The Clinton News Record, 1920-2-5, Page 2'G,P.MeTAGGART
M. P. Mc'LAGGART
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A GENERAL BANKING BUSY-
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iIrSCOUNTED, "DRAFTS ISSUED.
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POSITS.' SALE NOTES PVI
CHASED.
_. R. T. RANCE --, .•,,
NOTARY PUBLIC, CONVEY-
ANCER, FINANCIAL REAL
ESTATE AND FIRE IN•SUR-
AWE AGENT. REPRESENT-
ING, 14 FIRE INSURANCE•
COMPANIES.
DIVISION i COURT OFFICE,
CLINTON. •
W. BRYDONE,
BARRISTER, SOLICITOR,
NOTARY PUBLIC, ETC.
Office-- Sloan Block --CLINTON
DR. J. C. GANDIER
o Office Hours: -1.30 to 8.90 p,tn,, 7.30
to 0.0.0 p.m. Sunda 12.30 to 1.30
yrm.'
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• Office. and Residence --Victoria t
CffA'RLES B. HALE,
o Conveyancer, Notary 1'u11ic,
Commissioner, Etc.
REAL ESTATE and INSURANCE
Issuer of Marriage Licenses
HURON 'STREET, -- CLINTON.
GARFIELD McMICHAEL,
Licensed Auctioneerer for the
County of Huron. Sales con-
, ducted in any part of .the county.
Charges moderate and satisfac-
tion guaranteed. Address: Sea -
forth, R. R. No. 2._ Phone 18 on
236, Seaforth Central.
GEORGE ELLIOTT
Licensed Auctioneer for the County
of Hanel.
Correspondence promptly answered.
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News -Record, Clinton, or by
calling Phone 13 on 167.
Charges moderate and satisfaction
guaranteed:' „
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Box 127, Clinton . Phone 100.
• Anent for
The Huron ee Erie Mortgage Cor-
poration
orporation and The Canada
, Trust Company
Comm'er 1i. C. of J., Conveyancer,
Fire and Tornado Insurance,
Notary Public
Also a numbeer of good farms
for sale.,
At Brucefleld on Wednesday earl
week.
-TIMID TABLE
Trains will arrive at and depart
trom .Clinton. Station as follows:
BUFFALO AND GOD-ERICI3 DIV.
Going east, depart 6,33 a.m,
2.62 p.rn.
Going West ar, 11.10, dp. 11.15 a.m.
"•' " d,r. 6.08, dp. 6.47 p.m.
" ar. • 11.18 p,m.
LONDON; HURON & BRUCE DIV.
Going South, ar. 8.23, dp. 8.28 a.m.
" 4,15 p.m.
Going North depart 6.40 p,m.
11,07, 11.11 a.m.
The .JIeKiliop Mutual
Fire Insurance Gompny
Head office, Seafof'th, Ont.
DIRECTORY:
President, Janes Connolly, Godertehs
Vice,, James Evans, Beachwood;
Sec, -Treasurer, Thos. E. flays, Som.
iortli.
Directors: George McCartney, yes.
!forth; D. F. McGregor, Seaforth;
XLGrieve, Walton; Wm. Rine, Sea.
forth; M. McEwen, Clinton; Hobert
Ferries, Harlock; John Benneweir,
Brodhagen; Jas. Connolly, Godericlr.
Agents; Alex Leitch, Clinton; J. W.
(Yeo, Goierich; led. Rinohley,:Settforth;
Vd. Chesney, Egniondville; R. 9, Jar.
muth, Brodhagen.
Ahy money • to be paid ;a may he
paid to Moorish C1otthisse Co., Clinton,
er et Cutt's Grocery, Goderich.
Parties deeiri:,g to effect insurance
er transact other business will las
promptly attended to on application to
any of the above officers addressed to
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irepeeted '..ty the director who lives
a,eareat tbe"ncene.
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Address communicati:Me to Ayrenontist, 73 Adelaide a it. West, Toronto
Whop You Select Yogi' Tractor.'
The selection of a treater is an im-
portant business matter. Buying a
tractor calls for a consider.'abie •in-
yestment, Satiefaction frbm than13 e
vestment demands that you get back
through the service of the rnaehane
all of the monc'that you expend, to-
gether with profits in proportion,,
You buy a tractors in order to do farm
work.at a greater profit, and net be-
cause your neighbor across the road
happens to own one.
Tractor manufacturers are snaking
your• problem in operating a tractor
their ,problem in building one. They
have combined their technical knowl-
edge with practical farm methods,
and most_ makers will give you real
service!'
It becomes, then, a question of what
size and typo tractor to buy. In mak-
ing. your selection, eek yourself 'these'
two questions:
Will this tractor do the work I
have to do on my farm?
"'Can X operate 'it economically?
The size of Your farm, number of answer is easy. • The first east,looks
acres under cultivation, character of big. It is until you•. compare, and
soil, and the number of horses it will theh it seems very, very`smail.
allow you to replace, all have a bear- ' The very best pian foie an 'owner of
.ing-en tractor. purchase., ;'..'Unless you ,a.,senal ,' herdenprevided lie is ,inter-
'p•1'an to do a great deal of ,outside eeted.in.getting better production -is
work, a small farm demands a small to joid a testing association. It is
traotor, and a largo farm a larger "about' as cheap, and 1, really think
one, but this point is often over- it better than doifrg your own test -
looked. ing. . But there are, counties which
I have in mind two farms. One lies deo not have such an 'organization, so
across the road from the other. The if you live in mica a county you will
smaller one is a cjuarter=section, but lave ''to do .the next best thing and
basso/11y 100 acres under actual cul- test your - own herd.
tivetion. The other contains 200 I find from observation that it -is
acres, with 180 in crop. The owner a very easy matter to keep putting
of the smaller farm has a tour -plow the testing off until it is not done in
tractor, and the man with the larger 'the same month -at all. That is why
acreage a two -blow outfit. I feel that the testing association is
Here are two eases of poor judg- the better way of keeping tab on
mint in buying: I'll wager the man your cowe. I know what any cows
with the small acreage and the large are doing pretty much, but there is
machine, if he stopped to -investigate, a tendency to let•the testing go a few
evoeld find he was dipping into his days when, something else is pushing
profits to 'keep his tractor going. on the farm.
The investment is there, whether idle But suppose that you found just
or 'at work, and he hasn't enough one cow in five that did not test
work to keep it .bdsy. His was not three per cent butter -fat, and was
an economical buy. not even a heavy milker; could you
Our friend with the big` farin and afford to keep her? But without
the small tractor has also made a testing you do `not know that you
mistake, although not such a serious haven't two or three of them.
one a's, .his "neighbor. His tractor is This is where the association tester
undoubtedly making him a profit, but 'comes' in to good advantage. Ile
when you take into consideration his aims to keep exact tab on the feed
Larger acreage, which carries with it of your cows; so at the end of the
possibilities of a greater variety of mon'th's work he cam tell you just
work, a three or four -plow outfit about what your cow has produced,
would be better suited to his needs, and its 'value at current prides, and
and bring him in maximum returns also the cost of the feed she has con -
feline his ineestntent. e e sinned. A tester who is on his job
The size you buy should be govern-
ed by the kind and amount of work you
have to do. Tractor operation should
not by any means be confined to field
work alone. -Indeed, it is quite pos-
sible you will find more opportunities'
to use a machine out of the field than
in. Belt work of all kinds, for your-
self andneighbors, hauling, road-'
greclat!S- Uiere etre any number of
tractor jobs to keep the outfit busy,
Whatever your seleotiors, remember
that n tractor is only a machine, and
as such it :deinnnele a roasonebi9
;tmount of care • and attention. A ne-
glected tractor Will never give good
ervice,
• Doss the Shoe Fit You? ,
Maybe you have thought from
time to time that your herd of cowl
ought to bo tested. ' lei fact, I am sure
you, have, because the majority of
farriers wlio have a few cows think
this very things' I: have, been aneoffi-
cial tester for some years, but 1 ata
on a farm now, and.I have talked
With the men who ado not test.
This is what they think: "11Zy,?t is
an expensive outfit for me to get just
for four or five •eows! IC will Oast
$6 to $8."
Now, I omission aid you ever bbank
how long,at will take to shove $8
worth of high-priced feed into a cow
that is not paying her way? The
can do this easier and better than
you can. Take my word for ;it, that
you will never be sorry that you in-
vested in' a cow -testing association's
fees. But if you can't do that, invest
in a testing apparatus, and use it
once a month. The higher the price
of feed and butterfat, the more you
can't afford not to do this,
s'•
How vital it is that every milk -
producing' cow should be free from
disease, seeing that infants often are
Iargely, dependent upon cow's milk
for their- sustenance!
Milk is a secretion from the blood
eilaborated in the mammary gland
(udder)p..and there, supplied with
added ingredients, To have healthy
milk preconceives the ,idea that the
cow's blood must be healthy. Given
a healthy:cow we should so feed and
house the animal that she Will re-
main healthy,and so` produce safe
and wholesome milk.
nllrany of the diseases attacking
cattle are avoidable. This is well
demonstrated by the extreme rarity
of contagious foot-and-mouth dis-
ease among cattle in''this country. At
all times the disease' is more or less,
prevalent .somewherre in Europe, but
our live -stock sanitarians keep it out
of this country. Occpsionaily it has
appeared, 'but almost' instantly hee.
been stamped out. It never appears
spontaneously. Always it comes
from a previously existing -erase. So
with other infections ,diseases of
Cows.
Tuberculosis, for example, cannot
occur spontaneously. Each new case
comes from. alt old one, Do away
with the seed -producing case, and the
seed from it, and no new case can
occur. Bacilli of tuberculoois are its
seed's. Kill them, and there can be
no crop. So the modeop veterinarian
tests every cow with tuberculin, and
discovers and eliminates these which
react because they are infected.
Afterward lie does everything in his
power to make the remaining cows
rosistant against disease, and to pre-
vent them from coming in contact
with germs of disease. .Tohne'a dig.
ease (chronic bacteiciad dysentery)
may alae be kept out, as we now
have a test for it similar..to that fol
tuberculosis. Anthrax, blackleg, and
hemorrhagic septicaemia also aro
germ diseases, but different front tu-
berculosis, in that they may be pre-
vented by vaccination just as people
nowadays are immunized with serum
against' typhoid and vaccinated
against smallpox.
Even many •of the eimpler ailments
of rattle are itvoidalslc. Were seine.
ulcus cleanliness observedand main
tained in the tow stable, and as re-;
garde the udder and teats of the cowl
and hands of bile milketi, cases of
cowpox, mammitis or ,argot, acid
soros of the teats "coined be conipal:
atively rare.
Cleanliness and proper 'hygiene
would else bele to prevent teeny of
the skin diseases of cattle, and some
ea the comma); rases of lameness,
Wet the spear before serving jelly
with. i1. •
When ;"citing, stand on a•cushion.
One does not Lire so.
Warm 1em00s before rqucozing,
You will gel more juice.
When We Are Building.
•
On nearly eyery progressive farm
we are sure to hear these words
sooner or later: "L wieh I had built
any barn a. little larger while I was
about it. I am bramped for room
now. It would not have cost me much
more to have added a Tittle to its size,
and 81 would have been 80 much more
convenient." And it is a fact that
few• of us have as much room as we
need for stock, feed, and'tools.
For some time after we came on
the farm we found it was so with us.
We often wished we had room' 'to
store feed enough to last for a num-
ber of months. We were compelled
to let several chatrces go by to lay
in a stock of grain when it could be
bought at a low price, for the simple
reason that"we had no place to store
it where it would be away from rats
and mice. •
The tine came, however, when we
saw our way clear to (build a granary,
anal we determined to build it Targe
enough to enable us to lay in the
needed stock of feed to carry us
through the winter in the'years when
that seemed best. That called for
strong sills and a floor that would
sustain a great weight, But we anti-
cipated this fairly weld, so well that
we have had tthe house piled full to
its limit of clipacity, without giving
way.
And we have saved money several
time.'3 by reason of buying our feel
early. Last year we bought in Juno
and saved ten dollars a toil or a lits
the snore, That was on gluten feed.
As our purcha'se. amounted to ten
tons, we figured that we were ahead
at least ane .hundred doilsrrs, It is
a matter of uncertainty, however,
whe4t'lier we will tot have even now
to make an adalition to the stock barn,
It gets running over full se feet. One
thing is certain; et doe3' not pay to
leave anything out ill the storm, shock,
feed or tools.
'Mute of Heart Peace.
1, To cla•`nesGed as the reality of
realities,
2. To praetise pei'sisten'liy cern-
panionehlp with elven.
3. To pray daily in simplicity and
earnestness.
4. To frequently read the 'Hely
Scriptures through devout spectacles.
5, To never ' lose an opportunity
for thinking kindly of. and 'seting
magnanvousty towards the other fel-
low.
6. To keep up Lhe sti!uggle for noble
thinkin ,
7. To, watch unceasingly for the
best in oilers,
- 8, To cultivate the 'sense of hu-
mor,
9. 'Po 'tIi18i11A to 'f"o1e 8111• ea Lure
n11 )near streaks,
10. To make the" llouae 0f, God
our spirit0al conservatory, •
11, .1'o mingle Walt and love chil-
dren.
12, 'Co maize our dollars mighty in
doing good,
13, To -ever keep young in spirit,
If old household scales are stood in
weighing dement ent paultr7 for priivaba
customer,, et lusty he best to have
them teetod by eomparieorr,with
scales anewn'1i
0 be aceeeate, f the
scales utldel•we'igh it means a financial
lose to the poultrymen, If they over-
weigh it means rt 'x1111 more serious
loss by casting, a reflection on the
honesty of the pr'od'ucer. '
In adveetising handling. egg's 1i Is
not best to place too much emphasis
an home egg record's 'even if the, are
good, Producers who 'wish to bring
up their stone end charge high -prices
for the eggs should enter their birds
in kite official contests and obtain res
Mee eupervised by' disinteresteds
pa'7ties, Poultrymen who do not en-
ter their bird's in the contests can ob-
tain lirds.of good laying ability and
sell the hatching eggs at a fair. ,price.
But they cannot expect buyers to
plaee'too mucheconfld'ence in private
receede now that we have the egg -
laying contests to furnish producers
with offi'eial rgeords. P
A broody coop made of slats should
be in every poultry house., Then ,the
broody hens needed for liatch'ing eggs
can be quickly removed from the
nest and fastened up until broken,
These coops should be portable• so
they can 'betaken outside for 'sunning'
and spraying. And in the summer
when it is ''very hot in the poultry
house it may he beat to place the
broody..coop outside. in 'the protection
of : a shade tree. • Iii the ei titer and
early spring 'the broody hens must
be locked up inaide the laying house
where they will be protected from
storms and draughts.
Seed Orders and Supplies.
"Commerce makesa nation great,"
says the captain of industry. "A terga
standing army," says the military
anithority. '(Schools,' says the edema -
ter. ""A fright spirit," the .ere'aeher.
But let all these take heed. Forget
cot the importance of the plow.
picturing the fine erops one will have Without' it railaeads would become
next summer. Often, however, the strealcs of useless iron and rust away.
catalogue is heti aside, without the' Cities end towns would decay and
order being sent, and nothing further) their names be forgotten. Social
is done until spring, when it may bel position would become a legend: and
too late to get what 'is desired. The l all fame and distinction be obliteee
quantity available of the best ethane ated.
of vegetables end flowers is u'•sual'ly history is little more than a record
small, hence if is very important to of wars, privations and heroism, be -
order early before the stock is ex- cause these things kindle the imagin-
hausted, anon end make the blood rine warns.
There is a great difference between But, after all, the tranquil arts of
the best,tmd the poorest strains. The husbandry are what' measuae a na-
stock of the best has 'been rigidly eel- lion's greatness, gauge its commer-
-creted so that a ]targe proportion will ciaeeewer. 'Without agriculture 0001 -
come true to type, whereas stock melee would die and the cottage give
which has not been kept up by selec- way to the hunter's cabin. Civiliza-
tion niay have a bad' mixture of types, tion begins and ends with agriculture.
and the resulting crop will be very 'Creat is commerce, great are arm-
uneatisfactory. This is, of so much ies, wonderful is the power of educe -
importance that, with a crop like the tion. But greatest of all is the plow,
cauliflower, for instance, where a Speed the Plow!
strain that will give a large propor-
tion of good heads means much profit
and a.poor strain may mean very lit-
tle,'if pays the market gardener when
THE C,liEERFUL CtiE .Ul3
r do not a,im for
wealth or 'arae ,
I've other. hope, than
thz+•t - -
lout to Fired before
_X die
Just one:
becorninc
hat .
t
gully wibh the 'beet of the elder ver-
ietles before being offered for sale,
as they do not prove superior, if as
good. While it is interesting to test
varieties, it is well Mot to spend much
money on them until 'they have been
tested- at eche Experimental Station.
Another advantage of .ordering
early is that one can test the germ -
?stating powee. of a seed befog spring
so that there will be time bo order
again 18 the 'germination is poor.
Often seed tis ordered ago late that
when it is sewn and the plants do not
tomo up there is. not time to order
,again, and one loses the crop. When
there is a shortage of many Linda of
sup'nlies, as there is, at present, it is
very desirable to erder'eatily the ma-
terial needed for next reason's oper-
ation's.
What Makes .a Nation
Great?, +
Tiso new seed catalogues ars com-
ing in with their lists of noveltres
and staple varieties attractively ad-
vertised, and one gets "null'" enjoy-
ment in turning over the •pages of
one of those 'catalogues and mentally
Trap Nest the Laying Hens.
A trap nest is a layting• nest so ar-
ta gets a good strain to hold over ranged that after a hen enters it she
what seed 'Ire dotes not use until an -I is confined until released by the at -
other year, as he swill thus be sure of tendant.
having a good strain next year. This I Wen 'possible it is advisable to
method would not however, servetrap'nest the layers for the following
with the onion, which loses its germ -I reasons: •
"rating power very rapidly, hence 1. To tame the birds, thereby tend -
in 'toward fne •
v "eased production.
egg p ocluction.
2. To furnish definite knowledge
concerning traits and habits of indi-
viduals.
8. To furnish the only satisfactory
basis for utility or other breeding.
4. To eliminate the nonproductive
hen.
5. To add mechanical precision to
judgment and experience in develop-
ing and maintaining t11e utility of a
fl eels.
should be purchased every year.
There is- a wonderful difference in
onions. Sometimes from the seed of
one stock a large proportion will be
thicknecks while from another most
of tribe plants snake good bulbs. If one
has had good success from a certain
source one year, the safest plan will
bo to order :from• the same source an-
other year.. -
Sometimes novelties have not ap-
parently been compared very eare-
The Welfare of the Home
Is Your Child Well Nourished?
Is Your Child 'Well Nourished? ( '43
Thin:seems a surp'zising and even 44
impertinent question 'to the average' 45
parent, but it is a matter of fact 46
that even in well-to-do homes chil-1 47
dren are found ,who fail to measure' 48
up to the required standard. The re- 49
lation of weight to height is consider-' (10
ed the best standard of nutrition. 61
Test your child by means of the ac- 52
companying table and satisfy your- 58
self on this -all-important question. •r. 54
First, have the child stand with 55
heels together, shoes having been re- 66
moved, against a wall. Mark his 57
height by placing a ruler or book on 58
top of his head. Now measure this 59
height from the floor by incites. 60
Next have the -child weighed in or. 61
Binary indoor clothing without coat ey -. 62
shoes: Idaving.the weight in pounds 63
and the height in ,inches, consult the 64
tattle, 65
Fora boy, run your flinger down 66
.else fii'et 00101)111 until you come to his 67
height, then look in second column 68
for the average weight corresponding
to this`•height. If he is up to this'
standard he isprobably not under-
nourished, If he is below this stand- '
and then see if he is 10 per cent. or Height.
more underweight by comparing with Inches, '
the corresponding figures in third col-
umn, If he is below the weight shown
in the third column, then his con:idi-
1,100 (s serious, and he needs the best
of attention. If .his weight lies be-
tween these tIvo, be then is under-
nourished to a slighter degree, and
should 'also receive attention, al-
though his condition is not as yet
really serious, 44
Tha s.enle me sere. apply to girls, 4:i
rising hews%er, the second table. ¢H ..
Table of average heights and ,47
weights of children, else showing 48 '
weights 10 pec.' cent, under weight, for 40
'height: \ 1 a 110
51
Average' t0$'n 132
weight Par tinder 6R
71eight., height weight i 64
Blebs, founds rounds 55
65 32.0 20,0 56
36 113,5 110.0 57;
87 34,6 11,0 (5$,
38 :36,0 82,5 69
39 ,17.6 34.0 80
40 811.0 36.0 61
41 40.1, 82,5 62
42 • 42,0 88.0 63
43.6.
46.5
47,5
49.5
51.5
58,5
55.5
59,5
63.0
66.0
.69.0
72.5
75.5
39.0
41.0
43.0
44.5
46.5
48.0
60.0
58,5
66.5
59.6
62.0 •
66.5
68.0
79.6 ' 71.5
83.5 - 76.0
87.5 79.0
91.6 82.5
• 95,0 85.5
99.5.. 89.6
105.0 94.5
109.5 _ 98.6
116.0 104.5
119.6 107.6
126,0 118.5
134.0 1.20,5
188.5 124,5 gip
- -Girls-
Avdrage 10%
weight for under
height weight
Pounds Pounds
36 81.0 28:0
36 32,5 29.0
37 88.5 ,50.0
38
30.0
31.5 •
30 136.5 33.0
.4e ' 138.0 • 313
41 en.39.5 ` 35.5
42 41., 37.0
48 43,0 38.5
44.5 '10.0
:1.1.6 -:48.0
'15.5 43.5
61,0Vs 46.0
113.5 , 48,0
65.5 50.0
58,6 52,5
61.0 55,11
• 64,0 57.6
67.5 61,0
N. 71.0 64,0
710 37.5
78.8 '80,5
es 88,0 74.5
87.0 78,6
91:5 82.5
06,5 87,0
102,6 92,6
110,5 99,5e"1
11".0 104,5
w Beauty Perpetual,
Looking upon the Winter birren
boughs,
And seeing stow the Strew and sleet
aryl rain
llt0+tle their Javodine 'molest the
Pane,
And bearing kow the weld snakes mad
carouse
.Around the, sbrou.dee gabier3 of the
house
use
141te ono In fury, I do not. conlpiajn,
Nor deem that 1)(10r/heti beauty is In
Tab:,
Nor at its storm'swept\tars vain our
tows,
Rather my thougbt leaps forward to
the time
Wheu ,roses .up the trellises shall
climb,
The evening primrose show Its gold-
en ore
Brushed by the fleeting "rotas' wings
as they pass,
When the glow worm shall glimmel'
in the gram,
And beauty come unto its own on00
more,
CATARRH DOES HARM
Wka1har 1t la of thq Nose, Threat,
or Other Greener Get Rid of it.
Catarrh 0.1 the nose or throat when
it becomes 01on19 weakens the doli-
mma lung tissues deranges the diges-
tive organsa, and. may load to eon-
suruption. .1t impairs the taste, smell
and hearin3', and aflcots the voice. It
is a' eonehtutienal disease and re,, r,~
quires a constitutional remedy.
Take 1Tood's Sarsaparilla, which
by purifying the' blond removes the
cause of the disease and gives per-
manent relief. This alterative and
tonic medicine has proved entirely
salisfaetory to thousands of families
in three generations,
If there is biliousness or constipa-
tion, take Hood's Pills, -they are a
thorough cathartic,a gentle laxative,
Only one out of every thousand
people attains the age of 100 years.
Women of Western Australia have
had the right to vote for nearly fifty
years, '
-Costly Ailments of Horses -
And Bow to Prevent Them
BY A, S. ALEXANDER, V.S.
More than ever lefore it now is a
matter of the gravest importance to
prevent your animals from suffering
,disease"and injury, instead of having
their ailments to treat. I elrall try
here to tell you some ways in which
you can do this.
Did space allow, hundreds o1' ail-
ments of animals :night be listed as
preventable, directly or.• indirectly, but
to demonstrate the impel:tante of
this subject and indicate the possibil-
ities of a campaign of disease preven-
tion, it will suffice to mention some
of those most commonly met with,
Azotuaia and its hurtful associate,
lymplian'gitis, or "Monday morning
disease," are induced by' continuing
to give the ordinary ration of oats,,
or other rich feed, when bad weather
or a holiday co'nfine's the horse to
his stable.
Both diseases might absolutely be
prevented, were it made the invari-
able rule that no horse shall ever
stand for a single day without work
DT adequate exercise, and that oats
and other protein -rich feed shall be
omitted or materially lessened :in
amount during all periods of idleness.
That you may be able to recognize
these diseases 18 may be stated that
the urine is dark red -brown in color
in azoturia, and the miracles of 'the
loins, hips, and thighs become swol-
len, hard and paralyzed, so that the
horse loses the power of his bind
legs. Acute attacks often are fatal.
All .attacks lay the horse off work.
In lymphangitis a hind leg becomes
acutely swollen, and so great is the
pain in the region of the groin that.
high fever is caused, and the horse
stops eating, sweats, breathes fast,
and has a full, bounding pulse, The
animal is "anchored" tin hie stall and.
unfitted fol' work for a period of Gee
to two or three weeks.
Unnecessary suffering entailed
upon the stricken horse and the heavy
financial loss due to the terrible mor-
tality from ar.'oturia surely are mat-
ters of serious concern, birt they do
not complete the hie of loss.
Puncture of the sole by sheep ob-
jects, generally termed "nail prick,'
le another cause of temporary or per-
ntailent retirement of the horse from
work, and many cases end in death
from tetanus (lockjaw), which might
be prevented.
In the recent world war it did no
take the Allies and enemy long to dis-
cover that steel helmets, by protect-
ing the head against shell splinters,
shrapnel, and partially spent bullets,
would save many a life, and prevent
thousands of troublesome wounds.
But to this day few work horses have
the soles of their feet, protected
against the ever-present and deadly
nail. Why? lelle can answer? Well,
we fancy the explanation is chiefly
one oiit negligence..
No horse should work without a
thin plate of canvas -covered steel or,
a •thick pad of leather between leis
shoes and the soles o:3 his feet,(
Tken, under 111154 pads, should be a
dressing of oakum and wool fat elan -1
olin). Tinie was when pine tar wast
used, but it is too strong, and always
injurious in the long run. Wool fat,
on the contrary, softens and encour-
ages growth of the ]hoof. So shod, the
hoof of the horse actually may 1111 -
prove instead of drying, contracting,;
and causipg lameness.
But some nail -prick cases will odour,
while stone bruises and -corns Are.
other gameCOMMof elamenose,';
and so the modern veterinarian must;
do all he can to prevent deadly lock -1
j'aw. To Ibis end every horse that ie!
known to have suffered a nail puny -
tura should ,immediately be given a
protective hypodermic injection of
tetanus antitoxin, and it is well Lal
give similar preventive treatment in/
all wounds, in addition lo the usual'
disi n1'eeefiOts.
Sore necks, hacks...and shoulders an-
nually .cause the temporary retire-
ment of many horses from work or
make ihein,woric less cftioiont. Every-
-
to
thimg possible shotrid be done1.e
vent such sores. i14o't of them are
*cased by ill-fitting harness,, but
even a prop,.rly fitting collar will
ceruse seres,,•unless it is kept clean
and smooth, The draft of the tugs
also must be properly adjusted on
the'same tames, and the swing of the
wagon pole, or tongue, kept from
hurting the
horse.
The efficient "barn bees" will see
`to it that collars fit properly, are
kept •clean and smoeth, and that the S'• t
skin of the nee* and shoulders Is
Flatbed and strengthened by bathing
with salty cold water two or three
times a_ day.
Barbed wire is another c02=1011
cause of wounds, and such wounds
also necessitate protective treatment
with tetanus antitoxin. Usually it is
a loose wire at the ground that does
the harms, so that the fe'n'ces should
be examined at regular intervals to
keep all wires in place and taut.
Better far wouldeit be were barbed-
wire fences done away with in pas-
tures, Where aboard fence is too
expensive, 48 to 52 inch woven wire
should be. used, withtwo strands of
barb wire over that to ]seep hoses
front pasturing over the fence.
It also is wise to carefully examine
a strange stall before a horse is al-
lowed to eater it. Depend upon it
that if a projecting nail is there your
horse will be sure to come in contact
with it.
The navel of every foal shoald also
be sat'irrated with tincture of Iodine
at birth to prevent infection. Thous-
ands of foals are killed each year by
this preventable form of infcction,
and the joint diseases which occur as
complications. Colts that survive are
left with unsound joint".
The attendant, • rather then the
horse, usually is to blame when a
case of colic occurs, The sane man
should always feed all of the horses,
and each feed, so far as possible,
should be given at exactly the same
hour.' Waterhi'g should be done with
similar Dare and regularity.
Sudden chapges of food commonly
cause cn1fC. The feeding of new hay
or new Date without due preparation
often proves d'isas'trous, A11 changes
of feed sliould 'be made gradually, and
the. horse should not immediately be
fed when he comes in hot.
There would be far fewer cases of
colic were the following plan adopted
in tpe city -and on the Tarin: Allow
the horse -'a few, swallows of cold
water when be comes in hot and tired.
Remove his harness, and bathe neck
and shoulders with cold water con-
taining a heaping teaspoonful of salt
per pint. Allow trim to eat a pound
of good hay while cooling off; then
allow drinking water, mrd then the
feed of oats.
Do not allow drinking from the
trough if the horse immediately goes
ter svo•rk, but let him drink now and
then when at work.
The modern veterinarian no longer
prescribes a het bran mash to be,,
given to n work horse on Saturday
night. Such a feed is absolutely un.
natural and a fertile cause of mile,
It is better to mix (bran with the oats
for every work .horse,. It will lessen
bolting of feed, induce more perfect
ma'sticatiott, help to regulate the
bowels, and be a valuable nutrient.
Green grass suddenly allowed is
also a common cause of indigestion,
as is cut green grass that (las been
a!ilowed to start heating before being
fed.
It its not generally understood that
a 'horse usually is suffering from in-
digestion when suddenly overcome by
heat or killed by hest apoplexy when
at work in the 800. Were the atten-
dant
tterdant to note the appearance and con-
sistency of each hose's feces (man-
ure) in the morning before harness-
ing many a horse could be saved from
attack,
If the feces in any harked way is
other than normal, the horse is unfit
to work hard •fn the hot sun, and
should' be tested until well. The
changes in feces indicative of de,
ranged digestion are mushy, steam-
ing, stinking :condition, aemMdgislcl
passages, clay -colored masses, er
earls -colorer: mucus -covered balls.
I mention here only a ,few of the
econmoit preventable troubles, which
if you manage by precaution to pre-
vent, will save you much money.
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