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Tests of Food for Work-Horses

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A ration consisting of oats. corn, wheat- bran and timothy-hay in the ratio of 4:6:4:12 produced six pounds of gain in 120 days, and the animals showed the best condition of any in the test, but the ration cost nineteen cents per day.

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Azoturia or Horse Paralysis

By Dr. A. S. Alexander : AZOTURIA is preventable by proper feed- I ing and management. It takes its name I from the French word azote (nitrogen). It ] is characterized by swelling, hardening and j loss of power of the muscles of the hind legs. It is pnrely due to overfeeding on nitrogenous feed during one or more days of idleness. Following a holiday or great storm in any large city, it is not tmcommon for hundreds of work-horses to go down paralyzed and die.

Such horses have been fed their usual rations of oats, bran and hay or other feed combinations, but have not been exercised.

It is Caused by Too Much Nitrogenous Food

Consequently the nitrogen products (urea, etc; of the feed are not used up in work. They overload and overtax the excretory or- gans and blood-vessels and generate toxic poisons which permeate the tissue when ex- ercise is given. The nerves of nutrition (trophic) are injuriously affected by the poisons. The urine is colored dark red- brown by coloring matters of the blood from the congested kidneys. In the most severe cases the horse becomes delirious and speedily succumbs.

How to Prevent It

In less severe cases recovery takes place in a few days, or the horse may partially recover, but gradually become lame and use- less from wasting of the muscles of the stifle, thigh and hip. Losses from this dis- ease are absolutely unnecessary. They may be wholly prevented by stopping the feeding of oats and other rich, nitrogenous foods and enforcing exercise when there is no work for the horse to do. In many large stables horses are now fed hay, bran-mashes apd roots without grain during holidays or stormy weather when work temporarily ceases. They are also given walking exer- cise two or three times a day in the aisles of the stables or out-of-doors. This sensible practice will end losses from azoturia. It should be followed on the farm as well as in the city.

Treatment for an Affected Animal

The attacked horse that has been "feeling his oats," prancing and neighing on going out for the first time after a spell of idleness, suddenly droops, lags, sweats profusely, knuckles over at the hind pasterns and. if driven farther, goes down paralyzed in one or both hind legs. In rare cases the fore legs are affected. A horse so attacked should be immediately stopped, unhitched and rested. Keep him on his feet. Give a pint and a half of raw linseed-oil at one dose.

Cover the loins and hips with blankets wrung out of hot water, or rub with stimu-

lating liniment. If this is done, recovery may quickly follow ; but the disease rapidly becomes worse with continued exercise. If the horse goes down, bed him comfortably in a roomy box stall, and send for a graduate veterinarian. The urine wUl have to be drawn off with a catheter two or three times a day, as it is not passed by the paralyzed animal. Special remedies are needed for the treatment of a severe case, and slings will have to be used as soon as the horse can stand. Prevention is of paramount impor- tance.

Carrots for the Dairy Cow

By A. Cornell

TT WILL be a long time yet before every- one who needs a silo will feel able to have one. In the meantime we must do our best with such as we can afford. For the small farm a root crop is a pretty good substitute. For irrigated sections we are not so stire but that it is more practical and economical than the silo, especially for sec- tions where severe freezing is not the rule.

Carrots are Slow in Starting

Last year we had our first experience, here in Idaho, both with irrigation and with this sort of crop. About the middle of June we planted an acre of carrots. That is a little late if one expects to get the greatest tonnage ; but. having weedy ground, we plowed it early and kept it cultivated until that date in order to kill as many weed crops as possible before plantmg the seed. By waiting this late the carrot crop came on a great deal faster and held its own with the weeds, much better than it would have done earlier in the season.

In fact, on ground that is infested with weeds, this is very important, as carrots are very deliberate in starting off, and the field is apt to be literally green with weeds before ever one carrot gets to the light of day. And if the soil forms a crust they are pi-etty sure to remain an unseen quantity. But, once started, they hold their own well.

We gave carrots the preference over sugar-beets because they have as high a feeding value, and they are not covered with fine roots that cause so much dirt to cling to them. Carrots are especially rich in carbohydrates which make them balance well with alfalfa.

Sowing and Harvesting

Our patch made about eighteen tons ; it would have been much larger had we had the ptire White Belgian seed instead of a mixed lot We planted the rows twenty-two inches apart and used a beet-cvdtivator and dug them with a beet-digger. We use a garden drill set to cover one-half to one inch and drill the seed in quite thick, tising about five pounds per acre. They should be thinned to four inches in the row.

Let them stay in the ground as late as possible, then dig, and store in a well-venti- lated root-cellar. It must be well ventilated, otherwise they are likely to rot. A moderate amount of freezing will not hurt them. In cutting them for feed we use a corn-^ knife and split them lengthwise.

To Prevent Choking

A cow can handle a much larger piece if cut lengthwise than in cross-sections. We are especially careful not to allow the small, round ones to be fed without splitting, as there is more danger of her choking on such pieces than on larger, irregular pieces.

We have been feeding twenty to thirty pounds per day to each cow in addition to a good supply of alfalfa. Danish dairymen feed as high as eighty pounds per day, but they do not have a roughage that equals otrr alfalfa.

Carrots are not only relished by the cows, but are a good feed for all other stock, especially for horses, sheep and geese. The White Belgian carrot has a large top which is as good as the roots. They do not taint the cream and butter, but give a rich, tasty color.

Rheumatism Among Hogs

By J. W. Ingham /^NCE I had the genuine hog-chotera ^-^among my hogs, but the disease that has appeared most often is rheumatism. I have had two uncommonly severe cases. Both animals were sows about seven months old and expected to farrow in the May follow- ing. The one attacked first showed a little lameness in one hind leg. which soon ex- tended to the other, then to all her legs and apparently to every joint in her body.

There was a stiffness in her neck, which she could hardly bend sideways, and the muscles seemed so sore that any movement or attempt to use them gave the animal pain.

A few days after the first one was at- tacked, the other became afflicted in the same manner, but not quite so badly. They would lie generally on the side, except when driven up, and then they squealed with pain, caused by their efforts to use their muscles and move their joints.

The Pen. Though Roofed, Was Cold

They had but little appetite and not much thirst, but would eat a small quantity of meal and milk when driven to the trough. One got well, the other died after being sick several weeks. The pen in which they

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