The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-07-02
HORSE AND HoasEMAN.

LInSeed OIL IS Sdlu TO De very
beneficial to horses, making their
coats nice and sleek.
No time will be lost by allowing
the team to rest a few minutes. at
least once an hour, and it will be a
great relief to the horses.
There are thirty thousand two and
three year-old horses now growing
upon the range in Colorado end
twenty thousand colts will be
dropped this spring
Oats contain the greater proper
ton of flesh forming elements and
corn the greater proportion of fat
forming elements, and this is why
oats is much superior food for the
horse.
The proper way is to leave the
colt in the stable while working the
mare. This keeps the colt out of
the road and out of trouble and is
better both for the colt and for the
mare.
The Importance of taking good
care of the brood mare and her foel
and of feeding the mare we'll so as
to make her yield abundance of
milk cannot be over estimated, if
first-class, vigorous colt is to be
raised.
The Farm Journal advises when
horses have collie to give three table
spOonfuls of sweet spirits of nitre
and laudaLum mixed in a pint of
water as hot as the horse can take
it. Walk the horse and repeat in a
half hour if not well.
In purchasing a horse first decide
what you want and what will suit
you and take no other just because
the animal may be offered to you
cheaper than you could buy one
that would meet your requirements
in a horse. The difficulty is that a
great many persons go out to buy
without proper elaboration, or
knowing just what they want, and
consequently get beaten in their
horse trade.
A smart team turning a good fur
row in spring, either stubble or sod,
should be able to turn over one
{ and half to two acres. When
larger days work than this are re
ported 1t is usually at the expense
of the team, or perhaps of the pillow
ing. So much depends on the
character of the work in fitting the
land that poor plowman should
not be tolerated, however large a
days work he may claim to be able
to do.
Perhaps in no ether place is it so
essential sas en- the farm that the
team be quiet, docil and intelli-
gent. The farm team is used in
many places and where it is re
ally dangerous to use a half-broken
and untractable team. On the
roads the driver Always has a better
chance to control the horses, be-
cause of a smooth track, and al
ways having the lines in hand; but
this is impossible on the farm, and
the farmer should not risk the safe
ty of his boys by keeping vicious
horse.
Training will develop many good
qualities in the horse which would
otherwise be dormant, and subdues
many vicious habits and faults
which would render the horse
worthless if allowed to go on I'M
checked. The training and the
trainer must both be judicious. I'm
Ijudicious training will develop and
even in part vices and faults to the
horse which do not materially be-
long to it disposition. The horse
must be handled always with kind
ness, care and judgment to insure it
being sure, safe and obedient ami
NAL.
The farm team performs, as a
rule, multifarious duties, and it is
important that the animals com
posing it be well mated, strong, &C
tive, intelligent and well trained
so as to be adapted to their numer-
GUS kinds of work. If there are
two teams kept, one should be COM
posed of draught horses and the
other of much lighter animals, but
neither should be so out of proper
ton as to be unsuited for any kind
of work, if lit is necessary to. put
them at it. Especially should very
small horses be avoided, as of no
earthly account on the farm.
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