VETERINARY NOTES.

New Zealand Mail, 15 February 1900, Page 8

VETERINARY NOTES.

MANGE IN HORSES. If the ease is really one of mange there is no use in merely dressing one part of the body, as it is simply trifling with the disease. The whole of the body from the nose to the tail and the top of the hoofs must 1m dressed with something that will completely kill the parasite. A good and cheap application is common oil, one gallon; Stockholm tar, £lb; sulphur 4oz. This should be warmed, well stirred and mixed, and then applied to the skin by means of a brush in the sun. It may be washed off in two days, and another application made in a week. This ought.to make a complete cure in a fortnight if every part has been well dressed. , HORSE RUBBING.

Rubbing is often due to an itch insect that more especially infests the legs of horses, particularly the Jwid legs. It must be killed, and a good dressing for this purpose is common oil one pint; oil of tar, one ounce ; powdered sulphur, half ounce. This should he placed by the fire for some time, frequently stirring it, and then applied to the leg by means of a brush. The skin should be dressed as high as the hocks and knee all round the legs, and as low as the hoofs. In one or two days afterwards the legs may be brushed with soap and water and well dried.

WARTS ON NOSE OF CurtLY It is better to leave the warts alone for some time, as they may disappear with the growth of the colt. If, however, it is decided to attempt their removal, there are several agents which might be employed. Among these is glacial acetic acid, with which the warts may be touched every day. A strong solution of bichromate of potash, applied in the same way, is also very serviceable in the removal of sonie kinds of warts. Very often warts which are encysted or imbedded in the skin can be removed at-’once by making a small incision through the skin over them, when they can be squeezed out. The •treatment of warts much depends upon their structure and shape.

DOSE FOR HORSE WITH WORMS. An ordinary wineglassful (two ounces or two and a half ounce) of turpentine in a pint of linseed oil is a fair {lose for

a cart horse suffering from white worms in the intestines. The drench should be given when the animals stomach is empty—that is, after she has been kept without food for eight or ten hours—and no food should be given for at least one hour after administering the dose. SORE TEAT.

If a cow occasionally has one teat which has “curdled milk in it” for three or four squeezes, and then the milk becomes clean, there is evidently a weakness in the quarter ‘ from which the curdled milk comes. Both the teat and the whole of that quarter should be rubbed each time after milking with the following : —Tincture of belladonna, one ounce; compound soap liniment, one ounce; olive oil, ten ounces ; mix thoroughly. A drench composed of Epsom salts, four ounces, and bicarbonate of soda, one ounce, dissolved in a pint of water and given daily for three of four days, will assist in relieving the trouble.

LICE ON CALVES. Butter-milk applied as a wash two or three times, with an interval of three days each, will destroy lice on calves. Another good remedy is tobacco water, applied in the same way, the strength' being one ounce of tobacco to a quart of water; stew this for half an hour, adding a little salt to assist in extracting the properties of the tobacco. Train oil will also destroy lice, but it makes the calves in a disagreeable mess. Arnmoniacal gas liquor, which can he obtained at any gas works, is very efficacious, but some persons have a great objection to the odour. PARASITES IN SHEEP.

Measures of prevention against these are: —First-, that dogs suffering from tapeworn on a farm .should be kept in confinement and treated with suitable medicines until the parasites have been completely eradicated, and that all excrement voided at this time should he burnt; second, that the heads of sheet) which die from gid, and other organs containing bladder worms of whatever description, should not be allowed to lie about the farm, as is frequently done, but should be buried deeply or burned, so that the bladderworms may be rendered inaccessible to dogs.