Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . red before it strikes the horses, andwill force up the warm, vitiated air through the large tubes and out through CONSTRUCTION AND MANAGEMENT OF STABLES. 541 the roof. As to doors, have enough to keep the stable cool in summer,but avoid a draft, especially when the horses come in warm and tired, asthey are then especially su
Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . red before it strikes the horses, andwill force up the warm, vitiated air through the large tubes and out through CONSTRUCTION AND MANAGEMENT OF STABLES. 541 the roof. As to doors, have enough to keep the stable cool in summer,but avoid a draft, especially when the horses come in warm and tired, asthey are then especially susceptible to colds, and attacks of throat andlung diseases, etc. III. Feeding and Watering is a matter that interests every stock owner, and one also in whichthere is a great amount of abuse. We seldom find a duplicate of thenotorious bad-debt collector, Cottle, of Chicago, who deliberately starvedhis horse to death, but we often find men who abuse their stock throughignorance. For instance, there are not a few who water their horses onlytwice a day. This is a real abuse, for not only does the animal get ter-ribly thirsty, but, as a consequence of his intense craving for water, he^vill, when he at last gets at it, drink a great deal more than is good for. THE PROPER WAY. How to dry and clean the legs in cold weather. him. The stomach of a horse holds only about three gallons, but in thesecases he will sometimes drink three or four pailfulls, making from nine totwelve o-allons. If this follows soon after eating, it washes the food rightthrou^^h the stomach into the intestines, before it is digested, giving rise tocolic, with all its attendant dangers. The water given stock should alwaysbe clean, not from a foul well in the barn-yard, and should be allowedthree or four times a day, preferably four; or, better still, let it runbefore them all the time, being careful not to lot them over-drink whencoming in warm from work. The food should be clean, sound, dry, healthy gr
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