The Democratic sentinel and Harrison County farmer. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1851-1852, 1852-09-29

muscle TO the young. Less food, both as TO
Quantity and cost but of proper kind, fed
in proper temperature, and protected from
undue variation would producea a better ami
NAL of more enduring character. This
open and careless feeding gives rise to lean
iness, hide-bound, general edema, diarrhGa,
woams lice, &c., and catarrh and the vari'
!ous diseases of the respiratory organs, are
sure to follow as part of the consequences of
insufficient shelter and improper food
ga tubercular predispositon is frequent
lily produced in colts reared in this manner;
producing disease of the mesenteric glands,
and mucous follcles of the small intestines,
which become enlarged, and filled with un-
healthy pus and tuberculous matters; arrl-
,sing from mal-nutrition-the consequence
iof poverty yo(blood. Bad food, rapid growth,
and the vicisstudcs of wet and cold, are the
common origin OF tubercuar disease.
"When you see colts that have undergone
two or three winters Of this short sighted
system of management, having their skins
Irigid-sticking, us it were, to the ribs-the
llair dnll and dead like, and the summers
keep fail to recover them, YOU may form a
shrcwd guess as to the nature of the disease
"In old horses tie lungs arc the chief seat
iqf tubcrcular disease, and death is the nat
Iural consequence of the disease in the quad
ruped as in The man, and the same LESSONS
are discoytred after death. The lungs are
Ithickly set with tubercies, which are hard,
softened or liberated; they are isolated, or
they form caverns of various sizes, AS in
man. Sometimes there portions Of the lungs
more or less extensive, which are hepatlzed."
1t is mistake to suppose that summer
feeding will compensate for winter starving
Rith colts, for the growth must be compen-
sated Nor by the proper food, Or the animal
cannot flourish If the food is OF a kind de-
fcient OF phosphate of lime, the bones can
not increase in due proportion and strength,
for 85 per cent, of their weight is of this ma,
Iteral, and it can only be received by the
animal from its food, nor will the muscular
development be full unless ritrogenous
matters compose part of their food, and the
absence Of til ose produce the race of long.
legged, misshapped horses which are daily
sold at inferior prices, and for the want oI
!proper-organism soon perish. ...
III OluCl lUISCS, LllS III tuCChS vi
food and shelter are ho less deleteriouS, par
ticularly when they are required to perform
heavy labor.
The common practice Of many self-styled
practical. farmers, of leaving working horses
lat pasture while not at work, and giving
them single grain feed at noon, is fast 60
:. ing into disuse and giving place to the more
IN nj In,
soIing in stables or protected enclosures
where the manures are saved, and the pas.
lures are not destroyed by being trave led
over uselessly. 1t should not he forgotten
that while pasturing, the horse is perform
ing a large amount of labor and no rest for
digestion, and the exceptions, if any, are but
rare whlle.hls exposure tonoon suns and the
chilling blasts of night with occasional wet
tugs from showers, cannot but dissipate his
health and ruin his constitution. From May
to October these mal-practiccs are common
in many parts Of our country, and the very
farmers who so practice.are the first to
complain, for went OF manures to fertalze
their soil, and torwan of teams 70 plow their
fields, .....a. u-. .a-.s - ,aa.
A horse, hot from his work, is turned in
to the pasture field, instead of being placed
in proper shelter, cnd if he happens to mount
the hill top, or is exposed from other cause
to cold air. the blood IS driven from the sur.
face Of the body to the internal parts, and
this IS especially the cause Of cool or cold
nights when left exposed. This produces
congestions, inflammation of the mucous
: membrane which lines the mouth, throat
! lungs, other viscera; giving rise to coughs,
sore throats, bronchitis, heaves, DC, "be.
sides their common consequences, such as
chronic cough, thick wind, ard sometimes
broken wind"
Il Broken ,eind more commonly occurs tc
+ grass fed horses than any others. | have
examined the lungs of several, and have
: always found them in an emphysematons
state. and though apparently sound, and free
from any trace OF morbid deposit or inllam.
ma;ory change, they appeared to have los
great part Of their elasticity and contrat.
. lie power, and consequently could not con.
tract with sufficient energy for the purpose
|, of complete respiration.