The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1880-05-28

bow TO JUDGE HoRsE.-Th6 sterc!
otyled methods of deciding the health, aaS,
1g properties, and net value of horse,
40 4miliar to all intending purchasers :
40 nee, in this connection, the old adaRs.
iilarity breeds contempt" is a true
think, says the .SpIit'of the Turf
lsn@ may be many of our readers who viii
Iw4pene few practical rules, and save
I@e6 by employing them:
4 ser take the sellers word if dishon-
VAL be certain to cheat you; if dis
3 be fair, he may have been the
aep4 another, and will deceive YOU
th5Q representations which cannot be
xel5 3pon.
eSer trust to a horses mouth as a sure
Ind his age.
bay horse while in motion; watch
el{ ute he stands ut rest, and YOU will
~ weak points, If sound he will
Eetadd FIRMLY and squarely on his limbs, with.
out moving any Of them, the feet planted
nat upon the ground, with legs plumb and
naturally poised. If one foot is thrown for.
ward With the toe pointing to the ground
ant the heel raised, or if the foot is lifted
from the ground and the weight taken from
It, disease Of the navicular bone NAV be sus.
Pected, or at least tenderness which is a
precursor of disease. IF the foot is thrown
out, the toe raised and the heel brought
down, the horse has suffered from lamnitis
-iounder-or the back sinews have been
sprained, and he is of little future value
When the feet are all drawn together be-
meath the horse, if there has been no dis.
ease, there is displacement of the limbs
at least, and weak disposition of the mus.
oies. 1t the horse stands with his feet
spread apart, or straddles with the hind legs.
there Is weakness of the loins, and the kid.
neys are disordered. When the knees ara
bent and the legs totter and tremble. the
beast has been ruined by heavy pu,,,ns, -.
will never be right again, whatever rest and
treatment he may have. Contracted or ILL.,
formed hoofs speak for themselves. Never
buy horse with blush or milky cast in
Ills eyes. They indicate constitutional
tendency to opthalmia, moon blindness, etc.
Never have anything to do with horse who
keeps his ears thrown backward. This is
an indication of bad temper.
If the horses hind legs are SCARED, the
fact denotes that he is q kicker.
If the knees are blemished, the horse is
apt to stumble.
When the skin is rough and harsh, and
does not move easily and smoothly to the
touch, the horse is heavy eater, and his
digestion is bad.
Avoid horse whose respiratory organs
are at all impaired. If the ear is placed
sound is heard, it is an indication of trou,
bic. Let him 60.
WHAT CAME OF HAVING THE Roor
TARRED.-A Boston man, so says paper
published in that city, had the fiat roof of
the l. of his house tarred the other day,
and when six or seven cats got on to it, the
following night, they could yell and arch
their backs, and try to get pull on all four
feet at once, but they coldn't lift them
selves free and their signing was frightful,
and people in the neighborhood began to
chunk things at them, and the owner Of
the house forgot about the tar, and went
barefoot and in his robe de mutt upon the
roof to chase them off, and pretty soon he
found that he couldn't stir, and began to
whoop and swear, and policeman got
ladder and climbed on the roof, and when
he came up over the edge on his hands and
knees he had to remain in that posture, and
he used very emphatic language. Mean.
time the bootjacks were falling in a shower
about and around them, and the mans
mother.in.la in looking out of an upper
window that overlooked the l. roof, to ask
if they were not ashamed to be out on
roof playing cat at that time of night,
knocked her wig off and it fell into the tar,
and she rushed down fight and went out
on the roof to get it and couldn't pull the
wig up. but got her hand stuck to it, 80
she couldn't let 60 of it, and of course her
position aud bald head made a dead give
away, as il was quite light, when some one
finally came with boards for them to be got
on to when they were cut loose from the
tar, aud ths old lady did not feel q bit worse
than the policeman, who had to walk through
the street with the knees of his trousers cut
out and left stuck on to the roof and great
hunk Of tar stuck to each hand, and got q
reprimand when he reached the station
And the house owner himself, blistered his
feet trying TO melt the tar off of them by
holding them up to hot stove, and when
the cats were cut loose from the roof and
put on the ground, they tried to gnaw the
tar from thoir claws and got their paws
stuck in their mouths and rolled about
and yawled and carried on 80 that folks
thought they were mad and killed them.
And the householder's mother.in.law hasn't
got over jawing him about that tar roof
yet.
SWEET POTATo VINEs.-Our experience
is to cut sweet potato vines when they cover