44 Errors to be Avoided. 



drink as much water as those confined to the dry 

 meat or manger system. I believe there is truth 

 in this as a rule, but the fact is not favourable to 

 the plan, and great reasons may be assigned in 

 the large quantities of common salt used in the 

 mess, which occasions an unnatural thirst. Excess 

 of common salt taken into the system proves 

 highly injurious and predisposes the animal to 

 disease, particularly of a congestive or low form, a 

 condition of unnatural plethora being established. 



The continued presence of sloppy food, besides 

 acting like bran mashes as a foreign body, 

 deranges the balance and harmony of vital func- 

 tions generally, those of digestion primarily and 

 particularly, and the large quantities of nutritious 

 matter which may be present, having no admix- 

 ture with natural secretions are not rendered 

 assimilable. It therefore proves an expensive 

 mode of feeding. 



Nutritious matters not having undergone those 

 necessary chemical and vital changes which are 

 ensured by the secretions of the digestive organs, 

 are not in a fit state to enter the blood. They 

 may be taken up, but will act as a foreign body 

 there as they do to the intestines, and must be 

 expelled or communicate disease. 



If they remain in the intestines, diarrhoea is 

 induced by irritative action, and horses so fed 

 void their dung much like a cow. Such a state 

 in this animal is not proper order, and if allowed 

 to go on, disease of some kind supervenes. 



