The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1858-07-30
AG GRICULTURAL.
From The Ohio Farmer.

FROM the Ohlv hIWtf.
Diseases and Management Of Horses.
az ONE WHO HAS LEARNED By ExrEEiEscE.
Having in the last twenty years
owned and used great many horses,
both on the farm and road, ! think !
have learned some things in references
10 them that may bc Of use to those Of
less experience. Aud as ] have learned
many Of those things in that school OF
(which it is said that, although dear,
fools will learn in no other, ! will now
give them to the reader gratis, with
the hope that they may profit thereby:
CoLIc-lts symptoms and Curc--l
have found that by far the most con-
mon disease to which the grown horse
of this climate is subject, is collie
simple collie, brought OIL by q collec-
ton of gas in the stomach and large
lintestines: and that an almost never
failing cure for it is, one ounce Of
llaudanum, aud one ounce Of sweet
spirits Of nitre, diluted with gill q
water. Attacks Of collie are more Or
less sudden and violent, but generally
, before the animal begins TO suficrirom
! violent and continued pain, ne viii
dlshow symptoms Of occasional uneasl-
,rlness, BY switching his sides with his
IyItail, stamping with his hind legs
which he will often bring forward, and
= up against his belly; looks round at
j., his sides. draws his legs under him
Il and kneels as though he was going to
ie lie down, but straigltens up again and
stands for moment apparently casy,
=; when the symptoms viii again return,
and he will lie down and attempt to
roll, but will jump mp, stamp, sw'eeh'
e' and lie down again. It is now high
4. time he should have the dose, which
splace in long neck bottle, shake 70
sr- ycther, and drench with, being careful
70 wash his mouth ont with clear
e., warn, warm water, which will prevent
in its being made sore by the nitrc. Lei
icy him be Just as quiet as possible; in iac
YOU had better 90 away and leave hin
'rp an hour, when you may return to flnt
: him in ninctv-nine cases out OF hun
:" drcd. relieved. Shall / tell you how
7. | learned my first lesson in horse COLI
! -Iexperience! Well, some years since
viII one morning in November, after hav
ing fed my horses oil new corn, an'
!. harnessed them for the wagon, dis
~, covered the above symptoms of un
nee |easiness in a valuable brown gelding
which was my saddle horse whel
nan working four 10 one wagon, after %
Pennsylvania fashion. limmcdiate'
'i,h sent for ncighbor, who was the hors
doctor Of our town. He said the hors
.tle had bolts. drenched him with milk an
q molasscs. weak lye, Nc.. &c., &c., o.
and kept him in constant motion 3
n shaving boy ride him back and fcr'l
ath- until in about two hours be staggere
and fyll--dcath having kindly relieve
Be- him from such torture. Such hor'
lica- nj that time was worth. which VI
relatively just as much then e q
wing hundred and fifty dollars arc now.-
: q So, my friends, you sec ny lesson GO
me forty dollars per hour then, ~
% would cost you or ! now seventy-n
'a'sF dollars per hour. And let me tell y
there are just such horse doctors y
i and they will nearly always tell y
~ 'slwhen your horse has collie that lac ,
the bolts, and treat him according'
he and ii they do not kill him i Is 2
a. ~