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The Vetert"nary Journal. INTERMITTENT ROARING. BY JOSHUA A. NUNN, F.R.C.V.S., VETERINARY LIEUT.-COLONEL.
THIS subject having lately come before the courts has given rise to some discussion. Some years ago a case came to my notice. The subject was bought for a cavalry charger by an officer, a hunting man and used to horses. The purchaser had ridden him, and he had been examined by a veterinary surgeon, the horse being galloped in a large field in a sna.fllt: bridle_ When ridden in a double bridle in the covered regimental ridingschool, the horse roared loudly, even at a moderate canter, and I was asked by the veterinary officer in charge and the owner to see him. We had him galloped both in a field straight up and down it and in the riding-schoolin one he went perfectly right, in the other he roared, worse 'in a military bit than a snaffle. The vendor, who was in a large way of business, exchanged the horse, and the officer, who lived in his neighbourhood, told me he had seen him out hunting on several occasions, going well, and that although he had carefully observed him he was unable to detect any abnormal noise. 'WARE WIRE. BY J. MARRIOTT, VETERINARY-MAJOR, A.V.D.
ALTHOUGH accidents caused by wire are so numerous, I should like to record just one more for the benefit of the anti-sporting landowner and tenant. During the Field Artillery Manceuvres on Salisbury Plain last July, as a battery was marching on the road near Stonehenge Inn, one of the spare horses broke away from the driver, and, as is usually the case. started off with a kick and a bound full gallop into the open country. He had not gone more than 30 yards when he encountered a wire fence. This gave way somewhat as the posts were not very strong, but the impetus was so great that he fell 30 feet from where the fence originally stood. To say that the leg was broken would scarcely be correct, for the lower third of the near radius was as completely pulverised as if a steam hammer had been playing upon it. The structure of the other portion of the radius was. normal. Would a heavy tax on this made-in-Germany death-trap have any beneficial result? MOLASSES AS A FOOD FOR ANIMALS. BY JOSHUA A. NUNN, F.R.C.V.S., VETY. LIEUT.-COLONEL, DEPUTY DIRECTORGENERAL A.V.D.
FOR many years molasses in the shape of the refuse from beetroot sugarhas been used on the Continent as a food for animals, and a herd of cattle is part of the stock of a sugar factory in those countries in which the industry is carried on. In the West Indies and other countries where sugar cane is grown, it is also used both to fatten cattle and for part of the feed of the mules used in cultivating the cane-fields and work of the estate, the bruised cane or " trash" after it has been passed through the mill being utilised as fuel. The accepted idea of the use of sugar was that, although it would form fat, the animal would be soft and out of condition" and not fit for hard work.
The Vetert"nary Journal. INTERMITTENT ROARING. BY JOSHUA A. NUNN, F.R.C.V.S., VETERINARY LIEUT.-COLONEL.
THIS subject having lately come before the courts has given rise to some discussion. Some years ago a case came to my notice. The subject was bought for a cavalry charger by an officer, a hunting man and used to horses. The purchaser had ridden him, and he had been examined by a veterinary surgeon, the horse being galloped in a large field in a sna.fllt: bridle_ When ridden in a double bridle in the covered regimental ridingschool, the horse roared loudly, even at a moderate canter, and I was asked by the veterinary officer in charge and the owner to see him. We had him galloped both in a field straight up and down it and in the riding-schoolin one he went perfectly right, in the other he roared, worse 'in a military bit than a snaffle. The vendor, who was in a large way of business, exchanged the horse, and the officer, who lived in his neighbourhood, told me he had seen him out hunting on several occasions, going well, and that although he had carefully observed him he was unable to detect any abnormal noise. 'WARE WIRE. BY J. MARRIOTT, VETERINARY-MAJOR, A.V.D.
ALTHOUGH accidents caused by wire are so numerous, I should like to record just one more for the benefit of the anti-sporting landowner and tenant. During the Field Artillery Manceuvres on Salisbury Plain last July, as a battery was marching on the road near Stonehenge Inn, one of the spare horses broke away from the driver, and, as is usually the case. started off with a kick and a bound full gallop into the open country. He had not gone more than 30 yards when he encountered a wire fence. This gave way somewhat as the posts were not very strong, but the impetus was so great that he fell 30 feet from where the fence originally stood. To say that the leg was broken would scarcely be correct, for the lower third of the near radius was as completely pulverised as if a steam hammer had been playing upon it. The structure of the other portion of the radius was. normal. Would a heavy tax on this made-in-Germany death-trap have any beneficial result? MOLASSES AS A FOOD FOR ANIMALS. BY JOSHUA A. NUNN, F.R.C.V.S., VETY. LIEUT.-COLONEL, DEPUTY DIRECTORGENERAL A.V.D.
FOR many years molasses in the shape of the refuse from beetroot sugarhas been used on the Continent as a food for animals, and a herd of cattle is part of the stock of a sugar factory in those countries in which the industry is carried on. In the West Indies and other countries where sugar cane is grown, it is also used both to fatten cattle and for part of the feed of the mules used in cultivating the cane-fields and work of the estate, the bruised cane or " trash" after it has been passed through the mill being utilised as fuel. The accepted idea of the use of sugar was that, although it would form fat, the animal would be soft and out of condition" and not fit for hard work.