The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-05-24
The Color OF Horses.

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on the other hand, dark chestnut, with
darker points, gives Immediately the i'm
preston OF good constitution. We be-
lieve these opinions, however conveyed,
are proved to be perfectly right There
are, Of course, exceptions, but we take
the rule. Again, bay horse, with black
points, or even with white leg or two,
is very good color; so is dark and
mottled brown-in fact, there is none bet
ter; but no color is certain guarantee
OF quality, though, as we before said, We
look upon it as not unreliable index.
For many purposes gray color islooked
upon as q drawback, and so is that Of
!. "yaller." We never heard of any OBJ
iections to the black color, nor do we
know Of any. Some horses are said to
show character" in their coloring, as,
for instance, a bull terrier does with
patch over his eye. Thus n brown or
black horse, with three white legs and n
blaze, although not the perfection of
marking, gives such quaint appearance
that the animal is, instictively, and
rightly, put down as having character"
about him, and is often very good
horse. AS n rule, it will be seen
that we look upon n brown, dark
chestnut, and light bay as the best
colors, implying blood and good consti-
tutions, and the less white they have
about them the better. White feet are
particularly Objectionable, as they are
generally inclined to be flat and weak
and horse which shows much white
about his eyes is often tricky, sometimes
bad feeder, and vicious.
The Crayllsh and the Leyces.
The crayfsh are the most formidable
enimies of the Louisiana levees, and the
great majority of the crevasses that
occur are directly attributable to these
little fresh water crustaceans. The
most compactly constructed levees are
often undermined in single night, and
the little stream OF water, at first no
thicker than ones finger, soon cuts its
way, and rapidly increasing, becomes in
few hours roaring cataract, crumb-
ling the immense embankment and fol-
lowed by an avalanche of water from the
river which spreads over miles of sur
rounding country, scattering death and
destruction in every direction.
Many precautions have been devised,
but none have ever permanently sue
ceeded in overcoming the difficulty.
Some years before the war, Mr.. Lizard
built brick wall in the center OF his
levee, banking the earth on each side,
but was dismayed one morning to find
that the craytish had undermined the
wall and that his levee was actually cav
ing in. The late Professor Forshey pat
ented an invention for securing immu-
nity from the attacks of the crayfish,
which consisted of plank fence in the
center of the levee from base to crown,
and the Louisiana Levee Company had it
practically tested at mn increased cost
of 80 per cent over the ordinary levec,
but it was unavailing. Talking with
Mr.. Duncan i. Kenner, recently, he
said that he had anticipated Forsheys
plan some years ago, and in building his
levees he had constructed picket fence
on either side, of which he had made the
levee embaukment as compact as posi-
BILE. but the irrepressible little workers
soon found their way through. -New
orleans Sugar Planter.
The Dry Rot in Men.
The first strong external revelation OF
the dry rot in men, is tendency to lurls
and lounge to be at street corners with
out intelligible reason to be going any
where when met; to be about many
places rather than at any; to do nothing
tangible, but to have an intention of per.
forming variety of intangible duties
tomorrow or the day after When this
manifestation of the disease is observed,
the observer will usually connect it with
vague impression once formed or re-
ceived, that the patient was living lit
tie too hard. He will scarcely have had
leisure to turn it over in his mind, and
form the terrible suspicion, "dry rot,
when he will notice change for the
worse in thl patients appearance
! certain sloveniiness and deterioration
5 which is not poverty, nor dirt, nor in
toxication, nor ill-health, but simpl
a dry rot. To this succeeds smell, as c
!. strong waters, in the morning; to that
r n looseness respecting money; to that,
s stronger smell as of strong waters, at u
Q times; to that, q looseness respectin
o everything; to that, trembling Of tn
o limbs, somnolency, misery, and cruml
S ling to pieces. AS it is in wood, so it
II in men. Dry rot advances at a con
it pound usury quite incalculable. A plan
o is found infected with it, and the who
r structure is devoted. Charles Dicken
,. " Weak Points Of Horse.
l. The weak points of horse can
discovered better while standing th'
while moving. If he is sound he W
stand firmly and squarely on his lin
l. without moving any of them, with lie
q plumb and naturally poised. Ii o
70 foot is thrown forward with the t
W pointing to the ground and the he
al raised, or if the foot is lifted from
70 ground and the weight taken from
er disease may be expected, or at lei
rd tenderness, which is precursor
Id disease.
be If the horse stands with his f
spread apart or straddles with the hi
IS legs, there is weakness in tho 10
ng and the kidneys are disordered. Het
lie pulling bends the knees. Blush
his milky cast eyes in horses indicate m'
Ter blindness or something else.
on A bad tempered horse keeps his G
he thrown back. A kicking horse is apt
have SCARED legs. A stumbling he
has blemished knees. When the shr
,es. rourh and hard, and does not move
ers ;ly and smoothly to the touch, the he
tvs is IS heavy eater and his digestion is |
" Never buy horse whose respirat
q of organs are at oil impaired. Place. y
ave ear at the side of the heart, and
ON. Wheeling noise is heard, it is an ind