296 * BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Jan., 



the maggot. We are not troubled in our section with the 

 canker worm. 



Mr. Webster. Where I kept my sheep last season there is 

 an orchard, and not a canker worm was found in that orchard ; 

 but all my apple trees outside of that pasture where the sheep 

 were were eaten bare. 



Question. What is the cause of horses gnawing boards in 

 the stable ? 



Dr. BowEN. My idea is that it indicates a condition of the 

 anilnal analogous to that of cattle who gnaw bones, and the 

 same remedy will apply there" that we generally find eflScacious 

 with our cattle — a liberal feeding of bran with their regular 

 rations. If the gentleman who asks the question will try that, 

 as I liave tried it and known others to try it, he will find that 

 his horses will not trouble him in that way any longer. 



Mr. Webster. I have two horses. I mean to feed them 

 well. I feed in the morning two quarts of wheat bran, and 

 two quarts of meal a day, and give each of them four quarts of 

 oats and a little hay — nothing in the middle of the day. But 

 they eat my mangers badly. 



Dr. Bo WEN. I think they ought to if you give them nothing 

 in the middle of the day. 



Mr. Webster. I have got as good a pair of horses as you 

 ever owned. If you have got a horse that will travel with 

 either one of mine, I will give you |300 for him. 



Dr. BowEN. I think it is a mistake to feed a horse but 

 twice a day. With cattle it is dififerent. A horse has a very 

 small stomach, holding but sixteen quarts, and when you con- 

 sider the thousand pounds that is to be sustained upon what 

 is put into that stomach, it would seem that feeding twice a 

 day was not sufficient. If you change your feed, I think it 

 will make a difference. 



Mr. Webster. Some people have an idea tliat if horses 

 gnaw their mangers they are cribbing horses. I never owned 

 a cribbing horse. 



