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died of some form Of inflammation of the
bowels or lungs, mostly the former. brought
on by the injudioiou, feeding or watering.
Just before or Just after hard work. The
horse has often been called tender animal
because Of his liability to sudden attacks Of
illness, but IT should be constantly borne in
mind tina; no other animal is subject or LA
bic to such harsh treatment as the horse.
none so frequently oyerworked. so irregu-
LARRY fed and so abused and i'll treated gen
orally. Horses that are properly cared for,
regularly fed. watered and not worked nor
driven beyond their powers of endurance,
are rarely sick and more rarely die Of acute
disease. Under she present hard treatment,
the majority Of horses art not worth much
after they become fifteen or sixteen wears
OF age when they should be IN their prime
at that age. When at Oxford county Fair
recently. We saw a horse with which We
were acquainted twenty SIX YEAR, ago and he
was then SIX wears old. He has been own
ed BY Alden Chase. Esq, Of WOODSTOCK. for
twenty-eighi years and when we saw him
recently at NORWAY. he was fat and tro,ied
OF as spg a. colt He has always been
comfortably housed. regularly and bounti-
fully fed and never over-worked or over
driven.
The following principles in feeding and
watering are laid down By compe,en, author
ity and should be carefully studied; l.
Food and water are required by the animal
organism To be converted into the system
into tissues worn away By the work. bodily
and mental. ,. Those parts of the food
not SO converted, after undergoing change.
are parted with (by the bowels and kidneys
for the most part.l ,. The horses body
possesses no receptacle wherein stock OF
ngtriment can be laid by as nuiriment. and
as during work the system quickly exhausts
the nutrimeni taken at any one time. It re
quires rcplenisnins every four hours. {
The act Of eating and digesging food calls
for a good deal Of nervous energy. which
must originate in the nervous system. jus;
as watering. trotting, and gallopins call FOR
energy which must originate IN the nc.yous
system. ). There are not two nervous
energies in any one organism. and the
amount Is a measurable and exhausiIble
quantity therefore. If work eNhausts il. and
there is none left. the work of digestion,
driven by nerve power, cannot take place.
g. Fluid. such a. water. can reach. and
quickly 30. the blood and solid structures
with a minimum amount Of this energy bu,
after II has so reached thers, nervous ener-
" Is required to distribute it so tina, il shall
not chill the TISSUES, and bring on nervous
shocks manifested in various WAYS, such a.
cramp or collie Of the bowels founder in
famed lungs, suppressed skin action, and
shivers, &c, &c.1 :. Water is required not
only to replace loss from the body. but TO
assist digestion; and as this must not be
taken with or after the food, ii must be in
the blood at the time of feeding so that, in
an altered form.it is copiously poured out by
the lining Of the stomach to mix with the
food.
Having studied carefully the principles
offeeding the practice viii be found easy,
the following rules will be understood and
appreciated; /. The food must contain
all the nutritive qualities IN sufficient guam
tity and OF proper quality which the waste
IN the tissues requires for their repair. ,
The waste products Of food must not be
allowed TO dwell in the system. 5. The
horse must be fed every four hours. or after
that time his system is not existing on the
food taken four hours before, but is existing
on the stored up energy from the food pre-
viously taken. The tissues can be trained
10 store up large quantities Of this latent
energy as witnessed in the case Of the hunt
ing horse. l. If work have exhausted all
or nearly all the nervous energy. il is dan
gerous TO give solid food except in very
small quantities. each small quantity being
itself converted into the energy which is
required for subsequent doses of food.
Thus, Sir Heny Thompson recommends
wearied diners to take first a little clear
soup, which quickly passes into energy, and
briskens up the inward powers, enabling
them to give good account of the more
substantial food which follows
The ana Joyous practice in the stable con-
sists in chilled water having good oatmeal
stirred into IT and few handfuls of long hay.
to put of time till the oatmeal has been
converted into the requisite energy
Fluid in some form must be the first thing
given after hard work, when there is much
exhaustion, and the system is so dry as TO
require large quantiiy-the larger the
quantity, the longer the time must be be.
fore solid food in quantity is given, else tn,
system will not have appropriated the wa
ter; much of it will lie in tie digestive track
and so dilute tie digesting juices tina, foot
taken is not acted upon by them, but ferments
gives of gases-tympanitic eolie-and lead,
TO a fatal Inflammation. Then again thu
large quantity of water required must be
given-where there is much exhaustion
after smaller quantity has been given
with oatmeal in it. The very sensation
known as appetite requires nervous energy
to develop it, therefore the oatmeal and
water creates an appetite for no morbidly
thirsty animal can eat, any more than be
can if over-exhausted
Fluid reaches the blood direct when there
is great thirst and the stomach is empty,
and as the blood can resist cold to itself to
limited extent only, the fluid taken must
approximate the heat Of the blood, so that
the latter fluid gets no chill. Hot water
should be put to cold in bucket, not SUI
f.ient to give the water warm feel or ii
nausestes. This is preferable to citing wa
ter stand in hot stables, to contract the heat
from the hot air of TIE stable, as this also
contains noxious gees, which get absorbed
With the hesf. Whea horses eat food quick
" in great qusnfEiss, sscA = cut ehad,