Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-03-17
THE CARE OF FINE HORSES.
The Trouble is that Many Rich Owners
 Treat their Horses UnwiseIy.

The Trouble is that Many Rich Owners
 Treat their Horses Unwisely.
 1.-The great trouble" said MT. Robert Bonner lis that so Eiany men who are able to buy fine stock do not kT.ow how their horses should be taken care of, and are unable to watch and see whether those wkom they employ thoroughly understand their business. There is a great deal in what is said there about the feeding of horses. Nothing is more i'm portant at this season of the year. Their eating should be looked after as carefully as you would after the feeding of man unable to care for Himself.
 If a man sits all day at desk and writes, without taking exercise, be can not eat half as much as laborer who handles pick and shovel. It is just the same with horses. You take the hack horses that run around up at Tarrytown, going half mile in one direction, two miles in another, and using up their strength in climbing over those hills. They need from twenty to twentyfour quarts of oats day, and they would eat even more if they could get it. But trot- ting horses, even in the trotting season, will not eat on an average more than twelve quarts a day; you can't make them, because the work they do does not wear away their strength as does the slow plodding of the hack horse, In this season of the year the trotting horses do almost nothing. and if allowed to eat what they want to, they take on fat and get themselves into very bad condition.
 foly Well, she is glutton, if ever there was one. As Bair said to me the other day, she was never known to leave around mouthfUl of anything to eat. She would eat twelve quarts of oats day now if would let her, but I give her barely six quarts, and let her grlmble to herself about my stinginess if she wants to. As it is, she keeps in fine condition, just nice and right. If let her eat her fill she would get as fat as a porpoise; and even if nothing worse happened, I should have the hardest kind of work to get her back into condition when spring came around again. Of course economy or an idea as that has nothing to do with it. When 1 give SIC, 009 for a mare I don't care how much she eats. If 1e0 quarts of oats day would do her. any good I'd only be too glad to give it to her. That is the great trouble with man who has fine animal; he is likely to be too indulgent and kill the horse with kindness. Firm ness is what man must have, no matter how much he may think of his horse.
 "Of course, there are exceptions to every rule; some horses will not get fat, no matter how much you feed them. l There is Keene Jim, horse that I bought 1 of Bfr. Paul Dana for $4.000; you can't 1 get that horse fat, no matter how much 1 you may feed him. He is a kind of horse that won't fatten, just like some men who are always lean and lank, no matter how good a cook they have.
 One thing that may cause the loss of many valuable horses at this time of the year Is ignorance, or carelessness, that results in their catching cold. Horses are exercised too violently, perhaps, and then allowed to stop and grow cold sud- ! denly. That is all wrong; such treat ment is likely to kill man, and it is just as dangerous for horse. After my horses are exercised they are warmly blanketed and my boys lead them around my stables more and more slowly. A horse wants to cool off gradually and slowly, as the air does when the sun sets, not like bottle of wine stuck into a freezer. And then, too, you can't be too careful in exercising and driving horses at this time of the year. They should be taken out every day without fail when the weather permits, but be very careful. If you speed your horse in the face of cold wind, all that cold air pouring into his lungs is likely to injure him very much, and give him lung fever,
 And even when it is fine you can't be too careful about the surface on which your horse is trotting. 1 wouldn't for for $1G,000 let Maud $. go out and fly for half Q mile at top speed on the hard roads of Central park, and yet lots of men send their best stock flying over such roads daily. A man rrho knew anything and saw uuch.a thing done would take the horse away from the driver and say he was crazy. The best chance you can get to drive in winter is on the soft snow. That won't hurt any Aorse. Only be care ful and not drive them too much at first. The clipping of their feet before they become accustomed to the icy surface is very painful to the legs, and they should