The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1891-01-16


RESOLVED, That the said committee be and is here
cations in all thenewspapers published in Hartford
county before the 9th day Of February, 1891.
On motion of Mr.. George L. Scott the
thanks of the meeting were rendered to Profs.
Alvord and Brunk for their entertaining and
instructive addresses.
The convention then adjourned until IT
o'clock, when DR.. Robert Ward, State Vet
Urinary Inspector, delivered an address on the
FALL AND WINTER DISEASES OF FARM STOCK.
The end ofthe fail season, he said, is noted
| for unaccountable outbursts of disease among
live stock; therefore the farmer should make
himself conversant with the nature and
cause of these ailments, with the view of pre-
venting them. To prevent disease stables
shouldb cleaned thoroughly, drains cleaned,
or if none exist they should be made 30 that
the fluids and excreta may find an exit with
out polluting the subsoil. Farm ponds
should be cleaned out and wells receive at
tention. Vegetable fungus and organisms
become part of the Innings of wells and cis-
| terms, and diphtheria has its origin In these
accumulations. Horses and young animals
are especially subject to this disease.
| AS the fall season progresses the horse
sheds his smooth, shining coat to make place
for the coarser, heavy winter coat of hair.
| Whilst this is going on the skin is highly
sensitive and the horse needs a moderately
warm stable as shelter from the inclement
nights. Should the cold air be permitted to
act unduy the hair bulbs are chilled, the
coat becomes broken and oil winter long it Is
| remarked How bad this horses coat looks;
he cannot be we'll" No medicine can OBJ
| viate the result, for the hair follicles have
become palsied and can not regain their nor
NAL health and vigor until late spring or
summer. Cleanliness of body and legs is
next to be considered 10 prevent skin erup-
tons. Scratches, cracked heels and grease
are all the result of bad stable management.
The stable should be light and well venti-
lated and draughts on the animal should be
avoided
The chief fall troubles are dyspepsia,
brought on by a total change in diet. A
horse needs sound food of little bulk, but
when the food is hard and coarse the stom-
ach is unduly dstended, and breathing is in
terfered with.
In the treatment of cerebro-spinal menin-
gifts agents should be given that will allay the
nervous excitement. For vertigo he recon-
mended bleeding and brisk aperient. Dis
temper or catarrhal fever has two forms
one of them is simple catarrhal fever, which
runs its course in about fortnight. In the
second type an abscess forms under the low
er jaw and pus forms in the adjacent tissues.
AS soon as these abcesses form hot fomenta-
tions and fiaxseed poultices should be used.
As soon as the abcess is ready to burst deep
incisi0n must be made to allow the matter to
escape. and after this the cavity must be syr-
inged out and dressed with disinfecting oint-
ments, inserting piece of cotton smeared
with the ointment into the cavity to keep it
| open for five or six days but not longer. Good
wholesome diet is the only medicine needed.
The form of influenza known as "pink
eye" wherein the lungs and bowels become
implicated. is a serious trouble. The best
formula for general use by the farmer during
the febrile symptoms Is this:
Nitrate of potash, 1t ounces; liquor of
nitrate of ammonia, 16 fluid ounces; spirits of
nitric ether, 6 fluid ounces camphor water
sufficient to make thirty-two ounce mix
ture. From one-sixth to one.eighth of this
is dose. Repeat every four hours until
fever abates. Then give three times day,
then twice and at last leave off.
When debility is manifested the best tonic
is made thus:
Port wine, one quart. Into this dissolve2
drachms of sulphate of quinine by a acidu-
lation. Give one-sixth to one-eighth part of
this three times day. Both mixtures are to
be given as drenches, by the mouth, not the
nostrils.
Rheumatic troubles are very frequent with
farm horses. There may be no swelling, yet
acute lameness. The best remedy is to
change the diet to soft feed and mashes,
giving mild dose of aloes combined with
bicarbonate of potash, 4 to drachms of the
former to 2 drachms of the latter, and repeat
the bicarbonate about three days. Hot fomen-
tations to the parts and camphorated spirits
of wine, soap linement, equal parts, with one
eighth part of tincture of opium, used as an
embrocation, will ease the patient.
Stock should not be permitted to feed on
frosted provender, and to let them do 30 and
turn them suddenly into warm barn is too
much for the animal economy. In winter
damp feed should occasionally be given, and
good linseed meal added to the usual feed
will help to relax the bowels.
Concerning the amount of good food per
day necessary to keep dairy cows, it may be
estimated that cow will do well on 8 per
cent. of her live weight; working oxen on 2
or 21 per cent, but when up for fattening
the amount must be increased.
DIR. Ward closed by speaking ofthe impor-
lance of permitting stock to have exercise in
the winter time.
Among the farmers and others present were
the following:
Morris Baldwin, J. E. Webster, Henry Ma.
catee, VIM. E. Hanway, W. Smithson For
wood, George W. McComas, John D. Wor-
thington, E. II. Prigg, P. Il. Rutledge, A. 81.
bert, w. II. Bayless, r. Jno. Rogers, D. H.
Standiford, Jno. II. Reckord, c. w. Proctor,
James McCurdy, VIM. E. Robinson, VIM. B.
Baker, John Slime, FL. Spalding, Robert w.
Holland, B. F. Hanway, Robert George,
Samuel Wilson, W. Beatty Harlan, Hon.
Herman Stump, II. G. Bowman, Abel d.
Wilson, E. II. Webster of Jno., Jas. M. Rey-
nolds, VIM. E. Robinson, Jas. P. STREET.,
| Wakeman Bevard, Jas. L. Richardson, Israel
Morris Dean, james B. Preston, Benjamin
Sawyer, Elijah B. Whistler, A. T. Patterson,
Jas. w. Hanna, John o. Stearns, r. G. Lee,
VIM. 81. Waters, John STREET.. Humphrey
| Wilson, Theodore Moore, Henry j. McCurdy,
Jacob Stephenson, Johns Hopkins, Frank G.
| Norris, VIM. E. Thornton, Amos Hollings-
worth, VIM. P. Trimble, VIM. B. Hopkins,
Ira George, Amos V. Bailey, Samuel K. Fen
dali, Garrett Amos, JOS E. Bateman, John
Webster, Nathaniel Hollingsworth, Edward
Hollingsworth, Chas. L. Vail, Alphonso Rob-
inson, Chas. A. McGaw, VIM. M. Scarbo-
rough, Chss. Whitaker, David L. Tucker,
Henry A. Osborn, Thos. Lochsry, Brinton
Il. Warner, VIM. STREET., w. W. Preston, II.
B. Bruins, John B. Wysong, Thos. Hollings-
worth, Henry G. Preston, Geo. r. Cairnes,
Joseph James, E. NJ. Allen, Jr., Jos. Parry,
Geo. L. Scott, Jas. Lee, Geo. A. Cairnes, c.
Joshua Rutledge, VIM. Griffin, E. M. Allen,
Israel NJ Wheeler, A. 81. Strasbaugh, A P.
Silver, ]. P. Silver. A. 81. Chase, Of Iowa;
]. L. Mccormick, G. w Richardson, Glen.
Sewell, Arch. Wilson, Hugh T. Heaps, NJ.
Standiford, Thomas Cannon, Jno. ]. Alexan-
der, Thos. A. Hays, Frank Haviland, Angus
tus Smith, VIM. j. Keen, W. E. Thompson,
Jno. T. Patterson, Chss. e. STREET., Wilbur
F. Wallis, VIM. Munnikhuysen, Edwin Hav-
F. Hays, S. Martin Bayless, VIM. T. Easter,
Geo. r. Stephenson, Thomas Kennedy. VIM.
T. Sawyer, Price Hopes, John Stonebraker,
Jas. B. Kenly, VIM. Michael, J. w. Moore,
VIM. M. Edelen, A. M. Fulford, Elisha R.
| Tucker, Thomas 81. Robinson, Jos. B. Han
way, VIM. F. Reasin, George Y. Maynadier,
Chas. A. Grey, John Wilson, ]. B. Hoskins,
| VIM. Wilson.
Natural History.
A class in natural history was called up
| for recta tim The teacher talked tn them n