St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-01-24
Gbe Californian.
SOME WAYS WITH STOCK.
1-.,,,,e,,, of a bloodhound Animal

SOME WAYS WITH STOCK.
Treatment of a bloodhound Animal
l. r Pierce. an observant Ohio
farmer makes these noteworthy sug-
qestions concerning horses feet and
shoeing in the New York Tribune
For several years | owned an oldIsh
horse that would always get sore
forward as soon as the roads got dry
in Nav. and sometimes would seem
IN misery with his feet for weeks
One day in Akron | left him to nave
a shoe set. and the blacksmith SAID
..your horse is hoofbOund. The
blacksmith who shod him last e1ther
didn't know anything about shoelng'
or is dishonest" And then he told
me the hind shoes had been put on
forward. | had been brought up to
supDOse all horse-shoes alike, and
that they could be used ind1scr1mln-
atelv, so it took some little time to
convince me, especially as the horse
sheer had employed was IN many
RESPECTS a very intelligent man How
ever. was shown the difference
which. as remember 1t, was primer
palIy in position of nail holes and
relative length of shoe. After little
conversation / found he made
speciality of sho-ingfoundered horses,
and was also 80 skilled that he shod
most of the large number OF the very
fast horses dr. zen in that city. he
promised to cure my horse in twice
shooting, and did SO. He followed
out the hoofs and used a slightly con-
cave shoe, and after few days the
horse was better. Another thing l
have learned contrary to Old-t1me
theory, and that is that shoes can be
put on too tight and stay on too
long. One blacksmith | know boasts
that his shoes never come OFT, but
wear off. | think my horse was spoil
ed in this way: having very tough
hoofs his shoes were not changed
often enough.
Managing a BaIky Horse.
Pulling at the head of the bit IS the
worst possible way, says Joseph Ii
tus in Our Dumb Animals, of treating
a balkv horse He manages IN this
way: Whenever a horse driven by
myself baked | got out of my car
riage went to his fore foot, lifted 1t
from the ground, and struck the shoe
a few short blows with a stone or
with a wrench, which | always car
nv. | never failed to start horse III
that way, and on several occasions
had balkv horses which exhausted
the patience of all former owners.
have undertaken to start balky
horses, being handled by others, after
other methods have failed. lrequest
the driver generally to move out OF
the way, that his voice or presence
NAV not be recognized by the horse.
I then first inform the animal, by
Mating him and talking to him, that
there is a new man at the helm, there
bv diverting his attention. AS soon
as he begins to give attention take
ND his foot and tap it few times,
and never failed, except in one IN
stance. to start the horse, and that
was where the horse was overloaded
and knew it.
Rafions for Dairy Cows.
The statement has often been made
saws the New England Farmer, that
COW will require daily a given pei
cent of food to her live weight, usual
" . to 212 per cent, or 20 to x
pounds for an animal weighing 1000
pounds. While this may be approx
matelv correct, we should remembe
that the richer and more concentrate
the food, the fewer pounds may b
required. A pound of wheat bra1
NAV be equal to two pounds OF Eng
Iish hav or three or four pounds c
meadow hav 1t should be remen
bered. too, that while 10 pounds c
good English hay may be a perfec
ration for a small heifer, it docs no
follow that 20 pounds OF meadON
hav. that would show by analysis t
be half as rich, would in practice b
of equal feeding value to that sam
heifer. There is a limit to the abil1t
of the animal to chew and d1ges
bulky food. If too much bulk b
crowded into the machine, the ms
chine NAV get clogged or bust
So if we have poor fodder to feed,
is ALWAYS wise to mix it with ric
grain rather than to feed 1t III eXce'
sive quantity. 1t is also wise to fee
grain to COWS in milk, even whe
feeding the best hay, because the la
ter will not enable the COW to do a
she is capable of doing and at tt
same time maintain her condition.
In purchasing grain to suppleme1
hav for COWS in milk, the dairyma
will naturally seek such as will tn
nish the heterogeneous material at Il
lowest price. At present there a
cotton-sced meal. gluten meal az
wheat bran. Some farmers feed re
use beans boiled to pOrridge, bl
the supply is too small for gener
use. Cotton-seed meal is one of Il
-,chaSt foods IN market and one of I