The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1874-11-20
VOL. XVIIl---NO. Al


The feeding of horses in an important
point in their management Sometimes
they are inadequately fed, and therefore,
not able to perform full days work; not
unfrequently, on the other hand, much in
jury is dome them by over. feeding.
MIR. Cairnes, V. s., in paper he read re-
Gently, says" that too much grain indispo-
ses horses for eating provender, and occa-
sionally subjects them to serious diseases.
Five bushels of good sound oats weekly,
along with few good Swedish turnips,
or other roots, and plenty of hay or good
straw, will keep pair of healthy farm horses
in good order through the winter, even
though they be pretty hard wrought. If,
then, such an allowance be sufficient, it is
folly and waste to give them more. Some
thing must be wrong, if, with this allow
ance of food, they fall off in condition.
Horses that are greedy eaters, or that swal-
low their grain whole, should have it bruis-
ed or ground. A little chaff mixed with
1t helps to make horses chew it, and well
cheWed food is of far more Importance than
many people think. Unless it be we'll
ground and mixed with saliva in their stom-
achs, and without perfect digestion there,
It's full benefit is not obtained.
A full drink of water, Immediately after
iced, should never be allowed to horses.
When water is drunk by them the bulk of
IL goes directly to their intestines. Ifthen,
the contents Of horses stomachs are wash
ell out OF them before they are digested,
they are In manner lost no nourishment
being derived from them. Coles in horses
frequently arise from this cause, and to
IL the appearance of corn enlive among
their dung is often due. Damp straw or
musty hay should never be given as food
Tor horses. The former is apt to scour
them, and the latter frequently affects their
wind. 1t is affirmed by some that if their
nay or straw be cut, and their grain bruis-
ed, horses can be kept at one-fourth less
cost tina when they are given them whole.
Every one n ws the value of grass as an
article OF food for horses. A month of it
IN the early part of the season, when it is
young and tender, is worth two when it
gets old and tough. Great care must be
taken OF horses when first put on grass in
deed, changes ofiood of any kind must be
introduced with caution, as many have to
pay dearly for the neglect of this. Even
change OF water has at times been known
to affect some horses, so sensible does their
aimentary canal seem to be-"
ASHES AS FOOD FOR CATTLE.-Tle Line
Stock Journal has a correspondent who
found his cattle given to the habit of eat
ing wood, chewing bones, etc. They be.
came thin in flesh, refused to cat hay, and
presented sickly appearance He had no
impression that their food lacked the con.
stituents for making bones; and his neigh
bors used bone-meal without noticing any
good results whatever. AT last he put
about four bushels of leacbed ashes in his
barn-yard and threw out to them about
shovelful each day. They all ate with evil
dent relish. After turning them out to
pasture, he put one peck of dry ashes per
week ON the ground in the pasture. They
ate 1t all and gnawed off the grass where
1t had been laying. The cattle began to
improve, gaining flesh and looking better
than they had done for several years. He
says this morbid appearance was unnoticed
years ago, from the fact that the ground
was new and ashy from the burning of the
woods and land clearngs. Since this dis.
coVery he gives one quart Of ashes mixed
with one quart of salt to twelve head of
cattle about once week.
CLOVER HAY FOR HoGs.-The Sacru
mento Union has made II discovery 1t
says: ut is strangc-sounding PROPOSE
ton to feed hogs with hay, but hogs will
not only cat alfalfa Qucerne or Spanish clo
ver) hay, they will do well on it, Our own
experience and observation has proved to
us that good alfalfa hay, with plenty of wa
ter will keep hogs in good growing con.
dition all through the winter.
We have found that nicely-curcd clover
cut short, mixed with corn meal and cook
ed. is one of the best winter foods for pigs.
On this when in Il warm pen, they gained
about as last as upon meal and clover in
summer. We think that clover should be
used IN this way as winter food for pigs
and breeding sows. The hog requires
coarse food to facilitate digestion. He
cannot be kept wholly upon grain, without
great injury to his digestive powers; and
this is the prime cause Of the cholera at the
West. Besides, clover possesses a large
percentage of muscle-forming food, and
grows the frame Of the young animal
GOOD RECIPE FOR CURING MEAT.-Thc
following recipe is from the editor of the
Ge'mantocn Telegraph, who recommends it
after many years trial. 1t will be useful to
our readers at this season OF the year:
TO one gallon of water, take II lbs. of
salt, ! lbs. sugar, CT. saltpetre, OF. pot
ash. In this rate the pickle can be increas-
ed to any quantity desired Let these be
boiled together until the dirt from the SUI
gar rises to the top anu is skinned off.
Then throw it into tub to cool, and when
cold, pour it over your beef or pork, to re-
main the usual time, say four or five weeks.
The meat must be well covered with
pickle, and should not be put down fer at
least two days after killing, during which
time it should be slightly sprinkled with
powered saltpetre, which removes all the
surface blood, etc, leaving the meat fresh
and clean. Some omi boiling the pick
lie, and find it to answer well, though the
operation of boiling purities the pickle by
throwing off the dirt always to be found in
salt and sugar.
THE WILD HORSES OF KANsAs-Large
numbers ofwild horses abound on the prai.
rie between the Arkansas and Smoky Hill
Rivers. They are all sizes and colors, and
are the widest of all wild animals. They
usually roam in bands of six to twenty.
and will run at sight of man two miles
away. great many domestic horses, as
well as mules, which have strayed away
from their owners have taken up with the
wild ones. After running with them for n
while they become as wild as their untam
ed companions. Various methods have been
adopted to catch these aboriginal horses,
but they have generally proved fruitless.
A scrubby colt or a broken down mule are,
as general thing, the only rewards for all
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