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VOL. XV. INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, -SATURDAY, MAY 22, 1880. NO. 21. 4 ' l^iue MR. T. Tyson, Cass county, Ind., has 36 limbs, from 18 ewes, all doing well. s» Mr John Hamilton, Montgomery oo-an- ty, Ind., had a Short-horn calf which at eight days eld weighed 132 pounds, and at two months old 280 pounds. — m> Thb May, 1879, meeting of the' Indiana Wool Growers' Association, offered on samples of long combing, middle and fine wools, first premium .2, and second fl, on each grade. Each exhibitor to label his samples, stating sex and age of sheep, when sheared and time of former shearing. The members should not forget to prepare their sample for the meeting next week. Thb fifteenth annual shearing of the Southwestern Wisconsin Sheep-breeders' and Wool Growers' Association was held at Caldwell's Prairie, Wisconsin, May 5. There were over2,000 people present to witness the shearing and the awarding of prizes. Only two classes of sheep were exhibited—the Delano Merinos and the American or heavy wool Merinos. The heaviest fleece obtained was twenty-seven pounds from a four-year-old ram. THE HOESE. The introduction of railroads has changed the practical demand for horses, or more properly—the practical use for which horses are demanded. A lew years ago, saddle horses were the chief, if not the only reliance in travel. Journeys, whether long or short, were made in the saddle, and a horse that could average forty miles a day from his Western home to the Atlantic States, was ih demand. Steam has changed all this; and even for local travel, wheel carriages of some description have nearly superseded the saddle, and horses are now used almost entirely in harness. This change in use, demandsa correspondihgchangein the form and make-up of the horses used. The good qualities of a saddle horse are activity, ease and gracefulness of motion, uniformity of gait and powers of endurance. These qualities required alight built animal with clean and slender limbs. The harness demands weight of body, large lungs and muscular limbs, and these comparatively, short.* * To the farmer, this change is of great importance. The accomplished saddle horse was unfit for the plow or the farm wagon, and the farmer wbp was not able to keep a horse exclusively for the saddle, was compelled to content himself with the rough gait and clumsy movement of his plow- horse when he made a journey. Our.improved roads have enabled us to substitute the buggy, carriage, or spring wagon in all journeys that we do not make by steam. The qualities ot a good plow-horse are so nearly the same as those adapted to the road, when harness is used, tbat the change may be made with but little inconvenience; so that really now the country demands hut one class of horses—those adapted to the harness. But unfortunately, in breeding horses we have not recognized this changed condition in the use and demand for them.' We still continue to admire the saddle-horse type, and breed the light- bodied, slender-limbed horses for the beauty, with a reckless disregard to the demands of utility. The poets, from Job to Byron, have sung the graceful majesty of the war-horse, and their songs have fascinated our people. Bat this is the age of the useful, and we hope that this generation will have no more need of war horses. We make war on the stubborn soil, and subdue it to productiveness. Our artillery Is the plow-share and our battlefield the broad domain of fertile soil, and we need an equipment adapted to this campaign. Superficial observers supposed that when railroads became general, the change would greatly diminish the demand for horses; but the reverse has been the fact—the number of horses, in proportion to population, has actually increased in this country. The change has been in the use of the horse, aod consequently in the demand for a different quality of horses. Fashion has yielded to this demand slowly. • In Scotland, two years ago, the "Clydesdale Soci- 6ty" was formed for the purpose of better adapting horses to farm purposes. The Prince of Wales and a number of noblemen »nd heavy land-holders are taking a lively interest in the movement. Earls Dunmore and Ellesmore are devoting much time and money to the breeding of useful, rather than fancy stock. • In this country, the quality oi sp9ed still nolds the highest place in the estimation of stockmen. But every farmer knows that "Peed, beyond a mile in ten minutes, is a "^qualification for farm purposes. A more rapid gait, even on a good gravel road, is neither safe nor profitable; yet our Agri- '€ "ultnral Board in Indiana, and in other 'Jl Btates as well, give their largest premiums ■cy- '0r the quality of speed only—but the *~> horses that take these premiums are ab- ^etcrmarji. This department ls edited by Dr. John N. Navin, Veterinary Snrgeon, anthor of Navin's Explanatory Stock Doctor. Horse Cough. Editors Indiana Farmer: I have a horse that has a cough, and has had for about two years, and grows gradually worse all the time. Some days he seems to cough very near all the time, and others but very little, and of late his side moves a good deal like heaves; always keeps in good fix; eats and works well, and lively- fused powders as directed for. "J. 8." in Farmer ofa few weeks ago, but did no good. J. C. Use the prescription recommended for Mr .J. S. D's mare in this issue. Indolent Sore. Editors Indiana Farmer: My neighbor has a colt that has a running sore ou its hind leg near pastern joint, caused by getting fast in a bridge last, fall. J. H. S. Your neighbor's colt has an indolent sore that must be stimulated. This you can do by firing, (burning) or by a blister; try burned alum if any fungus flesh appears, and then a solution of sulphate of zino one ounce to four ounces of rain water; use twice per day. If this fails to heal use the blister or iron. Blister: one-half pint spirits of turpentiae, Spanish fly half an ounce. THE 1TLM sTBACTION EM1INE, 9IA_H7FACTVBED BT THE ATLAS rVOBKN, INDIANAIHtlsUI, TSDIA1SA. solutely unfit for farm work. They could not plow an acre of corn nor endure the labor of a reaper for a day. The purpose of our agricultural societies is to improve farming. How do these .large premiums on speed encourage agriculture? If the purpose is to make money by the crowd which the attraction of the speed-ring will draw, would it not be well to consider whether the same end may not be gained, without commending and indorsing a breed of horses wholly unfit for farm use. Would not a Spanish bull-fight draw/ fully as well, and be no more demoralizing in its effect on the spectators? Let -our largest premiums be given for that which will beat advance the interest of practical farming. Percherons—Who AceeptsP Kditors Indiana Parmer: ■ ' Having learned that there are parties in this county -who claim that the breed of horses known as the Percheron-Norman is an inferior breed, and are not showing a good stock, I will make the following proposition to:, make up a premium of moneywith the entrance fee of not less than $25 or more than ?100, and show five yearling colts and five this spring's colts; the show to come off this fall at tbe .Greene county fair, judges to be three dis- ities. Where it is given to them when at pasture, the amount should be from half an ounce to an ounce to each daily; and it is a well-known fact that sheep never stray from an inclosure in which salt and water are provided for them.—N. Y. Weekly. Herald. » » . : Sulphur for Sheep. Mix a little sulphur with salt, and feed occasionally to sheep. It will effectually destroy sheep ticks. The same remedy applied to cattle troubled with lice will soon rid them of vermin. The use of sulphur with salt well repays the trouble of keeping a supply for cattle and sheep. If a mixture of one part of sulphur with seven of salt be freely applied, there will be no trouble with vermin. You can give horses the mixture with good effect. Traction Engine Trial. Last week we happened out at the Atlas Works when the test of their traction engine was being made, and we testify to what we saw with our own eyes. Four ordinary 10-horse power engines were ia*t- ened to the traction engine, each twelve feet apart, and were drawn nearly a half mile at first, over a solid road, then turning on to the commons making an oval shaped cir- Atlas Engine .Works. The Atlas Engine Works, located in the northeast portion of our city, are reached by taking the Massachusetts-avenue cars at the Union Depot, which run within about 10 squares, and those coming to the city should not fail to visit them. Nearly 500 men are employed, and the business carried on day and night, Sunday excepted. The officers are Mr. S. A. Fletcher, president; Mr. Alex. Van Siclen, vice-president; Mr. Willard T. Hatch, -superintendent. Mr. Fletcher is a native of this city, being a son of Calvin Fletcher, Sr., deceased, (who was one of the earliest settlers,) and is a man of unlimited means, and most highly esteemed substantial and enterprising citizen, living in a beautiful residence just north of the Woodruff place. Mr. "Van Siclen is a single man of good avoirdupois, and excellent business qualifications, and able to stand up under mere work and attend to more calls at the same time than any other man in existence. Mr. Hatch is comparatively a young: man, as are all the members of the firm, and just suited for the position he fills; and knowing many of the employes, and what we have seen of all of them, we venture to say that no establishment in the world will excel them in point of intelligence, industry and genius, which are always the guarantee of Buccess. No Such Disease. Editors Indiana Farmer Please give a recipe through the Farmer to cure the hooks in horse's eyes, and oblige a subscriber. J. H. There is no. such disease as "hooks." Your horse has an inflammation of the haw. Take sulphate of zinc one drachm; rain water, one pint, and keep the.eye bathed with it for several days, or make a powder composed of burned alum powdered and blown into the eye twice per day. Do not allow those cormorant quacks to gouge your horses eyes by cutting the haw out— cutting the hooks as they call it. Muscle -Ruptured. Editors Indiana Farmer I have a three-year-old colt that had his left shoulder dislocated a week ago. If I pull Bis leg out to one sido it seems to be in its place, but when he steps and throws his weight on it it throws it out of place again. Can I do anything for him. ' A. L. The great saw muscle that joins the limb to the body is ruptured, and if so you might as well kill him, for it never can unite. If, however, the scapula is broken, it may join and the colt be useful, hold your ear to the parts while another man works the limb outward and back, and if you hear a grating noise there is a chance by puting him in a sling. Don't Lose It. Editors Indiana Farmer: I have a cow that had twin calves about the first of March.' She did not do well, and has lost her quid. I have tried several things but they did no good. J. A. S. Your cow has not lost her quid, no cow does, they have none to lose; the quid is a pledgit of the food thrown up for second mastication. No cow chews the food secondly while sick. That substitute quid elder bark, greasy dish cloth, fat bacon, etc, is the greatest ioolery imaginable. If Bhe is alive take ground ginger four ounces; pulv. nitre, flour of sulphur, black antimony, and sulphate of iron two ounces each. Give one tablespoonful three times per day. Bad Mouth. Editors Indiana Farmer: My horse's upper gums have been swollen for three months, down even with the teeth, and it don't seem to bother his eating any. He eats from 8 to 10 ears of corn at a feed. His gums are soft and spongy and don't seem to be sore. In the winter he ate some crab-apple bark, also some wild plum bark. Can his mouth be poisoned? Subscriber. Take alum, three ounces; burn it on a level hot surface; grind and mix with salt, one handful; meal, one double handful. Mix, put dry on a pie-pan, eto. Make a swab 1}_ inches by twe feet, or 18 inches long. Roll with a strip of muslin wet with water; roll in the mixture and "swab the mouth twice per day, cheeks, gums and Ups. . ■ " " ; .:,'.. .Rheumatism of the Muscles. Xdlton Indiana Farmer: What is the matter witb my mare? She is stiff in her fore parts, is hollow in the breast, flinches when pressed on the mus- ■ cles ofthe breast; is uneasy when standing, changing her weight from one foot to the other constantly; has good feet. G. H. Your mare has rheumatism of the muscles of the breast, and most likely contraction of the teet, consequent upon a slight founder. Bowel the breast, insert four rowels, (see Navin's Explanatory Stock Doctor), pare out the feet so thin that the sole will bend under the thumb; put on a shoe narrow at the toe, so it will bend nail near the heel, and spread the foot with the large forge tongs. s Examine Her. Editors Indiana Farmer: My mare was taken with a hard, dry cough some three months since; has never run any at the nose; has great difficulty in breathing, her flanks contracting and expanding violently with every breath; nostrils dilated; has been pronounced heaves by same; have been using the prescription given for that disease in tho Farmer some time ago. She gets worse all the time. J. S. D. Examine your mare, and feel between her jaws, and if the submaxillary glands are enlarged, let me know; they will be found from the size of a small to that of a fair sized hickory nut. If not, take Spanish brown, 2 ounces; tartar emetic, 2 ounces; ginger, 2 ounces; Indigo, 1 ounce; nitre, 4 ounces. Mix and give one teaspoonful tbree times per day. ^ -\>\5^^«-^NS^\>-=^^^__^rr=*^S Searing Showlnr the PropaUlar Power of U. s Atlas Traction Emit... Wan«faetnre«J by "Oie Atlaa Wartaa, IndianapoUs, interested men and the best colts to take the money, the 10 colts to be all sired by one horse. The colts I propose to show to be sired by French Emperor. This proposition is offered and open to Sullivan, Knox and Greene counties. Capt. J. Haddon. Carlisle, Sullivan Co., Ind. m • . Salt for Sheep. It Is said that in Spain, whenever sheep are kept in the neighborhood of rock salt hills or sea salt, and have access to it, they thrive better than in other situations, and in France the same thing is found to exist in the neighborhood of the sea coast and the salt works of the North, sheep give more and better wool, and the mutton is more highly esteemed than that from other local- cuit, coming in lively, drawing at least fifteen tons. The engine is not large nor cumbersome, but of very pretty size and easily managed, *with self-steering attachment, obviating all necessity for horses to guide it. The Atlas Traction Eogine is a cemplete success. It has reversible link- motion and differential gearing, hauls separator and water-cart, obviating use of horses entirely, if desired. Circulars giving lull description of this engine can be hadoi the Atlas Engine Works, Indianapolis, or of any of their agents, as given on page sixth of this paper. « — » «—— It is only by labor that thought can be made healthy, and only by thought that labor can be made happy, and the two cannot be separated with impunity. Poultry Queries. Answered by Dr. W. J. Elstun, Secretary Indiana Poultry Association, Indianapolis, Indiana. My chickens are dying. They droop around, get lame, give down in the legs and mope about until they die. T. W.'D. This is too indefinate far a definate reply. Drooping, moping, etc., may accompany any form of disease. Lameness is sometimes the consequence ol roup, or it may be from rheumatism, or; other causes. Fowls so affected are unhealthy and should have clean, dry houses, and clean runs, with good sound feed, adding pepper occasionally, with a few drops of muriated tincture of iron in their water every day. . —'■ *. * » r ' The gratest joy and hopes are soon turned into the greatest griefs . and fears with them that live by sense and not by faith. ; , Spasm of the Diaphragm. Editors Indiana Farmer: What will cure my mare of thumps, or is there any cure? Can there be anything done for a horse that has been over-heated? J.S. Thumps is an erroneous name. ..Your mare has spasm of the diaphragm, the chief organ of breathing, -which divides the contents of the abdomen from the thorax, or chest. To' cure a horse of the effects of being over-heated, we must know what it has resulted in. The,only preventive is to punish in some way every man who is cruel enough to so. abuse the dumb brute, the best servant of man. Such men should be sent to the penitentiary, or killed on the spot. To cure spasm of the diaphragm take,flour of sulphur, sulphate of iron, resin and black antimony of each two ounces; ginger and pulverised nitre of each four ounces. Mix and give one teaspoonful three times per day in chop or ground feed, Do not work the animal, but turn on grass for two months. Probably Foundered. Editors Indiana Farmer: What ails my mare? I plowed her all day, and at night noticed she was sick. She drank but little, ate hay poorly; would not lay down, but stand; change weight' from one leg to the other, set her front legs- out in front of her; seemed sore and stiff in her legs. Next morning she drank heartily, > ate hay better; still stiff in legs and sore to. touch; has no cough; the misery seems to be in her legs. Subscriber. You must have foundered your mare slightly, 'and "by the time you get the Farmer, it will become chronic, and a course lor that stage pursued as soon as it develops"itself. Why do farmers not resort to the pulse of their stock, it being the, great indicator of all febrile diseases. Now in this case if you could let me know the rate of her pulse I would be able to tell you more exactly your mare's disease; for example, a horse may be sweeneyed and be stiff;-he may have pleurisy, founder, or lung fever and be stiff. In founder the feet are hot, pulse up to 50,60 or 80; in pleurisy, pulse the same, but groans are pressing against the side, lung fever pulse high,- stands like a statue, breathes hurriedly, nostrils flaring at each -perspiration. In throat disease partially" stifl, pulse rapid,! and a roaring noise heard by placing the ear to the windpipe trachea. Every horse' owner should learn the above symptoms.' Frequency of pulse in health is 40 per minute; ioel artery .crossing the jaw bone. Glandered Horses. Editors Indiana Farmer: Our horses, I can safely say, are getting better, in fact I think they are nearly well. I had a couple of two-year-old colts that were worse off than the horses you saw when here. .The horse In the pen is thought to be better, also the old gentleman's at the end of the .lane/except the colt in the orchard. The gray mare and oolt in the stable I bave not heard from. Is a horse once infected with the glanders and cured as liable to be inlected as one that has sever had the disease? My big gray horse has the sweeney. Is your liniment a safe and speedy cure? If I get my horses cured will it be necessary te take all the troughs and mangers out and burn them, or would some good disinfectant answer? How long after a horse Is Infected with the disease till he will show seme signs of being diseased, and do the glands enlarge before he begins to run at the nostrils? I,. C. Glad to know that your glandered horses are getting along bo well, but one course of medicine is not sufficient to eradicate the disease out of the roan horse in the pen, the colt in the orchard, or the gray mare and colt in the stable; the other 21 may get well with one course of medicine, but the four mentioned will require at least a second course, and some perhaps a third. It will not do to quit until the running at the nose ceases, and the enlarged glands are entirely obliterated. It is a tenacious disease, and will return if not entirely killed. A horse once Infected and cured is no more nor les3 liable to be infected secondly than any other; one thing is certain,.that a horse running into glanders from ill- treated strangles will never take it again Irom tbe same Bouroe, but may be inoculated. If a horse contracts the disease from an infected horse in a close, filthy stable, whether the infected horse is present or not, tne air passages are ujo j,*siw» aiiwuju, and the tubercles will sometimes burst and secrete before the submaxillary glands are so affected as to be noticed by a man not properly understanding the disease, but in case of infection by inoculation the lungs being glands as well as the submaxillary, both being glands and affected thiough the blood become simultaneously affected, therefoie the submaxillaries enlarge, and are felt, while the tubercules are maturing in the lungs, therefore before a running st the nose appears the glands are enlarged. Better burn the troughs in the stabe of the horses ordered shot, and be careful not to handle them with ungloved or cut hands. Chloride ot lime and carbolic acid are excellent disinfectants; freezing is better. '
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Title | Indiana farmer, 1880, v. 15, no. 21 (May 22) |
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Transcript | VOL. XV. INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, -SATURDAY, MAY 22, 1880. NO. 21. 4 ' l^iue MR. T. Tyson, Cass county, Ind., has 36 limbs, from 18 ewes, all doing well. s» Mr John Hamilton, Montgomery oo-an- ty, Ind., had a Short-horn calf which at eight days eld weighed 132 pounds, and at two months old 280 pounds. — m> Thb May, 1879, meeting of the' Indiana Wool Growers' Association, offered on samples of long combing, middle and fine wools, first premium .2, and second fl, on each grade. Each exhibitor to label his samples, stating sex and age of sheep, when sheared and time of former shearing. The members should not forget to prepare their sample for the meeting next week. Thb fifteenth annual shearing of the Southwestern Wisconsin Sheep-breeders' and Wool Growers' Association was held at Caldwell's Prairie, Wisconsin, May 5. There were over2,000 people present to witness the shearing and the awarding of prizes. Only two classes of sheep were exhibited—the Delano Merinos and the American or heavy wool Merinos. The heaviest fleece obtained was twenty-seven pounds from a four-year-old ram. THE HOESE. The introduction of railroads has changed the practical demand for horses, or more properly—the practical use for which horses are demanded. A lew years ago, saddle horses were the chief, if not the only reliance in travel. Journeys, whether long or short, were made in the saddle, and a horse that could average forty miles a day from his Western home to the Atlantic States, was ih demand. Steam has changed all this; and even for local travel, wheel carriages of some description have nearly superseded the saddle, and horses are now used almost entirely in harness. This change in use, demandsa correspondihgchangein the form and make-up of the horses used. The good qualities of a saddle horse are activity, ease and gracefulness of motion, uniformity of gait and powers of endurance. These qualities required alight built animal with clean and slender limbs. The harness demands weight of body, large lungs and muscular limbs, and these comparatively, short.* * To the farmer, this change is of great importance. The accomplished saddle horse was unfit for the plow or the farm wagon, and the farmer wbp was not able to keep a horse exclusively for the saddle, was compelled to content himself with the rough gait and clumsy movement of his plow- horse when he made a journey. Our.improved roads have enabled us to substitute the buggy, carriage, or spring wagon in all journeys that we do not make by steam. The qualities ot a good plow-horse are so nearly the same as those adapted to the road, when harness is used, tbat the change may be made with but little inconvenience; so that really now the country demands hut one class of horses—those adapted to the harness. But unfortunately, in breeding horses we have not recognized this changed condition in the use and demand for them.' We still continue to admire the saddle-horse type, and breed the light- bodied, slender-limbed horses for the beauty, with a reckless disregard to the demands of utility. The poets, from Job to Byron, have sung the graceful majesty of the war-horse, and their songs have fascinated our people. Bat this is the age of the useful, and we hope that this generation will have no more need of war horses. We make war on the stubborn soil, and subdue it to productiveness. Our artillery Is the plow-share and our battlefield the broad domain of fertile soil, and we need an equipment adapted to this campaign. Superficial observers supposed that when railroads became general, the change would greatly diminish the demand for horses; but the reverse has been the fact—the number of horses, in proportion to population, has actually increased in this country. The change has been in the use of the horse, aod consequently in the demand for a different quality of horses. Fashion has yielded to this demand slowly. • In Scotland, two years ago, the "Clydesdale Soci- 6ty" was formed for the purpose of better adapting horses to farm purposes. The Prince of Wales and a number of noblemen »nd heavy land-holders are taking a lively interest in the movement. Earls Dunmore and Ellesmore are devoting much time and money to the breeding of useful, rather than fancy stock. • In this country, the quality oi sp9ed still nolds the highest place in the estimation of stockmen. But every farmer knows that "Peed, beyond a mile in ten minutes, is a "^qualification for farm purposes. A more rapid gait, even on a good gravel road, is neither safe nor profitable; yet our Agri- '€ "ultnral Board in Indiana, and in other 'Jl Btates as well, give their largest premiums ■cy- '0r the quality of speed only—but the *~> horses that take these premiums are ab- ^etcrmarji. This department ls edited by Dr. John N. Navin, Veterinary Snrgeon, anthor of Navin's Explanatory Stock Doctor. Horse Cough. Editors Indiana Farmer: I have a horse that has a cough, and has had for about two years, and grows gradually worse all the time. Some days he seems to cough very near all the time, and others but very little, and of late his side moves a good deal like heaves; always keeps in good fix; eats and works well, and lively- fused powders as directed for. "J. 8." in Farmer ofa few weeks ago, but did no good. J. C. Use the prescription recommended for Mr .J. S. D's mare in this issue. Indolent Sore. Editors Indiana Farmer: My neighbor has a colt that has a running sore ou its hind leg near pastern joint, caused by getting fast in a bridge last, fall. J. H. S. Your neighbor's colt has an indolent sore that must be stimulated. This you can do by firing, (burning) or by a blister; try burned alum if any fungus flesh appears, and then a solution of sulphate of zino one ounce to four ounces of rain water; use twice per day. If this fails to heal use the blister or iron. Blister: one-half pint spirits of turpentiae, Spanish fly half an ounce. THE 1TLM sTBACTION EM1INE, 9IA_H7FACTVBED BT THE ATLAS rVOBKN, INDIANAIHtlsUI, TSDIA1SA. solutely unfit for farm work. They could not plow an acre of corn nor endure the labor of a reaper for a day. The purpose of our agricultural societies is to improve farming. How do these .large premiums on speed encourage agriculture? If the purpose is to make money by the crowd which the attraction of the speed-ring will draw, would it not be well to consider whether the same end may not be gained, without commending and indorsing a breed of horses wholly unfit for farm use. Would not a Spanish bull-fight draw/ fully as well, and be no more demoralizing in its effect on the spectators? Let -our largest premiums be given for that which will beat advance the interest of practical farming. Percherons—Who AceeptsP Kditors Indiana Parmer: ■ ' Having learned that there are parties in this county -who claim that the breed of horses known as the Percheron-Norman is an inferior breed, and are not showing a good stock, I will make the following proposition to:, make up a premium of moneywith the entrance fee of not less than $25 or more than ?100, and show five yearling colts and five this spring's colts; the show to come off this fall at tbe .Greene county fair, judges to be three dis- ities. Where it is given to them when at pasture, the amount should be from half an ounce to an ounce to each daily; and it is a well-known fact that sheep never stray from an inclosure in which salt and water are provided for them.—N. Y. Weekly. Herald. » » . : Sulphur for Sheep. Mix a little sulphur with salt, and feed occasionally to sheep. It will effectually destroy sheep ticks. The same remedy applied to cattle troubled with lice will soon rid them of vermin. The use of sulphur with salt well repays the trouble of keeping a supply for cattle and sheep. If a mixture of one part of sulphur with seven of salt be freely applied, there will be no trouble with vermin. You can give horses the mixture with good effect. Traction Engine Trial. Last week we happened out at the Atlas Works when the test of their traction engine was being made, and we testify to what we saw with our own eyes. Four ordinary 10-horse power engines were ia*t- ened to the traction engine, each twelve feet apart, and were drawn nearly a half mile at first, over a solid road, then turning on to the commons making an oval shaped cir- Atlas Engine .Works. The Atlas Engine Works, located in the northeast portion of our city, are reached by taking the Massachusetts-avenue cars at the Union Depot, which run within about 10 squares, and those coming to the city should not fail to visit them. Nearly 500 men are employed, and the business carried on day and night, Sunday excepted. The officers are Mr. S. A. Fletcher, president; Mr. Alex. Van Siclen, vice-president; Mr. Willard T. Hatch, -superintendent. Mr. Fletcher is a native of this city, being a son of Calvin Fletcher, Sr., deceased, (who was one of the earliest settlers,) and is a man of unlimited means, and most highly esteemed substantial and enterprising citizen, living in a beautiful residence just north of the Woodruff place. Mr. "Van Siclen is a single man of good avoirdupois, and excellent business qualifications, and able to stand up under mere work and attend to more calls at the same time than any other man in existence. Mr. Hatch is comparatively a young: man, as are all the members of the firm, and just suited for the position he fills; and knowing many of the employes, and what we have seen of all of them, we venture to say that no establishment in the world will excel them in point of intelligence, industry and genius, which are always the guarantee of Buccess. No Such Disease. Editors Indiana Farmer Please give a recipe through the Farmer to cure the hooks in horse's eyes, and oblige a subscriber. J. H. There is no. such disease as "hooks." Your horse has an inflammation of the haw. Take sulphate of zinc one drachm; rain water, one pint, and keep the.eye bathed with it for several days, or make a powder composed of burned alum powdered and blown into the eye twice per day. Do not allow those cormorant quacks to gouge your horses eyes by cutting the haw out— cutting the hooks as they call it. Muscle -Ruptured. Editors Indiana Farmer I have a three-year-old colt that had his left shoulder dislocated a week ago. If I pull Bis leg out to one sido it seems to be in its place, but when he steps and throws his weight on it it throws it out of place again. Can I do anything for him. ' A. L. The great saw muscle that joins the limb to the body is ruptured, and if so you might as well kill him, for it never can unite. If, however, the scapula is broken, it may join and the colt be useful, hold your ear to the parts while another man works the limb outward and back, and if you hear a grating noise there is a chance by puting him in a sling. Don't Lose It. Editors Indiana Farmer: I have a cow that had twin calves about the first of March.' She did not do well, and has lost her quid. I have tried several things but they did no good. J. A. S. Your cow has not lost her quid, no cow does, they have none to lose; the quid is a pledgit of the food thrown up for second mastication. No cow chews the food secondly while sick. That substitute quid elder bark, greasy dish cloth, fat bacon, etc, is the greatest ioolery imaginable. If Bhe is alive take ground ginger four ounces; pulv. nitre, flour of sulphur, black antimony, and sulphate of iron two ounces each. Give one tablespoonful three times per day. Bad Mouth. Editors Indiana Farmer: My horse's upper gums have been swollen for three months, down even with the teeth, and it don't seem to bother his eating any. He eats from 8 to 10 ears of corn at a feed. His gums are soft and spongy and don't seem to be sore. In the winter he ate some crab-apple bark, also some wild plum bark. Can his mouth be poisoned? Subscriber. Take alum, three ounces; burn it on a level hot surface; grind and mix with salt, one handful; meal, one double handful. Mix, put dry on a pie-pan, eto. Make a swab 1}_ inches by twe feet, or 18 inches long. Roll with a strip of muslin wet with water; roll in the mixture and "swab the mouth twice per day, cheeks, gums and Ups. . ■ " " ; .:,'.. .Rheumatism of the Muscles. Xdlton Indiana Farmer: What is the matter witb my mare? She is stiff in her fore parts, is hollow in the breast, flinches when pressed on the mus- ■ cles ofthe breast; is uneasy when standing, changing her weight from one foot to the other constantly; has good feet. G. H. Your mare has rheumatism of the muscles of the breast, and most likely contraction of the teet, consequent upon a slight founder. Bowel the breast, insert four rowels, (see Navin's Explanatory Stock Doctor), pare out the feet so thin that the sole will bend under the thumb; put on a shoe narrow at the toe, so it will bend nail near the heel, and spread the foot with the large forge tongs. s Examine Her. Editors Indiana Farmer: My mare was taken with a hard, dry cough some three months since; has never run any at the nose; has great difficulty in breathing, her flanks contracting and expanding violently with every breath; nostrils dilated; has been pronounced heaves by same; have been using the prescription given for that disease in tho Farmer some time ago. She gets worse all the time. J. S. D. Examine your mare, and feel between her jaws, and if the submaxillary glands are enlarged, let me know; they will be found from the size of a small to that of a fair sized hickory nut. If not, take Spanish brown, 2 ounces; tartar emetic, 2 ounces; ginger, 2 ounces; Indigo, 1 ounce; nitre, 4 ounces. Mix and give one teaspoonful tbree times per day. ^ -\>\5^^«-^NS^\>-=^^^__^rr=*^S Searing Showlnr the PropaUlar Power of U. s Atlas Traction Emit... Wan«faetnre«J by "Oie Atlaa Wartaa, IndianapoUs, interested men and the best colts to take the money, the 10 colts to be all sired by one horse. The colts I propose to show to be sired by French Emperor. This proposition is offered and open to Sullivan, Knox and Greene counties. Capt. J. Haddon. Carlisle, Sullivan Co., Ind. m • . Salt for Sheep. It Is said that in Spain, whenever sheep are kept in the neighborhood of rock salt hills or sea salt, and have access to it, they thrive better than in other situations, and in France the same thing is found to exist in the neighborhood of the sea coast and the salt works of the North, sheep give more and better wool, and the mutton is more highly esteemed than that from other local- cuit, coming in lively, drawing at least fifteen tons. The engine is not large nor cumbersome, but of very pretty size and easily managed, *with self-steering attachment, obviating all necessity for horses to guide it. The Atlas Traction Eogine is a cemplete success. It has reversible link- motion and differential gearing, hauls separator and water-cart, obviating use of horses entirely, if desired. Circulars giving lull description of this engine can be hadoi the Atlas Engine Works, Indianapolis, or of any of their agents, as given on page sixth of this paper. « — » «—— It is only by labor that thought can be made healthy, and only by thought that labor can be made happy, and the two cannot be separated with impunity. Poultry Queries. Answered by Dr. W. J. Elstun, Secretary Indiana Poultry Association, Indianapolis, Indiana. My chickens are dying. They droop around, get lame, give down in the legs and mope about until they die. T. W.'D. This is too indefinate far a definate reply. Drooping, moping, etc., may accompany any form of disease. Lameness is sometimes the consequence ol roup, or it may be from rheumatism, or; other causes. Fowls so affected are unhealthy and should have clean, dry houses, and clean runs, with good sound feed, adding pepper occasionally, with a few drops of muriated tincture of iron in their water every day. . —'■ *. * » r ' The gratest joy and hopes are soon turned into the greatest griefs . and fears with them that live by sense and not by faith. ; , Spasm of the Diaphragm. Editors Indiana Farmer: What will cure my mare of thumps, or is there any cure? Can there be anything done for a horse that has been over-heated? J.S. Thumps is an erroneous name. ..Your mare has spasm of the diaphragm, the chief organ of breathing, -which divides the contents of the abdomen from the thorax, or chest. To' cure a horse of the effects of being over-heated, we must know what it has resulted in. The,only preventive is to punish in some way every man who is cruel enough to so. abuse the dumb brute, the best servant of man. Such men should be sent to the penitentiary, or killed on the spot. To cure spasm of the diaphragm take,flour of sulphur, sulphate of iron, resin and black antimony of each two ounces; ginger and pulverised nitre of each four ounces. Mix and give one teaspoonful three times per day in chop or ground feed, Do not work the animal, but turn on grass for two months. Probably Foundered. Editors Indiana Farmer: What ails my mare? I plowed her all day, and at night noticed she was sick. She drank but little, ate hay poorly; would not lay down, but stand; change weight' from one leg to the other, set her front legs- out in front of her; seemed sore and stiff in her legs. Next morning she drank heartily, > ate hay better; still stiff in legs and sore to. touch; has no cough; the misery seems to be in her legs. Subscriber. You must have foundered your mare slightly, 'and "by the time you get the Farmer, it will become chronic, and a course lor that stage pursued as soon as it develops"itself. Why do farmers not resort to the pulse of their stock, it being the, great indicator of all febrile diseases. Now in this case if you could let me know the rate of her pulse I would be able to tell you more exactly your mare's disease; for example, a horse may be sweeneyed and be stiff;-he may have pleurisy, founder, or lung fever and be stiff. In founder the feet are hot, pulse up to 50,60 or 80; in pleurisy, pulse the same, but groans are pressing against the side, lung fever pulse high,- stands like a statue, breathes hurriedly, nostrils flaring at each -perspiration. In throat disease partially" stifl, pulse rapid,! and a roaring noise heard by placing the ear to the windpipe trachea. Every horse' owner should learn the above symptoms.' Frequency of pulse in health is 40 per minute; ioel artery .crossing the jaw bone. Glandered Horses. Editors Indiana Farmer: Our horses, I can safely say, are getting better, in fact I think they are nearly well. I had a couple of two-year-old colts that were worse off than the horses you saw when here. .The horse In the pen is thought to be better, also the old gentleman's at the end of the .lane/except the colt in the orchard. The gray mare and oolt in the stable I bave not heard from. Is a horse once infected with the glanders and cured as liable to be inlected as one that has sever had the disease? My big gray horse has the sweeney. Is your liniment a safe and speedy cure? If I get my horses cured will it be necessary te take all the troughs and mangers out and burn them, or would some good disinfectant answer? How long after a horse Is Infected with the disease till he will show seme signs of being diseased, and do the glands enlarge before he begins to run at the nostrils? I,. C. Glad to know that your glandered horses are getting along bo well, but one course of medicine is not sufficient to eradicate the disease out of the roan horse in the pen, the colt in the orchard, or the gray mare and colt in the stable; the other 21 may get well with one course of medicine, but the four mentioned will require at least a second course, and some perhaps a third. It will not do to quit until the running at the nose ceases, and the enlarged glands are entirely obliterated. It is a tenacious disease, and will return if not entirely killed. A horse once Infected and cured is no more nor les3 liable to be infected secondly than any other; one thing is certain,.that a horse running into glanders from ill- treated strangles will never take it again Irom tbe same Bouroe, but may be inoculated. If a horse contracts the disease from an infected horse in a close, filthy stable, whether the infected horse is present or not, tne air passages are ujo j,*siw» aiiwuju, and the tubercles will sometimes burst and secrete before the submaxillary glands are so affected as to be noticed by a man not properly understanding the disease, but in case of infection by inoculation the lungs being glands as well as the submaxillary, both being glands and affected thiough the blood become simultaneously affected, therefoie the submaxillaries enlarge, and are felt, while the tubercules are maturing in the lungs, therefore before a running st the nose appears the glands are enlarged. Better burn the troughs in the stabe of the horses ordered shot, and be careful not to handle them with ungloved or cut hands. Chloride ot lime and carbolic acid are excellent disinfectants; freezing is better. ' |
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