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April 22, 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
AILING ANIMALS. 
Does Millet Injure Horses ? 
Our horses are not doing well. One is a 
16-year-old horse; when in good flesh weighs 
about 1,200. lie stumbles and falls; seems 
to be stiff forward. He has done a good 
amount of hard work, mostly on the farm, 
hut this Winter has only drawn a little wood, 
lie has always been well grained. Last Fall 
he was fed mostly millet; going on to the 
hill, three or four miles, one day to dig 
potatoes he sweated badly; has never been 
in the habit of sweating. I covered him 
well and tried to take care of him, but the 
next morning he was quite stiff. I drove him 
again that day, and the next morning he 
could scarcely get across the barn floor. The 
other is a light road horse; he has been 
driven to pick up stock and has taken some 
long, hard drives, but he was light and quick. 
Now his hind parts seem stiff and his legs 
stock when standing, seems to be weak in 
the back, lie is about 12 years old; other¬ 
wise than that he had the millet he has been 
fed as usual. These symptoms came on since 
eating the millet. Another has trouble with 
her eyes; one of them by spells waters bad¬ 
ly. and she acts as if it hurt her; the lids 
swell. This only lasts for a day or two, then 
looks all right, but I do not think she sees 
quite as well as from the other eye. She is 
about 1ft years old; has not been fed millet. 
Maine, N. Y. F. H. M. 
It is evident that you produced a case 
of founder (laminatis) in your 16-year- 
old horse, and from some shock to the 
system of your 12-year-old he has become 
partly paralyzed. The trouble with the 
eyes of the other is no doubt recurrent 
ophthalmia, and usually ending in blind¬ 
ness. As it will soon be time to sow 
millet it will be well to talk the matter 
over a little and see what we can find 
out from others. It is evident that you 
are a little suspicious of it as horse food, 
and I think you have a good reason to 
be. From what I have seen I would not 
feed it to a horse if a man would give 
it to me, and I do not think it a safe 
sheep feed. Prof. W. A. Henry says 
millet hay is injurious to horses. Hicne- 
bauch, veterinarian of the North Dakota 
Station (Bulletin 7) reports that during 
the Winter of 1891-92 an ailment passing 
under the name of the “millet disease” 
prevailed in North Dakota, about one 
animal in every ten so affected dying. 
It was called the millet disease because 
from 95 to 98 animals out of every hun¬ 
dred affected had previously been fed 
millet. Experiments were made in feed¬ 
ing millet hay to a number of horses 
for the purpose of studying its effect. The 
following statement relative to one test 
seems quite conclusive: “By feeding her 
(a mare) millet (hay) for about three 
months she would become so lame in the 
joints of the hind legs that it was almost 
impossible for her to walk, and on dis¬ 
continuing the feeding of millet she would 
gradually recover until at the end of 
three or four months she would again 
be in normal condition. As soon as that 
condition was reached, would again feed 
millet until the mare was in such a con¬ 
dition that she could scarcely stand, then 
again quit feeding millet. We have alter¬ 
nated with millet and other hay, produc¬ 
ing the conditions referred to at will, for 
nearly two years. In the meantime the 
horse has suffered in condition, and does 
not at all resemble her former self. She 
is valueless as far as work is concerned, 
and is only kept for experimental pur¬ 
poses. We are able at any time to demon¬ 
strate the effect from feeding millet by 
allowing her to have millet exclusively 
as coarse food for a portion of two 
months.” Letters sent to veterinarians, 
farmers and others in the State brought 
replies which showed that ill results had 
quite generally been observed from the use 
of millet, manifested usually by increased 
action of the kidneys. The bulletin con¬ 
cludes : “Our experiments have thor¬ 
oughly demonstrated that millet, when 
used entirely as a coarse food, is injuri¬ 
ous to horses: First, in producing an 
increased action of the kidneys. Second, 
in causing lameness and swelling of the 
joints. Third, in producing infusion of 
blood into the joints. Fourth, in de¬ 
stroying the texture of the bone, render¬ 
ing it softer and less tenacious, so that 
traction caused the ligaments and mus¬ 
cles to be torn loose.” 
It is remarkable that millet, one of the 
oldest known p'ants, and one that is used 
so extensively i various countries, should 
fall under this serious charge. Possibly 
hay from the plant is injurious in some 
districts while ha/mless elsewhere, or in 
seme years it may prove deleterious while 
usually safe for feeding. Having been 
put on his guard the horseman will use 
millet with caution, awaiting further re¬ 
ports from the investigators. It should 
be noted that in the cases where trouble 
arose millet hay was used exclusively for 
roughage. Ill effects can probably be 
avoided by using this hay in limited quan¬ 
tity for roughage and not continuously. 
Nothing unfavorable to the use of millet 
hay for cattle or sheep feeding has been 
reported. At the Massachusetts Station 
millet forage has been found of much 
value for dairy cows. 
Periodic Ophthalmia. 
I have a mare troubled at irregular inter¬ 
vals with a weakness of the eye which causes 
them to water and sometimes to close alto¬ 
gether. Sometimes only one eye is affected 
and sometimes both. The attack comes on 
when she is used on the road and when she 
is standing a number of days in the stable, 
therefore it cannot be from snow reflection. 
It is not pink-eye, nor does it seem to come 
from hay pricks. Can it be caused by a 
tight collar? C. H. s. 
Oornwall-on-IIudson, N. Y. 
External ophthalmia is an inflamma¬ 
tion of the outer parts of the eyeball. 
The causes may be the presence of for¬ 
eign bodies like hayseed, chaff, dust, pol¬ 
len of planjs, ammonia rising from the 
excretions, the use of a very short over¬ 
draw check, and the keeping of the horse 
in a very dark stall from which it is 
habitually led into the glare of full sun¬ 
light. The symptoms are about as you 
have stated, while they resemble recur¬ 
rent ophthalmia, known as periodic oph¬ 
thalmia, or moonblindness. This is an 
inflammatory affection of the interior of 
the eye and has been traced to certain 
soils, foods and heredity, showing a 
strong tendency to recur again and again, 
and usually ending in blindness. These 
troubles have been traced to vivid light¬ 
ning flashes, drafts of cold, damp air, 
and, above all, when the animal is per¬ 
spiring, exposure in cold rain and snow¬ 
storms, and certain diseases, and treat¬ 
ment is not generally satisfactory. I 
have had good results from the use of 
an eye wash made of one pint of rain 
water, 30 grains of sugar of lead, and one 
drachm of laudanum, turned into the eye 
with the side of a spoon, holding the 
lower eyelid out; repeat every 12 hours. 
To ward off another attack it might be 
well to ask your veterinarian to give the 
animal a tonic made of oxide of iron and 
nux vomica, but by all means do not put 
everything into the eyes that you are told, 
for as a rule these remedies do more 
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