Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-07-09

hundred weight three horses used sometimes four
Their food consists Of
Oats 10 beans lbs, maize, lbs lbs day per horse
Clover chat, about IS
Sometimes peas given, then either beans maize
stopped.
September about thousand bundles Of green
consumed amongst the sick and rest horses.
From May to August hundred bundles green
given all the horses every week about fourteen fifteen
weeks bundle given each horse Saturday evening and
one on Sunday morning. Carrots occasionally given.
1.-THE Of feeding including the above items amounts to
about three shilings per horse per day
Brewers horses you suggest kept for ornament but
for work
Shoeing costs about one shilling cghtpcncc per
being ffnne per per year AS
course their shoes than others
The diseases which brewers dra-hoscs subject
catarr Influenza bronchitis, congestion of the lungs (more in SUM
cxerton) ncphti hcpat weed ccluls collie
(morc collie commencing green ood) andcracl<
cads quitors and wounds picking up nails and
foreign agents We had several up
cd crs between 1867 and 1874 the vers these weigh
ing respectively Is lbs, SO lbs lbs, lbs and lbs
Horses will drink beer if they get We generally give
when they recovering from illness, and with beneficial
1.-THE vulgar idea which exists upon
grains incorrect.
'Drayhorscs heavy they used be; they
shorter and The animal known little big horse
smaller horse active, and gets the ground
quicker this the great demand the time for
the Cydcsdalc breed
hardy than horses o. other colors, $
'"Wc neither bearing wnkers on the brides
"In years time the brewers tvo-whcel days will be a
thing the past They great weight upon
have known instances where horses have been permanently
injured through falling down. and Cak beer generally punch
weighing over 500 weight rolling over their loins'
THE SHIRE OR ENGLISH cARr-uoRsE
The Shire horse the final result the improvements agr
cultural horses commenced early the first half of this He
found the shes where the strongest class plough horses
shire black horse which Blackwell of Ditchey the first who
clearly laid down the principles breeding live stock thought he
had brought perfection Blackwell had crossed the native Lin
conhes with Dutch stations and they held prominent place
the works every agricultural writer up 1925 AS late 1910
Mr. Burke who the editors the early the
Transactions of the Royal Agricultural Society of England wrote
cahorses A Lincolnshire black the pure breed
stands foremost in the rank OF race the kingdom But
this opinion has been maintained by the decisions of the judges
the society balance being decidedly
toward wcshapcd stations bay and brown being predominant
ing coors although blacks gays taken
Honest Tom supposed be the best stallion shown
agricultural ring Shire horse bay color In the
where the cultivation o a soil has
large farms, the Shire has several generations been the
accepted But when attempt made a stud
book OF agricultural horses being Cydedacs Sufos the
objected being and special, and the
indefinite the English Carthorse Society adopted
Nevertheless the Shire horse the only agricultural horse which has
pedigree be traced for from seventy hundred years
The following description this tribe the pen a
gentleman who has devoted many years collecting and breeding
specimens his his
In considering the important points agricultural
horse will place Unless he and we'll in
the horse pacewang his value considerably lessened
required oand trottng these fast days has for pu
poses become necessi-he should have the action of Nor
folk cob
1.-the feet should be we'll proportoned better large than
small depth and width heel being important elements
very Objectionable especially purposes
"The oreeg should be put parallel the shoulder
wide enough support weight Too great width between the
foreegs is not often but possible this Objectionable as
generally mpedes the action The pastern should long