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Crib-Biting. 



Much has been written upon crib-biting. It is 

 generally regarded as a vicious habit but is, I think, 

 connected more or less intimately with a mere mor- 

 bid condition of the digestive organs. The horse 

 stands with his neck bent, lays hold of the manger 

 with his teeth, and violently sucks in wind, and then 

 again with a grunt belches it out. It frequently oc- 

 curs when eating, and the food and a large amount 

 of saliva is either again thrown into the manger or 

 upon the ground. The habit is very inveterate, 

 and said also to be taken or imitated by one horse 

 from another. Wind sucking is a variety of the 

 same thing. 



TREATMENT. The Specific for INDIGESTION, J J, 

 should be given daily fifteen drops, or morning and 

 night. Omit for a few days, and then go on again. 

 In many cases the disease or habit may be cured 

 entirely in all, benefited. In any case it is better 

 to remove the manger or rack, or whatever the ani- 

 mal cribs upon, and to feed the horse from a buck- 

 et, and also give the hay upon the floor. You thus 

 break up the habit and remove the occasional 

 cause, though an inveterate "criber" often be- 

 comes a "weaver." 



Loss of Appetite. 



Loss of appetite or diminished appetite is but a 

 mere symptom of some more general affection . It 

 is a symptom of almost every disease, and especially 

 of every morbid condition of the digestive organs. 

 There are cases, however, in which this seems the 



