HINTS FOR FARMERS.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2133, 24 December 1880, Page 4

HINTS FOR FARMERS.

To prevent galled shoulders rub the collars inside every few days with a little neatsfoot oil, and when any dirt is found sticking like wax to the collar, ' wash it off with warm soapsuds and then oil it; also oil any chafed spot on the shoulder of tho horse as soon as discovered.

To cure foot rot in sheep tho preparation of the foot is just as essential as the remedy, but if every part of the disease is not laid bare the remedy will not effect a cure. A solution of blue vitriol as strong as can be made and hot as you can bear your hand in, even for a moment, having the liquid three or four inches deep, or deep enough to cover all the affected parts ; then hold the diseased foot in this liquid ten minutes, or long enough to penetrate to all the diseased parts; put the sheep on a dry barn floor for twenty hours to give it a chance to take effect. In every case where I have tried it, it has effected a cure, and I have never given sheep medicine internally for foot rot. This remedy I call a dead shot when ; the foot is thoroughly prepared; but a more expeditious way, and where you don’t hardly hope to exterminate tho disease but keep it in subjection, is this:— After preparing the feet as for the vitriol cure, take batter of antimony, pour oil of yitrol into it slowly until the heating and boiling process ceases, and apply with a swab. This remedy works quicker, is stronger than the vitriol, and is just as safe; but its mode of application renders it less sure.—“ Ohio Farmer,” in “ Scientific American.”

Flat diffused warts on a horse’s face may be treated (says the “Hew York Tribune ”) by smearing the surface of each daily with the strongest acetic acid. It may be applied with a glass rod or a piece of wood, and care should be taken to avoid getting it on the adjacent healthy ports; and above all, to keep it out of the eye. A few dressings will usually suffice for small warts ; for the larger ones it must be continued until all the bard resistant nodular growth has been removed. Large warts, with narrow necks, are easily removed by tying a stout thread round the neck of each, so as to completely stop circulation.

The following is a safe and effectual remedy for mange : —Whole (sperm) oil, 6 oz. j oil of tar, 3 oz.; lac sulphur, 2 oz. Mix thoroughly, and apply by means of a hair brush. The ekin should be thoroughly washed before the remedy is applied. At the end of the second or third day the animal is again to be washed, and the remedy to be re-applied, as it is very possible that all tha ova (of tho mango insect) are not killed by the first dressing. Mange being a contagious disease, it is essential that all animals suffering from it should be isolated, and all objects with which they come in contact purified. The clothing is to be boiled in a solution of oosp and carbolic acid, and the harness, saddle, and grooming utensils washed with warm water and soap, and dressed with a solution of arsenic or corrosive sublimate, in the proportion of ten grains to tho ounce of water. After being so washed and dressed they are to be kept for several days exposed to dry air, washed again with soap and water before they are used, and before they are again put on the horse they should be sprinkled on the side next to the horse’s skin with sulphur, as in many cases the harness and clothing are lined with thick scabs containing the ova of the parasites, the vitality of which is so great as to almost defy all efforts to destroy it.