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Show Kew Feed) and It. EtIIs. It Is about this time of the year that we hear of so many cases of colic in horses from the feeding of new hay and there is another crop of similar sim-ilar cases later on when the new crop cf oats is being threshed. Now, there Is not the slightest need of having all or any of this trouble each year if farmers would use a littla Judgment in the feeding of new hay and grain. It is the sudden feeding of such foods that does the harm for it is a fact that were the food to be given gradually until the animal became accustomed ac-customed to the change there would be no bad results from feeding. There Is or ougkt to be at all times on the farm a supply of old hay and oats and if this be mixed with the new grain and hay at the time of feeding the chances of sickening the horses will be greatly reduced. Where the horse has been eating old hay the new may be riven in small miantitlpsi alnn with the old, the amount of new feed being gradually increased daily until the animal gets used ,to it and can safely be given a full feed of the new food. No matter how it be used both hay and oats that are going through a "sweating" process are unfit for food for all animals and for this reason both hay and oats should not be used at all until they have been some time in the mow, stack or bin. It is also a good plan to see that the hor3e has a supply of rock salt in the manger all of the time as it has been found to somewhat counteract the effects of new feed. Care should also be taken to give the horse its drinking water before and not after feeding and there is no need of giving large feeds of hay during the day time when horses are expected to do hard work. The feeding feed-ing of hay very early in the morning and again after the grain feed at night is all that is necessary for any hard ' working horse and would prevent pre-vent many case3 of colic for the horse that works hard with its stomach overloaded with hay is much more liable to an attack than the one that goes to the field with food digested. What has been said also applies ' with equal force to the feeding of the new corn crop, which is the most dangerous of foods when unripe or not fully dried out It may be added that it is at no time a good or safe food for horses working in hot weather, its purpose being to produce heat and fat rather than musc'.e and "vim." The new hay and oats should be used carefully, care-fully, and the corn should not be fed to horses before snow flies. If despite what has been said any reader of this paper should have a horse taken with colic as a result ot feeding new corn, oats or hay, hs should not, as is usually done, give a dose of saleratus and milk as that "dope" merely adds to the distress of the horse. A far better drench is made by mixing one ounce of laudanum laud-anum and two ounces of turpentine in one quart of raw linseed oil and giving as one dose slowly and carefully by the mouth not through the nostril, as the writer saw done recently with fatal results. In addition to this dose rectal injections of soapy warm water are useful, and may be very easily given giv-en through a four-foot length of one-inch one-inch rubber hose in one end of which has been attached a large tin funnel through which the enema is poured from a pitcher after the other end of the hose has been inserted in the rectum. The horse may also be walked about if bloated, but if the latter symptom symp-tom fc severe he should be tapped by a veterinarian, who has the proper trocar and cannula for the purpose. After the severe symptoms pass off the horse should be placed in a box stall where he should remain without food or water for at least twelve hours. Next day he should be fed on soft bran mashes and after the bowels move, freely he may be put at light work unless the weather is very hot. Sheep News. Wyoming correspondents report that grass on the Johnson county range i so burned out by drought that it ia crisp and brittle under the foot of the pedestrian. Stockmen expect to ba compelled to feed their sheep and cattle cat-tle through the winter. To demonstrate that frozen Australian Aus-tralian mutton can be shipped in good condition to this country, a spring lamb killed and dressed in New Zealand Zea-land has been sent to an importing firm in New York. It reached there on the steamer Majestic, after transportation trans-portation of 17,000 miles. It is good and solid despite its long journey of seventy days. In view of the fine quality qual-ity and me cneapness and abundance of lambs in Australia the experiment is regarded with- much Interest by local butchers.. Sheep camps in the Wyoming mountains moun-tains between Battle Lake and lirand Encampment are threatened with destruction de-struction from forest fires. The herders herd-ers have been forced to drive their flocks high up in the mountains to get feed, owing to the scarcity of both feed and water on the plains below, and It is feared that many of these herders have been surrounded, with their flocks, by the flames. Nothing can prevent the progress of the flames except a heavy rain. It is estimated that the loss thus far, exclusive of the millions of feet of fine timber, will be over $200,000. The San Jose Scale has been discovered discov-ered in Vermont |