| Show WHAT KILLS OUR HORSES iwho who kho would have hare thought when first thy relm rein rin I 1 slacked upon the b banks of stine stint that highland eagle eer oer should teed on thy fleet limbs lamba my matchless match leBB woe woo worth the chasel woe worth the ifie day dayl that cost my ilfe life my gallant gravitt gra era 1 SCOTT horses horbes were made forthe for fon the service of man and it they were treated as they should be never abused by bard hard driving and improper exposure to the chilling influences of the cold they would attain tte the tt tie e age of thirty years jears 3 ears and upwards and still be hervi bervi serviceable ceable ceabie it is not hard labor that kills kilk our horses borses very far from froin it horses were made expressly to endure hard bard labor but it is hard driving overdriving and then exposure to cold in connection with water that tuat causes almost all the ills 1113 that horse flesh is heir beir to could the ghosts of valuable horses that b have rone to the shades of oblivion be permitted to revisit our abodes and tells the why and wherefores of their ills and untimely death they would shake their dry bodes bones at us and tell teil of co thing but hard bard driving and improper exposure to cold tatu olleen they were et avar warin anc ant and ana could we trace the true cause of broken wind heaves founder and a host of other complaints which shorten the days of thousands of horses borses every year we should be astonished beyond conception to learn that hard driving and exposure to cold wind afterwards were the first and the last cause of their suffering and death the truth on this thin subject is that not oaie one halt half of mankind who drive horses appear to realize that there is any difference between a horse and a steam engine we often meet with borse horse horsen horses and we have sen sen een several of them the past season that are over thirty years old and to appearance are quite sound and healthy and able to perform a great amount of labor AW ai d we bave lave always found that the owners of such horses wore were men who would always protect their horses after a hard drive so that they should not oot contra contract cc cold A neighbor of ours let one of his best horses to his hired man he fell in company with associates who would drink when they could not get abow to ea and the speed of their horbes horses must be tried this mand horse was tied in a cold stable and in a few daya be died with inflammation of the lungs another neighbor when hauling grain graen 0 o market in november left his horses standing in the cold wind for an hour or more after he had driven them rapidly for a few miles and in a few days hs h 3 best horse wab was unable to stand on his feet and had baffled all the skill of the wisest veterinarians and in a few weeks the crows crow feed upon his bis flesh no one ever doubted his death was caused by hard driving and such instances Instance sare are without number I 1 well remember when I 1 was about sixteen years of age aget that my father owned a noble young horse thit to it I 1 was wass permitted to say was mine he rode him a tew lew miles at svening evening on an october day and as le was det detained aind longer than be he anticipated be he did hot not return until in the night and the horse was turned into the field with the other borses horses horbes the next morning the horse coughed a little and hair showed that be he had bad perspired a little the evening previous the tie best of an edical medical aid was secured but all to no purpose the horse was turned out cut to live or dr die he was furnished with a comfortable stab e where he be could go to water when he wanted it and had bad good lay to eat his liis breath was so 0 o fetid that the whole of his hig table stable was filed n led with disease ile he barely lived till spring when he commenced improving and in one year afterward appeared quite welland weiland well weil and sound bound but he was waa very abort wind od d acor cor am stock journal |
