Show I 1 CRIBBING IS UNSOUND unsoundness NEbS A horiko that to t n L r e cribber calm Cr lM it isea s ed in its healthy anil and quiescent state it would ba III impossible 1 I isible for 1 horse to take air into the mouth month and ami pass it down abo esop liag ati into the stomach Eton lach mid and bowels I 1 bt in it the net of cribbing the natural poi I 1 silon lon anil ani health functions of the davs div ri palate inac epiglottis asoph agn and ami tile muscles conce conceited cou coined ined in this peculiar at a t are exercised in air abnot trial way tims thus is shown a physiological deran goo e of all those parts in the pct oct of cribbing cribbin bin tanil the borso MS ing air enough to distend to a great dothe aree stomach and bowels which is a fact that 13 is indisputable aud known to every person that has baa been mi fortunate enough to get into his hands a horse th that at was a cori firmed cribber crib are as of sever ill ili the disease of cribbing as there are of of the brain of the lungs of the stomach or cr any othar organ of the body this difference in ili the severity of the disease accounts for for the small quantity ti ty of kir air that some cribber 3 arp enabled tos to swallow ivalow it is not sufficient to distend the bowels beyond 1 I 1 healthy condition A mild case like this would lead E a person unacquainted with the disease and the effects thereof to suppose that lie did not take in the air at all yet he does but not enough to disturb tile normal condition of the stomach and bowels so EO us as to to bo noticed by a casual observer it has been remar remarked keLf that cribbing horses are link laul and lean lean yet 3 et have bulky abdomens containing gis gas nolif now if this gas as was not taken in the act of cribbing t buteas but was tho the result of primary indigestion that could be removed and his bulky abdomen brought to its ils proper elzo eize and his lank and lean condition greatly improved but these improvements cannot be ma made dewith with tho the cribbing horse bec because use remove the cause which is a nervous longing a I 1 mental desire that is gratified in in the act of cribbing by this abnormal condition of the brain and nervous system the digestive organs are not supplied with their duo amount of nervous influence this of itself la is sufficient to produce a lank and lean dyspeptic horse in which the food would not lie bo digested and converted into chyme chyle and blood for tho the renovation of tho the system but in fit addition to that there is so much air sw swallowed 1 I in the act of cribbing cribbin to gratify this aliis mental disease as to exclude the possibility lity of a healthy digestion if there is any proof wanted to establish the theory that a horse that ceils briba is a diseased horse I 1 will refer you to a stallion that was a cribber I 1 frequently saw many of his colts as aliey grew up became inveterate cr crib ibbers bera now this goes to show that it is a disease P aso coursing in tho the system and given off in ili the act of coition I 1 also know a mare that produced a I 1 colt that became a cribber before it WAS 0 6 months old 1 I frequently saw mare ond colt standing at tile the fence its as I 1 passed along the road cribbing as if they were in dead earnest to see which could beat and on turning them awny away from tho fence they would at i evl bur 1 hence ii a horse that cri cribs is an u one and the phenomenon of cribbing the symptom of that peculiar dit disease sease of tho the brainand brain and nervous system which 11 constitutes utes the primary unsoundness soundness iw tile the indigestion and flatulency pro aro the effects thereof isaiah V S in breeders bleeders Bre eders gazette |