Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-11-04

WATERING HORSES AFTER MEALs.-A
full drink of water Immediately after being
fed, should never be allowed to horses. When
water is drank by them, the bulk of it goes
directly to the large intestines and little of it
is retained in the stomach. In passing through
the stomach, however, the water carries con-
siderable quantities of the contents to where it
lodges in the intestines. If, then, the food of
the stomach is washed out before it is digest
ed, no nourishment will be derived from the
feed. In Edinburgh, some old horses were
fed with split peas, and then given water i'm
medately before being killed. 1t was found
that the water had carried the peas from fifty
to sixty feet into the iptestines, where no d.
gestion took place at all. Mr.. Cassie is quite
correct in the views set forth regarding the
injurious effects of large quantities of water
swallowed Immediately after eating. A small
quantity of fluid swallowed along with, or i'm.
mediately after dry food, bene6cially softens
it and assists in its division and digestion.
An inordinste supply of water, or Of watery
fluid, on the other hand, proves injurious. 1t
dilutes unduly the digestive secretions it me-
chanically carries onward the imperfectly di-
gested food, and thus interferes with the prop
er functions of the canal, and excites indiges-
ton and diarrhna. These untoward effects
are especially apt to occur where horses freely
fed and too literally watered, are shortly put
to tolerably quick work. There is no more
infallible method of producing collie, diar-
rhea, and inflammation of the bowels. The
horse is not peculiar in this effect; dogs, and
even their masters, similarly suffer from copi-
Gus draughts of water Immediately after eat
ing much solid food.
REMEDY FOR SMUT IN WHEAT.-A farm
er in Ireland whose wheat was much affected
by smut succeeded in remedying this evil by
adopting simple preventive, which he learn
ed had been practiced successfully in Elan
ders for many years The remedy is a steep
composed of sixty pounds of quicklime and
thirty pounds of salt, made into solution
sufficient to cover 800 pounds of wheat
In order to test this remedy, he procured
the worst smutted wheat he could find, and
after sleeping for different periods, he sowed
112 pounds divided into four equal parts on
equal portions of land.
No. l, merely stepped so as to cleanse it.
No. 2, stepped in the solution II hours.
No. 3, stepped d hours.
No. 4, stepped 4S hours.
At reaping the No. was dreadfully black
No. 2 had good deal of black in it; No. 3
none at all Nos. 3 and 4 swelled very much
but did not burst No. 2sweled also, but not
so much. Seeing that No. 8, which was
stepped for twenty-four hours, succeeded as
we'll as No. 4, he has practiced sleeping for
twenty-four hours, and has continued to do sc
with perfect success for thirty-two years. He
has not had the slightest appearance of smut
in his wheat since he commenced using this
remedy. After taking the wheat out of the
steep he lets it lie in heap to drain. In
broken weather he has kept it for ten days
after being stepped, turning it every day
without any bad results.
This remedy has also been tried by 80 many
in this country, and found successful, that Il
is fair to consider it as an established antidote
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