The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-11-19
HORSE AND HORsEMAN.

UutIC DCHCnCials
When frosty weather comes farm
ers, who are accustomed to allow
their horses to run in pasture, should
stable them at night.
An egg broken in the feed of the
horses occasionally is beneficial to
them, having a tendency to clear up
their skin and to make their hair
take on a bright and healthy ap-
pearance.
The biggest horse is not always
the hest, nor is even the most hand
some one. The best horse is one
with kind and tractable DISPOSE
ton, well-broken and, above all, the
one that is most serviceable.
Overlooking teams is a bad idea.
1t will start horses to baking
quicker than anything else. Besides
this many horses are ruined physi-
cally by being compelled to strain
every nerve in the system to draw a
load that is entirely too heavy for
them. Moderate loads and more
trips is better than taking the risk
of spelling the horses and running
their constitutions.
The horses should have water
quite often when at heavy work,
and especially while blowing and
narrowing the wheat land in the
dry fall season. Usually when
| blowing there is a dust which arts
es from the stnbble, and often from
the ground also, which makes both
driver and team thirsty. The driv-
er slakes his thirst very often, and
the team should be given the same
privilege.
Many farmers do not keep their
stables as clean as they should, for
the comfort and health of their
equine stock. The stables should
be cleaned out at least twice a day
morning and evening, and in the
fevening each stall should be care
fully bedded with clean rye straw
Farmers should keep good horses.
and a good horse should always be
well taken care of and be given q
clean and comfortable bed on which
to sleep.
In keeping a horse fat there is as
much in the driver as in the feed
A horse well curried and rubbed
with a wooden rag afterward is sure
to make d sIeek-coated horse, and
when well groomed is, we may say,
half fed. A cross and nervous
driver will fill the horse with fear
and dread and will rapidly run his
horse down. Use any animal kind
| ly. Always be firm and make it
mind but never get excited. A cool
headed driver makes long headed
horse.
Farmers should pay more atten-
ton to the feet of theil horses than
s their usual custom. The feet
should be examined occasionally
and be cleaned out and oiled fire.
lquently. The neglect of this and
dirty uneven stalls to stand in are
more often the cause Of the horses
feet being in bad condition than the
bad work of the farrier. Look to
this, farmers, take good care of
your horses feet; for on them de
ponds the greatest value and ser
viceableness of these animals.
The spring colts are now ready
to be weaned, and care should be
exercised in separating them from
their mothers that they are not
stunned and their growth checked
in the operation, as is too often the
case. The colts should be learned
to eat grain before they are weaned,
and afterwards they should be fed a
little grain each day, and not in any
way be allowed to become stunned,
but should be kept growing as rap
idly as when they fed on their
mothers milk.
For the ordinary farmer the larg-
est horses are not so well adapted
as a horse that will not weigh over
l $50 pounds. Such horses are bet
ter suited to the average farm, for
the simple reason that they can be
put to any kind of usage, where a
heavier horse is only suitable for
heavy draft; but there is a large
and growing demand for these very
heavy horses about cities and they
are bringing handsome prices. For
this reason our farmers cannot
raise too many of these truly noble
animals.
1t is time that farmers were pay
ing attention to their horse stables,
to see that they are comfortable,
clean and airy. This matter should
be attended to before winter sets 10
and the poor horses are punished by
standing in cold, dark, damp and
altogether unsuitable stables; or
even exposed to the cruel mercies
of the storm king. There are many
persons who cannot afford fine barns
10 stable their horses in; but every
owner of a horse can provide a
warm and dry shelter of some kind
for the faithful animal and at very
slight cost.
Mrs. Anna D. Chopper, a noted
breeder of fine horses, says in an
exchange: "Horse breeding is re-
duced to a science. We now pro-
duce a frst-class roadster with as
much certainty as is produced
game cock, a stag hound or a setter
dog. Roadsters by chance are rarl-
ties nowadays. The heavy headed
lugger of the bygone age, though
he have speed, will no longer do.
The fine velvety coat, the high head
and clean throatlatch are now look
ed into. A pillow horse will no lon
ger answer for the road wagon or
pheton." Yes, this is very true, so
far as it goes; but yet we must have
the faithful pillow horse and the
heavy draft animal, as we'll as the
light roadster, and many may think
the heavy horse the more useful
animal, in an economic sense.
The Cleveland Bays are becom-
ing one of the most popular breeds
of horses in different sections of the