Horses : their feed and their feet, a manual of horse hygiene invaluable for the veteran or novice pointing out the true source of "malaria," "disease waves," influenza, glanders, "pink-eye," etc., and how to prevent and counteract them . ter than where it has one kindto-day and another to-morrow and another the next,or greatly differing quantities of the same. Thisprinciple is very generally admitted ; but many stillharbor the idea that some change is essential, as anoccasional change from oats to corn, and vice tendency of this is to produce indigestion, andthere is undoubtedly—tho
Horses : their feed and their feet, a manual of horse hygiene invaluable for the veteran or novice pointing out the true source of "malaria," "disease waves," influenza, glanders, "pink-eye," etc., and how to prevent and counteract them . ter than where it has one kindto-day and another to-morrow and another the next,or greatly differing quantities of the same. Thisprinciple is very generally admitted ; but many stillharbor the idea that some change is essential, as anoccasional change from oats to corn, and vice tendency of this is to produce indigestion, andthere is undoubtedly—though it may not be ob-served—less perfect digestion in every case for thefirst few days on the new diet.* The reason usuallygiven for such a change is that they eat sharper or have a sharper appetite in consequence. This alonewould go far to condemn the practice, for there willnever be a lack of perfect appetite for the regular diet,except as the result of getting a little too much of it. It * Cows at pasture will generally shrink their milk to some de-gree at first if a ration of grain is added to their diet as well aswhen their feed is lessened. The reason is that the stomach hasto adapt itself to the digestion of a new Crown Jewel (Norman Stallion), imported July, 1883, by Dillon Bros., Normal, 111. Weighs over 2,000 lbs. THEIR FEED AND THEIR FEET, 71 is truly enough said of some horses that * oats don*tdo them any good, or much good, to say the animals are so greedy that they swallow theiroats with but very little mastication, and hence thereis a failure in digestion. For such horses whole cornis the only proper grain, and in many instances eventhis should be given ON THE COB. This is by far the best way to feed corn in any case,more especially with old horses. Fed thus it is sureto get the most complete mastication, so essential todigestion and the extraction of the entire D. Curtis, of Kirby homestead, and many othersspeak highly in favo
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