Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1904-03-09
BREEDING AND
CARE Of HORSES

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The horse, the most useful of all ami
e mails, IS the one marked for DE most
III of mems Ill treatment. For the most
i part housed in i'll lighted, i'll ventilated
- and Ill smelling quarters, worked to its
full capacity, cared for only to the de-
gree that selfish interest prompts, the
u animal is delivered over as the unpro-
tected object of the unrestrained pas
l. sions of man. The average man fails
= apparently TO understand that animals
= have nervous system, among them
j.. in marked degree the horse, and that
we're he to govern his own temper he
COULD with little patience, get con-
troll of the horses nervous system and
make out Of it servant vastly more
efficient than 1t Is under the system in
which he beats and jerks and drives
1t to distraction
short walk In any city will dis
cover any number of blind horses
Why? There are no blind cows com.
paratively. And yet the sight of the
one naturally Is as good as that of the |
other. The difference Is simply that |
the horse from the beginning has been
abused III housed, overworked and
worked under conditions that have
driven him blind. His eyes are shut
in by the binders at each side for
which there is no use but to satisfy the
caprice or fashion of man. So. his
vision interfered with and deprived of
air. the wonder Is that. with the other
treatment he gets, he is not blind often
er. Besides this, in other cases his
neck Is almost pulled out of Joint by
overhead checkrens, that raise his face
10 the air and turn his cyeballs TO
the glare of the sun unprotected or.
on the other hand, deprived of n check
rein, he is bitted with a curb that pulls
HIS jaws TO his breast and tortures
MN III this fashion. And then, accord
ing 10 the spreading fashion of the day.
he is subjected to that most cruel of all
practices, docking, which not merely
fortunes in practice, but leaves him TO
the torment of flies for the rest of his
life. 1t is the merciful man who is
merclful TO his beast, and if it is the
merclful who obtain mercy we have
as people, some way to come before
we get that blessing. - INDIANAPOLIS
News
Marketable Horses
In an address before the Minnesota
Agricultural society by the Hon. II. A.
Briggs of Wisconsin on the subject of
horse breeding he referred TO the lack
or knowledge on the part of western
farmers and the difficulty they expert s.
enced in breeding to ii particular typa
so as to produce marketable horses and
said: is
Let us look at the demands Of the W
market before we start in to breed and st
grow this farmers horse. for | take II 81
mat all farmers are breeding for the III
Droht more than any other one thing, tv
ana now is good time 10 breed IN
Horses, for there is Il shortage all over w
ne country. or, in other words the IN
supply is not equal to the demand. As en-
We learn from the government census go
II loc0. there were ut that time lib IN
81 colts between one and two years 60
ia. That looks like good many, but Pa
ot wien we realize that it takes 300 or,
90 To supply orr cities and 1.2OO. 900 be
or nil other work. which makes 300 In,
OO horses each year TO supply the gla
nlted States. 10 say nothing Of the
Drclgn demand that we can supply IL Me
70 have what they want. for Lon. tw
on requires 10000 TO keep its bust sta
cSS moving each year. For the year aS
lst closed our export trade amounted tina
} about $9,O0O.O0O for horses alone.
Good Draft Horse. oul
\ draft horse without good feet IL stu
orthlesS on any market: hence good are
ct are tie very first essential. The ed
'ofS should be large. round and wide Of ;
the heel They should have width. vita
1t not he too deep or shallow The dee
'rn should be of good quality, az in big
Gated by its density. The wall must holt
strong and not inclined to be fiat. Is c
10 legs should be well set under the The
dy and possess plenty of substance, corr
indicated by the quality and amount prot
bone and the development Of the han
lsclos on the forcarms and gaskins real
Weight Is a very essential point NJ
lft horse should weigh from 1900 brce
nds upward, the more the better utat
,vided it is combined with quality has
1 good feet and legs. The body abili
,uld be deep wide and strongly cou. her
d, as indicated by shortness of back on $
| the muscling of the loin CAod ac- man
a is essential as indicated by the pend
9Th of stride, quickness of step and Learn
lightaway movements. has
Care of Unshod Hoofs. pers'
he colt should have abundant cxcr- whet
on dry ground The hoofs WI Tn
n wear gradually, and it will only at l
necessary from time TO time TO reg wher
To- any uneven wear with the r.sp veal
TO round off the sharp edge abcu' fend'
toe in order TO prevent breaking CONN
" of the wall. son {
dts i'm the stable cannot wear down the
r hOofS. so that every four tO six diScu
ks they should be raSped down house
the lower edge of the wall well pie II
ided to prevent chipping The so,cS was
clefts of the frog should be picked speal;
every few days and the entire hooi
he'd clean. Plenty Of clean straw -
-. Wv printe
shortened in such manner as &C ',',, .
ghten the foot axis. This will III .,'..
tely produce Il good hoOf and viii .,,n..'
owe the position Of the limb n.,,
etin No. 10, Department of Agri. Ii,u..
mai He
q InlonI r,,,uo. - o,,....,,. men "
says that during the last five yeas N","