The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1871-11-30
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HOW TU PICK OUT A GOOD Hoss.
BY JOSH BILLINGS.

| L. Let the cOlpT pe SCfTcl, IL roam,
a red, gray, white, black, blue. q
green, a chestnut, 4 brown. a dapple, a
! spotted, cream, buckskin. or sum or
| other good color.
=. Look well tn his eyes; see that he
haz got pupil in his eyes. and not too
large one neither; bosses with too large
pupils in their eyes are near-sighted and
! kant see oats. and hav tn wear green
goggles. and green goggles make him
| look too much like a trakt peGdler.
3. Put yure hand on his breast (this
is allowable in the case of q1aaruped)
sec if MS harte kan beat 10 squeeze hiz
forelegs tn see if he liz we'll museled; lift
up hiz before feet and see if thare il any
frogs in them-frogs keep a hoss's feet
cool and sweet, just as they do we'll or
| a spring of water.
f. Look we'll to his shues see what
number he bears-number eight IL about
right
5. Run yure hand along the dividing
ridge ov hiz whole boldly, from the top
oy his withers tn the commencement ov
hiz tail and pinth him as yu go along, tn
see if he knows how tn kick.
6. Look on his hind legs for sum spa
wins, kurbs. wingalls, ringbones, skrat-
chcs, buittoss. thrush, grease-heels, thor
oughpins. spring halt, quarter krackers;
see if he has got whirl-bone look for
sum philips, hunt for strains in the
back-tendons, iet-downs, and capped
hooks.
7. Investigate his teeth; see if amt
fourteen years old last May, with teeth
filed down, an a six ycar-old black mark
burned into the top ov them with hot
IRON
s. Smell of liz breath to see if he
hain't got sum CHAMBERS look just back
of hiz ears for signs of pole-evil; pinch
him on the top Of his withers for fstula
and look sharp at both shoulders for
sweeney.
9. Hook him tn a wagon that rattles
wheel-barrow, meet a rag-merchant with
cow-beils strung acrsss the top of bis cart,
let an express train pass him at forty-fve
miles to the hour; when he is swetty
heave buffalo robe over him tn keep ov
the cold, ride him with an umbrel high-
sted, and learn his opinyun ov these
things
10. Prospekt his wind, carch diligent-
ly for the heaves, ask if he IL roarer,
and don t be afraid tn find out if he IL
whistler
IL. Be sure that he ain krib- biter,
amt balky, amt weaver and dom pull
at the halter
Theze are few simple things to be
looked at in buying q good family boss
there is a great menny other things tn be
looked at (at yure lcisure) after GU have
bought him.
Good horses are skarse, and good men
that deal in any kind of horses are kar5-
er.
Ask man all about his wife, and he
may tell you; examine him class for a
Sunday school teacher, and find him all
on the square; send him tn the New
York Legislature, and rejoice that money
won't buy him lend him seven hundred
dollars in the highway without witness
or note; even swap dorgs with him with
perfect impunity; but when yu buy a
cord family boss ov him, yung. sound
and trew, watch the man cluSs, and make
up your mind besides that you viii have
to ask the Lord to forgive him.
''An honest man IS the nobiest icorh; OF
God" this famour saying was written
in great anguish Of heart. By the late Al
exander Pope, just after buying a good
family boss.
HOW TO KEEP \ HORSE QUIET WHO KICKS
IN THE NIGHT
This most annoying habit, which often
produces unsightly swellings on the hooks
besides more serious injuries, is frequent
ly the result of nervousness and ennui,
and not of vicious propensities. 1t is
form of hysteria of the limbs, to which
others beside norses are subject. Unfor-
so effcacious in the horse are not so APP
plicable to the human animal. To cure
this disagreeable habit in the horse all
that is required is to attach round bali
of wood, weighing about TWO pounds, to
the hind fetiock of the limb most COM
monty Employed In this pastime, by
means Of strap two and half OF three
feet long. Whenever he lifts his foot to
Kick, ii blow nom the ball at once aG-
ministers CORRECTION for the fault he is
about to commit, and in short time he
gives W his bad habits. This plan has
proved very successful
The agricultural report for 1870 shows
that our cereal products reached the as
| tonishing aggregate of ,S43 ,S02 900
bushels, of whish l.094, los 1000 were corn
80, Si4, 700 wheat 247, ~ 400 oats, the
balance being rye, barley and buckwheat,
| Over "A 525, O9o tons of hay were gath
cred from 10, Sol 500 acres. 2,UUd Uou
less than the surface OF Indianna. Upon
$50. 900 acres, less than hail Of Rhode
Island, we raised $50 92S, 900 pounds OF
! tobacco. Over 1 400, 900 bales OF cotton
were raised upon $3.50 600 aere>-about
equal to Delaware and Maryland. The
total area required for these leading
crops was 90, 45I, COS acres-about five
sixths of the acea of California. The
States of California and Oregon would