The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-06-11

saved loss in case there should be found any
symptoms of an approaching fever. This
alive yield of milk, and, at the same time,
enabled them to dispose of their cows at a
profit.
This system has many followers in this
country on farms near cities, where beef Is
as marketable at all times as milk or butter.
MIR. Horsfall was q most judicious high
feeder. He always fed a portion of roots
daily to his COWS, with oil cake, bran meal,
malt combs, nicely cured hay and straw.
He was sure to give such variety as always
promoted the health of the COW, as well as q
large yield of milk and flesh. High feeding
in the hands of some who do not study the
physiological condition of the COW, and feed
too largely OF such heating food as corn
meal, without emollient and sedative effects
of oil cake and roots, often produces fevers
and disease But there can be no doubt that
judicious high feeding will produce re-
munerative yield of milk and fatten the cow
at the same time. Every dairyman should
study his own business SO thoroughly as to
know how and under what circumstances
this can be profitably done.
Breeding and Raising Horses.
Buffalo Express.l
Three general and leading qualities are
requisite, namely: size, speed and beauty.
Small horses, however pretty, never bring
very good prices. The time on fast horses
has been brought down SO low, and the in
crease IN breeding this class of horses has
gone forward so rapidly, that there is very
large number of common timers. OF all the
horses bred for speed only the exceptions
develop the speed to bring high prices,
and instead of the little pretty horses men,
toned which usually combine docility, you
have as a rule small-sized nervous horses,
moderately fast, which sell only at low
figures. There is another great drawback to
-t..zz = ro
fitting and developing trotters, and no one
can be sure that the hor=e will reach a speed
that will make it valuable.
But there is a class of horses that may be
bred and raised with reasonable degree of
certainty and proft-the large, well-formed
carriage and draught horses. They should
be not less than 1871 hands high, and the
more elegant the proportions and the finer
the action Especially of the carriage horse)
the more money will he bring. He should
have good foot, fine limbs. long sound
body. good length and nicely rounded hips,
long neck, we'll cut out where it joins the
head, and withal head denotiDg intelligence
wide between the eyes, with fine cut nose
and wide nostrils. Such horse Will be
docIle, tractable and safe, when horse with
less intelligence will be more generally un-
manageable and unsafe in times of danger.
The horse should stand up square on his
feet all around, have nice keen action and
fine style of generally action, and the whole
make up should be symmetrical. How can
the farmer reach all this? If he has not the
means to purchase the right kind of brood
mares he must come to it by degrees. He
must make use of sires that possess these
qualities, even if he has to breed from COM
mon dams. If the colts are like the sire
he is on the road to success, and he will
very soon have valuable coach horses
of the kind desired, which will
bring at four years old 5000 and upward. 1t
costs no more to breed and raise a choice
span of young horses which will sell readily
in the market for from $400 to $500 than to
raise commoner kinds at one third the price
or less, and it certainly would be a wise de-
parture for those who are suffering from
the results of an overdone and Improbable
dairy interest. What is more needed is for
farmers to read more, think more, and get
out of many OF the old ways of thinking and
doing. If certain farm industry has been
pursued until it is overdone, then drop it,
or some portion OF it, and adopt such other
means as seem to point to more satisfactory
results.