HORSE HINTS.

Northern Advocate, 9 December 1893, Page 8

HORSE HINTS.

Observations Here and There That Are Worth Noting:. The horses that have worn collars this year made to orrter for them have hot ui;i'::;- ;. ■ -■ „. ..'■.:; col .v' rlo i -a i r- ■•:t c;i^: - ■.......-. c • ■; ,-,;;.] buj.:-...!^ on I your feet? Air slaked lime is good for galls. To prevent a sore back on your Baddle horse, loosen the girths and leave the Baddle in place until this horse cools, or about a half hour. When your horse is heated from riding or driving, do not let him stand in a draft, and if very warm rub him briskly all over with a coarse towel or wisp of straw a-gd cover him with a light blanket, which will absorb the perspiration and prevent a chilling bf the surface, A Binail pasture for the work horses Where they can rest at night will be a godsend. Low mangers are best for horses. Be particular about the ventilation in the stable. Keep the air pure without drafts and keep it scrupulously ciean> It does not seem possible that a man with common sense would compel a horse to stand in a stable cleaned only once a week, but such cases are too frequent. Colts are usually not weaned until 6 months old, although some prefer to wean them at 5 months. They should be taught to eat oats and sweet hay or grass while quite young, and a combination of food is excellent; The formation of ringbone on the fodt of a young colt can be stopped by firing or by blistering. If the animal be a valuable one, ho should not be experimented on without the presence or direction of & Veterinarian. There is a great loss going on among unthinking and unobserving farmers in trying to make horses fill places for which they are not suited by breeding or disposition. Every horse does not have the patient disposition to do the work of the farm. Some naturally move so quickly that they fret under the restraint of the plow or a slow mate. It puts no money in the owner's pocket to work such a horse on the farm. Give him work according to his qualifications. Use or sell him for a roadster, and let the plodding, heavy fellow draw the plow. — Farm Journal. Live Stock In the Fall. October is pre-eminently the month for forcing along all fattening stock. The wastes of the farm are fit for feed* ing out, and with good, sound grain they should keep the animal with a good appetite and good digestion, and everything should tend to keep up a rapid gain. It is estimated that it usually costs more to make one pound of growth or fat in a cold December than it does to make two in October, and unless under aome exceptional circumstances this estimate is probably nearly correct. Push them along, therefore, as speedily as possible. Get the cows and calves into the stables as soon bb nights get cold if they have not been there every night and do not keep their rations down to Buch frost bitten grass as they can find in the fields, which is lacking in juiciness and in nutritive qualities, but try to keep them fully up to their present condition. A pound of flesh or a quart of milk is easier saved while it is there than regained after it has been lost. The poult'-y yard should not be neglected. It is time the young chickens were taught to go to the hennery nights, although during the warm weather they may have done well out of doors. Before beginning this see that all the vermin in there are destroyed either by fumigation or by a liberal use of kerosene. In fact, give a general cleaning up before the young family move in. Feed those that are intended for the Thanksgiving or Christmas market liberally with warm mash of cornmeal and beef scraps in the morning and whole corn at night. If the pullets can bo roimrated, wheat or barley might be substituted for the corn with them, and a part wheat bran mixed with the morning mash, but if they cannot be kept apart there is but little danger in giving them the same feed as the others. A growing pullet seldom gets fat enough to hinder her from laying, though old oires often do. Six weeks is none too long a time in fattening them for market. — American Cultivator. Live Stock Points. An esteemed contemporary gives this advice to its readers: "If you have a jumper on the farm, dispose of him before the other horses learn the habit." Yes, but don't do it without telling the man you sell him to about his bad habit. Shall agricultural and live stock journals preach dishonesty? Mares have worn the laurels as champion trotters ever since the days of ' Flora Temple. Are these now to be wrested from them by a stallion? It may be. The mile of the 4-year-old stallion Directum at the Fleetwood races in 2:07, under not particularly favorable conditions, comes perilously near Nancy Hanks' 2:04, and suggests that with a kite track and in his best form Directum might make Va- difference still less. The contest among breeders and trainers of trotters for the next few years will be to produce an animal that can go a mile in two minutes. It will be done before 1900 dawns. Complaint has been made in Great Britain that some of the ,cattle shipped over from Canada were so old that they were no good. Don't send any of that kind of beef from the United States. A correspondent of The Rural New Yorker writes: "Sept. 20 and 24, 1891, my two Jersey Bed sows dropped 17 pigs. March 31, 1893, 1 sold 16 pigs (one having died young) that weighed 3,880 pounds, an average of 24&J pounds each. The same two sows farrowed 19 pigs on April 8 and 12, 1892. Of these I lost one and on Dec. 5 sold 16 that averaged 288 pounds each, having killed two for our own use. In each case I used a full blood Poland-China boar.".