Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1869 — Water for Horses. [ARTICLE]

Water for Horses.

Mb. B. Cabtledge, of Sheffield, a member of the Royal Veterinary College, calls attention to the very common mistake made by keepers of horses in limiting the supply of water to their animals Many owners of 'horses, most grooms, and others who have the charge of them, profess, he says, “to know how much water a horse ought to be allowed, and, when a poor, thirsty, over-driven animal arrives at his journey’s end, he is treated to a very limited supply, and the pail is taken away before its necessity is half met. It is a mistaken notion that cold water frequently produces “colic” I have known it cure the disease. When cold water does cause abdominial pain, it is from long abstinence, and when the horse d-1 iks to excess. But even this is rare. I allow my horse to- drink from every trough I meet on the road, if the water be clean, and, in my own stud, I never had a case of colic. At home, my horses always have water before them. A friend of mine, to whom, the other day, I gave this advice, directed his servant to adopt it. The servant shook hie head, and said, “ he thought he knew as well as Mr Cartledge when his horses required water and how much.” The owner, in reply, told his servant that might be so, and he must allow his horses to drink as often and as freely as be did himself.— English Farmer't Journal.