THE HACKNEY THE COMING HORSE.

Northern Advocate, 29 July 1893, Page 8

THE HACKNEY THE COMING HORSE.

Dr. W. Seward Webb Says Ho Is and Gives

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Dr. W. Seward "Webb, president of tbo "Wagner Palace Car company and fon-in-ltiw of the late W. H. Vanderbilt, h ono of the millionaires who have undertaken to improve the live stock of this country. They could scarcely do anything more useful. The United States must develop the finest live stock in the world. One of Dr. Webb's fads is the hackney horse. He both imports and raises this breed. In a late number of The Hackney Dr. Webb Writes: One thing above all others that makes me believe that the hackney horse is the coming animal for the farmer to use on his native mare is £hat the progeny mature at a very early age. I have on my farm 2-year-olds coming 3 well broken to harness and well formed, animals that I could market at a large. price this spring or next fall. They are large bodied and weigh from 1,000 pounds to 1,100 ponnds. I am keeping them for breeding and show purposes. Now, take a farmer with a good native mare and let him breed her to a hackney stallion, which should be selected according to size and finish of the mare. The get will certainly be a large, solid animal that at 8 years can pull a plow or harrow or draw a farm wagon with a fair amount of speed and good action. Such an animal is always worth from $200 to $350, and if it has big action it will bring very much more, perhaps $500. Now, bis neighbor has bred bi3 mare, equal to the other in every respect, to some trotting stallion at a large fee. He may get a fast trotter (the chance being about 1 in 20Q), and if he dees it will cost him a great deal to develop it, take him off his farm business and in many wAys be a nuisance rather than a benefit. It may even be a curse to him, creating in his sons, should he have any, a liking for racing and fast horses, and so take them off the farm and wean them from the wholesome life their father followed. I believe the trotter has his place, and no ono appreciates one of this breed of horses more than the writer, but I do not believe that the average farmer can, by breeding his native mares to a trotting stallion, aid in the development of the trotter, improve his native stock or improvo his own condition in life either financially or socially. I believe the trotter should be raised in a warmer climate, where he has not to be housed so many months in the year and by men who make it a; business and a 6tudy and have the facilities for developing the speed afterward. Yet despite all this Vermont farmers pay $50 and $100 for the services of a trotting stallion when they could have a hackney or coacher free. Show Clydesdales. The picture illustrates two animals of one of the most famous strains of the Clydesdale family, the Darnley blood. We reproduce it from The Breeder's Gazette. The mare is imported and is owned in Wisconsin. She is a beauty, and the colt

CLYDESDALE PRIZE MARE AND FOAL, is one of the liveliest Clydesdale youngsters ever exhibited. The "points" of both are visible at a glance. The best type of Clydesdalo head is especially noticeable in the colt. Both the mare and the foal are noted prize winners. Sheep Dipping. • A few pointers on this most necessary performance for the health of the sheep will not be out of place. A vat can be used for tho purpose. This vat can be made water tight with the aid of coal tar, and it may be sunk into the ground until its top is level with the surface. Commercial flips are perhaps the best, and they are not expensive, yet if one desires ho can make a homemade dip — and most <of the Colorado breeders are using this kind— that will answer very well for killing ticks. Four pounds of refuse tobacco or stems will make 20 gallons of dip.

Threo pounds of white arsenic dissolved in 6 or 8 gallons of boiling water and diluted with enough cold water to make 25 gallons is also a good tick eradicator. It is cruelty to animals not to dip lanibß after the old sheep are. sheared if there are any ticks in the flock. If the head needs dipping, and it is usually well to do so, use the hands for that purpose, allowing none of the fluid to enter ears, eyes or mouth. The dripping or drying of the sheep can be facilitated by a man or two in the inclosure to squeeze out the fluid. Such manipulation is quite likely to make the dipping more effective, in that it works the dip into all affected places in the Bkin.

It is desirable to have a clean lot to turn the sheep in after dipping. Lambs should be dipped after the old sheep are sheared, else they will be almost devoured by the ticks that leave the old sheep for the better feeding ground sixpplied by the lambs. The dipping vat is not absolutely necessary to do the work, but is very convenient, and where large flocks are to be treated it pays well to build it. Smaller flocks can be treated in a large tvb — say the bottom third of an upright molasses hogshead or an or-

dinary water tank or trough. In this case a table should be provided on one Bide of the vat, inclining toward the latter, on which the sheep can be laid while the fluid is squeezed out of the wool aud allowed to run back into the vat.— Farm and Field.