EXPERIENCE DEPARTMENT
Diseases of Stock.
1st Premium.—Scratches is a very common ailment among horses in wet muddy
weather during winter and spring. I
have always suooeeded in ouring it with
soft soap and always washing the diseased parts with warm soap suds before
applying the soap. A poultice of flax seed
and bran is a good remedy. Colic is
found very often with some horses. I
usually drench with a tablespoonful of
soda, dissolved in a quart of water.
Sickness in oattle is rare with us
When they are on green pasture we mix
soot with salt and give them to prevent
scours. All farmers should keep some linseed meal and feed to their stock occasionally in theirohop feed.
Hog cholera is most common with the
hogs of this State. For this disease we
we use soft soap, charcoal, and carbolic acid. Mr. Robert Mitchell, (the
oattle jadge at our fair) said that
when he heard one of his hogs coughing
he took it from the rest of the herd and
gave it a pint of oil meal, in a bucket
of slop for a few days. Mange in hogs can
be prevented easier than cured, by not
allowing them to run about straw stacks
in wet weather and keeping them in good
dry Bleeping quarters. L L.
Corydon.
21 Premium.—One of the most common
diseases among horses is scratohes, especially in winter when it is muddy. If
the mud is not cleaned off well it will
cause scratohes, or if the horses are allowed to stand in dirty stables. The
heat from the manure is bad on their
eyes also, but a well kept stable will
never be found in this condition.
When the above disease gets started on
the horse wash the affected parts, and
apply good home-made lye soap daily
until it dries up the scratches, always
washing well before applying the soap.
Cattle disease Is something that we are
not bothered with. I generally keep
from 15 to 20 head of cattle, and never had
any disease among them, therefore need
no remedy. Give them plenty to eat,
salt regularly and water likewise, and
see that the stables are comfortable for
winter, and nioe fat oattle will be the result.
Hog lice are a bad thing if let alone, but
very easy to get rid of. Two parts coal
oil, one part lard, mixed and poured on
hogs will rid them of lice.
Cholera is almost sure death if it gets a
good hold on hogs; but if the hogs are
properly kept 1 don't think it dangerous.
They should have cle»n quarters, plenty
of oharcoal, and turpentine occasionally
in their slop; also some soft soap, and it
is understood that all stock must have
salt to be healthy. L J.
Southern Ind.
REVIEW.
Farmers a* a class have so very little
praotical knowledge of ailments and remedies for farm animals that I hoped this
topio would elicit more general interest
and disoussion. Perhaps few really
know what to say.
How many horses are lost by being
turned out tb live or die because the
owner don't believe "doctoring does any
good."
We have three acute diseases of horses
whioh need prompt medical treatment
and may be quite generally relieved.
That too by a farmer who has no general
medical education.
1. Lung fever.
2. Spasmodic colic
3. Flatulent or wind collo.
Lung fever often oomes from cooling
quickly after a hard driving, and is frequently allowed to progress not unno-
tioed, but not diagnosed as lung fever
until too late, when the animal might
have been saved if treated sooner. It is
known by quick short painful breathing,
by a rise in temperature and quiokening
and hardening of the pulsejtlll it is very
wiry. The patient refuses to lie down or
if he does he gets up quickly as if it hurts
him. The ear applied to the ohost back
of the shoulder catches a rasping sound
Probably the best remedy when the
disease has gone as far as it commonly
does before treatment is called for is to
bleed till the horse shows relaxation, and
in severe oases if the patient should faint
it is helpful. Bleeding in fleshy horses
may need repeating ln a day or two.
After the horse recovers a little from
blood letting give one ounoe of tincture
of digitalis, one ounce of sweet spirits of
nitre and one ounoe ol tincture of lobelia
all in one dose ln warm water. After the
first dose drop the digitalis and repeat
the other two every few hours (say four
to six) till the patient improves.
Spasmodic colic is caused by impaction
of the bowels. It is known by the horse
lying down, rolling, jumping up and repeating the aotion with signs of suffering. It is distinguished from flatulent
colic by there being no swelling of the
abdomen.
The remedy is an aotive physic. One
ounce of pulverizsd aloes partially dissolved in warm (not hot) water and repeated every six hours. If symptoms indicate danger one should give an injection of one or two gallons of strong soap
suds containing a handful of salt.
Flatulent colic known much as spasmodic except that it is aocompanied with
swelling, often very decided. In both
tha patient seems easier by spells and
then worse. Flatulent colic needs one
ounce of chloroform and one ounce of
laudanum mixed in warm water as a
drench. This may be* repeated in an
hour or less if needed. Use syringe as in
spasmodic colic. In either case it it
comes on while on the road a helpful
emergency remedy is to tie a nickle's
worth of tobacco on the bridle bit and
drive slowly giving tims for the relaxing
effeot.   This may save you a gocd horse.
I only aim to give a few acute diseases
and quick rem idle., and will mention
two diseases of cattle.
Indigestion and impaction often caused
by a feverish condition of the secretions
and by laok of drinking water, is known
by stupidity, coldness of horns, (hollow
horn) and tail and legs. The patient may
suffer either mnch or little, and if giving
milk may fail.
Give a physio of one pound of salts dissolved in warm water. This may be repeated after a few hours if needed. One
or two pounds of finely sliced fat bacon
is often also given. Bat don't fail to give
the salts. Use aloes for horses and salts
for cattle. An injection is used for cattle
exactly the same as for horses.
In hoven, or bloating, which is really
the same disease in cattle as flatulent
colic is in horses, give the same treatment as for a horse. If the patient is
small, say 600 to 800 pounds, give a little
smaller dose. Bat by all means don't let
a bloated animal die. Watch it and if lt
becomes suddenly worse stick your knife
blade into the paunch jast in front of the
hip bone. Don't be afraid, it seldom
causes inflammation. It is more elegant
to use a trocar, but a man need not wait
if it is not at hand, and don't be afraid to
cut a hole big enough to let out the gas.
Then give physic, if not before.
Stock are not so apt to bloat if they
have access to a straw pile while on grass,
and if not allowed on when wet with dew.
My neighbor's cow was poisoned this
■y*rj*mm^by eating the wilted leaves of a
wild cherry limb blown off by the wind.
A physio is all that she needed. Cherry
leaves are not poisonous while green, but
are after wilted, as Hydrocyanic acid is
developed by wilting.
I asked a friend the best remedy for
lioe. He said that an animal ls often
made sick or even killed by using a decoction of tobacco; and that a mixture of
sulphur and lard Is gummy and looks
horrid, and that one had better use a de-
ooctlon of the root of the common pawpaw. I don't know anything about this
remedy, but often kill lice on horse, oow
or hog by spraying with kerosine emulsion. Space will hardly permit me to
speak of other troubles, but will mention
tetanus or lockjaw. A few horses die
around here every year of lookjaw. It is
usually caused by a nail or splinter, and
often in the foot; occasionally by a sore
neok. The only hope lies in opening
punctures to allow fall escape of "matter"
and healing sores. Of course no one expects to cure lockj_w after once established.
For cholera in hogs I refer yon to a series of articles on this subject in a back
number of the Indiana Farmer, by W.
A. Hart, ot Portland; and to the Government bulletin on swine plague, which
you oan get by sending a postal card to
the Agricultural Department, Washington, D. C.
Many farmers have siok stock and even
know they need a physic, but don't
know how to get at it and don't do anything. Now I have given the dose, so one
know just how to proceed.
Drench a horse with a large thick necked bottle holding a quart, If you have it
I sometimes do it by an assistant holding
the nose up with his hands. One can
draw it up with a rope, Igenerally drenoh
a horse without any help. I also keep a
few meJioine. espeolally for such use,
and my foreman knows how to use them.
You know the oowboy said a revolver
was mean to carry, but when he needed
it he needed it awful bad. So keep a few
remedies in the shop ready.
I once saw a cow choked on apples and
a man straightened out her chin and
poked the butt end of a buggy whip
down her throat and pushed the apple
into the stemjeh, She was relieved at
onoe.
We have enough oopy for the near
future, while the other day we could
not publish half of it. We yery mach
regret that we can't publish all of the
best copy every week. Please accept
thanks and do not beoome discouraged
because copy is not always all published,
we will publish much of that later on.
No. 88, Nov. 6.—How are you aiming to
store your winter's feed? What does
shredding cost?
No. 89, Nov. 13.—Are lightning rods a
protection? How should they be put up?
And how may one avoid being cheated?
No. 90, Nov. 20—Desorlbe a good cistern,
also a good filter.
No. 91, Nov. 27.—How does the compulsory attendance law work in your
schools?   Give suggestions.
Premiums of $1, 75c and 50c will be
given to 1st, 2d and 3d best articles eaoh
week. Let copy be as practical as possible and forward it 10 days before publication to E. H. Collins.
Carmel.
THE LIQUOB DEALERS' EES0LVE
Among the many conventions held in
this city of conventions lait week, was
that of the local liquor dealers. Oar daily
papers gave much space to their doings
evidently regarding them of considerable importance to their readers. Their
resolutions contain some ideas that will
be new to most of our readers. For example they assert that "stimulating and
intoxicating beverages are among the
beneficent gifts of the Supreme Ruler of
the universe to man, for his use, enjoy
ment and benefit;" that "their use is
right, proper and neoessary," and that
the traffli] in them "has formed an hon.
orable feature 'of the commerce of the
world, from the earliest dates of recorded history."
It is a new idea that everything we find
in nature is intended for man's use and
essential to his welfare. This theory
would Justify the use of opium or any
other poison, it would make it right to
drink water from stagnant pools if one
has a stomach for it, or breathe malarious air. The writer of the resolutions is
evidently not a reader of the bible, nor
did he attend the Sunday schools when a
boy, or he would know something of the
woes pronounced against both dealers in
drinkers ot Intoxicants. To call the use
of such drinks necessary is a surprise to
those of us who have passed middle life
without knowing the taste of thom, enjoying good health all the while. Itis a
proposition we are very slow to believe-
Even in other sections and when in Mez.
ico, when urged to use wine or beer, as
"the water might not be healthy" we
have declined alcoholic drinks, and have
felt as well at least as those who did use
them. The liquor men would like to persuade the public that their "goods," as
they insist on calling them are necessary
to health. It increases their trade to do
so; but it is all false. L'quors are poison
and should not be used under any circumstances, under a doctor's advioe, and
it is a question whether something better
and harmlesss might not be substituted.
After making so good a showing of their
"honorable business" it is reasonable to
expect a protest from the association
against the taxation imposed upon them,
we find in the following resolution:
"Resolved, That we protest against being treated in any other different manner
under the law than are the members of
any other branch of legitimate trade
and commerce.
They avow themselves as opposed to
drunkenness, as both a vice and a crime,
to be severely dealt with, forgetting that
if their business were abolished there
would bs no drunkenness, and that
crimes of all kinds would ba reduoed to
less than one-fourth the present number.
Oar reoently re-elected mayor Taggart
lowered himself in the estimation of all
good people of the city by his speech of
welcome to the association in whioh he
termed saloonists "the best people on
earth," and at their banquet he declared
that the city was proud to welcome
them and have them here. He was talking for the drinking olass, of course, but
they are not the oity by any means, nor
do they represent it. The notice given
thia gathering by the newspapers, and
the flattery offered by the mayor go to
show the power and influence the liquor
interest exerts in poliitios, but itis to be
hoped the effect of it all will be to arouse
the opposition of the better elements of
the community till it gains strength to
sweep the vile business from the land.
Strono resolu ions against the postal
savings bank system were passed by the
Indiana Banker's Association at their
meeting here last. That is what might
have been expected.
We intend to keep the telephone quea
tlon prominently before our readers. See
editorial from The Farmer's Call, on another page, also letter from Cloverdale.
Editoes Indiaka Fiiau:.
I wish to stats that I attended the winter course school at Pardue, in the spring
of '93, and can truly say that 1 consider it
the most beneficial short term of sohool
of my life. I would say to the farmer
boys go, and you will never regret the
time and money spent. By sending to
Prof. W. C. L-tta, you will reoelve the
course of study, whioh when taught as it
will be taught at Purdue, you will, I assure you, be more than pleased with
what you gain. The oourse of study will
be carried out to the very dot, Boys do
not quit the fat nn but go to Pardue and
learn how to farm right.
Fathers and Mothers send your sons
and your daughters to Pardue next winter, and they will ever afterwards thank
you for it. LI only wish that I had spent
more time there than I did.
Wabash Co. Emerson Jackson.