INDIAN HEMP IN TETANUS. 
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is sometimes consumed by animals in the green state, being 
then considered especially valuable for milch cows. Its 
grain is also used, both whole and when ground into meal, 
for feeding cattle, sheep, and pigs. As food for horses, 
barley, in any state, frequently disagrees with the digestive 
organs, producing diarrhoea, &c., and should not be given 
when other corn can be obtained. 
One of the chief uses of barley is for the making of malt, 
in which condition it is sometimes given to horses who have 
been suffering from debilitating diseases with very beneficial 
results. 
“ Triticum vulgare (wheat)— -Ear, four-cornered, imbricated; 
racJiis tough; spiJcelets three or four, flowered; glumes ven- 
tricose, ovate, truncated, compressed below the point; grain 
naked.”—Lindley. 
This plant, of which there are a great number of varieties, 
is familiar to every one as constituting the source from which 
we obtain one of our chief supplies of food. 
As food for animals, in times of plenty it is used, when 
ground into flour, both for cattle and pigs, but is anything 
but good food for horses, and when given to them should 
always be crushed and mixed with other dry food, such as 
cut hay, See . When partaken of whole by horses, most 
injurious and very frequently fatal results have followed. 
The following table, copied from a little work by Mr. 
Scott Burn, is worthy of attention, as showing the compara¬ 
tive value of the three kinds of grain above described:— 
Wheat. 
Oats. 
Barley. 
Water. 
12-26 
13-09 
14-65 
Flesh-forming constituents 
Heat- and fat-producing sub¬ 
11-64 
11-85 
10-84 
stances . 
68-74 
63-34 
68-31 
Woody, indigestible fibre . 
2-61 
9-00 
3-45 
Inorganic matters (ash) 
1-75 
2-72 
2-75 
(To be continued .) 
ON INDIAN HEMP IN TETANUS. 
By " Argus.” 
India, May 15, 1862. 
Since reading Mr. Hoey’s communication in the Veterina¬ 
rian of February last, advocating the use of Indian hemp in the 
treatment of tetanus, I have had an opportunity of trying 
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