Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-06-23
Care OF Horses in Summer, Etc

Mr.. J. $. Spaulding of Norridgwock
has Just received an importation of twenty
Wech ponies, purchased in North Wales
the past winter by his agent, W. J.
Haynes. The band consisted of three
stations and seventeen mares. all Young.
fine animals, and in color mostly blacks
or bays. There is a growing demand for
these ponies in our country, and Maine
seems to have the lead in establishing
breeding studs to supply this call The
business is profitable.
Another splendid horse comes to Maine,
aud this time Piscataquis county is to
get the benefit of this great acquisition to
our horse stock. Mr.. d. f. Larrabee of
Dover has just brought to that town
the stallion Diomed Wilkes, purchased of
Col. John b. Clark of the Manchester,
n. H., Mirror and Farmer. This horse is
two years old is by Mambrino Wilkes, by
George Wilkes; dam by Almont Eclipse,
second dam by George Wilkes, third dam
by Vermont Black Hawk. Diomed Wilkes
stands Is IL hands, weighs over 900
pounds, and is a beautiful bay with black
points. Mr.. Larrabee has some finely bred
Knox and Drew colts, some of which are
by Lothair, (2.29 l-2), by Gilbreth Knox,
and is doing a great deal to improve the
horse stock of Piscataquis county
Some good horses are now in training at
| Presumpscot Park, near Portland which are
to be entered in the great State Fair races at
Lewiston and Bangor this fall, that will
be quite sure to break the records and
astonish the people. Among these are the
gelding Payson T., owned by Geo. E.
Woodbury. of Brunswick, green one but
who can turn the track easily inside of
$40; Annie NJ, (2.32 l-4), owned by Hen
nv Fowler of Portland; Kite, owned by
Maxwell Brothers of Portland, a green one
trotting in better than 40. and two colts
one Redwood, and the other a Wilkes
owned by Mr.. Alonzo Libby of Saccarappa.
one of the State Fair trustees.
The great stallion Electioneer, foaled in
1868, out of a wonderful producing
dam, has not, at twenty years of
age, a son or daughter the sire
or dam of $50 trotter.
With the on-coming of warm weather.
the horses, whether used for work or
pleasure, will require extra care frem the
grooms, not only as regards feed, but also
attention to their wants at the stable and
on the road. Shorts or chopped feed left
in the feeding boxes will attract flies to
the stable which will cause great annoy
ance to the horses. Screens at the win
dows are as necessary in the stables as at
/ the dwelling house, and should be careful
ly provided. Give the stables good venti-
lation. Many persons who are careful of
their horses have very light blanket
for stable use during the day time, which
prevents tlies from annoying. A horse
wants water often whether on the road or
at rest, and should be given an opportuni-
ty to drink at least five times a day. But
give water very sparingly if the horse is
warm as well as after meals. Where
horses have been hard at work, it is better
to let them stand fifteen minutes at noon
before giving them their feed. Keep the
stables sweet and clean, apply the curry
comb regularly. bed with clean straw or
saw-dust, wash the feet and legs often,
and when on the road see that the harness
does not thafe. ssThe merciful man is
lmerciful to his" horse.