Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-02-19

w. Il. kIMBALL. Every stable horse
we'll hardened down, that weigh nine
hundred and fifty pounds, will kill any
Pennsylvania horse not one Of you
would hire great Pennsylvania horse
to haul yon twenty miles and back, they
are not travellers enough nine hundred
and fifty pounds is thebest heft for road
sters you must admit. One thing we
must take better care of our horses, if
were fixed to certain allowanceof grain
for my horse and no bedding for him, /
would exchange one-half Of the grain
for good bedding.
JOHN F. PERRY. Idrove stage many
years and where among several teams
were going over the same route, there was
a Pennsylvanialteam, which was calledby
the proprietor of the line when put on
the best team and driven by the best team
sters, but they could not endure with the
ten hundred horses, costs almost double
to keep them, were finally hauled off,
l feed horses hot but not lot of meal.
| have fed horses in all conditions, Civ
ing them all the oats they wish, but lit
tie water, never had one foandered by
eating, but by drinking. think horse
should not be blanketed in barn except
when from work put into barn warm
the horse constantly blanketed is more
liable to coughs and colds.
N. G. PIERCE. l blanket my horses
in the stable. Two years ago ! tried
the habit of not blanketing, and my
horse would paw night after night from
being cold. know my horse does bet
ter, a stable might be made warm enough
not to need blanket, but they are not
frequently so constructed.
w. r. KIMBALL. / believe in blan-
keting. Do by horse as by yourself, if
one blanket is not enough, put on two
(sometimes) depending upon the atmos-
phere and condition of the horse after
being driven, for no horse should be ex-
posed to sudden transition from heat
to cold. | would have them stand up
on the ground; wish farmers would
try it, then the pressure comes upon the
whole surface of the foot. ~
FISHER. Do they lie as warm?
KIMBALL. I think so, warmer. I
use six inches of sand or saw-dust, and
then six inches of straw
/ PERRY. / once had two horses, one /
constantly blanketed and the other only
when come to the barn warm, and the
former had ten colds to one of the lat
ter
PIERCE. Was he not more liable con-
stitutionally?
PERRY. | think not.
EPHRAIM LORD. / am in the habit
of blanketing one of my horses and not
the rest. I think he is liable, and does
have more colds than the Others
OcTAvUs FISHER. / do not blanket
working horses. A horse that stands
still would
JOHN PHELPS do not blanket.
PERRY. think the natural covering
(the hair) Of the horse is rendered less
warm when the blanket is removed, by
being compressed to the body and rem
dered habitually to lie down smooth,
than when the hair stands out rough.
ALEXANDER WATKINS. I would
blanket a horse did not use and that
constantly stood in the barn; work-horses
| would not
kIMBALL. A horse should be fed sss
soon as put into the barn after being
drove, no mattar how warm, hay viii do
but oats (usual allowance) are better,
not much water, neither should he have
but very little upon the road, if he does
it will make him scour.
JOHN V. FARR. / once hired a livery
stable team for several days in succession
and was ordered to let it drink at eve-
ry watering place and the team per-
formed the labor finely. drove about
forty miles day.
PRESIDENT. Once in the West I
loaned alivery team togo eighty miles in
one day and the rof the team put
bucket in my wagon ordering me to give
them some water at every creek cross
ed, and | went the eighty miles and
came out right.
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