Horses - their feed and their feet, a manual of horse hygiene invaluable for the veteran or novice pointing out the true source of "malaria," "disease waves," influenza, glanders, "pink-eye," etc., (14596351389)

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Title: Horses : their feed and their feet, a manual of horse hygiene invaluable for the veteran or novice pointing out the true source of "malaria," "disease waves," influenza, glanders, "pink-eye," etc., and how to prevent and counteract them
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Page, C. E. (Charles Edward), 1840- Cox, George W. (George William), 1827-1902 Weld, Mason Cogswell, 1829-1887
Subjects: Horses Horses -- Diseases
Publisher: New York : Fowler & Wells Co.
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University



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ortunity offered. So, too, he will for a time(and ahvays until ajfected injuriously by the means)eat as much when at leisure as when working. Buteating and digesting are far from synonymous terms.He can not digest more than he needs, and any ex-cess above such needs is not only^^ much for indiges-tion, but tends strongly to the imperfect digestionof all the food, swallowed and to a condition of gen-eral disorder. KIND Treatment. In addition to the causes already mentioned whichimpair digestion, and therefore predispose to disease,unkind treatment is often a serious one. All horsesare more or less sensitive, while some are as sensi-tive as a woman to the treatment they receive.An outburst of anger, accompanied by twitching oryelling, directly before, during, or soon after a meal,would absolutely prohibit or delay digestion in caseof a fine-grained animal, and perhaps occasion seriousmischief. Severe indigestion often results from thiscause in the case of human beings—victims to theii
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JCKEYE Bayard, by Bayard. First Dam, Jenny B, by the Koontz horse, grandson of RhodeIsland. Record, 2:23^. Owned by Geo. H. Allen, Bellefontaine, Ohio. THEIR FEED AND THEIR FEET, 47 own or their companions temper. The horse appre-ciates kind treatment, and it pays to give him thekindest. OVERDRIVING—OVERWORK. Overdriving is a relative term. The horse thatnever travels more than one mile at the top of hisspeed, is overdriven if pushed three miles at a highrate ; while another, or the same, gradually workedup to it, may m.ake five. The ordinary driving-horsethat makes only his five to ten miles a day, and thatat a leisurely pace, is overdriven if sent twenty-fivemiles at a stretch and at, say, the rate of eight milesan hour; while another, or the same, perhaps, afterproper preparation, may miake that distance in twoand a half hours, and, with an hours rest, return at thesame rate, without being overdriven. Again, a horsethat is driven every day, from twenty to forty miles,and kept in