Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1878-01-25

easy ana secure, ana 10 tie at IlrSt only
little while at time. Tie in such a
manner rs to prevent their becoming
entangled and thrown. Handle them
gently, and they will soon learn that you
are both friend and master; and your
will-power over them will be stronger
and more complete at the tender age
than you can possibly acquire where
the breaking is put off to later period,
and is based on force. Many fail in
their management of colts by showing
petulance and irritability. A rough
kick, or blow with the hand or whip,
given in pet, generally excites the
same irritability in the colt, and if con
tinued hasa very injurious effect on his
disposition Most Of the tricks and bad
habits Of our horses are originated and
confirmed in them by mismanagcment
or i'll treatment.
Another advantage i'll this early train
ing of our colts is the greater ease with
which they can be taken care of. Wild
colts are full Of viciousness, and they
usually meet with hard treatment.
When they are broken to the halter
young, they are much more quiet and
gentle, and being brought more under
the eye of the owner, they receive that
care and attention that is necessary to
their proper development and training.
If the training has been what it ought
to be the trouble of bringing him to the
work, when the colt has reached the
age when he can be put into the harness;
will be greatly lessened, and his useful
ness and consequent value will be in
creased. Hence fit your colts for their
ife's work as you would y child, by
early training.
HORSE FEED - Every good groom
knows that sound oats and beans in due
proportion, and at least year old, arc
the very best food for galloping horse
the only food III which it is possible
to get the very best condition out of a
race horse or hunter. 1t also has re-
Gently become known that horses do
slow work and get FIT, indeed too fat, on
maize, Indian corn, which is frequently
one-third cheaper than the best oats. In
the East horses arc fed on barley, and it
is II popular idea with English officers
who have lived in Persia and Syria that
the change Of food from barley to oats
often when imported, produces blind
ness in Arabian horses. Now, although
no men understood better or so well
how to get blood horses into galloping
condition as English grooms, they do
not, and few Of their masters do know
the reason why oats and beans arc the
best food for putting muscular flesh on
II horse. The agricultural chemist steps
in here, makes the matter very plain,
and shows that if you want pace, Indian
com although nominally cheaper, IS
not cheap at all. When We feed Il bull
lock, sheep, or n pig for sale, after it
has passed the store stage we want TO
make il fat rs quickly and rs cheaply
as possible; but with Il horse for work
the object is to give him muselc-ln
common language, hard flesh. There
are times when il is profitable to make
n horse fat, rs, for instance, when he IS
going up for sale For this purpose an
addition Of about u pound and half OF
oil cake to his ordinary food has good
effect. 1t is especially useful when n
horse chat has been closely clipped or
singcd is i'll II low condition. 1t helps
on the change 10 the new coat rs max
ing him fat. A horse in low condition
changes his coat very slowly.
When from any cause there IL dlili-
Guilty in getting supply Of tho best
oats, an excellent mixture may he made
Of crushed maize and beans, and the
of two-thirds Of maize and
one Of beans which exactly afford the
proportions of tlcsh-forming and fat
forming food. Bran is y very valuable
food in stable for reducing the inllam-
effect of oats and beans. Made
into meshes, it has cooling and laxa-
tive effect; but used III excess, especially
in dry state, it is apt to form stony Sc
cretions in the bowels of the horse.
Stones, produced from the excessive use
of bran have been taken out Of horses
after death weighing many pounds.
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