The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-02-04
HORSE AND HoRsEMAN.

stock.
Wanda ran only four times last
year, and won $31, 14O. She was
the largest winner of the year, With
Pontiac eecond with $4,000.
Collie troubles in horses may be
avoided by paying attention to the
condition of their bowels, and see
ing that they are kept open and
free from constipation.
Fresh outbreaks of CHAMBERS are
still appearing from time to time
in various parts of the west. Still
greater trouble from this fearful
disease is not improbable.
tits thought by Wallace's Month
ly that mare will not breed when
she is twenty -four years of age. But
from tables carefully prepared by
the editor of that publication, of
1000 brood mares recorded in the
eighth volume of the English stud
book AZ mares bred at "a years of
age.
Don't give your horse any drugs
"to make his coat sleek" or "to
keep his bowels open," or for any
other purpose, is the advice of the
Philadelphia Press. Hundreds OF
horses are murdered outright every
wear or have their constitutions
ruined, to live on at a dying rate,
which is worse than death, by So
called medicines, condition pow
ders and so forth, administered by
unframed hands.
During the eleven months ended
November 80, England imported
1885 horses, valued at $72 each,
against 12,468 in the same part of
1884, valued at $3.50 each. In
the same time 1920 horses, worth
$2S6 each, were exported, against
6,61O in the the same time last year
worth 1924 each. OF this years
exports 472 came to the United
States and 852 to British North
America.
AL enthusiastic, enterprising
stockmen take just pride in their
stock-they cannot avoid do
ing SO; but no man has more ground
for looking over his animals with a
feeling of self-gratulation than the
owner of fine collection of horses.
Such stock appeals in some way to
the finest instincts of intellect and
appreciative men, and it is not to
be wondered at that horsemen often
place their grand pets next to their
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To what are we 70 attribute the
comparative freedom of American
horses, in the past two years from
lung and throat troubles of an cpl
zootic nature? Such diseases OF
course prevail to greater or less
extent; every winter they..seem to be
of a local character. There must
be reason for this. Does it lie
partly in the knowing how TO take
care of this most valuable stock 7
It is fairly prespmable that this
has something to do with the mat
ter.
Why will any intelligent man al
low five or ten dollars difference in
the cost of service of his mare, be-
tween patronizing a poor and a
good stallion, when it Is demon
strated over and over again beyond
question that it means a difference
of fifty or hundred dollars in the
value of the matured horse? The
point in this question is no fanci-
full one, but is full of practical sig
nificance to every one who grows a
horse. Do not shut your eyes,
reader, to any special application it
may have to your case,
DIR. Horne, GAINESVILLE, Wis,
writes: The advice in a western
paper, which you criticise on page
563, to feed a horse from above, to
raise his head, shows supreme igno-
rance of the anatomy of the neck of
the horse. Nothing can be more
unreasonable or ridiculous. The
horse, OK, sheep, etc, are ground
| feeders. To bend the neck down
ward is natural; to raise it beyond
comfort to the horse in any form is
cruel and unnatural. Such a sys-
tenn would be stopped by law in
England, just as the abomin able
check rein is there and elsewhere.
To fashionably raise the head of
horse, breed it into him.
An Arizona horsethief has beaten
them all. He is connected with a
government corral, and, as reported
by the Hoof and Horn, his mode of
business consisted in reporting the
death of horse to the corral boss,
after which the body was promptly
removed, only to reappear through
some mysterious agency during the
night in another stall, the living
owner of which would be appropri-
ated by the dishonest hostler, prob
ably on the basis that an exchange
is no robbery. The next morning
the corral master would be inform
ed of the death of another horse,
and identically the same proceed
ings would be gone through with
as long as enough of the dead
horse hung together to make pre-
sentable appearance. Too great
success, however, was this genius
downfall, for having incautiously
used one horses cavader in this
manner twenty seven times, he was
apprehended and get his just de-
serts.
The recent exposure of the exten
to which under valuation has been
practlced in the New York Custom
House has led the Senate's commit
tee to demand an investigation into
the matter. This is what the wool
growers have long desired, and it is
to be hoped that the investigation
will prove effective in stopping I'M
LIBERALIZATION, not only of wool but
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