The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-07-23
HORSE AND HORsEMAN.

has crippled the racing interest in
several of the eastern states.
1t is far better to breed horses
head up than to rein it up. 1t sell
dom adds to the beauty Of horse
to rear his head out of the way he
naturally holds it.
The good people of Chicago
have at last prevailed upon the
manager of the driver park at that
place to abandon Sunday racing.
Another case of faith cure perhaps.
To cure a horse of the habit of
kicking, says one who has tried it,
suspend a sack of straw by a rope
from the ceiling so that it hangs
just at the heels of the horse in the
stall
The appearance of a horse is
greatly effected by the bride he
wears. An ill-fitting bride will de
stroy the fine appearance of any
horse, no matter how handsome
head he may have.
AS it is the nervous system tn at
digests the food, it is best not to
give horse anything to eat that
is hard to digest when he is tired
and weary. Warm cruel or bran
mash is recommended.
If you have a good, healthy
mare that will bring a good colt,
don't fail to breed her to some wor-
thy horse, but bear in mind that if
a mare is worth breeding at all she
is worth breeding to the best horse
in the country, regardless of cost of
! service.
Those who have tried the exper-
iment of feeding their herses four
times q day instead of three times
claim that it is much the best way
to do. 1t would seem impractical
BILE for a farmer to adopt this plan,
yet it might be done with less
trouble than would at first be ex-
pected.
Don't put the young horses off
in some ont of the way pasture
field where you will see them but
once or twice in a month, but keep
them where you can see them ev-
every day. If anything goes wrong
with them then you will notice it at
once. By being among them every
day they are not so liable to be-
come wild and Interchangeable.
The supply of horses at the diff
ferent market centers is compare
lively light just now, and prices
remain about the same as they have
been for the past month or two.
Pressure of farm work has kept
many horses in the country that
would otherwise have been placed
on the market. We can look for
but little change in the price of
horses this season.
A bay spotted horse that now
draws the street cars in Denver
City has travelled more miles with a
load than any other horse now liv-
ing. He has drawn street cars for
eleven years, and has never missed
averaging sixteen and eighteen
miles day but forty days during
that time. The distance covered
by him in that time has been fifty
nine thousand eight hundred miles.
Carelessness about the feet of
horses produces much trouble.
Loose nails or fragments af them
are left in the hoof and work their
way into the interior, and produce
Inflammation, which spreads up to
| the corOnet or elsewhere AMI forms
a fstula. This Is very difficult to
cure, because the horses foot is
encased in a tight box from which
the pus and diseased matter cannot
! escape. Care to prevent it should
be constant.
4 subscriber at Fulton, Ohio,
sensibly objects to rule s in an
article from the London Live
Stock Journal, in our issue of June
L, which says: do not breed
from black OF grey mares or
horses. at should be remembered
that this is an English view, and
relates to the breeding Of hunters
and thoFoUghbreds. 1t is evident
that some Of the best horses in the
country would be excluded ,were
this rule to be followed in this
country.
4 travelling American, who re-
Gently visited the famous Paris
abattoir where infrm and MANNED
horses are slaughtered for food,
states that about 5000 horses are
prepared for the table at that es-
tablishment every year. The whole
sale price at the abattoir varied
with the condition of the meat
from cents per pounds up, and it
is distributed about Paris in wag-
ons with the words Viaude de cheva-
Hne' printed on the sides, and is
sold by the retail dealers for from
20 cents per pound for the lillet to
6 cents for the poorest parts, soup
bones and the like. Very tough
old horses are ground up into Lor-
raine sausages."
There is no class of men who ex-
pend more money in proportion to
the capital invested than do our
uuC nOISC SlOHCIS' ncJ UulIl
themselves nice homes and improve
them with pastures, meadows and
grain fields, build elegant barns,
corrals, supply themselves with
nice .buggies, carriages, light wag-
ons, and in fact, sport all the mod
ern improvements. Their libraries
are we'll stored with books on ag-
riculture and breeding; they take
the leading live stock, agricultural
and sporting journals, patronize
their local papers in the way of adj
vertising and in a great number of
ways contribute to the general
prosperity of the country. They
are not inclined to be selfish or to
try to save every dollar there is in
the business by rigid economy. but
seek to make money by pushing
their business and build up the gen
eral reputation of the country. The
very nature of their calling sug-
oe-ts the impossibilitV of their liv-