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Show Answers by Hie Veterinarian Dr. A. S. Alnxnni' ' f.'eJ"i Co.7c bt Ajr,.jltur Contagious Ophthalmia Thin Horse 11IAVB si rioik of 100 oivs that hiivr hail r.orv eyH.und one or two went blind; i invc 'lost! fifty' lurnbs that .scii?ied too wf-ak j to live:tliavcjlsl)ly live ants Ml nnl some of tlirm are r8tl,Tf! with' norc eyes. What i It I mid what cuii lie done? 1 , Uavo-ycar-old hor.-o thnt wojVI xot fat; nlps hla fld-s. but looks .ill H?ht otherwise. Any Snfonnatlon will be upprf-cUttcd. upprf-cUttcd. ThanUtri? you In ;idvnmc Carl' Whltesell. Arrowsmith. 111. Rrply i. This disease Is ronlaf;loir, ?nd remalnK In an affect il rl: I"1' tine. ' Kvvc8 and. lambs should b, moved onto fresh . ground awwy from the Infertfd area. Treat by wasHlnic affected eye? twice rkillywlth a soturated solution of borlo acid and two or threo tlrnosa week puiTinff between "yed.s with a little of a mixture of eqm'l parts of finely rwdered calomel and boric odd. Sponco cyt;of laib at Mrtlwith a 10 per cent solution so-lution of i boric -.acid or drop In two drops of ixl p,frJcfnt solution of nitrjte of silver, to I be lteptTln'a blue-colored bottle 2. Have the hor."e-clipped and his teeth nttended to In a ; veterinary 'deiM?t. Feed him ne o.uart of black sttp molaeaes mlxrd with three, quarts of warni water and stirred up with ; , cut hay,,trin and cornmoal. Give this nlRht ?snd mornVnff with whole oats at noon and,! leng Kay at night. . A 'Leaking Teats 1 A. fc, : y now can wo prevent the teat from I streaming milk before milkinc time" The ; cowlsTner.'calvlnfr now and the teats ci re Ihtkc and ahe.ts a very easy millcer pnd hoaJthy. Srfe ifs a bis mesa of milk when frosh. G- II-. Mlnsourl. I Reply The old-fahloned, plan is to, make the ends of the teats sore; but this is. a pnor : practht.jns it may lead to dangerous Infec-, tlon oftlteiudder. We k-now of no permanent ' cure. Ifjany one ha one would be very';ld to'hear'rom'hl'ni. Mechanical measures inn-i inn-i eljTt Intylnc rjde tapey around the ends of ! the teats or palntlnp the ends after' milking with coat upon coat of flexible collodion, which harden and prevents escnpe of milk. Sometimes milking threo limes a day hclpi In jjuch cases. Enlarged Stifle Joints l t A 4 -month-old oolt has two bl;? Ftlfle Joints, aiod they pweni to be tu.l of fluid. The veterinary says they come from leak of joint water This is the second coll wv have hod. The other one Is a year old and both Its stifles arc large and growing hlpt'er and the. muscles below and above ure wasted away, p.ies this trouble breed? We did not n'ork the mare that was the mouther of t'ir. 4-month-old colt, and neighbor say vhe rl-.ould havorbeen worked and thai would have prevented the stifle swellings. Any w- vice you can nrlve. me about thix trciubU! will be welcome G. II. T Minnesota i Rcplji-yNot working: the mare was not the cause of this stifle disease; nor Is It hereditary. hered-itary. ThV, cause is infection of the navel at birth, a 6ubject that has been spoken of Jere several time of late. It will be found full discussed In circular of Information No. 13 of the agricultural experiment station of Wisconsin. Thin circular Is entitled "Care of New.-Bein Foals" and may be had on application ap-plication to Dean II, L rtusseii, college of ogriculHire, Madison. Wis. Tho disease Is easily -prewented by having the mare foal In - a clean place and by applying a strong solution solu-tion of corrlve Fubliniate to the navel at blrtb and then twice a day until the part Is perfectly healed. Cases such as yon describe ' rareV respond satisfactorily to treatment. The Effected celt1 usually remains a cripple for life. On .dlsefpctlon of affected Joints we ' hiAff.Vine aK-rrated condition of the car-tllape car-tllape co iriifujytjye ends of the bones form- ' tng the JelnU Hub ' tho enlargement with lodino'olnlmejit each other day. |