Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-12-06

feet, they will not only be as sound ant
healthy, bat in better form, from having
been properly shod, than if they had no
been shod at all. Some hoofs, however
having a greater disposition to secrete herr
than others, and thus called strong feet
should never remain more than three weeks
without being subjected to the drawing
knife of the blacksmith, and the shoes prop
erly replaced. Neither should stopping
with damp tow be omitted as moisture,
not wet, is beneficial to the health Of the
foot. Do what we may, however, horses
that are required for work on hard roads,
or to ''go the pace,' will always be more
or less subject to disease. feet, quite unconec-
ted with shoeing. The action Of the hinder
legs of horses, reminds us Of one useful hint
to those who have to use their horses on
long journeys. If we follow a Well-for1ned
horse, with tue free use Of his limbs, on Il
road upon which his footsteps are imprinted
we shall find the hinder foot oversteps the
fore feet in the walk, but falls behind in the
slow trot. Exclusive Of relief to the mus
cles by change of action, then, it is safer to
vary the pace from a|Walk to a slow trot on
a journey, as causing less fatigue to the
hock-jolnt, by which curbs and spavirs are
frequently thrown out. Add to this, the
slow trot is the safest,pace a horse goes, be-
cause his step is shortest.
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These colts that stand foremost on the
record appear to derive their speed from
Rysdyk's Hambletonian combined with
other stout families to give them stamina.
The speed of the Hambletonians, and the
stout blood Of the Clays, Normans, Pilots
and Mambrinos, have eliminated in great
speed and,bottom in tie present generation
of t%rotters.
So So, a two-year-old by Geo. Wilkes,
record 2:31, runs through Edwin Forest IN
to the Norman family on the side OF the
Elaine. a threc-year-old by Messen-
ger Duroc, record 2:29, runs into the stout
blood Of Henry Clay i'll the maternal line.
Red Jim, a three-year-old. time 2::2S, par
takes of the blood of Alexander's Norman
Chief and Brown Pilot. Keen
jim, a four-yearold by Keen's Lookout,
time 2:24 l-2. inherits through his dam the
blood of Mambrino Chief aud ~Stockbridge
Gov. Spragne, with his ive-year-oid
record Of 2:20 IL. was sired by Rhode Is
land out of Belle Brandon, by Rysdyk's
Hainbletonian. The blood OF Hap,bleton-
ian has hit with several strains in the pro-
luction of our most famous t~rotters. Espe-
i'll breeding back to the %grandsons of
Messenger has the blood of the old hero of
.hestershone conspicuous in the great con-
stellation of flyers.
The Durocs, p3iomes:s and Trustees, of
he north, and Bertrands, Pacilics and stock
lolders of the south, have fostered the trot-
ing element and assisted to give great en-
lurance to the roadster. They were SINH
ar to other strains, but had run under
ground so long that when they come to the
'urface new blood served as Il new cross
hat gave Il new impulse to their descen-
1t is the thoroughbred element
with Spanish, French and English
that has made Kentucky the stamp
ne grounds of American trotters. MAN.
'rino Chief never sired a trotter till he went
Q Kentucky 10 years old, where lie found
amily of t%rotters. A~lexander's Abdallah,
he great son of Hambletonian, was far
norc successful as Il sire after he left New
{ DIRK and went to the bluegrass region to
ross with warm blood mares. The same
lay be said of George Wilkes, whose colts
have been SO successful in annihi-
time. The rich soil or salubrious
innate OF Kentucky developes the young
] an enrlY matnrilH which nrnnaroa thnir