Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-09-06
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Hint. ON Horse Keeping.

AAAnAs Nh AAeAaN AANNiAnMs
The wide stall is a luxury, and ought
to be six or even ten feet wide, il room
can be spared. Loose boxes are impor-
tant for horses of great value; in such
stalls they can get perfect repose by
changing their position, recover from the
fatigue of hard days drive, and be
ready for their task the next day. The
food best adapted to the horse is oats
and hay of the best quality, occasionally
varied with bran mash, with turnips
or carrots as an alternative. The growth
and development of bone and muscle
depend greatly on the food they eat.
1t is important TO select such as contains
all the elements needed to form the
bone and muscle of the horse. 1t is
self-evident that the nutritive matter
supplied by the food must be equal to
the exhaustion, or natural waste of the
body, to keep up condition.
The horse that is about 10 be driven
on a journey needs hardening by exer-
disappearing by sweating out the
body to purify and increase the circula-
ton of the blood, and also by hand-rub
bling the legs to make them firm and
elastlc-a preparation in some degree
, corresponding with that attained by a
horse that is daily driven on the road for
ordinary work. For one week previous
to the start they need daily exercise,
commencing with eight or ten miles,
and gradually increasing to twenty per
day. This exercise, with appropriate
food, will harden their muscles,
strengthen their limbs and prepare them
to perform their tasks without giving out
on the road, materially declining in
Aosh, seriously exhausting their
physical powers.
If we perform long drives with horses
accustomed to short work only, the
sudden transition from Incidence to
great exertion will relax their muscles,
weaken their joints, depress their spirits
and break down their constitution. The
leading cause of 30 many valuable horses
being short of work. They are not
prepared for such severe exertions. Con
dition will prepare them to perform
their work cheerfully, last out with
sound limbs, and preserve their consti-
tutional vigor for future usefulness -
National Live Stock Journal.
Poultry Notes.
Whitewash poultry houses often.
A dust bath is indispensable to success
with fowls.
A little uncooked rice, every two OF
three days, is highly recommended al
suitable feed for chicks O week old OF
more.
A correspondent informs Mr.. StoddarG
that he invariably rids chicks of the
gape-worm by placing them from five tc
ten minutes in box covered with mus
lin, through which he sits fine lime
"but not so fast as to smother" Re
J peat two or three times, at intervals, i
necessary.
A writer in the Poultry World say
that the effect of sunhower seed in gloss
ing the plumage of fowls that eat them
is very soon noticeable. Another ad
vantage in this feed is, that breaking thu
shell to get at the kernel-which the,
soon learn to dds useful exercise .ant
diverts attention in confinement from
egg-eating, feather plucking and simila,
mischief of idle hens.
Household Hints.
If pictures are hung by worsted cord
brush it often with the broom that il
kept for walls. Lambrequins, if O
wooden fabric, ought also to be brushed
, every few days.
A Dutch paper states that the fiayol
Of coffee may he greatly improved ant
) its delicate aroma increased by adding E
little bi-carbonate of soda to the waite
with which it is made.
: To mend broken crockery, use linn,
, and the white of an egg. It is strong
l cement, easily applied, and generally a
hand. Mix only enough to mend on
> article at a time, as it soon harden
, when it cannot be used. Powder
l small quantity of the lime and mix to
l paste with the white, Apply quickly tc
l the edges, and place firmly together. L
3 will soon become set and strong, seldom
breaking in the same place again.