Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1854-10-04
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1t is we'll to offer the mare, immediate
ly, and, for few days after parturition
a drink of luke-warm water with corn OIL
oatmeal, or shorts therein. She should
then be permitted to run out to grass for
a month, at least, to recover strength
though the common custom, we know, is
to put them in harness within fortnight
from foaling.
Our young Stallion being now fairly in
the world and moving upon it on his own
legs, his first experience of life is stirring.
The old farmer has an errand at ne igh-
boring village, distant some six or seven
miles. "Put Bessy to the old chsise, /"
says he; and drives off with commendable
moderation little Morgan trotting in
company; but, business being concluded
at the store, rain threatens, or other cause
induces a hasty return and we see Bes-
sy doing all she knows how to get home
in season, and little Morgan, doing lille
more-to keep up. His long, lank legs
get soon tired i; his footing is insure his
elbows gets out of order; he is over
heated he lays the foundation of troubles,
that are perfected in the full grown horse.
For the first six months of his life, the
chief food of the fOal is mothers milk"
although he will pick up now aud
then. little else with all the pride of in
cipent horsehood. If the mare he insult
ficiently fed during this period. or
over-worked. (Which lessons her yield Of
milk, the foal is in either case hnlf-star-
we'd and a half-starved colt is almost
never we'll made, when he arrives at ma
turity. He is always a weed. He should
be we'll fed from, and before the time Of
his birth.
At one year old. though the colt has
By no means attained his fulness OF form,
it may be decided whether or not to re-
tain him as T. Stallion. If, at this age,
however many good points he may pos
sess, indications Of contracted feet, foun
der, or any other diseases heretofore
mentioned as transmissible, be seen, geld
him at once. He ought not TO serve as
St"lIion.
At three years old, horse may be al
lowed very moderate service. Over-tHx-
alton of his powers at this age-or at any
age for that matter-is short-sig hted pol
icy for the owner. AS 4 four year old, he
will be more matured and full of viyor.
and at FIVE, ne is still more able to do
service. 1t is too common fault-this
over-taxation Of StaI!ion's powers and
it tells both on himself and on his GET
The English limit for prize horse, that
travels his district" is sixty mares in "
season but eighty are Often covered,
without prejudice. Whist shall VIC say
of the horse-Owners, who boast Of having
had double these numbers served in 81
season by their horse-AometimeS three
in day
a notable instance Of the evils Of over
taxing a horses provocative powers oc
CURED in England, many years ago, in
the case Of celebrated stud belonging to
II. r. H., the Prince of Wales. The
groom was permitted to pocket n half
guinea fee from all comers; and it may be
well guessed, that no applicants were re-
refused. The consequences were serious
to the horse, aud to very many Of his get.
Another instance is within our acknOW-
| Lodge. A Stallion Of some repute ia New
England. was allowed to serve one hun
dred and forty-three mares in q season,
and was then sold to go to Virginia.-
Most Of his colts of that year proved to
be miserable creatures -; and in Virginia,
in the following, he himself proved per-
fectly i",pOtent.
The small size OF very many,-I may
say of large mnjoritg--of our horses, is
an evil that is great, aud growing (like
a cows tRil-downwards.) This may be
attributed to poor selection Of breeding
mares, the acant feeding Of the dam. be-
fore and alter foaling-thUs halt starving
the foal : bad usage of colts by stinted
food. or unsheltered, exposure to cold
storms. and the general over taxation of
the powers Of stations.
We are well aware that some persons
who pass for wise men in matters of horse
flesh contend that this smallness Of size
is no objection to horse, and cite for
proof the fact that some Of the heetest
Arabian coursers are but IA hands high.
Admit that these Arabian lightning
S.reaks are of SO small size, aud what
does it prove Nothing. When the
Americans horse has nothing to do, but
to bear a hirsute and pinguid vagabond
over sand deserts, on hen-roost-robbing
expeditions, 144 hands will be high
enough (untiI the rider rivals Haman. }
But SO long as the farmer has sward land
to plow, cord wood to draw, and stout
wife, and half score of stalwart sons and
buxom daughters to be driven to meet
ing. or to the State Fair so long as our
city carriages are ponderous. and trunks
weighty; SO long Shall we need little
more height in our horses, and that not all
in the legs.
The subject of increasing the size oI
our horses will more properly be discuss
ed by the Committee on Breeding Mares
for ii is with the mare that the improve
r ment must commence. To subject small
= mares to large sized stations will not eff
feet the desired change. 1t will give US
as it did to the Yorkshire farmers, who
who tried similar experiment, " a race