The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-11-17

nay n there Is another crop OF SIM
liar cases later on when the new crop
Of oats is being threshed.
Now, there Is not the slightest need
OF having all or any Of this trouble
each year il farmers would use a little
judgment in the feeding of new hay
n grain. 1t Is the sudden feeding
OF such foods that does the harm for 1t
Is a fact that were the food to be given
gradually until the animal became ac-
customed to the change there would
De no bad results from feeding. There
Is or ought to be at all times on the
farm a supply of old hay and oats
n IL this be mixed with the new
grain and hay at the time of feeding
the chanc of sickening the horses
VIII be greatly reduced. Where the
norse mas been eating old hay the new
may be given In small quantities along
with the old, the amount of new feed
being gradually increased daily until
the ANNA gets used to it and can
sa1ely be given a full feed of the new
1000. No matter how it be used both
nay and oats that are going through
a sweating" process are unfit for food
Tor all animals and for this reason
Doth hay and oats should not be used
at all until they have been some time
In the NOW, stack or bin. 1t is also a
good plan to see hat the horse has
q supply of rock salt in the manger
all or the time as it has been found
10 somewhat counterfeit the effects OF
new feed. Care should also be taken
TO give the horse it's drinking water
before and not after feeding and there
Is no need of giving large feeds of hay
during the day time when horses are
expected to do hard work. The feed
ing of hay very early in the morning
and again after the grain feed at
night is all that Is necessary for any
hard working horse and would pre-
vent many cases of collie for the horse
that works hard with it's stomach
overloaded with hay Is much more
liable to an attack than the n that
goes to the field with food digested.
What has been said also applies
with equal force to the feeding of the
new corn crop, which is the most
dangerous OF foods when unripe or
not fully dried out. 1t may be added
That 1t is at no time a good or safe
FOOD for horses working In hot weather,
Its purpose being to produce heat and
rat rather than muscle and vim" The
new hay and oats should be used care
fully, and the corn should not be fed
to horses before snow flies.
III despite what has been said any
reader of this paper should have a
morse taken with collie as a result of
FEEDING new corn, oats or hay, he
should not, as is usually done, give a
s OF saleratus and milk as that
dope" merely adds to the distress OF
the horse. A far better drench is
made by mixing one ounce of laud-
anum and two ounces of turpentine in
n quart of raw linseed oil and giving
as one dose slowly and carefully by
the mouth-not through the nostril,
as the writer saw done recently with
fatal results. In addition to this dose
rectal injections of soapy warm water
are useful, and may be very easily Civ
en- through a four-foot length of one
inch rubber hose In one end of which
mas been attached a large tin funnel
through which the enema is poured
from a pitcher after the other end
OF the hose has been inserted in the
rectum: The horse may also be walked
0 II bloated, but If the latter symp-
tom be severe he should be tapped by
a veterinarian, who has the proper
rocar and cannula for the purpose
After the severe symptoms pass off the
horse should be placed in a box stall
where he should remain without food
or water for at least twelve hours.
Next day he should be fed on sof,
bran mashes and after the bowels
move freely he may be put at light
work unless the weather is very hot.
Sheep News.
Wyoming correspondents report thai
grass on the Johnson county range il
80 burned out by drought that it il
crisp and brittle under the foot of the
pedestrian. Stockmen expect to b,
compelled to feed their sheep and cat
tie through the winter.
To demonstrate that frozen Aus,
tralian mutton can be shipped in goot
condition to this country, a spring
lamb killed and dressed in New Zea,
and has been sent to an importing
firm in New York. 1t reached Their.
on the steamer Majestic, after trans.
portation of $1,000 miles. 1t is goot
and solid despite it's long journey O.
seventy days. In view of the fine quail
ity and the c%heapness and abundance
of lambs in Australia the experiment
is regarded with much Interest by
local butchers.
Sheep camps in the Wyoming mou
tains between Battle Lake ana GRAND
Encampment are threatened with de-
struction from forest fires. The herd,
ers have been forced to drive theil
flocks high up in the mountains to gel
feed, owing to the scarcity of bott
feed and water on the plains below
and 1t is feared that many of these
herders have been surrounded, witt
their iocks, by the flames. Nothins
can prevent the progress of the flames
except a heavy rain. 1t is estimated
that the loss thus far, exclusive of ths
millions of feet of fine timber. will bs
over 5000, 900.