VETERINARY QUERIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 3019, 24 January 1912, Page 51

VETERINARY QUERIES.

[Answered by a duly qualified Veterinary ' Surgeon. Queries must be received by SATURDAY night to ensure reply in the succeeding issue.]

J.M., Farmer. —It is a groat mistake to work an animal before it has sufficiently _ recovered from an attack of influenza cold'. In the case of your mare use hand rubbing on the swellings daily; keep her well wrauped up in a good cover, and supply her with green feed or turn her out in n wellsheltered paddock during fine weather, and give occasional doses of nitre. Paul, Eden dale.—The plugs in the teats of your heifer are probably concretions from the milk, end may bu caused' by a slight congestion of the secreting gland. Thev may be extracted by manipulation, or with a grooved director, the teat having been first relaxed in a warm solution of belladonna. Oi.o Subscriber writes,describing the manner in which small lumps come out all over the body of a heifer when it rains. They disappear when the weather takes up again. Answer: These lumps aro sometimes named sweat boils, and often prove a great annoyance, and if they break cause a nasty sore difficult to heal. It would bo as well to put your heifer through a course of alternative medicine. Keep the back well bathed with a solution of alum and water, a couple of tablespoon fu la of alum to a quart of rain water. The following powder might be of service: Take sulphur c ublim. 4oz, nitrate of potash 2oz. powdered gentian loz. mix and give a tablc.spoonful night and morning mixed in her feed. Farmer. Palmerston. —Lameness in horses is at all times difficult to diagnose, even after the animal is personally examined. Without having had tho opportunity of an examination it would bo me.ro guess-work to attempt to give the cause of the trouble with your m.are aud guess-work usually ends in failure.