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Show I ' aaa ttHE FARM AND HOME. fe HO RT TALKS FROM LEADING AUTHORITIES. Tie Importaat Sabject r reeding Hones In ITIaWr The Prime Hitter of Ktlllor, FralarU Improra Tour real- Irj Now Iareitratnti. I Fearllng Horses la Winter. John M. Stahl in Pittsburg Nntionnl "Htockman nnd Fnrmor says: "I bo-'flovo bo-'flovo that ono-thlrd of us food too much grain to our horses at all times. .1 know of sorao mn who do notoxpect tholr horsos to oatauy roughness when at spring und summer work. In fact thoy give thorn no roughness to oat Tho mangers aro empty for weeks, while so much grnln Is put In tho boxes that frequently It Is not all witon. To mnUo" tho matter yot worso df this grain food Is exclusively of corn, or almost so. Yot these men wonder m why tholr horses grow poor nnd do not m stand up to work. Of courso nono of A 'Us aro guilty of such feeding; yot I .iSSVi bollovo that one-third of us feed horses 'HB too much grnln and ospcclally during BV tho winter. I can say honestly, and BK can bring my neighbors to witness tho J Inith of it, that no horsos on any furm ff in the county do moro hard work thun jHHL mine, nnd that they nro not so poorly K or badly worked down as at least threo- fmpB fourths of tho furm horses of tho SApBJ county. Thoy uro nbovo thoavorago SBm of Illinois horses In bIzo -big onough HBf 01' two of them to draw a fourteen 'apBB inch plow easily. Yot when at hard HBf work in spring or summer' thoy got J only soven oars of corn at a meal or n, B Jlltlo moro than a gallon of oats. Thoy f tiro glvon all tho hay thoy want, and it r Is llrst-clats hay. Thoy nro glvon ninety mlnutos for their noon moal. if thoy got through tholr meal In tin hour, us thoy gonorally do. thoy havo thirty minutes ut loast for digestion before thoy begin work. "Now, I know somo farmors who give their horses as much grain during tho winter as I give mine during tho spring and summer, although farm horses nro Idlo tho groator part of tho limo during tho wlntor. Tho horsos do not neod much grain during tho winter, and It is a more oxpouslvo Joed tbnn roughno3s. When fod so much rich food whon idle, tholr nppo-tito nppo-tito for It 1 cloyod nnd tholr dlgestlvo organs aro dobllllutod by sprlntr; honco ono froquontly hoars tholr owner com-jiluln com-jiluln that thoy do not oat well. Nolth-rdo Nolth-rdo thoy digost woll." |