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AMERICAN FARMER'S HORSE BOOK. 



latter is a mild diuretic, and the only one which should be 

 given. 



If it is winter-time, be sure and see that the stable is warm 

 and dry ; and should it turn cold, cover the animal with a 

 blanket. The feed should be light and moist, a large pro- 

 portion of it green. If pasture can be had, no other food 

 will be needed. 



Especial attention should be paid to removing the causes 

 of the disease, if they still exist ; and, in all cases, the entire 

 diet should be changed at once. The effect of this course 

 upon the character of the urine will soon prove of marked 

 benefit. When feeding any horse moldy and unwholesome 

 food, the owner might profitably stop and consider whether 

 he is not losing two dollars in horse-flesh where be saves 

 one in the cost of hay and oats of the best quality. If an at- 

 tack of this disease follows the use of such food, he can not 

 escape conviction under the charge of having produced it ; 

 and if the horse dies, he is the destroyer. 



PROFUSE STALLING, OR DIABETES. 



Of this disease we know but little more than its existence, 

 and its obvious manifestations in a troublesome and excess- 

 ive flow of urine. Of course, it proceeds from an unnaturally 

 increased action of the kidneys, but its primary causes are 

 obscure. Strong diuretic medicines, as might be expected, 

 sometimes develop it ; and unwholesome food, such as mow- 

 burnt hay, moldy fodder, etc., has a similar tendency. In 

 England, the disease is said to be much more common than 

 formerly. 



TREATMENT. ♦ 



We recommend a decoction, or tea, made of whortleberry 

 leaves, the plant known to the botanist as the uva ursi. Take 

 two ounces of the leaves and boil them well in a quart of 

 water. This will make two doses, one of them to be given 

 in the morning of each alternate day, the treatment being 

 continued until the trouble is removed. Bleeding will not 

 l>e necessary in this case. 



