SALT FOR ANIMALS.

Bush Advocate, Volume V, Issue 354, 16 August 1890, Page 10

SALT FOR ANIMALS.

Why do animals need salt? Because animal fat is an epitome of mineral and vegetable matters, and salt is a medium between thorn — a compound of these compounds in certain definite proportions, and grass and grains do not supply a sufficient proportion to complete tho animal compound, aud aro not therefore complete nutrients. Horses fed on an excess of grain, in disproportion to most fibrous plants, will cat. the ground with avidity when they can get at it, and it supplies in a measure a corrector of vegetable acidity. Salt being a chloride of sodium furnishes both chlorine and soda, the latter being a noutralizor of excessive acidity, especially derived from grasses. Pampered horses should bo provided witli tho following ball, always in easy roach : Pirsf, make a strung I>rino of rook salt with a tenth of saltpetre in it; then get a spit of pure cliiy aud half a gallon of fresh wood ashes, and of those make a mixture, with Bufiiciont water, and roll into a ball and dry. Keep this in a till of tho manger, clean and always in reach of tho pet animal, just, as arc the grasß and ground in his native world. Tho horse in an epitome of all that ho will eat in health, and this is why they nourish and build lip each function.