The horse : how to feed him, avoid disease, and save money by Armatage George & Fairman Rogers Collection (University of Pennsylvania) PU

Author:Armatage, George & Fairman Rogers Collection (University of Pennsylvania) PU
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Horses, CHR 1868
Publisher: London : Frederick Warne and Co.
Published: 1868-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

56 Objectio7is to the Use of Dry Food.

in the consumption of food,, and visit him at any hour of the nighty he will be found having an appetite^ and like Oliver Twisty " looking for more/^

Rapidity of digestion is a provision established by natiire. If the stomach had been from the first intended to receive the large quantities frequently placed before horses^ or to perform functions assigned to the teeth and salivary glands in addition to its own^ the logical inference is that_, as nature^ in her development of all things^, has not studied ornament merely, the stomach would have been endowed Avith greater capacity and powers, and teeth and salivary glands in all 23r6bability absent entirely.

It is also urged against the dry meat or manger system, that horses fail to masticate or grind the whole of their corn, that much in a state capable of germination or growth passes out in the excrement, and, of course, the cooked meat system supplies this deficiency.

During a season of extreme scarcity in India, it has been stated,^ the famine-hunted wretches followed the English camp, and drew their principal nourishment from the grains of corn extracted from the excrement of horses.

I well remember an extensive firm employing many horses, whose manure was objected to by

* Letter from an Indian officer to J. Curwen, M.P., quoted in Blaine's (fifth) edition of "The Veterinary Art."

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