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CHAPTER XXIV 



THE MANAGEMENT OF FARM HORSES AND TREATMENT 

 OF COMMON AILMENTS 



Winter Season Work Concentrated Food Alterative Medicines 

 Internal Parasites Water Fodder Litter Summer Season The 

 Soiling and the Grazing Systems of Feeding Horses Common 

 Diseases Colic Monday-morning-evil Cracked Heels Mud 

 Fever Founder Grease Mallenders and Sallenders Thrush 

 Pink Eye Glanders and Farcy Epizootic Lymphangitis. 



FULL work in the case of farm horses in country 

 districts lasts for eight months in the year, and 

 includes spring cultivation and ploughing, the planting of 

 grain crops, and the preparation of the root land, as well 

 as harvesting and autumn ploughing and cleaning. In many 

 instances, especially in suburban districts and those which 

 possess the advantages of convenient railway communica- 

 tion, the busy season extends throughout the year. This is 

 becoming more and more the case under intensive systems of 

 farming, which, as compared with the practices of our fore- 

 fathers, have adopted a greater variety of crops in the 

 rotation and an extended use of horse-power machinery, 

 such as numerous recently introduced cultivating implements, 

 and the various forms of haymaking and harvesting machines. 

 On light land two hundred and eighty working days per 

 annum may be taken as a good record in farm work, and 

 with clay-land two hundred and sixty full days' work is 

 satisfactory. The additional time, exclusive of Sundays, 

 may or may not be taken up with the extra work neces- 

 sarily associated with high farming. 



The average cost of feeding a farm horse on an ordinary 

 farm may be estimated at 2$ per annum. The cost of 

 upkeep of a man and a pair of horses, taking into account 

 wages and sundry expenses farrier's and saddler's bills, 

 and interest on capital invested in the horses and the 



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