The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-01-14
HORSE AND HoRsEMAE.

years.
1t is said that there are faIly 30
600 to 10000 wild herses and pc
MES within the limits of the UAited
States west of the Missouri river.
Epaulette, noted trotting stall
lion with a record Of 2:l9, was late
ly sold at Lexington, KY, to Rob
ert Steele, OF Philsdelphia, for
$22, 500.
Good corn fodder and oats make
an. excellent diet for horses. 1t is
mistake to think fodder suitable
only for cattle, and to confne the
horses to hay.
The difference in the market val
ne of well-bred and poorly bred
stock shows nowhere as plainly as
in horsefesh. Note this, yeu who
patronize the lowest grade Of stall
lions.
The Breeders Gazette very sen
sibly deprecatss the too early train
ing and over training Of colts for
the speed ring, as an evil very in
juriously affecting the herssfssh Of
he country.
So great is the popularity Of the
American stallion Fexhall beyond
the Atlantic that his beck fer the
season of 1886 is already nade up
among English horBsmen, AZ a SER
vice Of $3.50.
The cost of its production and
keep are comparatively 80 slight
that the farmer who raises a first
class colt is more certain Of profit
on his work than the producer OF
any other kind of young stock.
The foremost winning thorough
bred sire for 1885 is Virgil, now
owned by D. SWissrt, Muir's, Ky,
and Fl years cid. His sens and
daughters have won. ST., 518 this
year, and 1868, S94 in the past tOu.
1t has been demonstrated by ex-
pertinent that. English thorough
bred horses imported among the
Arabs will not emily excel the Ara
in speed but will soon equal it in
endurance. The staying qualities
of the thoroughbred. do not suffer by
comparison With those of the IA
nous courser Of the desert.
Did you evsrS know a farmer to
sell NEST promising colt for $40,
and see the shrewd buyer obtain
5000 for his purchase year or less
later? And did it ever strike you
that an occasional hour given by
the first owner to cAressing, train
ing and developing this colt might
as well have placed that extra $3.50
in his pocket?
Even the p0er, desPised, unmu-
steal mule is much the better OF
dash of thoroughbred blood in his
make up. Oae who has expert
mented in this line states in the
columns Of an exchange that a
mule from a thoroughbred mare by
a good jack will kill almost any 9th
er not similarly bred if it is forced
TO keep up and do the same amount
of work.
Don't be so narrow minded as to
suppose, because you are breeding
light horses, that no other kind are
suited to the wants Of the people;
and if your favorites are heavy,
don't decry the trim beauties adap-
| ted to another kind Of labor, There
is use for beth, but none for the
bigot who adnires nothing but his
own production.
What would an American horse
man think of combining his favorite,
while actively using him, to = diet
of six pounds of barley per day,
fed at sunset? And yet that is
considered sufficient foed for the
Arabian. 1t is said that the owner
can throw a bag Of sixty pounds Of
barley across his horse AID safely
undertake a ten days journey
across the desert.
An experienced veterinary sur
geon claims that the habit of shy
ing in horses is nearly always
caused by near-sigk tsdness and
says: l have tested scores Of shy
ing horses for near sightedRess, and
in nearly all cases found what 1
expected. And sew when am
asked to give points on buying
horses l give this as one Of the re-
quisites: Never buy 4 horse which |
is near sighted.
If stables were 80 built as to af-
ford reasonable facility for renew
ing imprisoned animals, instead of |
having but one point of ingrsss and |
egress, the papers would mach less
often report the cremation Of valua
BILE horses. The number of horses
annually roasted in burning stables
is astonishing, aHd several times as
great as it would be if stable ar
chitecture were less q matter of
fancy and Aore q matter of common
sense.
Prince Imperial, Norman horse
owned by Jacob Howser & Sons,
Marion, o., was ansng the curl
esities to be seen at the Chicago
Fat Stock show. prince is a large
stallion, fifteen or twenty years old,
imported from Europe. His spe-
cial feature of attraction is his fore
top and name, which have been
tended with such care that the en-
tire growth has been preserved.
The longest hairs measures 9 feet
10 inches in length, and the fere-
top is z feet long. A picture
of Prince hangs in the Stockman
man office.
If at least one half of the huge
sums devoted to speed-ring prizes
in this couRtry could be diverted to
a recognition Of the excellence OF
breeding stock at the fairs, the bus
mess Of breeding fine horses would
receive a stimulus which would
soon place this first amOng the
horse breeding countries of the
world. As it is. however, it is
probable that the first half dozen
stables of racers have won more
money in the past season than all
the exhibition Of hreedinO harses