The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-04-16
FAULTS IN FEEDING.
Why Inexperienced Feeders Are Respond
BILE for stock Diseases.

Why Inexperienced Feeders Are Respond
BILE for stock Diseases.
Feeding animals has been aptly COM
pared to the supply of fuel to a steam
boiler. In both cases tESeye is a similar
chemical action involved. Organic
substance is cons uined and heat is pro-
duced, and the heat IS developed into
motion. In both cases the food and
the fuel and the waste of them pass
through channels which are liable to
obstruction, in which case the machin-
cry becomes disarranged, disabled and
possibly rendered useless. Digestion
of food and combustion of fuel when
imperfect produce very similar results.
and it might be useful if the feeder of
live stock would study the ordinary
principles of combustion as introduce
tory to an investigation into the science
of feeding,
As the inexpert feeder is apt to over
feed, whether he is feeding an animal
or furnace, it may be Interesting to
follow up the analogy for the purpose
of illustrating in a familiar manner
through the well known results of the
one error the more complicated and
less known effects of the other. Let
US suppose an engineer feeds his fur
mace with an excess ofGOal. The fire
is overwhelmed, choked and almost ex-
tinguished, while dense smoke pours
from the chimney and chokes it with
SCOT. If he uses resin or oil in place
of the coal the fiues become red hot,
| the smokestack pours out flame and
fire, and an explosion is very apt to
| destroy every thing.
W nod ~ g..
Their; these two cases supply sufficient
material for our present purpose. The
feeder of stock may crowd his animals
with food, gorge the stomach and cram
| the bowels with undigested matter
| Then the entire digestive apparatus is
| choked up; the vital force is para
| lyzed; the liver is overlooked with bile,
and the black blood, overloaded with
the unconsumed carbon, passes thick
and sluggishly through the veins The
infinitely fine capillary vessels are
| clogged; the black, thick blood collects
| in masses and forms the black patches
| so we'll known as the signs of the fatal
| black leg or blood murrain of the stock
| men and the anthOrax fever of the sur
| geOn and the animals life is smothered
| out and it perishes from an overload of
| food which can not be disposed Of
| again. buG SW Au0 4CCuCIg III Inc dBIGU1DL
! to force a rapid growth of fat, crowds
| the corn into his herd. This highly car
| bonaceous food flames out through every
channel of the digestive apparatus,
the blood is violently heated, myriads
of infammatory germs fill the veins
| and arteries, the skin is red hot, so to
| speak, and the crimson and purple
| patches on it denote the enormous ac-
cessiOn of heat that disturbs the vital
functions. The bowels pour out the in
famed fluids and the most intense fever
burns in the whole alimentary canal.
| Every swine feeder will recognize in
this plain description the symptoms of
the common hog cholera, the intestinal
fever of swine which is caused by ex-
cess of infammatOry carbOnaceous
food. Moreover, as the intense combus-
ton produced by infammable fuel in
| DANES adjacent matter, so the infamma-
| tory matter eScapin q from these fevered
animals from the bowels, lungs and
skin communicates the fever to other
animals by contagiOn, and the disease
spreads all the more rapidly because of
the favOrably infammatory condition
| of adjacent herds. AS a cOnfiagration
famed by tornado leaps from house to
house and over wide spaces, so the
fever spreads from herd to herd and
covers whole States in a few weeks.
In much the same way other disease
which prevail extensively are caused
by faults in feeding and disordered
| alimentation. Horses are exceedingly
| subject to these ailments, because their
food consists largely of highly nutri-
| uOus grains, an excess of which loads
| the blood with impure matter, which
| the excretOry organs can not remove
rom it, and which produces various
infammatory disorders. The very
| common disease known as azorturia.
which consists of the presence in the
blood OF unoxidized heterogeneous or
azotic matter, is thus produced. Pus-
| tules appear in the skin; the limbs
| swell; the belly and other parts of the
body becomes tumid; nature in every
way tries to get rid of the offensive ex-
cess, but usually without avail, and the
disease eventuates in the deadly CLAN
ders, which slowly but surely kills the
animals and threatens the safety OF
their owners. These facts are all-per-
yading. Not corner of this broad con-
tinent is free from their presence. The
evil grows fast and is rapidly becoming
a mOnstrous one. 1t disturbs the gen
eral prosperity and produces national
disturbances and i'll feelings. 1t re
duees the national wealth by one hun
bred million dollars at least every
year, and it is a standing menace
to the public health. Surely far
mers and stOckmen, who are the
most interested in this important
matter, should make a careful study OF
it with a view to the prevention of the
enormous evil which grows out of it,
Henry SteeCGrt, IN N. 7. Times.