The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-12-03
HORSE AND HoRsEMAN.

TIE trottlpg horse is unulsputa-
bly, an American product.
TO obtain the best results IN
breeding, use the best stations
available.
Germany, Belgium, France and
America are all credited with sup
plying England with horses.
There are but few diseases to
which horses are heir, which are
not easier to prevent than to cure.
Horses that are used to kind
treatment will feel the change
keenly when placed in the bands of
inconsiderate horsemen.
The most useful horse is the
cheapest horse regardless of cost.
A horse that does not answer the
purpose intended Is worth compare
lively little.
This has been poor season so
far for the favorites. Green horses
have taken about as many races as
those horses backed by the
knowing ones"
Train your horses with a view to
endurance. Many trotters and pa
GERS can show fast quarter or half
mile burs's of speed, but those
short spurts do not amount to very
much.
Fashion has. more or less to
do in establishing the price of
horses. There are fashionable horses
as well as fashionable costumes or
anything else that men pay their
money for.
Blood, food, care and training
are the requisites for producing a
frst-class horse. 1t is useless to
discuss which is the most impor-
tant point of the foul, as the per-
feet horse is product of all of them.
Reports of outbreaks of CHAMBERS
among the horses of the differents
paris of the country are not as nu-
merous as they were some time
ago. 1t is to be hoped this dread
ed disease will soon disappear en-
tirely.
Experimenting with the feet of a
horse is a dangerous business I'M
less it is done on scientific princi-
pies. The man who does not fully
understand the construction of the
foot had better leave the matter of
shoelng to some one who does.
The quality of the work done by
a hose, it's quality, and the ease
with which it is accomplished, are
affected more by the proper fit and
neat adjustment of harness, saddle,
ETC., than many people are disposed
to think. 1t Is hardly more cruel
to stint a horse in his food than it
TO fit his trappings in such q
way as to fill him with uneasiness
or pain.
An enthusiastic correspondent OF
the San Francisco Breeder and
Sportsman believes a mile will be
trotted within two minutes, and
that some horse yet to be born in
Californis, will accomplish the feat
Prof. Brewer, OF Yale College, firm
iy believes in the same thing, but
says nothing of the propinquity of
the animal to the golden gate.
The Farm Journal says In fly
time put big crupper pad under
the tail of the horse, big enough to
raise it up so the animal cannot
hug it when it switches over the
reins. This is simple continuance
and safe one. Put buckles on
this big pad and buckle it into the
back strap the same as the regular
one. When under the tail the
horse cannot hold the rein.
There seem to be some trifing
difficulties to overcome in applying
instantaneous photography to the
turf. An Indiana horseman took
an instantaneous photograph of his
2:3S trotter last week. The horse
took fright at the camera, and the
photograph shows the horse going
over the inside railing of the track,
and the driver making a balloon
ascension in the sulky.
An agricultural association in the
west has adopted the plaE of offer
ing premiums for. best walking draft
stations weighing 1900 pounds
and over, the stations to be hooked
to wagons containing not less than
ton in weight, and the teams to
90 around the track on a walk, the
one making the best time with the
greatest apparent ease to receive
the prize. This is much fairer than
standing them out at the end
of a bride rein and requir-
ing a committee to judge of
their ability to draw a load at a
reasonable rate of speed.