. The horse in the stable and the field: his management in health and disease ... with an essay on the American trotting horse, and suggestions on the breeding and training of trotters. Horses. S56 THE HOBSE. tTemity of the stomach is occupied with them, the interstices being occupied by little projections which are caused by those that have let go their hold, and have been expelled with the food. Several sf these papillae are shown on the engraving, which delineates fclsq the appearance of the bots themselves, so that no one can fail to recognise them when he sees them. This is important, for
. The horse in the stable and the field: his management in health and disease ... with an essay on the American trotting horse, and suggestions on the breeding and training of trotters. Horses. S56 THE HOBSE. tTemity of the stomach is occupied with them, the interstices being occupied by little projections which are caused by those that have let go their hold, and have been expelled with the food. Several sf these papillae are shown on the engraving, which delineates fclsq the appearance of the bots themselves, so that no one can fail to recognise them when he sees them. This is important, for it often. FlQ. 18.—&ROUF OP BOTS ATTACHED TO THE STOMACH. happens that a meddlesome groom when he sees them expelled from or hanging to the verge of the anus, as they often do for a short time, thinks it necessary to use strong medicine; whereas in the first place he does no good, for none is known which will kill the larva without danger to the horse, and in the second, if he will only have a little patience, every bot will come away in the natural course of things, and until the horse is turned out to grass, during the season when the oestrus deposits its eggs, he will never have another in his stomach. The cestrus eqtji comes out from the pupa state in the middle and latter part of summer, varying according to the season, and the female soon finds the proper nidus for her eggs in the hair of the nearest horse turned out to grass. She manages to glue them to the sides of the hair so firmly that no ordinary friction will get rid of them, and her instinct teaches her to select those parts within reach of the horse's tongue, such as the hair of the fore legs and sides. Here they remain until the heat of the sun hatches them, when, being no larger in diameter than a small pin, each larva is licked off and carried down the gullet to the stomach, to the thick epithelium of which it soon attaches itself by its hooks. Here it remains until the next spring, having attained the
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