Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1910 — THE VETERINARY. [ARTICLE]

THE VETERINARY.

Fc- Coughing Horse. The f-uioM jno remedy will relieve 1-017:1 iii - Give two drams muriate <>t aniiHctiia ;tpd half an ounce of Fowier < *<>iuiuni three times a day. Grus In Head of Sheep. The best preventive of grub in the bend of sheep is to tar their noses weekly and provide a dark shed for them to run under during the month of August. Stomach Worms In Lambs. Feeding tobacco dust or ground tobacco stems is claimed by some breeders to be a preventive for this pesL This is mixed with salt and put where sheep have free access to it. Bloody Milk. Give the cow a teaspoonful of powdered sulphate of iron mixed with sugar and salt morning and night in her feed of crushed corn or bran. Continue for a month in case the blood does not cease to appear sooner Scours and Thumps In Pigs. Thumps come from overfeeding and lack of exercise. Scouring suggests that the slop- may be from dirty slop barrels. It is absolutely necessary to keep the barrels clean and sweet for sour, decomposing slop often causes fatal scouring. Prevention of Rickets. Stop feeding com to pregnant and nursing sows and to young pigs and there will be little if any trouble from this form of paralysis, which is associated with rickets. It comes from overfeeding heating and fattening foods and giving too little bone building material Bog Spavin. Poultice the part with antiphlogistine for a week and afterward rub in iodine ointment every day for another week. After that let it alone for a time until the skin has recovered from irritation. Later it may be necessary to blister the part repeatedly if the less severe treatment does not suffice.