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The  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
September  1,  1923 
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1.  Your  hogs  will  be  free  from 
lice. 
2.  They  will  have  clean,  healthy 
skins. 
3.  Disease  germs  will  be  de¬ 
stroyed. 
4.  Foul  odors  will  be  kept  down. 
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Ailing  Animals 
Answered  by  Dr.  A.  S.  Aelxander 
Infected  Quarter 
My  cow  gets  a  swollen  quarter  every 
three  or  four  weeks.  After  massaging  it 
once  or  twice  it  usually  disappears  only 
to  come  back  again.  It  is  always  the 
same  quarter.  J.  s. 
New  Jersey. 
Germ  infection  probably  accounts  for 
the  returning  attacks  of  mild  or  subacute- 
mammitis  (garget)  in  this  case.  It  should 
be  understood  that  always  germs  are 
present  in  the  teats  and  they  may  at  any 
time  set  up  garget  if  suitable  conditions 
for  their  growth  and  spread  occur.  In 
just  the  same  way  one  may  at  any  time 
contract  pneumonia  from  germs  present 
in  the  nose  and  throat  and  only  waiting, 
s%  to  speak,  for  suitable  conditions  to 
occur  that  they  may  cause  an  attack  of 
the  disease.  Lack  of  resistant  powers, 
due  to  weakening,  give  the  germs  their 
chance.  So  far  as  the  udder  is  concerned 
we  find  that  chill,  bruise,  irregular,  in¬ 
complete  or  rough  milking,  coming  in 
heat,  indigestion  or  sudden  changes  of 
feed,  or  the  feeding  of  large  quantities  of 
feed  that  is  extra  rich  in  protein  contents 
tends  to  cause  the  mammitis  in  such 
cases.  Try  to  discover  and  remove  or 
avoid  the  cause.  Milk  three  times  daily, 
if  the  cow  is  yielding  a  large  quantity  of 
milk  on  grass.  I)o  not  drive  her  fast 
when  her  udder  is  distended  before  milk¬ 
ing.  Bruising  of  the  udder  between  the 
thighs  sometimes  causes  attacks.  Cleanse 
the  teats  and  udder  each  time  before  start¬ 
ing  to  milk.  Keep  the  cow  from  standing 
in  water,  lying  down  in  mud  or  filth,  or 
lying  down  on  concrete  floors.  The  latter 
floors  always  should  be  covered  with  cork 
brick  or  hoards  at  the  rear  where  the 
udder  will  rest  when  the  cow  is  lying 
down.  Be  sure  that  the  cow  is  stripped 
clean.  If  she  is  milked  by  another  per¬ 
son  better  personally  strip  her  clean  a 
few  minutes  after  the  other  milker  gets 
through.  At  times  of  attack  milk  once 
an  hour,  during  the  day,  and  in  the  eve¬ 
ning  rub  into  the  affected  quarter  a  mix¬ 
ture  of  1  part  each  of  pure  turpentine  and 
fluid  extracts  of  poke  root  and  belladonna 
leaves  and  8  parts  of  warm  melted  un¬ 
salted  lard  or  sweet  oil.  Catch  the  ab¬ 
normal  milk  in  a  pail  containing  a  dis¬ 
infecting  solution  and  then  throw  it  out 
in  a  place  to  which  cattle  have  not  access. 
The  milk  from  an  unsound  udder  con¬ 
tains  the  germs  which  cause  garget  and 
may  contaminate  the  floor  or  ground  so 
that  teats  coming  in  contact  may  contract 
the  infection  and  garget  result.  Where 
other  cows  are  kept  any  cow  that  has 
anything  go  wrong  with  her  udder  in¬ 
stantly  should  be  isolated  and  milked  by 
one  who  does  not  handle  the  other  cows. 
In  that  way  there  is  much  less  likelihood 
of  garget  infection  spreading  in  a  herd. 
Dropsical  Swellings  in  Bloodless  Sheep 
My  sheep  swell  up  under  the  jaw,  then 
it  extends  up  the  sides  of  the  face  and 
around  the  eyes.  They  bleat  like  a  sheep 
with  a  cold,  eat  with  difficulty,  grow 
weaker  four  or  five  weeks  and  finally  die. 
The  skin  is  colorless  and  on  opening  them 
there  is  no  blood  and  the  flesh  looks  as  if 
it  had  been  soaked  out.  L.  H. 
You  have  given  a  capital  description  of 
what  unfortunately  is  a  very  common 
condition  in  sheep.  The  swellings  you 
mentioned  are  dropsical  or  edematous 
and  contain  serum  or  the  watery  part  of 
the  blood.  In  themselves  the  swellings 
do  not  constitute  a  disease,  but  they  are 
the  symptom  of  anemia  or  bloodlessness 
and  the  cause  is  the  presence  of  myriads 
of  stomach  worms  in  the  fourth  stomach 
(abomasum).  Similar  anemia  may  also 
occur  when  sheep  are  badly  infested  with 
tape  worms,  liver  flukes  or  lung  worms, 
but  stomach  worms  are  much  more  com- 
on  and  in  all  probability  are  the  cause 
in  the  cases  entioned.  They  are  con¬ 
tracted  on  old  pasture  long  used  by  sheep 
or  on  low,  wet  pastures  that  cannot  be 
plowed  and  are  used  for  sheep  year  after 
year.  The  adult  ewes  carry  the  worms 
through  the  winter  season  and  con¬ 
taminate  the  pastures  for  the  lambs  in 
spring.  To  escape  infestation  ewes  should 
he  treated  for  worms  before  turning  on 
grass  in  Spring  and  so  far  as  possible, 
ewes  and  lambs  should  be  provided  with 
grass  that  has  not  been  used  by  sheep 
since  it  was  seeded.  Anyhow,  lambs  will 
certainly  become  infected  on  old,  bare- 
bitten  pastures  long  used  for  sheep  and 
should  not  be  allowed  to  graze  there. 
Allowing  free  access  to  salt  at  all  times 
and  feeding  generously  on  oats,  bran  and 
oilmeal,  together  with  cut  green  crop, 
when  pastures  become  dry,  will  also  help 
to  prevent  worm  invasion  and  give  the 
lamp  or  sheep  strength  to  survive  or 
throw  off  the  infestation  should  it  occur. 
Better  than  plain,  salt  as  a  lids;  for  sheep 
is  a  mixture  of  salt,  280  parts  ;  dried  sul¬ 
phate  of  iron,  16  parts ;  powdered  wood 
charcoal,  12  parts  and  flower  of  sulphur, 
8  parts.  Place  this  in  a  box  so  covered 
or  sheltered  that  it  will  not  become  wet 
and  allow  sheep  and  lambs  to  help  them¬ 
selves  to  it  at  will.  Take  the  sheep  and 
lambs  off  old  grass.  Withhold  feed  for 
24  hours  and  then  give  a  one  per  cent 
solution  of  bluestone  and  tobacco  to  ex¬ 
pel  or  destroy  the  worms.  Make  it  as 
follows :  Dissolve  4  ounces  of  pure  blue- 
stone  (sulphate  of  copper)  in  y2  gallon 
of  boiling  water  in  an  earthenware  vessel. 
Steep  4  ounces  of  tobacco  snuff  over¬ 
night  in  %  a  gallon  of  boiling  water. 
In  the  morning  mix  the  two  solutions  to¬ 
gether  and  add  2  gallons  of  cold  water. 
Of  this  the  dose  for  a  lamb  under  one 
year  is  1%  ounces  and  for  a  sheep  over 
one  years  is  3 y2  ounces.  Give  it  care¬ 
fully  as  a  drench.  Repeat  the  treatment 
in  10  days. 
Worms  of  Dog 
I  have  an  Airedale  terrier  about  13 
months  old,  and  upon  moving  from 
Philadelphia,  Pa.,  to  Baltimore,  Md.,  I 
was  compelled  to  place  him  in  a  board¬ 
ing  school  for  dogs,  at  the  rate  of  $10 
per  month.  Upon  receiving  my  dog  he 
was  in  a  terrible  condition  so  I  was 
compelled  to  send  him  to  a  dog  hospital 
for  treatment.  After  keeping  him  there 
for  a  few  weeks  at  the  rate  of  $7.50  per 
week  my  dog  was  returned  to  me  in  a 
worse  condition  than  before.  I  also  have 
tried  different  kinds  of  medicine  but  with 
no  good  ^results.  Now  he  seems  to  be 
all  O.  K.  He  passed  worms  about  a 
half  to  three-quarters  of  an  inch  long 
and  flat  in  shape.  w.  c. 
Maryland. 
It  is  quite  possible  that  the  dog  is 
harboring  maw  worms  which  are  also 
called  seat  or  pin  worms.  They  inhabit 
the  large  intestines  and  rectum  and  cause 
ill-thrift  and  loss  of  flesh  when  in  great 
numbers.  The  irritation  they  cause  in 
the  rectum  is  so  great,  in  some  instances, 
that  the  dog  rubs  the  rear  parts  of  his 
body  upon  the  ground.  That  is  the  chief 
symptom  of  pin  worms.  We  think  it 
much  more  likely  that  you  have  noticed 
segments  of  a  tape  Avorm  in  the  feces. 
Each  contains  eggs  and  is  like  a  bit  of 
tape,  or  at  least  is  broad  and  flat.  To 
rid  the  dog  of  tape  worms  confine  him  in 
a  clean  swept  box  stall.  Withhold  feed 
for  24  hours  and  then  give,  for  every 
25  lbs.  of  body  weight,  one  dram  of  fluid 
extract  of  male  shield  fern  and  20  grains 
of  freshly  powdered  areca  nut  in  a  table¬ 
spoon  of  simple  sirup  or  soup.  Repeat 
the  treatment  in  four  or  five  days.  Burn 
the  droppings.  This  may  he  sufficient  to 
get  rid  of  the  pin  worms  as  well  as  the 
tape  worms  and  round  worms,  but  if  you 
see  any  signs  of  the  worms  in  the  rectum 
they  may  be  destroyed  by  injecting  into 
the  passage  a  decoction  made  by  boiling 
four  ounces  of  quassia  chips  or  powder 
for  30  minutes  in  a  gallon  of  water.  The 
injections  may  be  given  every  second 
night  until  three  or  more  have  been  ad¬ 
ministered.  After  the  treatment  for 
worms  has  been  completed  we  should  ad¬ 
vise  you  to  give  the  dog  a  thorough  scrub¬ 
bing  in  a  hot  bath  of  coal  tar  dip  solu¬ 
tion  made  according  to  directions  given 
by  the  manufacturer.  Then  give  him 
twice  daily  a  teaspoon  of  cod-liver  oil 
and  increase  to  two  teaspoons  twice  daily 
in  the  first  week  and  to  a  tablespoon 
twice  daily,  if  needed,  when  the  animal 
has  become  accustomed  to  the  oil.  It 
will  not  only  regulate  the  bowels  but 
have  a  marked  tonic  and  feeding  effect. 
In  the  way  of  feed  allow  raw  and  cooked 
beef,  raw  beef  hones,  thick  vegetable  soup 
poured  upon  stale  bread,  some  milk  and 
all  the  pure  drinking  water  the  dog  cares 
to  drink.  Do  not  feed  pork,  cornmeal, 
potatoes,  sweets  or  dainties.  Enforce 
active  outdoor  exercise  every  day. 
