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Show TREATING SCOURS IN HORSES Give Mixture of Whole Oats and One-i One-i Ninth Part Wheat Bran Have ' Teeth Attended To. ' For scours in horses, feed a mixture of whole oats and one-ninth part of wheat bran by weight, allowing one and a fifth pounds of this for each hundred pounds of body weight as a day's ration ra-tion in the same way feed one pound of hay per hundred pounds of body weight. Increase hay and decrease the grain mixture when the horse is idle. Let him run out in the yard daily, when not at work and when the weather is fine. Muzzle him between be-tween meals if he eats h.s bedding Allow free access to rock salt. Give the drinking water before mea s unless un-less he has access to pure ater a all times Have his teeth attended to by a veterinarian, and-if he bolts his feed mix some hard peas with it or put it in a very large box or have eome cobblestones in the feed box. |