Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-04-19

have water troughs convenient for them
to get their water. Allow them about
half an hour for feeding, and then dark
en- up the room, excluding all the light,
though neutrality-suspicious.. Atnoong give
another feed, as before, repeating in the
evening. Do not give them any
perches, for they can and will make
themselves very comfortable on the
sandy floor II roosts or roosting
benches were supplied, the efforts made
in getting on them would delay their
fattening materially. In fattening pcul-
TRY the cheapest and pest food is I'M
doubtedly corn, in its different forms.
One or two feeds of whole corn can be
given, and scalded cornmeal, cornmeal
mush, a mush made of corn and oats
ground together, boiled beans, etc.
Where milk is plsntiful-and on farm
we usually find plenty of skim milk,
thick milk, etc.---let the fowls have as
much of it as they will take, and it will
materially hasten the fattening. Watch
your birds carefully, and, if you notice
any of them commencing to NOPE
around under this system OF high feed
ing, turn them out into the yard and let
them run until more are taken up to fat
ten. Under proper management, the
fattening will be accomplished in about
two weeks, and should rot take much
longer; for naturally the fowls can not
endure the stuffing process very long
without showing bad effects, being de-
prived of exercise and daylight.
THE CHECK REIN.-Whipping and
overworking do not torture like the
check rein. When you compel horse
to contract the muscles just under the
top of the collar, in order to sustain the
head a foot, more or less, above its ma
tural place, and then hold them thus
contracted, the strain on those muscles
soon produces great harm. If you don't
believe it, watch the animal; look at his
eyes and ears! am sure you can't mis-
understand that face. See him carry
his head around on one side, and then
away round on the other side. Now in
a moment you will see him throw his
nose up in front as high as he can, three
or four times. That struggle for relief
he continues all the day long. When
you take off the check, he will hang
down his head low, and show in his face
q sense of relief which l am sure you
can not misunderstood. The long strain
wastes his muscles, and produces that
ugly hollow which is now SO common
Just under the collar.
The London Horse Book says: "The
check rein is useless and painful en-
cumbrance, introduced by vanity and
retained by thoughtlessness amounting
. to cruelty"
Professor Pritchard of the Roya
Veterinary College Uondon) says. ''Te
sum up in a word, the check rein lessen:
, the horses strength, brings on disease
; keeps him in pain, trets and Injuries hi
mouth, and spoils his temper"
. DR.. Fleming, Veterinary Surgeon o
!. the Royal Engineers Oondon) says
; Nothing can be more absurd than the
:, check rein. 1t is extremely cruel. L
: is not only the head and neck that suffer
8 but from his head to his tail, from hi
!. shoulder to his hoof, he suffers more o.
J less.''
The eminent John Adam Mcbride
: Professor of Veterinary Medicine ant
J Surgery in the Royal Agricultural Col
lege exclaims "Could these speeches
= sufferers answer the inquiries: Why d.
q you continually toss your heads while
!. standing in the harness? Why do 20,
, stretch open your mouths, shake you
! heads and gnash your teeth? Why d.
you turn your heads back toward you
sides? They would answer: All this i
done to get relief from the agony w
are enduring by having our heads KEEP
erect and our necks bent by tight bri
, dies and CALLING bits
The author Of that excellent and abl,
, work, 1.-THE Horse in Health and Dis
; ease" after discussing at length thu
mischief done by the check rein, close
with these words: ITO sum up the con
sequences of the gag-bearing rein