The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-01-17
AFew Hints About Horses.


A Few Hints About Horses.
Give horses salt frequently.
Road horses should have their front feet
stuffed with flaxseed twice a week.
When light shoes needed, particularly
hind ones have them made of csst-steel.
Don't hook your horse TO the sleigh the
same as to your wagon, but give him more
trace.
Returning from an afternoon drive, let
your horse cool off before entering the
stable.
Horses wearing boots should have them
loosened while under the shed at the road
house.
If YOUR horse should pull on one line or
throw his head up aud down and fight and
pull on the bit have his mouth and teeth
examined.
The hand pieces OF driving reins frequently
become smooth from use, causing the hands
TO shift. In such cases rub the lines with
powdered rosin.
If you wish 10 drive your horse with an
open bride have him tried with one before
putting him 10 your top wagon, otherwise
he might get away with you.
When horses overreach iengthen the hind
shoes; when they hit the front of the hind
feet have the toe of the front shoes made
narrow and conceived on the inside.
Some horses when trott;ng in putting
their hind feet TO the ground strike Drinci-
pally on the toe. Such horses should have
their heels lowered, and should wear shoes
without heels.
Skunk cabbage is said to be good for
heayes in teaspoonful doses night and
morning. MOsien the hay and grain. Be
careful with the diet Never work a heavy
horse on a full stomach.
Steel bits should be kept in warm place
until they are placed in the horses mouth.
ANY person can realize the sensation OF
placing cold bit IN The horses mouth by
first touching it with his own tongue.
An excellent remedy for mango is: Oil OF
tuTpentine. one pint; add cautiously two
ounces of visriOl, stirring the mixture con
stantly; then add eight ounces linseed oil
to be rubbed in with brush twice a day.
If your double team did not work CD suit
you to-day, one crowding to the pole while
the other would pull his head TO one side,
see thai the reins are right and in hooking
them TO your wagon tomorrow put the OF
horse on the near side.
Tar is one Of the most useful articles to be
kept about a stable Internally use tea
spoonful night and morning for chronic
coughs; externally it IS particularly usefu
in thrush and ali diseases or wounds OF the
foot. Mixed with fish oil it is one of the
best remedies for hard or brittle feet.
When heels and toes are required on
horses shoes instead Of having the sho,
turned down for heels have the heels anC
toes of east-steel and welded on. The heel
should be put on a half an inch from end o
shoe and placed lengthwise.
For horse that "pulis' use the over
check with strap at ached over the nose ant
under the lower Jaw. For an extra hard
mOuthed horse use g fOur-ringsd bit. Have
a slide-loop on the front Of the oyer-check
so that it can be moved up and down, a
may be required; then have the cheek
piece and oveT-check attached to loose ring
and the driving lines alone to the large rings
Influenza is one of the most prevalen
diseases at this time of the year. The frs
stage of the disease is generally mild ant
will readily yield to careful. nutrition
diet, such as warm mashes. oatmeal Cruel
suitable clothing and proper ventilation. l
the respiration il troubled and the extrem
tiles cold, give a sedative medicine, rub tn
legs with dry mustard, bandsge with fan
mel, and send for an expert
Ex-Governor Bowie's Farm.
Governor Bowels home farm. Fairview
in Prince Georges County, Maryland, is al
estate of nearly LOO acres OF land, divide,
into seven fields. besides lots and paddocks
all cultivable, except groves of wood aver
aging six To ten acres of forest trees left OF
each field bordering streams. Farme
Bowie has ice ponds lately stocked will
carp ard black bass; psddocks for broO,
mares and training stable for race horses
He sold the original flock of TWEEN
ty-fOur ewes and one ram of South
down sheep for the beginning O
the Druid Hill Park flock. He is nov
breeding Cots wolds, of which he has flocl
OF $50. He hiss also herd of Devon cattle
few Jerseys. and 100 beef cattle He ha
100 head of horses of ali kinds twenty-si.
thoroughbred brood mares. and sixty colts
He uses fifty bushels or more OF lime pc
acre, applied on the turf the autumn an,
winter before the field is plowed for c. ops
with 200 10 500 pounds of fertilizers TO eacl
crop Of wheat when the crop is sown. Th
> average wheat yield last year was twenty
six bushels to the acre. The yield of corr
is eighteen barrels to the acre. Only a small
quantity Of tobacco is raised on the hom
farm. The Governor has tobacco plantation
in another part Of the Country.
How Butter May be spoiled.
American Dairyman
Good butter may be spoiled in churnIne
OteT-churning ruins the texture end change
the proper waxiness to a disagreable, sickl
greaslness This is the more easily done il
a churn with dsshes, which will press tn
butter against the side OF the chufn an,
squeezs and rub IL until il is spoiled. Tn
long churning spoils the quality by tn
oxidation of the butter and the Prematur
formation Of stroug-havored acids II
it, the full presence II which we cal
rancidity II may be spoiled at too high
temperature, by which II is m de soft an