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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
November 28, 
THE HORSE 
A VETERAN HORSE. 
The horse shown below is an old 
veteran who has helped save and keep 
a farm. “Old Goldie” is 20 years old. 
He served faithfully on a market gar¬ 
den near Cleveland, O., and then fell 
into kind hands on a farm in Lorain Co. 
There the work is light and feed plenty, 
and the old horse will pass the rest of 
his days in comfort. Our friend, S. 
Colahan, sends us the picture and we 
are glad that the old horse finds himself 
in clover. 
CORN FOR FEEDING HORSES. 
The Ohio Experiment Station conducted 
last year some interesting experiments 
comparing corn and oats as feed for a 
horse. In many parts of the South we have 
found that corn is used almost entirely for 
feeding horses and mules, especially those 
doing farm work. In many parts of the 
North, however, farmers say that they do 
not think corn alone is the best horse 
feed. They have an idea that oats should 
he used for at least part of the ration. 
When asked to tell why they think so many 
of them have difficulty in giving exact 
reasons, but there is a general belief that 
the oats give the horses spirit and are 
largely different from corn in that respect. 
At present prices, on most farms oats are 
one of the most expensive grains we have, 
and if corn would give equally good re¬ 
sults the horses could be fed considerably 
cheaper through the course of a year. The 
fact is, however, that this belief that oats 
are superior to corn is so strong that many 
farmers will pay a high price for the grain. 
When a chemist analyzes both grains he 
fails to find any good reason why the oats 
should be so much better than the corn, 
especially when the horse is at hard work. 
At one time it was claimed that a principle 
known as avenine was found in the oats 
which had a stimulating effect upon the 
horses. It now seems that the existence 
of this principle has never been proved, 
and that it is quite improbable that there 
is any such thing. The Ohio Station under¬ 
took a careful experiment which ought to 
settle the question pretty thoroughly. It 
selected six grade Percheron horses, divid¬ 
ing them fairly into teams by size and 
weight. These horses were from seven to IS 
years old and they were fed for 4S weeks, 
being worked all that time. The hay used 
was a mixture of clover and Timothy of 
fair quality. Three of the horses were fed 
on oats in connection with the hay, while 
the others were fed an equal weight of corn, 
either shelled or on the ear. The idea was 
to feed pound against pound of corn and 
oats, the other feed being the same, and 
then make accurate reports of the weight 
and condition of the horses from time to 
time. This experiment was carefully car¬ 
ried out and will be found in full in Bul¬ 
letin No. 195. 
Briefly stated, the results showed that 
the corn-fed horses stood the hard work 
during the hot weather just as well as the 
oat-fed horses did. It was proved that the 
use of corn exclusively as a grain for 48 
weeks in succession did not injure the 
health of the horses. The use of the corn 
didn’t make the horses lazy or lacking in 
endurance and on the other hand the use 
of oats did not give the horses extra spirit. 
When fed with good mixed hay, clover and 
Timothy and doing general farm work it 
was found that the ear corn was just as 
efficient pound for pound of grain as the 
oats were, while the corn was considerably 
cheaper. The ear corn, on the whole, ap¬ 
peared to give better results than shelled 
corn. Another thing the experiment showed 
was the fact that horses differ a good 
deal in their ability to utilize their feed. 
We observe in our own horses on (he farm 
that they differ in power of digestion, some 
being much easier keepers than others and 
making a better use of both their hay and 
their grain. These experiments in Ohio ap¬ 
pear to show conclusively that with the 
average work horses on the farm corn is 
fully equal to oats as a feed and that 
such horses with mixed hay will keep in 
good condition and do their work properly 
on ear corn alone as grain. When it comes 
to a driving horse it is probable that the 
corn will not answer as well, although in 
the South and a great many parts of the 
West corn alone is used for these horses. 
It certainly appears from this report that 
there is no need of a farmer who has a 
fair corn crop, buying oats at a high 
price to feed his work horses, in fact in 
many cases a farmer who raises both oats 
and corn would do well to sell the oats at 
the higher figure. At the same time we be¬ 
lieve that there is no single grain better 
for growing young stock, such as calves 
and colts, than good oats, although wheat 
bran fed in fair amounts will give practic¬ 
ally as much growth. 
In this experiment whole corn was used 
either shelled or on the ear. Ground or 
chopped corn alone is not so good for’horses. 
Prof. Kaupp of the Colorado College has 
the following to say about it: 
“When corn chop alone is fed to a horse 
it often produces stomach indigestion and 
bloating, which in the horse is a very 
serious form of indigestion or colic. The 
reason that corn chop produces this con¬ 
dition is owing to the fact that it lies com¬ 
pactly in the stomach. The stomach juices 
cannot thoroughly permeate it to digest 
the nutrients, and as a result unnatural 
fermentation takes place. The gas causes 
distention of the stomach wall, and stomach 
or gastric colic is the result. This is a 
serious form of colic because of the peculiar 
arrangement of the stomach. The horse 
cannot vomit or belch gas unless the walls 
be so greatly distended that there is a 
modification or stretching of the part of the 
stomach at the point where the esophagus 
enters it, and consequently there is great 
danger of rupturing the walls of the 
stomach with a fatal termifiation.’’ 
Wind Galls. 
I bought a mare with wind galls on both 
hind legs. Will you advise me what they 
come from and how I can drive them 
away? M. p. 
New York. 
The puffs (wind galls) are distentions of 
the synovial bursae or of the sheaths of the 
tendons, as the case may be, and you cannot 
“drive them away.” They are due to 
overstrain of the parts and usually indi 
cate that no further damage will be done 
by hard driving. Indeed they often are 
seen on the most hardy, enduring sort 
of road horse, and while constituting a 
blemish they will not be likely to cause 
lameness. We would advise leaving them 
alone. If you must treat them then applj 
pressure by means of flat corks wrapped in 
cotton batting, put upon puffs and neld 
there by bandages. Kemove three times 
daily and thoroughly hand rub the parts, 
and if lameness at any time is noticed it 
would be best to have the tendons line- 
fired and blistered by a veterinarian, but 
if that cannot be done some good may fol¬ 
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some other effective blister ointment. 
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