Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-09-21
STOCK IA S.

Gov. Sprague, the ~fve-year-old stallion
owned by M. Highly, who bought him il
Missouri about a year ago for So, 800, was
sold to. j. I. Case, of Racine, Wis, for S27.-
500.
Mr.. j. j. Wickham, lessee of the Wan
tage Trotting Park, proposes to give a three
days trotting meeting durinh the first week
in October, when premiums aggregating
$4,000 will be offered.
The Tennessee Trotting-Horse Breeders
Association will hold a fall meeting in Oc-
tober next, commencing on the 18th and
continuing five days in all, when purses ag-
gregating So, 200 will be offered.
At the Buffalo Driving Park on the 2sth
ult., francisco Peralto, in a match against
time, for s. ,55Go, to ride los miles in five
hours, failed by seven minutes. The fastest
mile was made in 2:22, and the slowest in
300. The weather was unfavorable. BEING
cold and windy. About 1000 people were
present.
Sunf1oWer seed are recommended for
foundered horses. 1t is said that a pint of
whole seed mixed with the food as soon as
it is discovered that a horse is foundered
will effect an almost immediate cure. The
seed will do no harm even if they should
not do the animal good. Hence the remedy
is worth trying.
Patrick McLauglin, a degenerate. son of
the Emerald Isle, living at No. 40 Beach
st New York, was held in default of $500 bail
at the Washington Place Police Court. a few
days since, on a charge of cruelty to ami
mails. His offense was pulling the tail of a
horse out by the roots in front of the Hof-
man House. The horses suffering was so
great that ne had to be instantly destroyed.
The wretch deserves to be nibbled to death
by tadpolesi in q frog pond, in presence of
all the cart drivers in New York.
Can you give me a good application for
thrush? Both of my horses are suffering
rom -. M. r.
Reply.-Put them in dry stalls and keen
them theretill cured. Wash out the foot.
removing all the tnted matter.
MIX together two ounces of sulphate ofzinc.
TWO ounces acetate of lead, and add four or
I'VE ounces OF water, and turn up the hoof
ana work this well into the cracks. where
the offensive matter comes from. Apply
Ihis solution a couple of times a day till
cured.-CoAean's Rapul World.
Get rid OF old-that is, not profitable
stock tilatit viii not pay to winter. Carry
Elss right through from horned stock down
20 mems. 1t is improbable to depend on old
1orses, and thrifty farmers usually Get rid /
u them before they are quite past labor. s
SUI there Is often a deep and laudable at
between the farmer and his fonr-
e2gged servants. and we do not wish our rec =
mmendation to be taken as applvinn. 70 q
hem. Old milrh-cows should be. fatted as. :
ooii as t1ey are past their milking prime.
ewes gives weak lambs and light fleeces. !
Iaalify them for mutton as soon as nossibla p
.Dzo0ea's Journal. 4
a French pharmaceutical chemist hoe d;s q
way to protect horses from az h
OF 1lles. according to a London med;- o.
- paper. His invention consists i, r,h
ing The horses, especially on the part most to
ipJsce TO attack, with a little concentrato tod u
I oIlaafel. There is not the slightest dan y, Y
. ~ It's use, and the cost is said to be varv di
nai' Another repellant suggested by< tbe q
~ person. IS a solution ofsixty crammes in
,ie pound and FIVE ounces avo; u, na;aN