Voice of the Tennessee Walking Horse 13
CHARLES R. GOLDSWIG( Continued from Page 12) Shelbyville, Tennessee. A subscription to Voice is $ 4.00 per year.
To the Buckeye Walking Horse Association: I will gladly address your association on July 10th and am writing you under seperate cover.
I ran across a young man in Hillsboro, Ohio, who is doing an excellent job of shoeing Tennessee Walking Horses in that area. Bill Robinson, who, after shoeing ponies and a few horses in the country nearby, decided to take a course and attended California Polytechnic Institute and caught on so quickly, was hired to shoe Hunters and jumpers exclusively. One day a man asked him to shoe a Walking Horse and he became so interested that he hap devoted all of his time and restricts his profession to Walking Horses. Bill has portable equipment and covers about a 100 mile area in and around Hillsboro. His best client is Marvin Wilson who has an average of 30 Walking Horses. Bill is averaging six horses per day. This includes new and reset, winter and summer. I just thought you people in the Hillsboro area might like to know Bill is around.
We are pleased to announce the reopening of Char-Del Equitation School. The school is located on the Goldswig Farm just off Salem Pike—( Route 49 North)— on Westbrook Road, Clayton, Ohio. Miss Cicily Weaver is the instructor-manager. Miss Weaver was formerly with the Riding Department of Hilltop Manor Camp in Binghamton, New York. She is a graduate of the University of Dayton and teaches art at Centerville Schools. Lessons in English horseback riding are available by appointment from 10:00 A. M. daily( except Monday).
Sport of Kings is King of Sports
THE KI6LER FARMS
MT. ORAB, OHIO D. O. KIBLER, Owner— HI4-3605
" THE STABLE BUILT BY CHAMPIONS " SALES-BREEDING-TRAINING
TENNESSEE WALKING HORSES PAUL " WHITEY " WHITEHEAD, Trainer
By DR. M. E. ENSMINGER Clovis, California
Horse racing is truly big business and it’ s going to get bigger. The 1962 spectator attendance figures were: Racing( Thoroughbred and trotting) 61,- 414,452( and another 2,150,069 attended Quarter Horse races); baseball( major and minor leages) 31,423,001; automobile racing 31,200,000; football( college and pro.) 27,583,509; and basketball( college and pro.) 15,- 473,213. In addition, a total of 23,- 960,306 people witnessed hockey, boxing, wrestling, dog racing, soccer, and track. Thus, racing outdrew baseball and auto racing( the number two and number three sports, respectively) by 30 million.
As further evidence of the magnitude of horse racing, the following 1962 figures are noteworthy:( 1) more than 3 2 / 3 billion dollars was wagered through the mutuel windows,( 2) over 126 million dollars in purses was collected by horsemen,( 3) something over 287 million dollars in revenue was turned into the treasuries of the 24 states conducting racing and used to build and operate schools, hospitals, fairs and other things of benefit to old and young alike, and( 4) race tracks were inventoried at about one billion dollars.
ANTHRAX IN HORSES
I’ m frequently asked if horses( and other equines) are more susceptible than other farm animals to tetanus or lockjaw. The answer is yes. However, the disease does occur in swine, cattle, sheep and goats; and it is transmissable to man. The greatest incidence of anthrax is in the South, where precautions against it are an essential part of the routine treatment of wounds; but it occurs worldwide. Symptoms and Signs
Anthrax is usually associated with a puncture wound. Generally, the incubatios period is from one to two weeks, but it may vary from one day to many months. The disease is characterized by a stiffness about the head and neck, slow chewing and weak and awkward swallowing, protruding of the third eyelid over the forward surface of the eyeball( called“ haws”), a standing position throughout the sickness, violent spasms or contractions of groups of muscles brought on by the slightest movement or noise, temperature up to 110 ° F, and contracting of the jaw muscles so intensely that the horse is unable to open its mouth— hence the name lockjaw. If recovery occurs, it takes a month or more. In over half the cases, however, death follows, usually because of sheer exhaustion or paralysis of the vital organs. Cause, Prevention, and Treatment
The disease is caused by an exceedingly powerful toxin or poison, more than 100 limes as toxic as strychnine, liberated by a specific microorganism or germ— the anthrax bacillus. The causative organism is an anaerobe( it lives in the absence of oxygen), which forms the most hardy spores known. It may be found in certain non-acid soils, horse dung, and sometimes in human excreta. The germ usually causes trouble when it gets into a wound that heals rapidly and closes over. In the absence of oxygen, it then grows and liberates the toxin which follows up nerve trunks. Upon reaching the spinal cord, the toxin produces the symptoms noted above.
Preventive measures include: reducing the probability of wounds, cleanliness, proper wound treatment, and vaccination with tetanus toxoid in areas where there is a high incidence of the disease. In‘ hot” areas, all valuable horses should be given the toxoid, which will give an immunity for one to two years. When a horse receives a wound from which tetanus may result, short term immunity can be conferred immediately by the use of tetanus antitoxin; but such treatment is of questionable value once the symptoms of the disease become evident.
Recommended treatment consists in cleaning and dressing all wounds, keeping the animal quiet— preferably in a dark stall away from flies, good( Continued on Page 14)