Show WHY ANIMALS CHEW WOOD THE questions why animal fl often acquire the habit of eating wood and what is a cure for it are often asked by stock owners and others who have observed it they were submitted to a veterinary physician in iowa who furnished the following reply which we take from the st paul pioneer press when domestic animals show an abnormal appetite by eating dirt and wood by licking stone walls and chewing bones we may safely conclude either that the diet is deficient in some ment which they are thus trying to got get or else there is present a mild form oi of dyspepsia the treatment lies in prevention ve ven tion by changing and improving the diet which may be too concentrated or th the e reverse an and d which should be suited to the conditions of life licking dirt usually indicates a desire for salt chewing bones means a lack of phosphates and other mineral elements of bone eating wood and hair indicates usually a too concentrated diet with a mild form of dyspepsia in any such case the owner should improve the diet and allow constant access to salt and wood ashes 9 THE kindly act and thought the angry look and speech checked the small errand done the stitch put in all these are the small things of daily life in which we may serve our lord |