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Show LIFE OF AAR HORSE. Hiw Stock is Selected and the Oare Necessary Nec-essary to Keep It in Condition! Condi-tion! THE FUN Or BEING A CAE HORSE. Ibo fork is Hard, But He Gets Exoellent Care Generally Down on a , Farm. amen pity is wasted on tne street car horse people have got into the way of imagining that he works about twelve tn out of the twenty-four, that, he I Vrshly treated and poorly fed, and Lt in foe'- his whole life, from the time be leaves the country until he is laid worn out, to the jobber, is nothing ore or les than the most disheartening Wndofa"demnitjongrind." The idea is entirely erroneous. While he does work the street car horse works hard, but be is never overtasked. He represents repre-sents so much money, and the aim of his owners is to make him last as long as nossible. With this end in view, and profiting by experience, the managers of car stables have reduced t.e worldnf. hours of the stock to a minimum, made great improvements in the system of feeding and established rules, the proper fulfillment of which insures to each animal ani-mal just as ranch care and attention as his more fortunate brethren in the upper circles of equine society are wont to receive. re-ceive. The car horse is all rlgnt. Less pity and a little more consideration would about suit his book. For instance, if some people, the majority of whom are of the gentler sex, would occasionally conde-Ecend conde-Ecend to walk half a block instead of compelling him to mako additional and unnecessary stops and starts he would be profooDQly graterui. in ms case it is the first few steps which cause him the moBt trouble, and the less of this kind of exorcise he has the better he is pleased. As a role he is well treated by the driver, for cruelty detected generally means instant in-stant dismissal A BUYER TALKS. In search of information relating to the daily life of the car horse, the writer a few days ago called upon Mr. Newberry Newber-ry S. Frost, who does all the buying of live stock for the Atlantic Avenue Bail-road Bail-road company. Mr. Frost was quite willing to let the public into his confidence, confi-dence, and this is what he said: "We have at present in our various stables somewhere in the neighborhood of 1,600 horses, all of which were raised in the west. We used to get our stock from this and neighboring states, but now it is chiefly drawn from Iowa, Missouri Mis-souri and Illinois. The horses are brought on in droves and sold in New York, What we want and try to get is a closely built animal from 15.1 to 16 hands in height and weighing from 1,050 to 1,200 ponnds. Under the former figure they would not be up to our work, and if above the latter they would be apt to wear themselves out entirely too soon. "As to price I should say that the average ave-rage would be about (150. A great somber of what we call ranch horses, that is horses raised on the plains, have been disposed of for something like $130. We do not buy any ranch horses. They are hardy enough, but have not the weight for railroad work. All our horses are raised on farms. They are carefully selected and not finally accepted until they have satisfactorily undergone a ten days' trial. There are plenty of horses which are suitable for agricultural work, tat which are of no account whatever tetween the tracks. In regard to ago, we do not take horses under 5 nor over 8. WHAT GOOD CABB HAS DONE. "An animal that is sound in wind and limb will last, with proper care, about live years. Some last a great deal longer, tut that is near the average. We have waie few now that we have had over twelve years, and they are still in good condition. It would not be out of the wy to state that the working life of a itrest car horse has, by proper attention wd careful feeding, been lengthened to foe extent of at least a year. Thus we ?et five years' work now where f ormer-7 ormer-7 we got no more than four. "I cannot tell exactly how many hours (institute a horse's working day or night, t the distance run by each is about ;lrteen miles. The speed maintained is n miles an hour, and this rate has to be jept up whether the car be empty or Jled. It is steady work and hard, but 1 M the starting which tells most heavily u the horses. Their feet generally give first, flnri wlion foaf dm no. J "I AAVU flitU itV U i UU Jiad the animal ia no longer of any use 'ins. ''Condemned horses are sold to dealers o make a specialty of buying from oad companies, and by these men re sold again to farmers and peddlers. Peat many go to the country, for the miners wonld just as soon have them as lgaer priced animals. A horse which 8 not fit to keep up a six-mile-an-hour ;a still do good tvark on a walk, 'M that is as fast as the farmers and --Holers want them to go. To each of w horses is fed fifteen pounds of a ire of ground oats and corn and as pounds of bay each (Jay. The meal ; nuxei in the proportion of two bush-s bush-s of corn to one of oats. Some horses 11 more than others, of course, and in-nal in-nal appetites must receive consid-nou, consid-nou, but the figures given are about 8 average. Stable foremen are selected J account of their practical knowledge - aorses, and over all a veterinary sur-i(B sur-i(B has supervision." Brooklyn Eagle. |