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The ENGINE TESTS recently held resulted in the Celebrated 
N.S.U. MOTOR CYCLES being FIRST, SECOND, and 
THIRD out of thirteen competitors. 
Australian Automobile Club’s Annual Hill Climb, when we 
also secured Fastest Time for the Second Year in succession. 
This Contest is the Only Motor Cycle Engine Test that has 
been held in South Australia this year. Wecan prove this. 
May 1 1908 
This was at the South 
EYES & CROWLE, 125 and 127 Pirie St, Adelaide 
: The Farm, 
The Overheated Horse. 
CAUSES oF THE TROUBLE. 
Indigestion is influenced by keeping 
work-horses in badly ventilated, dirty 
stables; paying no attention to groom- 
ing; overworking horses in times of 
stress ; allowing too little time for the 
proper mastication of food at the noon 
hour; giving cool water too seldom, and 
then in too large quantities, or too soon 
after a meal; feeding corn during hot 
weather, or giving bran: mashes to horses 
not accustomed to such food, or allowing 
them to eat cut grass that has heated, or 
feeding new oats or new hay before they 
have become fit by ageing, or in too large 
quantities without accustoming the horse 
to the change. In other words, almost 
anything that will disturb the general 
health of the horse will affect his diges- 
tive organs in hot weather, and such dis- 
turbance therefore makes him subject to 
heat exhaustion, This being the case, the 
greatest possible attention should be paid 
by every farmer and horseman to the 
general health of his horses during the 
heated term of summer, and especially if 
much hard work has keen done in the 
fields. ‘ : 
- Thorough grooming at least once a day 
hy keeping the pores of the skin un- 
clogged and giving the sweat-glands a 
chance to work perfectly; allowing the 
horse sufficient time to chew his’ food 
well, and therefore prepare it for perfect 
digestion ; giving him cool pure water 
often, but not immediately after feeding, 
to provide for the extra demands made 
upon the liquids of the body during hot 
westher ; surrounding him with ail pos- 
sible comforts in his stable, such as fresh 
air, freedom from irritating gases and flies, 
providing sufficient clean bedding, shading 
the windows to prevent direct sunlight 
from injuring the eyes. keeping the feed 
boxes and mangers clean and sweet, and 
removing all feed that is not eaten up 
clean at each meal—all these things help 
to keep a horse healthy and prevent 
trouble in hot weather, and who can deny 
that they : re the richly deserved right of 
every hard-worked horse ? 
_ TREATMENT. 
At the first sign of derangement of the 
digestive organs, cut down the grain 
rations, and see that all’ food used is 
sound and free from mould or other 
taint. Allow free access to rock salt, and 
mix powdered wood charcoal, or a mixture 
of that and bicarbonate of soda freely in 
the food twice daily. If the manure is 
pale in color and offensive in odour, give 
half an ounce of hyposulphite of soda 
twice daily in the food or drinking water, 
if the horse will take it that way. If the 
dung comes in ball, but clay-colored and 
slimy, give an ounce of glauber salts 
twice daily in the food or drinking-water 
until improvement is seen, then once 
daily until conditions are normal. If 
much gas is passed with the faeces, or at 
any time during the day, give charcoal 
freely, and add hyposulphite ef soda, If 
the horse pants at work, and has dry, hot 
skin, and is nearly exhausted, so that the 
owner concludes that some time or an- 
other he has been ‘overhot,’ work him 
early in the morning or late in the after- 
noon or evening, but not in the middle 
hours of the day, keep his head shaded- 
‘but do not burden him with a big, soggy, 
heavy dirty sponge, which is not protec- 
tive, but adds much to the misery of the 
horse. Air should pass freely under any- 
thing used to protect the poll of the 
horse’s head when at work in the field. 
Then, too, if the easily-tired horse has a 
thick coarse coat of hair, clip it off a9 
once, as this will tend to prevent exhaus- 
tion, and at the same time to prevent 
“summer itch,’ 
Wuat to Do In Acute Caszs. 
Despite all that can be done to prevent 
it, a horse will naw and then succumb to 
the heat, and the attack is ushered in by 
sudden stopping of the sweat, lagging, 
panting, distention of the nostrils, redness 
of the lining membranes of the eyelids 
and nostrils, pagsing of gas or thin feces, 
bloating, staggering, stumbling, weakness, 
and finally, falling and unconsciousness, 
At the first sign of any of these symptoms, 
or the combination, unhitch the horse, 
remove his harness, get him into a shady 
place (under a dense tree, where there is 
a draught of air, by preference), and as 
soon as possible sprinkle him from head 
to foot with cold water from a sprinkling 
can, keep cold, wet swabs to the poll of 
his head, and give him large, frequent 
doses of any stimulant that may be had; 
but do not bleed him or administer dane 
gerous drugs, like tincture of aconite, 
acetanilid, or strychnine. In severe cases 
the veterinary should be called as soon as 
the horse has been treated as we have 
suggested, and we feel sure that by fol- 
lowing the advice given as to the preven- 
tion, and giving first aid intelligently and 
promptly when needed, losses from sun- 
stroke will be materially lessened in our 
farming districts.—‘ Bseeders’ Journal.’ 
Lime and its Application to. 
the Soil. 
Lime is very extensively used as a 
fertiliser, but its action is not generally 
’ understood, and serious mistakes often 
occur from its indiscriminate use. Most. 
