THE HORSE. 



CHAPTER I. 

 Management and Care in Sickness. 



[ntrlligsncb required, our domestic animals, first requisites, 

 box stall, good bed, clothing, remove shoes, food, bran 

 mash, linseed mash, bread mash, fresh water important, 

 hand rubbing, cold water bathing of the legs, steaming, 

 how to make poultices, blisters, antiseptics, deodorizers, 

 hot water bathing, slings, bandages, rarey's system of 

 throwing or casting, how to give medicine, electuaries, 

 injections, giving a ball, making a ball, giving liquids, 

 general advice. 



S KEEPER of animals in a menagerie is required to study the 

 habits of the animals and the conditions under which they live 

 and thrive in their native wilds, before he is allowed to have full 

 control of their feeding and care. These conditions must be du- 

 plicated as far as practical. The Polar bear must be supplied with ice, 

 and food as nearly like that which he would feed upon, if he should be 

 returned to his native land, as possible. But how many of our stock 

 owners place the care of valuable animals in the hands of the entirely 

 ignorant. It requires an intelligence far superior to that which is usual- 

 ly found in our ordinary stable-hand, to properly care for our domestic 

 animals. 



Our Domestic Animals have for so many generations been under 

 conditions entirely contrary to their nature, that even they have changed 

 somewhat in their habits and requirements. Our climate is far different 

 from that in which they are found in their native state. The use to 

 which man has put the noble horse is to blame for most of his diseases. 

 In his native state the diseases which we find so troublesome are 

 entirely unknown. The sooner sickness is recognized and the propel 

 remedies used, the sooner the animal will be restored to health. But to 



