Show CAUSES OF HORSE COLIC farni farm animal will TIL thrive rIve work better and healthier if given ilard hard feed durins during busy season dy by S C Q millen when n farm horse Is working hard bard it does not pay to let him eat grass when it Is green lie ile will thrive work better and remain healthier and more enduring if fed hard feed during the busy season the tha soft washy green grass Is ia palatable of course but it makes the horse soft and flabby keeps the bowels too loose and Is apt to induce colic if the horse has no work to do lie he in may a y go on pasture right along and ba have ve little grain and when his work Is done in late summer ho he may enjoy the fall pasture made green again by rains the pasture also la Is a good place for the brood mare as it promotes flow of milk wo we find that severe attacks of coll colic e often are caused by allowing the hot horse to eat grass at the road ro W std side w when an ho fio fias fas I 1 mado madd a long trl trip to town the trouble too la Is prone to come on when horses are suddenly fed now i hay or new oats oata doth new hay and new oats should be fed in small quantities gradually at first and along with old hay bay and oats until the horses become accustomed to the change either the new foed feed la Is so palatable that the horse eats too much of it or it contains some ferment that sets up indigestion and formation of gas water very seldom causes colic nature intends horses to have all of it they want at any and all times and so provided it does no harm wo we may cause trouble by withholding drinking water for long periods of time and then forcing the alio hot tired horses to drink too much of it at noon and especially just after eating grain allow the work horse adequate supplies of coo cool pure water often when he Is at work and he never will take too much of it or suffer III effects from drinking indeed the water so given will be likely to prevent sickness and always Is appreciated and beneficial |