The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1877-07-13
COLIC IN HORSES.


fermentation of food in the stomach, instead
Of it's healthy digestion. If horse IS
brought in tired and is fed imme diatcy, and
fills his stomach, there may not be sufficient
gastric juice to performs its Office. The food
will then ferment. Soon the horse wilibloat;
the breathing becomes hard, with frothing
at the mouth. This may not be con-
founded with the hard breathing in lung
fever, since, in the latter, there is no boat-
ing. The passage of the stomach and bow
els become clogged with the masses of un-
digested food, the gas arising from the fer
mentation cannot pass out of the stomach,
wh5ph p5rDmcJr diisrcn ndea, =Iutt tprssseyrne
diaphragm forward so that the lungs cannot
expand, the breath becomes short and the
rapid breathing will shortly induce frothing.
If the trouble reaches this stage, the horse
will rarely live more than an hour In this
disease, time is of tho greatest value AS
soon as you see your horse is bloating. give
something to stop the fermentation. For
this, heaping tablespoonful of saleratus is
the best thing. Spirits of hartshorn in a
dose of half an ounce, very much diluted, is
also good. IF now you have checked the
fermentation for five minutes, the next thing
is to make the gas pass off. TO do this, give
warm water injections freely, injecting all
the animal will hold, if it is a pailful. Turn
the horses head down hill, and use small
force pump, if you have one, or if not use
u piece of rubber tube which should be in
serted as far as it will go with case, and the
end of the tube may then be turned up and
funnel put in, into which turn warm water.
After you have put all the horse will hold,
turn him about and let it pass away, and
repeat the operation till tho bowels become
free, and the gas passes off, Meantime,
another hand should be preparing dose of
physic, which should be from ouc-half to
three-fourths of an ounce of aloes. This, if
put into water by itself, will not dissolve,
but, if put into pint of warm water in
which a heaping tablespoonful of saleratus
has been dissolved, the aloes will dissolve,
and the salcratus will be useful as an anti
septic to stop the fermentation to this can
be added some molass s to make it more
palatablc.
Should the animal seem in much pain,
give two ounces of laudanum or an ounce
or on
Should the physic not operate in an hour,
or half an hour, ic it is u very severe case,
repeat the dose, keeping up the injections
during the time.
If there is structure from kinking Of the
bowels, there will be no help. The lectu-
rer had known horse to die in thirty min
utcs, in spite of all efforts. Aconite is
sometimcr given to cure collie, but it was of
no value; nor is salt or vinegar, or both,
of use. Chalk and vinegar, which are
sometimes given, the chalk first and then
the vinegar, will alone produc, collie, and
should never be given, as the effervescence
may give pressure sufficient to burst the
bowels. In no event take out the animal
and run or trot him about, nor rub his belly
with a chestnut rail.-Ercf Cres$y.
FIas.--We came across an old work
from which We take the following extract
it may be Of service to our fg-growors:
| The best soil for fgs is strongish hazel
loan on adry bottom, but they thrive in
fany good garden soil.
Much depends on pruning; the young
shoots produced in the spring do not ripcn
fruit, but if these shoots be stopped by
breaking off the point as soon as they arc
from four to six inches long, they will pro.
duce other shoots which will bear plentiful.
ly, and ripen fruit in the autumn of the
next year. So that keeping the tree free
from old branches, and stopping the spring
shoots every year about midsummer, will
keep constant supply of bearing wood to
be depended on. Large fig trees on walls
managed in this manner are well worth de.
Tending from frost by wollen netting, OF
laoIe other temporary curtain, to be lei
Fddwn or puC up~wnun -noccsguryr--zsAl-sl. " -sl.S
fruit produced ON the spring shoots, and
which never ripen, should be pulled off the
tree in September, causing very frequently
other young fruit to come forth on one OF
both sides of the place where the first grew
This second birth are sure to ripen in the
following summer.-F2orida Agriculturist
The yield CT wheat per acre in this
section, ,says the Covington (Ga.) Star, ha,
been unusually fine the present season, and
fairly rivals California and other celebrated
wheatgrowing sections Of our country
For instance, we have been informed that
Prof Galloway made 81 bushels on one acre
in Oxford: Mr.. G. 9. Epps is reported as
having made rs bushels on one and hal
acres. These are most extraordinary yields
for this section but it shows what can be
done, under proper culture and favorable
seasons. Tho wheat crop in this section il
the finest we have had for years, and will
greatly relieve the financial pressure that i.