CULTURE OF CARROTS. ^5 



6orrects tlie cold quality of the other. There is not any 



occasion to cut the carrots, but to mix them with the cut Experimental 



■' , , _. J ^ Instru' tioas for 



food, and feed them in the manger. Horses used to car- ^^ Culture ©f 



rots will prefer th,em to oats, when given together. If the Carrots, 

 straw and clover are not of the first quality, oats should be 

 given in proportion.. By this method of feeding, there is 

 a saving of at least two thirds of the hay usually con- 

 sumed ; corn is dispensed with; and horses will be 

 in a better condition than when fed with hay and 

 corn only, iupposing each horse is allowed with hay half a 

 a peck of oats per day^ 



Great care must be taken never to give carrots when 

 horses come. to the stable heated by work. 



Carrots are. not proper food for riding-horses; nimble 

 exercise causes them to be laxative ; and as they will some- 

 times produce griping, I shall insert a prescription which 

 has been proved by long experience, together with th« 

 treatment t'^ be pursued in such cases. 



Gil of Turpentine .- • ....... 1 oz. 



Castile Soap 1 oz. 



Flour of Mustard ..>...:.. f oz. 



On the first symptom this mixture should be given, and it 

 wiir not fail to remove the complaint. The Castile soap to 

 be cut fine, and 'dissolved in a quart of boiling w^ater, the 

 mustard added ; the oil of tuipentine the last thing; it 

 should be given more than milk warm ; if the animal suffers 

 much pain, add half an ounce of liquid laudanum. On the 

 first appearance of the disease, the horse should be well 

 coated, and coifttantly rubbed with hard twisted wisps of 

 straw, and kept as warm as possible; should the disease in- 

 crease, and the body swell much, a gallon of blood should. 

 be taken, to check the inflammation, and give time for the 

 rhedicine to operate. If the symptoms increase, repeat 

 the dose, omitting the liquid laudanum. Clysters and 

 raking afford much relief when the symptoms first ap- 

 pear, and frequently remove the complaint, 



' Feeding cattle improve more on carrots, than when fed 

 with potatoes or turnips ; they are excellent food for ewes 

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