Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1872-11-15
Stuck Raising.
THE TREATMENT GOOD HORSES
RECEIVE.

InE nCH VIEW 0OOp TIOnOEO
RECEIVE.
A Springfield (NIass.) Republican report
er has been interviewing" some Of the own
ers of good horses in that region in order to
learn the particulars as to their mode Of
treatment-which is better subject for "in-
terviews" than is always the case. From
the answers obtained it will be seen that there
are many modes of treatment aud feed, and
the usual differences of opinion as to which is
the best
Henry 4 Marsh, livery keepers in the
city, feed as follows: At 6 A. NJ, four quarts
of oats, then hay is offered; at noon eight
quarts of oats at night scoop shovel full
of cut feed, consisting of chaffed hay and
straw, interminged with wheat shorts and
meal. The night feed is always the heavi-
est. They use two hundred pounds of shorts
q day for forty horses, and only about ton
Of bay month. They like oats ground with
corn, but think clear corn too heating Rye
straw is the best Of straw for feed, but all
horses do not like it. The horses are fed
regularly, little food in this way belug con-
sidered better than larger quantity at ran.
dom. Water is given three times a day, the
last two times with pal in the stall. Wheat
shorts alone are medicinal, and may be safely
used for a sick or idle horse.
L. A. Patch, a we'll known boarding sta.
bier, prefers cut feed aud meal three times
a day. and long hay the last thing at night
Farmers usually feed too much hay Likes
corn meal ground fine. Would not feed
on shorts alone Hogs could live on horse
manure when horses have coarse meal. Ry,
and carrots weaken q horse. Horses vary iu
their needs, but fifteen pounds of hay and
meal each day, or hundred pounds each Il
week is enough for most horses. A peck oI
corn meal weighs about fourteen pounds. A
man who gives six quarts Of meal at one feeC
usually has poor horse, and shows his ig
norance of feeding. Severe exercise retard
digestion hence horse should have les
than usual just before and after hard drive
Water sparlngly; half pailful at once be
ing ample. Too much water scours hors,
and deranges digestion. Regularity con
ducos thrift, and the cleaner horse tn,
healthier; grooming saves feed.
George Kibbe, the confectoner, who al
ways keeps good horses, and knows how t
improve them, believes in variety of foot
as we'll as regularity. He would have n,
two meals in day alike. Likes cleal
manger and sharp appetite fasting sharp
ens appetite. Uses very little long hay, an,
never more at time than can be carrie,
with one hand. Prefers oats first in th
morning, corn meal and shorts in equal quau
titles, wet, at noon, and cut feed at night
once week. Uses thin blanket in tn
stable. A horse treated in this way gener
ally looks and feels well, and is ready 70
service At Quincy, H., where Mr.. Kibb
spent last winter, they feed horses twelv
ears Of corn three times a day. Nearl
one.third of their horses are blind or hav
white eyes, caused doubtless by giving cor
to colts. Mature horses can bear corn bel
} ter.
William Pynchon, thrifty farmer of thi
city, feeds his horses thus At 6 A. NJ, fou
quarts Of oats, then little dry hay at moor
four quarts of oats again, then dry hay q
, night, cut feed IN which there is three quar-
: each of cob meal and eats. Water is give
three times a day, but only after catinI
Colts and idle horses get long hay, mornin
l and noon, and cut oat straw on which
four quarts of wheat bran, at night The
are watered at 10 A. NJ, and only once
5 day.
AT the Worcester insane hospital, whel
everything is well systematized, and seve
Q or eight horses kept, they feed three times
day, as follows; Dry cracked corn in Il
. morning, followed by handful of long hay
carrots aud long hay at noon; cut feed vii
9 corn meal at night
s At Boston livery stable of thirty horse
s where hay costs S43 ton. and oats, $l.08
bushel, twelve quarts Of oats and ten pounC
: of hay is the daily allowance. The heavie
b feed is given at night. Cut feed and me
Q is used only in summer, because it does N
Q freeze. Like wheat shorts to regulate Il
I sick horses.
! At the Boston city stables, where 6ft
s seven horses are kept under the superinten
b ence of @. II. Cutler, they feed cut hay al
a meal at LA. NJ, nine quarts Of crack
u corn and oats at noon, and cut feed at nigh
: On an average, the horses eat $3.50 wOr
o of meal a week. Their hay comes in thr
b hundred pound bales from Maine, and