The Treatment of Horses

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7354, 23 July 1902, Page 4

The Treatment of Horses

A rugged unconventional manner, and a happy vein of hiimoui*. while lecturing on the ailments of farm stock, made Mr W. T. Kendall a popular figure at the Farmers' Convention at Shepparton, Melbourne, tho other day. and his address one of the features of tbe evening. The "Argus" stales that Mrl Kendall exploded some of the old theories about treatment'of horses in such a relentless, but good humoured, manner, that his audience wero at once amused find instructed. " There arc more horses killed by medicine than by tho want .of it," ho said, wjth direct bluntness, in.roply to a questioner, To another lie remarKed that many horses recover from.colic because their owners are unaware'that tho animals are suffering fr.om it. " What do you think of steaming for strangles ?' asked a third, who spoke with all the confidence of ap expert. " I am glad you mentioned"that," saiji (lie lepturer, fixing the questioner with his profest"ipnal eye, ** because many horses have peen killed by that very treatment," and tho conference laughed at the cxpe-ure of a popular error, " Drenching," said Mr Kendall, wjth fine scorn, wfien replying as to tho best method of prefprming that, operation. " Many adrencjihave 1 poured down my sleeve in tryingto give it to the horses, and I believe it did a lot of good." It must not bo inferred from th is ihat Mr Kendall deprecates llieso remedies altogether. What he | clearly indicated"'Was that they ape employed unnecessarily by ignorant people, who ought to have a dose of the medicine themselves. The delegates' thirst for imiormation, and apparent iguorauee of the elementary ■•u]es,seemed to argue the necessity for a lecturer on stock matters visiting the producing centres.