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

Of its healthy digestion. If horse i
brought in tired and is fed imme diately, and
fills his stomach, there may not be sufficient
gastric juice to perform its office. The food
will then ferment. Soon the horse wilfbloat
the breathing becomes hard, with frothine
ar the mouth. This may not be con.
founded with the hard breathing in lung
fever, since, in the latter, there is no bloat-
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,
'whlch p5rourc5s tiittsrohdan prpssEsyng
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, a hcaping 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 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 one-half to
three -fourths of an ounce of alocs This, if
put into water by itself, will not dissolve,
but, if put into pint Of warm water in
which 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
palatabe
Should the animal seem in much pain,
give two ounces of laudanum or an ounce
or OvrrrrrI sr--orrr.~u--~~-..--Is1>-
Should the physic not operate in an hour,
or half an hour, if it is 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
rcr had known horse to die in thirty min
utcs, in spite of all efforts. Aconitc is
sometmcr 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 cffervescence
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 chestnut rail.-Prot Crcs$y
FIGs.--Wc 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 figs is strongish hazel
loam on a dry bottom, but they thrive in
any good garden soil. vs.
Much depends ON pruning the young
shoots produced i'll the spring do not ripcn
fruit, but if these shoots be stopped by
breaking oft 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
ito"i oiu pi"hohos ahu otoppinS 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 we'll worth de-
Tending from frost by wollen netting, or
some other temporary curtain, to be let
down or put up when noocssary. All tho |
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 or
both sides of the place where the first grew.
This second birth are sure to ripen in the
following summer-FlOricla 1gricuHuria
The yield CT wheat per acre in this
section, nays the Covington (Ga.) Star, has
been unusually fine the present season, and
fairly rivals California and other celebrated
wheat growing sections of our country
For instance, we have been informed that
Prof. Galloway made 81 bushels on one acre,
in Oxford MIR. G. G. Epps is reported as
having made 75 bushels on one and half
acres. These are most extraordinary yields
for this section but it shows what can be
done, under proper culture and favorable
seasons The wheat crop in this section is
the finest we have had for years, and will
greatly relieve the financial pressure that is
now upon the country.-,Southc,m Farmer.
| do not doubt but that genuine picty is
the OtfSprinu of ncoc, of mind a.. =, on,J loo ~.