The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-05-11
The horse will thus be compelled

box. The horse will thus be compelled
to pick his oats slowly, masticate them
more thoroughly, and they will do him
much more good than if hurriedly
eaten in the ordinary way.
A writer says that he has never
failed to cure garget by the use of
beans. He feeds INT pint of bean
meal, mixed with other meal, for four
successive days, and has found that
quantity sufficient to cure the worst
cases. He thinks if cows were fed
with bean meal several times a year
they would never be troubled with
garget.
A veterinary professor says that
"the great majority of ringbones in
young horses from the failure
to shorten the toes" To this may be
added that ringbone is apt to be formed
if colts are allowed to stand On a plank
floor, or anywhere else where the foot
ing is hard, during the first eighteen
months of their age. Whether in
stable or yard during this period, let
them have earth for standing or walk
ing, free from stone or gravel.
The way in which an old veterin-
alfan cures ringbone is described. He
ties the animal down, to guard against
kicking. Run a sharp-pointed knife
through the fetlocG, when a white
bladder will pop out. Run a needle
and thread through this, draw it out
and remove the bladder with a knife.
The cure is soon effected without harm
to the horse, if taken early, and the
ringbone will not return. But if al
lowed to harden it cannot be so re-
moved.
A correspondent of the Germantown
Telegraph says: Fresh, c.ean hogs
lard rubbed three or four times on any
kind of warts on horses and cattle will
remove them on three or four applica-
tions. | have removed the warts time
after time, and have never been able
to find the wait alter the fourth
Application. If | should send the
Latin name for lard and tell men to
pay fifty cents to the druggist for
atolt two cents worth of good lard
this remedy would be o.tener used.
Charcoal is highly recommended as a
preventive OF disease in sheep, and in
an English pamphlet the following
recipe for its use appears The char
coal should be given mixed with the
food. except in urgent cases, when it
may be mixed in water or thin cruel,
and given as a dreach. The dose is
one pint to every twenty-five head of
sheep OF lambs o%ne-quarter pint per
head for f%ull-grown cattle, horses or
Pigs; half the quantity for young
cattle and two tea 'poonfuls to one
dessertspoonful for young calves.
1t is Il source of great economy to
cut all hay, straw and fodder fed to
cows, even though there be no mixture
of meal or bran with it. They will eat
up very clio sely much that would other
wise be left and wasted if fed long.
Dry cOrnstalks, that so many farmers
have neglected on the ground where
they grew to become a nuisance when
preparing for the following crop, if
cut at the proper time, and after curing
stacked and kept dry, cut and crushed
with Il suitable machine, fed to the
stock in winter would become a
source of great profit. Pure, clean
water should at all times be accessible
to the dairy COW, and is as essential
for health and profit a feed, and with
out both of good quality and liberal
quantities the best results will not be
obtained.