| Show I 1 care of work ing team do not work the horses or oxen too toll hird hard at first if they havo have not been steadily at work through the winter A hard days work counts with them its as it i aloes with the man iian who pitches the manure or holds the plow and if they iro are overworked they feel it the next nest day and if they are getting old or are very young they feel it moro more than those in their prime it is very easy for the farmer to so be plan his work that neither man nor least beast need to continue for more than six eis hours at one kind of labor at this season of the year put it up the team and let them mv have e a rest while the men rest by exercising a different set of muscles increase the feed of the team a little but not too much at once it is better that they should have a little less im than the appetite demands than to have wore more than the stomach will digest and tile the men ought to know this and bo be careful to cat no more than is ia needed to supply the wanta of tile tho system some of them do not but they usually know liow how to make the next nest days work easier if they ha 0 had a bud bad night the team would probably do the same tiling thing if they could stop when they would do nut bo afraid to give them careful grooming rub out the perspiration and wash off in cold water the places where the harness or yoke bore the heaviest do not rub on greaso grease unless the skin is bru broken lien nor use any decock eions of oak bark or other tanning material tanned hide bide may wear longer loii cr than the natural abkin but it loses the power 0 A reri renewing ewing itself which the B elan lias has it if t the tie elin is is very pore eore wash in warm warin water then in cool and afterward in cold water and rub dry after the list last application when working the team in cart or plow wo that the they are so attached to the load as to bo be able to do the lie largest po possible amount of work with tho least cast knowledge of the laws of mechanics chanice cs but the driver of the team ought to bo be able to notice when they are working too bar hard for the labor they are arc uc tie comp lishing and if he cannot see tile remedy at once lie should experiment upon it until ho be find i the hie best way or it a better way thaia ho he had bad befi rc american cultivator |
