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Title: The horse : its varieties and management in health and disease
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Armatage, George Ballantyne, Hanson and Co Frederick Warne (Firm)
Subjects: Horses Horses Veterinary medicine Horsemanship Horse breeds
Publisher: London : Frederick Warne and Co. and New York
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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ferior in point ofnutrition, and should not be used for the support ofworking horses. An idea also prevails that good wheatand barley are very difficult of digestion, and liable toproduce serious obstructions. This usually happenswhen horses help themselves from the barn floor, and thesafe precaution against the evil is to keep the doors safelyclosed. When wheat or barley is supplied as daily food,proper quantities should be given, and these always mixedwith a due proportion of bran and sound chaff. In the present system of feeding, some farmers appearalmost compelled to give their horses straw during winter,generally when the animals are off work ; but as strawrequires more exercise to produce digestion, it ought tobe given (if at all, alone) when the animal is at work, ashorses with voracious appetites and little work have timeto eat a great deal more than the digestive organs canaccommodate. It is an indisputable fact that there aremore cases of colic during Sunday night and Monday
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Farm Horses. 129 morning than during any other part of the week. If theplan of giving horses cooked food were more adoptedwhen feeding upon straw, much of this disorganizationmight be prevented. In Edinburgh, where cooked foodis much approved, the food is used well washed, generallybeing Swede turnips and potatoes, in equal proportion,then boiled and thrown into a large trough or cooler, and alittle wheat chaff along with a handful of salt for eachhorse, well mixed together. The weight of the turnipsand potatoes, which is 56 lbs. when put into the boiler,is reduced to about 40 lbs., one-half of which is given atdusk, or whenever the horse returns from work, and theremainder at eight oclock, when the men clean and dothem up for the night, with oat or wheat straw, upon whichthe owners place no value, considering it as equivalent tothe manure from the horses. The supply of water is a part of stable routine fromwhich the horse not unfrequently suffers. Horses, in re-ceiving water, should

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