HINTS ABOUT HORSES.

Northern Advocate, 18 August 1888, Page 6

HINTS ABOUT HORSES.

Suggestive points in the practice of a Minnesota horseman— Dr Curryer — are | reported by " Farm Stock and Home " : "Breed in line. Don't try to get a trotter from a mare that shows strong leanings toward the draft type : if you have a good roadster in your native mare by all means breed to a road horse : by this means you are constantly breeding up instead of down, as you will by opposite methods. Feet and legs are to the horse what the foundation is to a factory building, if not good the jar and grind of the machinery will wreck the building. Misshaped feet and lees will be transmittedto posterity, hence the great importance of breeding from perfect animals. . I begin breaking my colts when they are less than a day old. They are like dogs for docility, so when I want to break them for service I have no trouble. To worry a horse is to shorten his life. High heel calks make kneesprung horses. I have a large farm and fifty horses ; my shoeing bill for the past year was $1 65. The best way I ever found to treat a bone spavin is to sell the horse to a man who thinks he can cure."