Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1869-07-01
AarifnItnral department.
TREATMENT OF HORSES.

vigor this noblest and most serviceable of
animals. The following common.sense di-
rections from the London Horse Book con-
tains the most practical information, in the
shortest space, of anything we have seen
upon this subject:
1. All horses must not be fed in the
same proportion, without due regard to
their ages, their constitutions, and their
work, because the impropriety Of such q
practice is self:evident; yet it is done, and
is the basis of disease of every kind. -
2. Never use bad hay on account of its
cheapness, because there is not proper
nourishment in it. -.
8. Damaged corn is exceedingly inju.
rious, because it brings on inflammation of
the bowels and skin diseases.
4. Chaff is better for old horses than
hay, because they can chew and digest it
better.
5. Mix chaff with corn or beans, and do
not give the latter alone, because it makes
the horse chew his food more and digest it
better.
6. Hay or grass alone will not support
q horse under hard work, because there is
not sufficient nutritive body in either.
7. When horse is worked hard, its
food should chiefly be oats: if not worked
hard, its food should chiefly be hay; be-
cause oats supply more nourishment and
flesh making material than any other kind
of food hay not so much.
8. For a saddle or coach horse, half a
peck of sound oats and eighteen pounds Of
good hay is sufficient. If the hay is not
good, add quarter of a peck more oats.
A horse which works harder may have
rather more of each; one that works little
should have less.
9. Rack feeding is wasteful. The bet
ter plan is to feed with chopped hay from
a manger, because the food is not then
thrown about, and is more easily chewed
and digested.
10. Sprinkle the hay with water that
has salt dissolved, because it is pleasing to
the animals taste, and more easily diges.
ted. "a teaspoonful of salt in bucket Of
water is sufficient.
II. Oats should be bruised for an old
horse, but not for young one, because
the former, through age and defective
teeth, cannot chew them properly; the
young horse can do 80, and they are thus
properly mixed with the saliva, and turned
into wholesome nutriment.
~. Vetches and cut grass should always
be given in the Spring to horses that can
not be turned out into the fields, because
they are very cool and refreshing, and are
almost medical in their effects but they
must be supplied in moderation, as they
are liable to ferment in the stomach if CIV
en- largely.
1S. Water your horses from pond or
stream, rather than from spring or well,
because the latter is generally hard and
cold, while the former is soft and compare
lively warm. The horse prefers soft, mud
dy water, to hard water, thoug h ever so
clear.
II. A horse should at least have pail
of water morning and evening, or (or still
better) four half pailfuls at four several
times in the day, because this assuages his
thirst without bloating him. He should
not be made to work directly after>he has
a full draft of,water, for digestion and ex-
ertion can never 60 on together. -
Is. Do not allow your horse to have
warm water to drink, because if he has to
drink cold water, after getting accustomed
to warm, it will give him cholic.
16. When your horse refuses food, after
drinking, go no further that day, because
the poor creature is thoroughly beaten.
Cross Cur SAws.-Edstors Southern
Cultiuator Ten years experience in the
use of cross.cut saws, has proved to me
that I have been working under many dis
advantages, until recently. My wish is for
all to know the great advantage of a plan
which I pursue. Take new saw, that has
never been set, place it between two boards,
cut to fit the saw, clamp it tight on a bench
or in vice, take an iron wedge, file one
corner to suit the set of the tooth when
finished, then take small hammer, hold
the wedge with the left hand, strike the
tooth lightly with the hammer until at the
right place then turn the wedge on the
opposite side, and on the next tooth, and
set it the same way; now then you reach
the third and most important tooth in the
saw-leave it perfectly straight; pass on to
the fourth tooth, set it as you did the first !;
turn the wedge and set the fifth the other
way; leave the sixth tooth straight; and so
on until you finish. Now take your file,
dress the two teeth as you do the common
saw; the third file perfectly straight and
square leaving it about one twentieth part
of one inch shorter than the others. Con-
tinue in that way until you finish, and you
will find it will cut twice as fast as the old
way practiced by most farmers. This you
will find to be true for have tried it.
Griffin, Ga. S. A. SCOTT.
To MAKE Cows GIVE M1lK.-A writer,
who says his COW gives all the milk that is
wanted in his family of eight persons, and
from which was made two hundred and six
tv pounds of butter this last year, gives the
following as his treatment. He says: eff
you desire to get yield of rich milk from
your COW, three times day, water slightly
salted, in which bran has been stirred at
the rate of one quart to two gallons Of wa.
ter. You will find, if you have not tried
this daily practice, that your COW will give
twenty-five per cent. more milk imediately
under the effect of it, and she will become