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cold water copiously into the rectum and find that this tends to reduce the 

 great fever finally. Where colic is a complication the animal should be 

 tapped on the right side and hyposulphate of soda in four ounce doses 

 given along with the aromatic spirits of ammonia, but there is danger in 

 giving laudanum or other narcotics in such cases. The pain will subside 

 when the bloating and fever cease. Injections per rectum are useful in 

 combination with the other treatment recommended where colic is present 

 as a complication. It is the experience of all who have handled sucn 

 cases that some animals apparently recovering from the severe symptoms 

 turn out ''dummies'' afterwards. This is to be avoided by keeping up the 

 cold packs for some days, placing the animal in a cool place where there 

 is a breeze and administering iodide of potash in dram doses every four 

 hours or saltpeter in half ounce doses in the drinking water or as a drench 

 three times daily. Such cases as a rule follow the use of medicines like 

 belladonna, or stimulants after the time for their proper use has passed. 

 Bleeding is doubtless indicated at the outset of such cases where softening 

 of the brain is threatened, but as a rule it is better not to bleed the aver- 

 age case where the other methods of treatment can be followed as ad- 

 vised. It should be remembered in this connection that the attack of sun- 

 stroke usually happens to the horse that is suffering from indigestion or 

 to the middle horse in a three-horse team. From this it will be seen that 

 it is of the greatest importance to watch the bowels of working horses in 

 hot weather and avoid feeding corn or other foods that tend to produce 

 indigestion at such times. Shade the horse's head and allow small drinks 

 of cold water often, and change the middle horse frequently. 



HOW TO GROW DRAFT HORSES IN THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY. 



Wallaces' Farmer. 



Farmers in the Mississippi valley have never yet had the business 

 of growing draft horses of the highest quality down to bottom, bedrock 

 business principles. We have gone at it by fits and starts. Away back 

 in the 80's we went into the business of growing draft horses with a good 

 deal of enthusiasm, paid a large sum for imported horses, some of it 

 wisely, much of it unwisely; bought oftentimes without judgment, without 

 discrimination, paid good money sometimes for good horses and often paid 

 good money for horses which ought to have been geldings hauling drays 

 on the streets of London, Liverpool and Glasgow. Nevertheless, as a 

 whole, the business paid. 



It did not pay the farmer very well who started a horse ranch and 

 kept a mare a year for the chance of a colt. No thoughtful man expected 

 that, but it did pay the farmer who had work for his mares, who mated 

 them with a first-class imported horse, and reared and educated the colt 

 properly. It paid him and paid him well. Along toward 1891 or 1892, the 

 business began to drag; it seemed as if there were indications of it being 



