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THIS RURAL, NEW-YORKER 
October 10, 
Live Stock and Dairy 
CONCERNING HEAVES OF HORSES. 
ARMERS often are at a loss to under¬ 
stand why one horse out of a number 
fed in exactly the same way contracts 
heaves (broken wind). If the disease is 
due to feeding dusty hay one should sup¬ 
pose that all horses so fed would become 
heavey; but this is not the case. Certain 
horses evidently are particularly suscepti¬ 
ble to heaves. That assuredly is true of 
the horse with the gluttonous appetite. 
Think the matter over and it will be con¬ 
ceded that practically all heavey horses 
have gluttonous appetites and such 
horses, before the disease attacks them, 
are the best workers. They come in from 
work ravenously hungry, gobble up their 
grain and then stow away all of the hay 
in sight, and commonly there is far more 
hay available than any horse should have. 
Before there- is time for sufficient rest, 
or the partial digestion of feed, the horse 
is returned to work. IIis stomach is 
greatly distended and presses injuriously 
upon the diaphragm, a muscular tissue 
separating the lung cavity from the ab¬ 
dominal cavity. The lungs in this way 
are impeded in their action while the di¬ 
gestive organs are burdened by an over¬ 
supply of feed which is not properly di¬ 
gested. Under these circumstances the 
horse soon contracts chronic indigestion 
which always is present in heaves and 
explains the formation of gas, the fre¬ 
quent passage of which, during a cough¬ 
ing spell, is one of the most annoying 
symptoms of the disease. In a confirmed 
case it will be noticed that the horse 
has a coarse, harsh, staring coat of hair 
and is pot-bellied, hidebound and weak, 
but retains appetite. We must conclude 
that the tendency to heaves is hereditary. 
Gluttonous appetite is temperamental 
and temperament is hereditary. The 
horse should not be blamed, however, it 
heaves is contracted. It may be expected 
to come on if a horse that has a glutton¬ 
ous appetite is allowed to stuff himself 
with coarse, bulky, dusty Timothy or 
clover hay three times a day and then is 
made to work when over-distended with 
such feed. The horse that is a big eater 
will prove the best worker and most en¬ 
during animal if judiciously fed. Allow 
him not over iy± pounds of the best of 
hay per hundred pounds of body weight 
as a day’s ration and dampen it with 
water at feeding time. At times when 
he has to work extra hard do not feed 
any hay at noon. Give most of the hay 
at night. If a horse comes in hot and 
tired and is to be allowed a considerable 
rest at noon, give him a sip of cold 
water, then one to two pounds of hay to 
eat while cooling off, then his drinking 
water and then his grain feed. So fed 
a horse will not be likely to contract 
heaves, and the chance will be less still 
if he is allowed plenty of time to rest 
and digest feed at noon and never is made 
to work when his stomach is distended 
with feed. 
Many experienced horsemen do not re¬ 
gard heaves as being hereditary, but we 
do not belong to that group, for we have 
seen many cases where the progeny of 
heavey mares proved heavey when ma¬ 
ture and many cases have been reported 
of “wind-broken” stallions begetting colts 
which in time became heavey. These 
cases may have been merely incidental, 
but they certainly are so suspicious that 
one had better avoid breeding from heavey 
sires and dams. In many States stal¬ 
lions afflicted with pulmonary emphysema 
(heaves) are not granted licenses for 
public service. 
If a horse is seen to be coming down 
with heaves hay should be withheld. 
Feed grass alone in Summer and in Win¬ 
ter prefer wet oat straw to hay. Well- 
made clover hay is good feed for any 
horse so long as it is not too freely fed, 
and it should be wetted at feeding time. 
Second growth clover hay, or that which 
has been thrashed, seldom is fit fodder for 
a horse. Prefer limewatcr for the wet¬ 
ting of feed for a heavey horse. Do not 
feed any bulky feed at noon and do not 
work him soon after a meal. The bowels 
should be kept active at all times and for 
that purpose a heavey horse may have 
as often as necessary, two or three ounces 
of raw linseed oil in a bran mash. Car¬ 
rots and parsnips also are good Winter 
feed for such a horse and many farm¬ 
ers are now successfully feeding silage 
as a part ration. Moldy or excessively 
acid silage is absolutely unfit and highly 
dangerous as a feed for horses. 
Fowler’s solution of arsenic is the pop¬ 
ular remedy for heaves, the dose being 
one tablespoonful (half an ounce) night 
and morning. Arsenic is especially bene¬ 
ficial in diseases of the breathing appar¬ 
atus and for chronic diseases of the skin. 
It also is much used as a tonic for plump¬ 
ing up a thin horse. When it has done 
its work it should be very gradually dis¬ 
continued. If suddenly withheld the 
horse may “go to pieces,” like any drug 
fiend suddenly deprived of his “dope.” 
Home remedies are many. One of them 
is to give drinking water made quite 
blue with washing indigo. Another is 
to allow the horse to inhale the fumes 
from a pailful of crude petroleum 
(Beaumont oil) placed in the manger. 
There are many more or less effective 
commercial heave remedies on the market, 
and they probably contain lobelia leaves 
and arsenic in combination. The dis¬ 
ease when confirmed is incurable, but 
fed and managed in the way suggested 
here a heavey horse may be enabled to 
do enough work to at least pay for his 
feed. 
We find that the disease is most likely 
to attack horses in States where clover 
thrives luxuriously. It would also seem 
der or wheat straw makes a splendid 
feed, and colts do better than when fed 
the same weight of prairie hay and 10 
pounds of corn or oats. It is advised 
that one pound of Alfalfa or other hay 
and 1% pounds of grain per day for each 
100 pounds of the horse’s weight makes a 
good ration for the work animal. Horses 
like the stems, and refuse from the cat¬ 
tle racks is very acceptable to the horses. 
Because of the ease with which it can be 
grown it should form a part of the horse’s 
ration. Bran at $1 per cwt. is not prac¬ 
ticable as regular feed with corn at 45 
cents and oats at 33 / cents. Oats and 
corn are about equal value for horses, 
pound for pound. These facts are taken 
from a recent bulletin issued by the Ne¬ 
braska Station. The picture given below 
shows a rack for feeding Alfalfa hay to 
mules and colts in the yard. 
The Brown Swiss Cattle. 
AN you give me any information per¬ 
taining to the Brown Swiss and 
French-Oanadian breeds of cattle? Are 
they essentially dairy breeds, and what 
are their points of excellence? If there 
is an association of breeders for each in 
this country, can you give the addresses? 
R. F. 
The Brown Swiss Breeders’* Associa¬ 
tion is located at Groton, Conn.; Mr. N. 
S. Fish is secretary. The Brown Swiss 
as a breed are plain, substantial, although 
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ALFALFA FEEDING RACK USED IN NEBRASKA. 
that it is most common in damp, muggy 
climates. We have not heard that it is 
prevalent in mountain States. 
A. S. ALEXANDER, M. D. C. 
Alfalfa Hay for Horses. 
ORSES are maintained more econom¬ 
ically, are supplied a balanced ra¬ 
tion without bran, suffer no bloating, 
growing draft colts have seldom been in¬ 
jured by eating too much Alfalfa and 
oats, and as horse feed good well-colored 
Alfalfa is equal in value to wheat bran 
in the horse ration. This is the opinion 
of the Nebraska Experiment Station 
which has investigated Alfalfa and other 
hay for horses. In the experiment six 
animals did heavy work seven or eight 
hours daily, and mules consumed half as 
much Alfalfa as the horses. The mules, 
working one hour less the day, held their 
own with the horses, and the cost of feed 
was two-thirds as much for the mules as 
for the horses. With Alfalfa, to obtain 
the best results in pasturing, it is advised 
that horses should be turned out at 
night. Six work horses with rations ot 
corn and oats, and a feed of Alfalfa hay 
at noon, it was observed, stood work 
equally well with dry-fed horses on ad¬ 
joining farms. A mixture of eight 
pounds of Alfalfa and 12 pounds of 
Brome grass makes a safe pasture for 
horses and other stock. 
For fattening horses, one feeder secured 
four pounds gain daily on horses by feed¬ 
ing 21 pounds coarse ground corn and 14 
pounds Alfalfa daily. Alfalfa meal is 
being used as a partial substitute for oats 
in a grain ration, as corn alone is apt to 
produce digestive troubles. Alfalfa meal 
adds bulk to this corn, and forms a cheap¬ 
er feed than bran or other commercial by¬ 
products. A charge of $3 the ton for pre¬ 
paring the meal is added to the hay cost, 
which was $10.50 the ton. One breeder 
stated that be finds 10 pounds of Alfalfa 
hay in the dry lot with a little corn fod- 
rather fleshy, and give one the appear¬ 
ance of being somewhat coarse in bone 
and general make-up. The head and neck 
especially are large and plain contrasted 
with the English breeds of cattle. The 
bind quarters are full and round. The cows 
have large, well-shaped udders and uni¬ 
form teats. The cows average about 1,200 
pounds in weight, and the bulls 1,000 to 
2,000 pounds. The color is brown or 
mouse-colored. The brown varies from 
a very light to almost black. The nose, 
switch, tongue and horn tips are always 
black. The nose is surrounded by a mealy 
ring and a light stripe is always found 
along the top-line. In disposition the 
breed is especially quiet and docile and 
easily handled. The breed is slow matur¬ 
ing; cows usually calving at about three 
years of age. They are noted for con¬ 
tinuing to be sure breeders to an ad¬ 
vanced age. While in Switzerland the 
breed is considered dual-purpose, in 
America the Brown Swiss breeders are 
developing their breeds strictly as a 
dairy breed. The majority of the cows can 
be counted on to average about G.000 to 
7.000 pounds of 4 per cent. milk. No 
system of advanced registration has been 
adopted in this country as yet. 
The French-Canadian breed is very 
closely related to the Guernseys and Jer¬ 
seys. They have become adapted to se¬ 
vere climates and are noted for their 
vigor and ability to withstand the cold 
Winters of the North. In size and con¬ 
formation they are much like the Jerseys; 
cows averaging about 700 to 000 pounds 
in weight. They are active and adapted 
to hilly and rough pasture. In color they 
are black with an orange stripe down the 
back, and along the muzzle. In quantity 
of milk they can be compared favorably 
with the Jerseys, and the fat content av¬ 
erages 4 per cent, to 5 per cent. The 
French-Canadian Herd Book was estab¬ 
lished in Canada in 1S80. There is no 
breeders’ organization in the United 
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