The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-11-29
Nov rssd aud It's Evils.

that we hear of so many cases VI CoAAS
in horses from the feeding OF new
hay and 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 neeo
of having all or any of TINS trouple
each year if farmers would use a little
judgment in the feeding OF new a
and grain. 1t is the sudden feeulhs
of such foods that does the harm for IL
is a fact that we're the food to be given
gradually until the animal became ac-
customed to the change there woulo
be no bad results from feeding! 1nefe
is or ought to be at all times on the
farm a supply OF old hay n oats
and if this be mixed with the new
grain and hay at the time of feeding
the chances Of sickening the horses
VIII be greatly reduced. Where the
horse has been eating old hay the new
nay be given in small quantities along
with the old, the amount of new feed
being gradually increased daily untll
the animal gets used to it and can
safely be given a full feed Of the new
food. No matter how it be used both
nay and oats that are going through
a sweating" process are unfit for food
for all animals and for this reason
both 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 that the horse mas
a supply of rock salt in the manger
all of the time as it has been found
to somewhat counterfeit the effects OF
new feed. Care should also be taken
to give the horse its 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 I'M
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 it is at 40 time a good or safe
food for horses working in hot weather.
It's purpose being to produce heat and
fat 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.
If despite what has been said any
reader of this paper should have g
horse taken with collie as a result Of
feeding new corn, oats or hay, he
should not, as is usually done, give
dose of saleratus and milk as tina
dope" merely adds to the distress O
the horse. A far better drench i!
made by mixing one ounce of laud
anum and two ounce of turpentine il
n quart of raw linseed oil and givins
as n dose slowly and carefully b.
the mouth-not through the nostril
as the writer saw done recently will
fatal results. In addition to this dose
rectal injections of soapy warm watel
are useful, and may be very easily Civ
en- through a four-foot length OF one
inch rubber hose in one end of which
has been attached a large tin funne
through which the enema is poured
from d pitcher after the other emf
Of the hose has been inserted in thu
rectum. The horse may also be walked
about if bloated, but if the latter symp
, tom be severe he should be tapped b!
+, a veterinarian, who has the prope
, trocar and cannula for the purpose
After the severe symptoms pass off tn
horse should be placed in a box stall
where he should remain without foo,
!, or water for at least twelve hours.
: Next day he should be fed on sof
bran mashes and after the bowel
move freely he may be put at ligh
work unless the weather is very hot.