The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-03-01
soms Points About Fat Horses.

fat horse la proportionately weak
horse. Fat is an oily matter, itself unen-
dowed with life or sensibility, contained
incells, as honey is within the honey
comb, which are vital, and so endowed
chat they lose the power either OF adding
to or taking from the quantity of oily
matter at any time existing. The use Of
fat ia to fill up cTevices in the body
facilitate the noveniantss Of parts one
upon another, and Berve as d sort of in
ternal nutriment, in case the animal
should Be IL 8 situation Hhers he can
not ,obtain food but, when it accu-
mulafea, instead of facilitating the mo-
tions Of parts it clogs and impedes them,
aud becomes, from its collected amount
Of freight, burden to the body. A fat
horse is not only unfit to go, but really
has weight within himself TO carry
which the horse in condition for work
has been disencumbered of. A fat horse
will not bear the loss of blood the same
as . hefse ia n working state of body !;
the one will faint from the abstraction of
9 quantity which the other viii stand
without being affected. Plumpness,
watch agiees- -f7era fatness, is too apt 70
convey to the eyes of the inexperienced
che imprs6Siop of'asgepgsh, end ability to
go to work, whereas 10 ought, Ae repeat.
be taken as o proof to the contrary.
When buyer enters dealers yard TO
buy horse, every horse ahpya him most
likely-certainly every hor4e iouI or five
years dds Tat, caaG, u st olsfose, ii6tia
condition for work. Dealers-by auanti-
ties OF grain and sometimes by means of
poisonous nostrtims and by giving their
homes only such little walking exercise
as serves to keep their legs from swelling
mako the horses they have for sale as
ia: ab they can, aud for two reasons.
Fist, fat fills up the creyices and con-
ceals any imperfections there may be Of
outward form. It is the. horse dealers
putty; by il, like the coach-maker or the
zaIyltpye; maker, he. makes his article for
sale appear more perfect or fseer from
defect than It really Is. Secondly, by Il
he gives On appearance Of size and bulk
| to the article which passes for sign of
atrshgth. and ability, but which, as we
said before, is in reality condition of
vs XIEsesa Gg1
FiNE AfzNtaE va. LoSa MANupal.-
Mr.. Ives, o successful New York farmer,
ssyS: v-y~S,s rqn
experience in practice, that by applying
the manure while In raw or fresh state,
II II is only fine enough to mix we'll with
the soil, 1t will do the most good that It
ever will; though possibly load might
90 farther affer. being fermented and rot
ted down, for in doing that the weight
/ ana NuiK is very much reduced. by ap-
plying it while comparatively fresh, the
| process of rotting is done where its good
ness 10 oil saved In the soil, like the vege-
table matter from good turf, or h'cloYet
crop, or from any vegetable growth
plowed under for green manur;ng.. We
are teld by,sclentitic men nsat theseL the
unfermented manure % we'll % the green
vegetable matter--go through slow pro-
cess of fermentaki6h hsShile y0tsing inSthe
soil, so that oil their qualities are saved,
ana I believe that the farmer using cut
zsvs, 90 s.:-. s.. 81 .i:e lateral :a. . - =.
make the manure heap In 4ne, would
find! mo! advantage in letting it ferment
or rot before using it, when with long
coarse manure he msiSt of necessity put
Il, thHnngh shas ..rcces-s= &c hare it short
enough TO use.
'1'naikht also state that the amount OF
saani.ra ) nktain eeasly avera9ca ahaak
! TIN lcse-A;sa mar aead OF horses and cattle
keht; the homes Being Kept up through
tho Year. aud the cattle elk to seven
monsba besides being taken in every
might through the anElmer. All the ma
linlre 20 kept under shelter, and the horse
iAAnusS 90 laixed with shat Of the cattle,
land srodden dewns tlisE Il seldom liea1ss
4 4 ,hhSStoss IL Is drawn out Cor uso. Ten loads
! TO ,Ihe acTe. gprcad from. tho Yagoii "a j
IdfAN "a, 30 sga ~ G "a > ~ K.
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