than to let them run in the fields at 
this season of the year? Indeed, it has 
been, found that calves may be most suc¬ 
cessfully developed during about the first 
year of life is so housed, provided they 
are properly fed. When allowed to range 
on old pasture, lung worms are practical¬ 
ly certain to be contracted, and they 
cause cough and ill thrift. Stomach 
worms may also be contracted in the 
same way in Southern pastures and cause 
thriftlessness in calves, as they do in 
lambs or sheep. 
We hav e found that the ear-sucking 
habit is learned when calves are fed skim- 
milk twice daily and made to drink fast. 
It is done when the calves are not stan¬ 
chioned and not fed some mixed meals, 
in a pail, after each mess of milk. Try 
stanchioning the calves when being fed 
milk, and keep them restrained until 
some time after drinking milk, or unt I 
the taste of the milk has vanished. Also 
feed meal, such as a mixture of ground 
screened oats, wheat bran and oilmeal, 
after each meal of milk, and so far as 
possible make the calves drink slowly. 
If they then persist in sucking one an¬ 
other’s ears, compound tincture of myrrh 
and aloes, or a mixture of one dram of 
powdered Barbadoes aloes per ounce of 
cottonseed oil, raw linseed oil or unsalted 
lard should be smeared on the ears, and 
more of it applied as required. Aloes has 
a terribly bitter taste, and a few licks of 
it should make the calves desist' from 
sucking. Too much of the drug would, 
howevex-, cause purgation. If the mixture 
does not quickly prove effective, or if the 
calves lick it freely, it would be better to 
use a mixture of coal tar dip and oil suf¬ 
ficiently strong to deter sucking. It will 
also prove remedial to the sore condition 
of the skin, and myrrh and tincture of 
aloes has the same effect. 
In this connection we wish to warn you 
that ear-sucking calves, if heifers, also 
get into the bad habit of sucking one an¬ 
other’s teats. That is a most dangerous 
vice and should be stopped, by separating 
the calves when it is seen to be starting. 
If this is not done the sucking causes 
milk to secrete in the udder, and when 
that occurs and the calves are afterwards 
separated, garget is likely to ensue, al¬ 
though it may be unnoticed at the time, 
and is a common cause of more serious 
garget at calving time. 
Fistula of Teat 
I recently bought a three-year-old Ayr¬ 
shire heifer that had one teat slitted on a 
barb wire fence. The wound healed, 
leaving an opening through which the 
milk leaks. Is there any safe method I 
can use to close the opening and re-heal 
it? She will soon he dry. W. J. c. 
It is best to postpone treatment of a 
fistula of the teat wall until the cow or 
heifer is dry. There are several methods 
of treatment. Of these the one most 
practiced by owners is burning of the lin¬ 
ing of the fistulous tract or pipe with a 
red hot knitting needle. That plan some¬ 
times “works,” but it is not always ef¬ 
fectual and sometimes has a bad effect. 
The one we should advise is simple and 
effective, provided it is done with clean 
instruments, after thoroughly cleansing 
and disinfecting the teat. It consists in 
laying the cow down and tying her hind 
legs to prevent kicking, or otherwise re¬ 
straining the animal so that struggling 
will not interfere with the operation and 
the operator be protected against injury. 
Then the udder is washed clean, the teats 
thoroughly cleansed with soap and hot 
water, and 'the one to be operated upon 
then immersed in hot water containing 
all the boric acid it will dissolve. After 
sudh immersion for five minutes or more 
the false opening should be well swabbed 
with tincture of iodine and made into a 
fresh wound by cutting away the old lin¬ 
ing with a sharp, sterilized scalpel. This 
is best done after inserting a long steril¬ 
ized milking tube in the normal duct of 
the teat. The cutting should be done 
right down to the tube. 
Afterward swab the new wound with 
tincture of iodine, after the bleeding has 
stopped, and then coat the entire teat 
with pine tar. Now apply a narrow 
bandage of cheese cloth spirally from the 
tip of the teat up to the udder and coat 
it with pine tar. Seven or eight coats of 
cloth and tar, alternately applied, are to 
^be put on, and the last should then be 
stitched to the one below and a final coat 
of tar applied. In three weeks the band¬ 
age may be removed, after saturating it 
thoroughly with alcohol, but it is usually 
best not to remove the layer of cheese¬ 
cloth next to the skin, but to let that one 
work off at will. 
Some surgeons prefer to apply sur¬ 
geons’ tape, warmed to make it stick 
well, and it serves the purpose effectively, 
but the cheesecloth and pine tar bandage 
has given first-class results in many 
cases. It may also be put on when a 
cow tears the teat when giving milk, and 
even then often proves effective. If sur¬ 
geons’ tape is used, it will come off read¬ 
ily, when the time arrives, if saturated 
with ethyl acetate. 
