Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-10-07
HOW TO JUDGE A HORSE.


full to all parties about to buy horse:
l. Never take the sellers word if dishon.
est, he will be certain to cheat you if disposed
to be fair, he may have been the dupe OF an
other, and will deceive you through represen'
tations that cannot be relied upon.
2. Never trust to horses mouth as sure
index to his age.
3. Never buy horse while in motion; but
watch him while he stands at rest, and you
will discover his weak points. If sound, he
will stand firmly and squarely on his limbs,
without moving any of them, the feet planted
fiat upon the ground, with legs plumb and nat:
urally poised. If one foot is thrown forward
with the toe pointing to the ground and the
heel raised, or if the foot is lifted from the
ground and the weight taken from it, disease
of the vanicular bone may be suspected, or at
least tenderness, which is a precursor OF dis
ease. If the foot l., thrown out, the toe raised
and the heel brought down, the horse has suf-
fered from lammitis, founder, or the back sinews
have been sprained, and he is of little future
value. When the feet are all drawn together,
beneath the horse, If there has been no disease
there is displacement of the limbs, at least
and weak disposition of the muscles. If the
horse stands with his feet spread apart or strad
dies with the hind legs, there is weakness OF
the loins and the kidneys are disOrdered.
When the knees are bent and the legs tottel
and tremble, the breast has been ruined by
heavy pulling and will never be right again
whatever rest and treatment he may have
Contracted or Informed hoofs speak for them
selves.
4. Never buy horse with blush or milky
cast in his eyes. They indicate constitution
al tendency to opthalmia, moon blindness, ETC.
5. Never have anything to do with horse
who keeps his ears thrown backward. This is
an invariable Indication of bad temper.
6. If the horses hind legs are SCARED, the
fact denotes that he is a kicker.
6. If the knees are blemshed, the horse is
apt to stumble.
8. When the skin is rough and harsh, and
does not move easily and smoothly to the touch
the horse is a heavy eater and his digestion is
bad.
8. Avoid a horse whose respiratory organs
are at all impaired. If the ear is placed at the
side of the heart, and a wheeling sound is
heard, it is an indication of trouble. Let hin
go.-Tunt, Field and Farm.
WATER FOR AN1MALs-Most people seen
to think that almost any sort of water will dc
for an animal to drink, and the filthy, stagnant
fluid which some farmers depend on, even fol
their milk cows, is disgusting, alike to the all
imal and those who use their milk. A horse
or cow has just as much sense about drink
ing water as a man or woman, and we have
seen herd of COWS travel mile to get theil
drink from clean, cool spring, passing by
standing pools, which, ordinarily seem to be
pretty fair drink. A horse will often 60 with
out water, when very thirsty, rather than
drink from dirty pail, or from pond OF
stream tainted with any pollution. And III
hot days, when men demand pure and cooling
drinks, the poor beasts who can only silently
express their preferences, should have the best
which can reasonably be procured for them.
Better pump an hour for refreshing well water
than force them to drink from the warm and
reeking pools of the Swamps. Put yourselves
in their places, ortlle time, and see which you
would prefer.
WoMEN's HEApACHEs.-The New York
Herald. which devotes most of it's space to
news has published brief editorial OH wo-
mems headaches, which is certainly more sug-
gestive that many of the articles in that paper.
One principal reason. why women suffer more
than men with headache, is the fact that their
life is largely in doors, and they are not able to
Take so much physical exercise. There is very
little complaint of headache at summer resorts,
where the windows Ire always open, and games
and excursions constantly tempt people into
the open air. Girls who ride, row, sail and
shoot, seldom have headaches, and the same is
true of those who work in the fields, as women
in many countries do. Headaches might be
almost banished from civilized society by a
wise and careful system of physical training,
and a rational system of diet. We ought to
be as shamed of having a headache, as OF being
unable to read or write, or speak our language
correctly. Herald of Health.
SULPHUR FOR ANIMALs.-If taken inter
nally with their food, sulphur will almost i'll
yariably keep all animals free from lice. We
have made practice, for years past, OF giving
a heaping teaSpOOnful, once week, in the
food of each of our COWS, and the same guam
tity to about every ten hens i'll the flock, and
they have never been troubled with lice on
them. 1t may be given in the same proportion,
as to size, when required in the; food OF poul-
try, pigs and sheep. Sulphur is4l mild cathal-
tic when desired for this purpose, and in small
doses seems to have a general beneficial effect
on the animal system, something like salt,
though, of course, not of that nature.-ftTdt
Ne,o Yorker.
CURE FOR FELoN.-Take a pint of common
soft soap, and stir in unsaked lime till of the
consistency of glazier'sputty. Make leatll-
er thimble: fill it with this composition, and
insert the finger therein. A cure is certain.
TO SwEETEN SOUR MILK.-When milk
sours. scalding will render it sweet again.
The whey separates from the curd, and the
former is better than shortening in bread
WASHING GLAss-Glass should be washed
in cold water, which gives it brighter look
than when cleansed with warm water.