Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1872-11-20
Harm and Garden.
I'd griculturc is tie General Pr,Yah Of man: II
Is the Basis Of oil mhc.*, and Msrtforr, tie
most UsgM md Iionorabic."
The Horse and I. e veterninary AT

AS the breed OF horses improves 20 will
their value increase. Under these cir
cums.ances it is necessary that n know-
edge of the disease to which the. horse is
liable should be subject of interest to
their owners five are to consider the
horse subject to tire same disease or near
ly so as the human, why is it not as neces-
sary to possess a knowledgeof veterinary
materia medica Us human medicine? We
contend rs veterinary surgeons that the
same elements are necessary to the ex-
istence of the horse MS that Of man th
the circulation Of the blood il II purely
physical phenomenon and governed, by
the laws of hydraulics; that respiration
in the horse is a combination ofphy<ical
and chemical actions; that digestion is
function partly mechanical and rurtly
chcmical; that muscular motion, includ-
ing locomotion, is essentially in the horse
a mechanical acti.n.
Secretion is fiinc;ion under the phvs-
ical laws Of endosmosc and of chemical
action. Absorption belongs to the do
main of physics, calorifcation to cllcmis-
try. Thus we perceive that the phcnonl-
ella of the vitality Of the horse are con-
trollcd by the same forces that govern
human vitality. If then we admit the
above, why is it not us essentially ncces-
sary that a veterinarian should possess a
scientific knowledge of the animal
economy, to qualify him to treat the
disease ofihe horse as the human surgeon
his patient? l think it requires more
profound study. We have spccchlcss
animal to treat, and our diagnosis must
be from the symptoms 'ihich by The nat
ural instinct of the animal ar. present
ed, and it is a knowledge of tho>c symp-
toms that enables the veterinarian to nc
quire skill in proaouncing this or that
organ to be the seat of disease, and the
disease itself to he of this or that nature.
But the treatment of the diseases ofhorses
must beprompt and cfficacious, for when
we consider that the circulation is not
more than from thirty five to forty beats
per minute, respiration from five to ten
per minute, digestion also tardy, and that
the bowels cannot be attained in less than
ten or twelve hours, we might infer that
disease would also be slow in its progress.
1t is not SO. | have known lung fever to
run its course III sixteen hours, n severe
case of collie in twelve hours, and inflam.
nation Of the bowels liz the same time.
This shows the necessity of il scientific
knowledge of the diseases of the horse,
that the proper remedies may be employ
ed i'll proper doses and ut the proper
time.
If the owners OF valuable horses would
reflect for n moment on the necessity of
understanding the na urc and treatment
of disease, re should not hear of SO many
of our valuable animals being lost by the
treatment of persons having no preten-
tion whatcver-indecd possessing none
to medical science. III this }it-or-lniss
manner ofproceeding some valuable dis
coveries have been made, but the fixtures
would exhibit n picture that the pretender
himself would look upon with rci,iorsc.
Time, however, will d.spel the gloom, and
rs veterinary science progresses, the
owners of valuable horses will see that
superiority i'll knowledge is the ,e.erinu-
rian's effective weapon, bringing him be-
fore the public not merely as n practical
but as n scientific practitioner.
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Add the width of the bottom of the crib
in inches to the wild h across the corn in
the upper part; also in inches; divide the
sum by two, and multiply it by the
height and length Of corn in the crib, also
in Inches, and divi.l. the product by q
$50. The result will give ,lc hcaprd
bushels ai ss,ss, two .,s'e!.es M. N:.!el. @!!!
make q bushcl of shci!cd cora, If of the
flint variety, and one and a ha.fif of the
Western Dent corn. BY multiplying
the average width. height nd lenght in
incehs torether lhp cubic. ro,,t MS In in