St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-04
About Live Stock.

The quality and size of the average
draft horse in this country to-day COM
pared with that of ten or fifteen years
ago show wonderful advancement
an advancement which may be con-
Sldered phenomenal-and | think, says
draft horse breeder, nobody will dis
pute that this improvement in draft
horses has been source of benefit and
profit to the whole country.
Lice are parasites that suck the life
out of many calf, says the Jersey
Bulletin. An emulsion of coal oil,
mutton tallow and carbolic acid. rubbed
on with stiff brush, will prevent the
appearance of lice and drive off by kill
ind those present. 1t should be applied
about three times, at intervals of three
days. Melt the suet and stir the Oil in
while hot; about fifty parts suet. forty
five parts oil, and five parts carbolic
acid in 100 parts.
An extraordinary incident took place
during a race with Mexican mustangs
at Guatemala the latter part of April,
says an exchange. The favOrite was
winning easily by nearly three lengths
amid the loud cheers of spectators.
when suddenly the sharp crack of a
rifle was heard from small wood ada
cent to the course and the mustang
dropped dead. shot through the head.
A scene of extraordinary excitement
enSued, and If the firer of the shot had
been captured he would have been
lynched, as large amount of money
was invested on the race. The search
which followed, however, was unSuc-
cessful, and the miscreant got away.
One great advantage which the draft
horse breeder has over the breeder of
road horses is that he has fewer sacri-
fees to make on account of blemishes
or imperfections, says Mr.. Galbraith. If
a road horse or a carriage horse has
deformity, however slight, or
happens to throw out small
curb or SPAWN, or even splint, or
gets cut on the barbed wire-or, as
friend Mckinney used to call it, ''that
barbarous wire','-it invariably detracts
greatly from his selling value. Not SO
with the draft horse-very little allow
ance having to be made for small
blemish on him. This enables the draft
horse breeder to get a better average
price on his sales.
1t is doubtless true, says Mr.. Gal
braith, that in certain sections of the
country there may be too many draft
stations, and that consequently the
terms of service are so reduced as to
make the business Improbable to the
stallioner, but after all this is an evil
which ultimately rectifies itself. What
is needed is more thorough diStribu-
ton, and also better horses. There are
yet many counties in some of the Mid
die and Western states, not excepting
Wisconsin. where not single pure
bred draft stallion can be found, and
others where the people are only begin
ming to recognize the necessity of rails
ing heavy draft horses, and appreciate
the benefits to be derived therefrom.
The foal is born with twelve grinders.
When four front teeth have made their
appearance the foal is twelve days old,
and when the next four assert them
selves it's age will be about twenty-eight
days, says the Western Rural. The
corner teeth make their appearance
when the foal is eight months old, and
these latter attain the height of the
front teeth at the age of year. The
tWo-year- olds have the kernel-the dark
substance in the middle of the tooth
crown-ground out of all the front teeth.
In the third year the middle front of the
teeth are shifted, and when three years
old these are succeeded by the perma-
nent Tor horse) teeth, which are larger
and more yellow than their predeces-
sors. The next teeth are shifted in the
fourth year, and the corner teeth in the
fifth, giving place to the permanent
nippers. At five years of age horse
has forty teeth, of which twenty-four
are grinders, far back in the jaw, with
which we have little to do. But, be it
remembered, horses invariably have
tushes. which mares rarely do. Before
the age of six is arrived at the tush is
full grown, and has slight groove on
its internal surface (Which generally
disappears with age, the tush itself be-
coming more round and blunt, and at
six the kernel or mark is worn out OF
the middle front teeth.