1904 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
47 
NOTES ON HORSE FEEDING. 
We have 50 horses; they work three 
months in the year and rest nine months. 
"We turn them out every nice day in a 
yard, water them and feed them on hay 
only for six months. By and by they are 
fed up again with grain and worked a 
little till their working season begins. We 
raise 70 tons of hay and 30 tons of oats, cut 
when it is still milky, but it makes still 100 
tons of hay to buy. It is suggested to 
build a silo and feed them carefully from 
this, half a bushel daily per horse. We 
could grow more than enough hay and corn. 
Is it a good digestible feed for horses? If 
it is frosty, would it not be liable to cause 
colic? A. M. 
Clinton Co., N. Y. 
Corn silage can be fed to horses as 
well as to cows, but in much smaller 
quantities. The stomach of the horse is 
much smaller than that of the cow, and 
the horse therefore eats less bulky or 
fibrous feed. If we undertake to crowd 
with hay and silage indigestion and 
heaves may follow. Corn silage contains 
only a small per cent of digestible ma¬ 
terial, 70 per cent is water and only 60 
per cent of the solids or 18 per cent of 
the total weight is used by the animal. 
Silage is succulent, and must be fed only 
in a warm stable. I would not dare feed 
silage and allow the horses out of doors 
unless they were in constant motion; in 
fact, even then there is danger. Re¬ 
member that nature provided green food 
only in warm weather. Animals when 
securing their own food had dry feed in 
cold weather; they would have died had 
it been otherwise. If silage is there¬ 
fore to be used in Winter, man must 
provide Summer conditions. I should 
not care to keep horses confined closely 
in warm stables during a long Winter. 
Exercise is the function of a horse; 
without it his muscles would dwarf and 
lose force, no matter what feed was pre¬ 
pared. If a rich protein ration was fed 
without action disease of the kidneys 
and liver would follow. If a rich car¬ 
bonaceous ration was fed a craving for 
blood material would result, producing 
the worst form of indigestion. I have 
never thought it advisable to feed our 
working horses silage when used in the 
cold, often standing while loading and 
subject to the exposure of a northern 
Winter. One could grow an excessive 
amount of ears by growing flint corn 
thinly, and so have a more concentrated 
feed, but there would be in such a case 
the feeding of a very carbonaceous ra¬ 
tion, much to the ultimate detriment of 
the horse. If this was my job I should 
fill a silo next Summer with a medium¬ 
eared silage corn and begin feeding in 
the Fall with a very small quantity, not 
to exceed six or eight pounds daily, 
using dry oats upon it, about four 
pounds, together with such other rough- 
age as the farm afforded. Silage has 
been repeatedly used for horses, and is 
a good safe nutritious feed in small 
quantities where the temperature is 
high, around 50 degrees. h. e. c. 
R. N.-Y.—From our experience wa 
suggest growing fodder corn, curing it 
well and running through a shredder. 
We feed this to horses with good re¬ 
sults. 
AILING ANIMALS. 
Chronic Laminitis. 
I have a mare which has a hardening, 
drying and contracting of the hoofs of her 
front feet. If they are not moistened she 
goes lame on them. While out to pasture 
the past wet season she was all right most 
of the time. Can you give a remedy? 
Wolcott, N. Y. w. A. B. 
The most we can possibly do is to pal¬ 
liate the disease. If the sole is at all in¬ 
clined to become convex have the shoe 
made correspondingly concave on the 
hoof surface. Keep on wet swabs while 
the animal is at rest. Give continually a 
deep bed. The animal should get slow 
work only, should never be used for road 
purposes, but for ordinary farm work 
can still be made serviceable. Have her 
regularly shod, never drive fast. Keep 
feet constantly stuffed and bathe in 
warm water for an hour every day. Dry 
well after taking them out and be al¬ 
ways lenient to the animal that has the 
misfortune to be a victim to chronic 
laminitis. 
A Jumping Cow. 
Can you tell me what I can do to pre¬ 
vent my cow from jumping fences? No or¬ 
dinary fence will keep her in. I believe 
there are appliances that are used but I 
do not know how to arrange any. v. B. 
DeLand, Fla. 
This is a hard question to advise, for 
1 do not know how badly your cow 
jumps, and besides, I do not know what 
you call a fence in Florida. It may be 
an excuse for a fence in the North. At 
any rate, if I have a good cow that is 
unruly I either sell her or else put her 
in the barn and stall-feed her. 
Lice on Cattle. 
My young stock are covered with blue 
lice again this Winter. I worked at them 
last year with poor success. What will kill 
the lice? h. h. t. 
New Haven, Conn. 
I have had considerable experience 
with blue lice both in practice and in my 
own herd, and the only remedy I ever 
found that would destroy them was as 
follows: Kerosene oil four parts, creolin 
two parts; put this into a sprayer and 
spray the animal thoroughly once in two 
weeks, and 1 will guarantee the lice will 
be gone in the Spring. This preparation 
may take the hair off, but never mind, 
it will come in again, and it may blister 
them some, but never mind, it will do 
their skin good. 
Acute Laminitis. 
I recently bought a pair of mares 50 miles 
from home. They were sold to be all right 
except that one was known to be stiff for¬ 
ward. They were at work barefoot to a 
coal cart the first time I saw them. After 
driving a few miles the sound (?) one be¬ 
gan to fumble on rough ground. I drove 
slowly and stopped for an hour at noon; 
drove 34 miles tha.t day, mostly on good 
roads. Next morning the sound (?) horse 
was very stiff, and has been so since. In 
backing she barely touches her left for¬ 
ward toe to the floor, but will walk fairly 
well straight ahead; takes nearly a 10-foot 
(Circle to turn in; swings her feet very care¬ 
fully in making the turn. Her feet are 
very hard, with many corrugations running 
irregularly around them. e. l. s. 
Massachusetts. 
You have a case of acute laminitis, or 
founder. The animal was stiffened in 
driving that long distance when not in 
condition. Place her feet in warm water 
above the knees for four or five hours 
each day, and after taking out of the 
tub put her feet in warm bran poultices, 
being careful to protect the legs thor¬ 
oughly by wrapping in old cloths or 
blankets. Give a physic of six drams of 
Barbadoes aloes. The treatment may 
have to be continued for three or four 
weeks. After the mare has recovered 
from her lameness put a good smart 
blister around the coronet. Be sure to 
remove the shoes. You may have to 
have the feet pared a little. Be sure to 
give lots of bedding, and the food should 
be bran mashes with a light allowance 
of hay. c. e. hatch, v. s. 
A Connecticut Hen Record.— I will 
send you my egg record for the year 1903 
l received from 275 hens: January, 2,346 
eggs; February, 2,66S; March, 4,472; April, 
4,30-1; May, 3,316; June, 3,270; July, 2,582; 
August, 2,394; September, 1,8851; October, 
1,417; November, 988; December, 1,449; 
total, 31,094, or 2,591 dozen eggs. Fifty hens 
out of the lot were used to hatch and 
care for little chicks some of the time. 
I received in cash for one year from the 
flock for eggs and broilers, $S17.77; cash 
outlay, $388.46; net profit, $429.31. J. i. 
No. Haven, Conn. 
Pigs and Clover.—I have had an odd 
experience with two pigs that 1 bought 
when six weeks old. They proved poor 
feeders. After trying different things I 
finally discovered that they took kindly to 
green cut clover. Later in the season, 
when they were half grown and there was 
no green clover to be had, I found upon 
trying them with ripe corn on the cob and 
sugar beets that they would consume 
these but only to a quite moderate 
amount. After a time, as they were doing 
but indifferently well, it occurred to me 
to try them with clover hay, and I found 
that they would eat that with more ap¬ 
parent relish than they did the corn and 
beets that I continued to feed them in 
connection with the clover hay. 
Ontario, Canada. w, o, e. 
SPASM OP THE GLOTTIS. 
REQUENT inquiries have 
been made concerning 
a disease in pigs char¬ 
acterized by spasms 
or tits. The attacks 
almost always occur 
in winter, when the 
weather is severe. Ani¬ 
mal shows no symp¬ 
toms when coming 
from the sleeping pen 
until it attempts to 
take food, when It 
will be seized sud¬ 
denly, will raise its nose and gasp for breath, 
soon fall over and struggle for a moment or 
two, when the seizures will abate, animal will 
get up and possibly appear all right. 
Cause .—Occasionally the first attack will 
prove fatal, although this is not the rule. 
Attacks will recur every day, or It may hap¬ 
pen every time the animal attempts to take 
cold food, especially swill. The attacks come 
on most frequently in pigs or hogs that have 
warm quarters, especially those that are al¬ 
lowed to burrow in manure piles or straw 
that becomes heated. When they come into 
the cold air, sudden change induces attacks, 
especially when taking cold drink. 
Treatment .— 1 Treatment that has given the 
best results is to avoid the conditions that 
produce the difficulty. Ilogs should not be 
housed in too warm sheds, especially if fed In 
a cold place. Do not give access to the ma¬ 
nure pile, where they will burrow into the 
heated, half-decomposed straw or become 
piled up and overheated. 
It Is also of great advantage to warm the 
feed, where this is practical, and anti-spas- 
modlcs should also be employed, such as from 
ten drops to half dram doses of fluid extract 
of hyoscyamus, according to size of animal ; 
or ten to fifteen grains of bromide of potash 
should be given three times a day. 
The rugged health that tonic doses of Dr. 
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vital power necessary to resist these attacks. 
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