Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-11-02
good work, Notwithstanding thefact that all
of his guarded conclusions will net be &C.
copied rs Invaluable. sT
RoTs IN EoRsEs-THK CAD FLY

Bots do not injure horses. but are a bene
fit. 1t is not unfreqlent that | am cailet
upon to relieve some horse said to be troub
led with bots, but during my practice, which
has been nearly twenty years, l have no
found a case where q horse has suffered AM
Inconvenience from this harmless parasite
The masses have become honest in the be
lief of their supposed destructive habits, TO,
the want of better knowledge OF those sup
posed habits and purposes.
Veterinary science unfolds to us that na
ture has made this provision, and the only
provision whereby the CAD fly LEstrus equi
is terminated by and in the stomaclle of tls
bra. euagga, etc. What nature has made
she has made perfect. | find no time in The
horses life when he is so hehlthy as whel
he run to pasture. All horses that run il
pasture during autumn haye bots, all colts
have them, and colthood is the Lealthies1
part of their HIVES.
The CAD fly is Matched and commences his
work about August 1st.
The female sticks the eggs with gluten
upon the forward limbs and shoulder of the
horse; he ticks them off; they come in CON
tact with the saliva of the mouth, at which
moment they terminate into lite. This is
shown by taking an egg between the thumb
and finger and applying warm spittle, and
it germinates at once. AS soon as germi-
mated, they seek some substance to which
they can attach themselves. They find
nothing until they reach the stomach. Here
they find natures provision, the cuticular
coat, which occupies but a small portion of
the stomach-that portion near the cardiac
oritice. To the euticular coat they attach
themselves by two hooks or prohoseides,
situated at the anterior portion of the bot
in this position they remain firmly until
March or April. when they mature in this
larya state and let go their hold and pass
away with the excrement. AS soon as
voided. they work their way under some
earthly substance or manure, and change to
q Crystals state. They remain in this state
until the first of August, when they break
from their shell and come forth a male and
female CAD hy, and go about their work lay
ing their eggs. These questions are often
asked me, and their answers may be- of prac-
tical Utility to many farmers and horse own
ers. Does not the bot bore or gnaw through
the stomach of the horse, and thereby cause
deaths My answer is, they do not. AS
they have no organ by which by which they
can bore, neither do they have teeth where
by they may gnaw. For the coatings or
membranes Of the stomach would require
teeth of the carnivora to gnaw them.
they have a month shaped for suction. and
themselves by sucking the mucous
the stomach. The next question in order
is, how came the holes in the stomach which
we often find when performing autopsy?
These holes are produced by the action of
the gastric juice upon the coatings of the
stomach after DEATH Weste19a Rural.
SHoRTHoRNs DO Nor FAIL.-The Marx
Lane Enpress, in noticing Il Yorkshire agri-
cultural meeting, uses these very significant
Then the Shorthorn still holds its