The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1874-03-06
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Injury 10 Horses from DTJ
Feeding.

Injury 10 Horses from DT.
ET Feeding.
fFro1n the western KuraIl
Iti well known that horses kept ]
stables tor long lime exclusively c
dry food, and generally when i2l
feJ on grain, become G unit, hard n
dry-heshed, the hair becomes haul
and the skin loses that peculiar ra'
low feeling, IS! ecially when Kept j
ci ysisbles, indicative OF the beailE.
animal La the end it is sold 10
little or nothing, or else descend
2 down through sil the gradstiops 0
horse poverty, 10 the street peddier'
or scavenger's cart. Finally the fni-
NAL wastes away altogether and dies
or else is carried of by the hIs'
epidemic that occurs.
One Of the most serious effect' q
thus curse of feeding is undoubtedly
indigestion, which being aggravated
from time to time, st last becomes
chronic. This is one OF the CHEZ
sources OF the loss of horses in our
large cities. Especially is this the
case with that class OF horses that,
under the care OF ignorant groOms,
and doing but little work except to
the family carriage, are especially
susceptible TO this iDfrmiiY. Hard
fare and more work may assist them
70 partially recover, but they never
come back to real health, unless they
can run for q summer at least, on
very short pasture; if they can have
the first half Of the winter, with a
warm shed tor shelter, with rather
short commons of good hay and few
carrots until February, SO much the
better. They may then be gradually
ted grain and carrots and, by spring,
their coats will again be blooming,
and they will have regained their old
life and metile.
The cause is that the animals have
suffered from continued dry feeding,
or stufing with grail at the hands oi
Ignorant drivers, and have become
graln-foundered, or grain-killed, as
this disability is sometimes called. In
fact, however, they are confirmed |
dyspeptics. The effect of this course |
of feeding Is observable in many farm
horses, when fully fed upon grain for
considerable length of time, whether
at work or not, particularly, as is
often the case in the West, if they be
not pastured in summer. The remedy |
is plain and simple: When horses
are idle in the winter, the grain should
be taken from them in a great de
gree, and il it be observed that they
have inordinate appetites, without
due condition, the remedy shoUld be
applied as before state 1. In the
absence of carrots, they should be fed
light bran mashes, or other similar
food, and be allowed the run of a
yard until the detected appearance
and staring coat is removed, and the
skin again becomes soft to the touch.
There are individuals near all our
large cities who make a business OF
buying such horses, and treating them
Is we have shown, re-selling them in
from eight to twelve months.
The livery stable men, and those
keeping large stables of horses, well
the effects of constant
feeding on dry food, and consequently
buy carrots at high prices, from the
we'll known effect that the feeding of
these roots has on the digestive or !
gans of farm animals, and especially
on horses, to which they seem par
ticularly adapted and grateful
If every farmer would raise from
fifteen to twenty-five bushels of carrots
for every team kept, thereafter the
feeder would never be without this
invaluable and natural remedy for
bringing back to health ANIMALS that
have been injured from the over
feeding of grain. 1t is well known
that horse on full work will do
better on twelve quarts of oats
day, with the addition of a peck of
carrots and due proportion of good
hay, then on three pecks of oats with
out the carrots. La the winter season,
until the first of February, horses,
unless worked, are altogether better
without rrain at all, if fed carrots
and hey, than they would be with
grain.
There is feeling among farmers
that If costs more to raise bushel Of
than bushel of grain. This
Is the fact unless the soil be in high
and the crop be kept clean.
II this be the case, the cost is far
less; but even if such were the fact, it
would pay to cultivate due proper
ton of these valuable roots. And
again, if enough were grown to give
esch milch COW from q peck to half
bukhel daily, we should hear less OF
white butter in winter. But when
We took up the subject OF the in
juriousness Of dry feeding, we did not
intend to enter upon the raising of
carrots for farm stock. If we sue
ceed in calling attention to the num-
Der of horses rendered dyspeptic and
disabled from this cause, and have
made the proper remedial measures
clear, we shall have done what we
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