True Democrat

High Racks to feed Horses.--At a meeting of the Farmer's Club in New York several of the gentlemen, as related by the Farmer and Mechanic, observed that cough was caused in horses, by feeding them in high racks. Thomas Hancock, who served ten years in the British cavalry, remarked that his troop lost annually nine horses from blindness, caused by obliging them to reach up for their feed. When fed from troughs, the loss ceased.

An elevated position of the head, such as is rendered necessary by a high rack, is certainly not natural, nor favorable for easy and quiet feeding---and that it should cause cough and other diseases is reasonable to suppose; and if sustained by such facts as are mentioned above, should be abandoned.