Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1881-06-15
Queries Answered.


get the best materials you can to
start with, or your laboa and money
will be thrown away. Doing
things by halves does not pay in
horse flesh. And when your mare
has foaled, don't be niggardly about
their keep. Then is the time to
make a horse Of the youngster.
Plenty of soft food, brau, gro"no
corn and oats, and the sweetest hay
for the mare, and IN due season.
good past~ragc, with access to fresh
water and shade. If you have sue
ceeded in getting an excellent mare
it is likely that you will be tempted
to show her at the fairs; but we
warn you that forcing a mare into
condition for show is apt to spoil
her breeding, for that season, at
least. Stimulated unnaturally, and
that mainly on corn, even if a mare
be not too heated to stand to the
horse, she is apt after few weeks
or months to throw the faetus, which
often no bigger than an egg, may
be found to your great disappoint-
ment, on the pasture where she
grazes. To retuan, however: breed
skilfuIly from mares that you have
ascertained to throw good colts
There is much in that,) do the foals
well, and you will have the eye Of
the dealer upon your farm, and an
amply remuneratiye price IN pros
pect, subject only to those acct
dents to which all stock and mortal
things are liable. Breed from
brutes, and you must expect a
brute, for like produces like To-
see the lob headed, straight
shouldered, weak-limbed, sluggish,
tucked-up, geOse-rumped, fat-sided,
cow backed stamp, with which too
many farmers are content left out
to winter long on poor ground, you
cannot wonder when they tell you
that housekeeping does not pay
A frst-ratc colt of power and form
is as much q fancy article as an
'emerald; and, let breeders abound
to any extent, will always bring its
value. Your young ones, we re-
peat, you cannot keep too well.-
When weaned, which should be,
both for their own and their moth
er's sake, bat especially the moth
sr's, early in the fall, feed them
well on ground food and the sweet
est OF upland hay, if good grass
should be scarce. This, with daily
handling and gentle caresses,shOuld
be the lot of the young ones. After
all. what is it but so many dollars
put out TO interest. Starve a colt
a colt in his first year, and he is
spoilt forever. No subsequent
treatment, however judicious or
generous, can redeem the neglect OF
his early youth-the sinking loin
the worn look, the spindle shanks,
too surely attest the treatment he
received in infancy, whatever his
original calibre may have been. In
fact, whatever be the stock, It's
keep and shelter that tells in the
end.
CONSTIPATION AND SURFEIT IN
PIss.-Queery: My pigs OCCASION
ally get off their feed, become con-
stipated and surfeited. Woald
like to know what to do under
such circumstances.
Reply: To cOunteract surfeit and
the like, to which their greedy ap-
petite makes them liable, keep CIV
ing them a little sulphur OCCASION
ally in their food, or an ounce Of
castor oil. if you see the least symp-
tom Of dullness, which, floating on
skim milk, our friends will swallow
up in a twinkle, not having the
incest of palates for physicking a
pig is no fun. 1t is rather a diff
cult, and often unsatisfactory bust
ness. What with encircling his
snout with a rope amidst the most