The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1893-04-29
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| stdSudte, vi stay Wnele lney are until
the bandages are removed, when an
abnormal flow of blood goes surging
to the feet, causing abnormal fever.
The seed is sown, and endless trouble
begins. How absurd, anyhow, to
expect to counteiact the harm done,
or think to repair nature with anything
but rest the natural method, for the
most skilled physician is powerless to
cope with the reacting influence OF
overeXertion OF either mind or body.
for which rest, and rest alone, is the
only antidote.
From the above and other causes the
feet became affected, and through
sympathy the legs partake of the all
ment. The swipe views with sinking
heart the ravages of disease, as indi
Gated by swellings and pufs. Some
thing must be done strong liniments
and lotions are applied. the water
soaked bandages are made colder and
they are bound tighter and tighter to
the diseased legs which are rubbed
until as sore as boil, and instead of
being allowed to rest the poor animal
is walked until his legs are so tired he
can hardly stand, which results, after a
brief period, in the animal nature be-
coming accustomed to the changed
and unnatural conditions, or else the
horse is thrown over and out of train
ing, confirmed cripple. And the end
is not yet, for if the heroic treatment is
kept up the natural transmission of
both natural and acquired defects will
insure US IN the near future breed OF
cripples.
We have experimental in this line
considerable in one way and another,
and our experience shows that band
ages are not only entirely unnecessary,
but are, as we say, positive detriment
to horses feet and legs. We have
pottered with trotters more or less for
twenty years, likewise with the UanS age
and ruhrag like the other fellows, and
never until the past season were we
determined to get along without them.
We carried through a string of ten colts
and young horses the whole season and
never rolled bandage or used rub
rag except to wipe them down a little
after a bath of warm salt water on a
hot day. Furthermore, We used no
liniment lotion Except the salt water),
leg or body wash, hocf ointment or
dressing during the season, and though
none of the string started in races, they
were worked at least two or three times
a week over one OF the hardest tracks
in the country, and at no time during
the season was there any fever or puffs
on the legs of any of them or fever or
soreness in their feet.
We are quite sure that any trainer
who will start Id the spring determined
to taboo the supernumaries, and 90
hall way through the season he will
never return to the old methods, unless
for the same reason that the boy picked
up the stone on his return home from
mill.
Horsemen, this common sense
plan is worth a trial, and if you dare
not use all your string in this man
ner, pick out two or three more that
you do not expect much of, and give
them speed work (no Jogging every
other day or as often as the condi-
ton of their feet and legs will per-
NIT, until they become used to
severe work. If the feet get fevery,
or the legs fever or puff, let them
rest three or four days, or week or
ten days if necessary, and they will
90 all the faster when started up
again. About the kind of rest to
give, we believe that Horace Gree
ley's proposed method of resumption
covers the ground, and that the way
to rest is to rest. Put the horse in
a comfortable, well-bedded box stall
Git dry ground floor all the better),
feed moderately OF grain and have
him "baited" to grass morning and
evening for two hours day. Shoe
them with a moderate amount OF
iron. keeping the heels low, the toes
short and the sole at the toe thick.