Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1909 — SEVEN OF HIS HORSES DIE. [ARTICLE]

SEVEN OF HIS HORSES DIE.

Peculiar Disease Causes Loss of sl,500 to W. J. Smith. Fowler, Ind., Jan. 25. —A disease of .a peculiar nature has been playing havoc with a number of horses belonging to William J. Smith, of Pine township, seven having died from the disease within the last few Dr. Baker, a local veterinarian, who attended the horses, has held a post-mortem examination on a number of them and found that the muscles of the esophagus had been paralyzed, and that the stomach and intestines were comparatively empty. The horses had been fed on millet hay and ensilage. The latter, when put in the silo, was very green and contained many weeds, which is thought to have formed a poison that caused the paralytic condition. Practically every animal was worth S2OO or more, and the loss has already reached more than $1,500, with twp more worses still sick.