Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1909 — HINTS FOR FARMERS [ARTICLE]

HINTS FOR FARMERS

Best Time to Water Horses. A horse should be watered before feeding and never given a large quantity of waler after a meal, for the simple reason that the water will wash the food out of the stomach before stomach digestion has taken place, and the food will not be well prepared for absorption, and, besides, it is some times the cause of colic. There is a popular idea that a warm horse should not be allowed to drink, and, unlike a great many other popular ideas, there is a little truth in It. If you water a warm horse in the ordinary' way, letting him drink all that he will, you are likely to have a foundered horse on yodr hands. This is especially ho if at the time the horse is fatigued. Nevertheless it is always safe to allow him from six to ten swallows, no matter how warm he is. If this be given on going Into the stable and he be allowed to stand and eat hay for an hour and Is then offered water he will not drink nearly so much as he would had none been given before. The danger is not in the first swallow, as we often hear it asserted, but in the excessive quantities lie will drink if not restrained. The most dangerous time to give a horse a full draft is when he has cooled down from fatiguing work and has partaken of a meal.—F. W. Culver, M. D. C., Colorado Agricultural College.