Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-08-23

blanket. would prefer an earth floor,
but if wood, have the stalls nearly or quite
. level and slated 10 keep dry. No rack to
draw hay from. but box or manager of
A., medium hcighh in which 10 insert his
=, head freely with tubes from above coming
. into opps 10 ends for hay and grain. By
4, all means have the room of COED heighth,
. well lighted and ventilated, windows in
front of the stalls if possible with space
. wide enough for walk, desirable access
10 the stalls when horse is cast or vi
ci0us,
FEEDING.
This is = question of study, yet there
i are general rules, one is regularity in
i"cd.ug, another is variety Of food and
quantity. But the main thing is TO study
your horse, for from the laws of breeding
and OF climate, causing variation, great
Gis3imiIarity in digestion and assimilation
Is brought about. | have had horses do
splendidiy on cut hay and meal, while
would not and seldom do | use the h;vy
cutter; if my horse is thick winded feed
small quantity OF hay wet, with dry meal
put upon il. \ horse whose digestive
organs are very active and he Is of a nery-
ous temperament, scours upon the road
when driven, use dry meal, with hav in
The rack 10 be used at same time if desir
ed (Which is invariably) Another very
excellent way for me to feed many horses
IS to feed corn on the ear, saving toll, etc.
ii cheap way in every respect.
GRAIN MIXTURE.
| -Four bushels OF corn, one of rye aud one
OF oats; | mean corn without the cob
| Cnough some horses do spienddly on cob
meal wet up into dough) feeding such
| quantities two or three times in day,
regular in time and quantity as needed to
perform the work engaged in. A clean
ninger is evidence of good feeding; for u
stricLly driving horse, rs rule, no grain
for all seasons of the year like oats. Work
| ng team should not have too concentrated
food in hot weather, some shorts or oats
mixed with corn meal should certainly b.
used for the safety of the animals health
and then if we'll groome |, .hedded, rubbed
blanketed when driven to pcrspirat ion
there is no trouble but what he will drive
we'll. The reason why our farmers, ,especi.
ally back upon the hills have so many
thick winded, heavy horses is, they feed
too much hay and little or no grain, and
If at all just before they start, but hay
enough to fill forty gallon cask; hence
they are burdened by the lungs being
crowded, unsusceptible to fill with air
properly, and there is bursting of the air
cells, thereafter incapable Of proper respi-
ration. But if horse is properly fed on
concentrated food and Watered properly
he can be driven to his natural gait and
perhaps more for hours in succession and
not njure him, if properly cared for dur.
ing the time anu after the Journey. On
- road horse should have but trihe
vi water, NOR lioisrs ten to one are iniur-
Al by water than any other way. NV
horse when standing in the barn would
prefer that he have but three pals of water
daily. and as to feed after driving. / have
no hestancy in giving him his usual feed
as soon as in the stable. am aware the
cry is grain founder, but verify believe
the cause is drinking too much cold water
or becoming chilled by standing in some
opening. If feed my horse as soon as
stopped driving | feed him when the
stomach is dllated rather than contracted,
saving him from the collie many times.
AS to driving; if you have colt you
wish to keep tor your own driving begin
with him in his infancy, keep him under
v"ul control, within your power; gently,
kndly educate him to love you yet to fear
YOU. lie is a creature of habit. he will
conform 10 your feelings, disposition. II
you arc 4 nervous man you will have
nervous horse, As Il rule, If you are a care.
less, awkward blunderbuss, such will be
your horse to very great extent; but if
you are straightforward, mind TO your
work, your eye will be on your horse
wa'ching his car, your rens up in your
hands. your horse in the road or where
You desire. Now it makes but little differ
ence who breaks that colt except to make
him kind, for he is going TO conform to
tie habits of his subsequent driver, then
don pay out large sums of money to train
your colts
viii ii ply to raise coltso | say thele
ale certain class of men that can make
i pty bbtter thln cattle, colt can be
rlised 10 three years old nearly as cheap
As three years old steer, and he will
bring twice as much Sail him then, as II
rule, and nine times out of ten il wilt uav
hotter than later What shall we raise
then? Fine, active roadsters, weighing
from nine and half to eleven hundred
pounds, full of muscle mot struggle for the
y IA gait and less, but good square > II
to l-2 minute horses, or ten to twelve
miles an hour and for several hours in
succession if need b., good style and cour-
age. and the market is always good fr
such horses if you wish to sell, if not,
luxury 10 yourself us we'll as advnnta
geous. Then raise daft horses to certain
extent, twelve hundred or molc, and the
breed you may ask: Il half bloc Clyds.
dale makes good horse or Norman. In
the west they are illling largely with
them. The full bload sres weigh from
sixteen to twenty hundred pounds, the
half bloods from twenty.,six to thirty-'wo
to pair. What for the driving horse? |
sigh for the Morgan, the Vermont Nor
gan whose fame was heradcd the world
over; that pluck, style, action. short, quick
gait made him admired. Many OF you
remember when the Black Hawk, The
Green Mountain were SO prded over;
when Hill u Hall would 80 maiesticallv
lead around the track of our fair ground
those noble slres with long strings Of their
progeny. How our admiration was filled;
we knew and Alt we had better horses
than all the world beside. But what has
become of them? Shrewd men Who knew
thot F"ilNC1 WIN tuclI IuOuty udS cAClteu
our avarice and we parted with them.
Many went west, and their progeny we
are now importing back to Vermont to
meet as well we can our demands. sad
mistake in parting with those noble horses
for love or money. If we had had such
men as Campbell, Hammond, Townshend,
Mead, Stickney, Stafford. Benedict, Hull.
Ramsay, Gushing, Bridge, Fuller Hall
and others who sacredly held to the rem
nant of their fock-the standard of the
world, and whose sons have organized
into the Vermont Merino sheep breeders
association, to perpetuate the blood of
that noble sheep. which after being
brought from the old country and carefully
bred, sons and daughters returned to their
native land, as it were, to Hamburger for
exhibition and there amid all the rivalry
and prejudice, received the first premium.
say if we had had such men to have
saved remnant even of that noble strain
'f horses in its purity we, as agriculturists,
could we'll afford to have built them II
asting monument in memory of the de-
serving deed, as we'll as to those who
aved tho Vermont sheep, who so fully
loSerVa il and their sons In nnrnatuat;on