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Show ..f-f-rr-r''t, iTHE HOUSE:! $ Lighter Horses fof the Farm. There Is a mot, cr less geiieial sentiment sen-timent among fa mers In ftvoi of heav) draft horses for general purpose farm animals The AmeiUan Cultivator Cultiva-tor thinks the notion whlih favors this type of horse Is a mistaken one fuch hoises. It sa)s, serve excellently well intheh.av) trucking of the clt) Here Is where dead weight or main strength and awkwardness will count v nat would a pair of those U00 to 2200-tiound horses do on a plough or harrow In the spring when theli feet sunk In the mud almoat as deep as the plow? They might not feel tho weight of the plow, bin thev enuld ffel tholr own h' before night With a pair of little Vermont Morgans, the two of them not ua heavy as one of those big fellows, e tould draw n heavier load Ihrough a mlrv place or a snowdilft than we ever saw a pair of those big ones draw lu a hid place And when on th loud they trot eight or ten miles an hour or w nk four hi Mve mllei en a din toad not for one hour only, but for five or six hours in u day for aa many dava aa thero are In the week ami that nut In a rubber-llred sulk), but a good honestl-maile fatm wagon with from two to four persons In It That la the kind of horses that used to be bred In Vermont, nnd some of them not quite as compactly built In Maine nnd some of them, a little coarser built came here from Canada with legs about as large and hair) as the Clyeles None of them ever got spavins or crooked knees or tender feet if they had deicnt usage foi tht) did not go down th street as It they hail taken a contract to pound down the pav Ing . Die breed of these horses cannot be enilrel) exh msted There must be some farmers who have good brood inures )et anil there ma) be a few rtalllons thai have the Morgan blood In them If such can be bred, we ven-tuio ven-tuio a prediction that In live )ears the) will be In demand, nnd In ten )ea s more populur on our Ntw Knglaud farms and hilly roads than the heaviest estein bred horse that may be offered at the sale stables In the clt) Do nut make the mtetake of tr)lug to breed fiom the heavy stallions, nor too long legs on them In the hope of getting a two-minute horse', but tr) to get a good, honest well-built horso of 1000 to 1100 pounds, with the disposition of a Iamb, the willingness of tho ox and the endurance of the mule. Grooming in .Spring. There Is no season of the )car when good grooming of horses does not pay large dividends In actual dollars and cents, but the returns from Intelligent care of the equine skin arc perhaps larger nt this debatable period thin ut any other In the whole twelve months, s.i)s the llreeders' Gazette. Ho the reason whut It may In each particular par-ticular cuso the fact remains that few horses receive as careful grooming In cold weathtr as they do In warm. Now-they Now-they are shedding or beginning to shed their long hair, and If they nre not granted an adequate measure of usslst-ance usslst-ance and the dirt, dandruff and dead hair lemoved the horses will not thrive ns they ought. Take a horso that is commencing to get rid of his winter coit, hook him up and drive him until ho Is Just warm enough to show a slight dampness on the outer hair. Then unhook him, shove him back In hla stall and see what he will do. He will rub and wrcstlo himself Into all sorts of shipes In the effort lo get that ion of hit stirred up and loosened, and It ho does not obtiln relief he Is llible tn rub thu entile etull to thu ground Then must likely ho will get a thrashing thrash-ing for meanness So far from meanness, mean-ness, though, this horse Is showing n vast deal more sense than his nnslci. Ilo knona that his old coat ought to come off about this time and he la merely tr)ing to do whut nature tells him he ought tn do II) all moans help tho horses to get rid of their winter i oats but do nut hurry the process too grcMtl) It Is not light to gu savugtdy nt the hair with sharp curr) c ,nb und Mink and pull and tenr tho hair out In hunches The hair which Is ready to fnll uway will come out eaall). If the stiongly-rooted hair la pulled out Hi-skin Hi-skin will be made soie similarly with Brooming hen the old hair bus been gotten rid of for the elay brush out all the dirt fiom that which Is left He-member He-member also that baldly uny two horses ought to be groomed Juat nllke. Grooming Is healthy for the home lu that, bt slilca icmoilng dirt and dead mailer. It promotes the rush of the blood to the vessels that arc closest to the outer skin, nnd In that way draws added nourishment to It and enables en-ables the skin to properly perform lis man) und complex duties In the equine economy. Hut thero nre skins und skins on horses and the grooming that will Jurt suit one will drive nnnilur crazy In a short time In either wouls, the skill of the horse must at all times be kept clean espetlall) so ul this time of )ear, but Judgment must be used In cleaning It. Market Horses. There exists among farmers generally a degree nf Ignorant e as regards th' maiket classes of horses Hi it is deplorable deplor-able Only a ver fw of tho great ainiy of men who breed tho American hois iwill) know where tho dividing Hues an between the various classes as llxi 1 by th- buyers In the gieai marts There) Is theiefore, much need for some an-thnrituilv an-thnrituilv statement In this regard, hut the Infoi million ought tu be absolute!) abso-lute!) accurate or It Is worse than iniue of all The Tnlted States Department of Agrleuituie has receptl) Issued bulletin bul-letin No, ? from the llureau of Animal Industr) which bus fui its title ".liit-ket ".liit-ket I'luwis of Horses anil this work purports to set roilli correctly a de-si de-si rlption nf the various torts uf horses which the present demand requires This it uul) does In a ineusure. the best ur ihe Information furnished being its rewinds re-winds the Inn ats about which the moat Is know ii Home of the lllustrittuna, which n a work uf this Kind nuitit tn li- all-leuehlng uin faulty In a degree-that degree-that mik.s the Intelligent reuder won. tUr where the) eoitld huvo been ob. talr.ol und In threw notable Instant, a tin I'h I'giiiphs c lumen are nut mil) not tv pic il uf the sorts which they uie claim, i tu represent, but the) aie uf HI feu mid und evidently melluni-pilt tl animals Then when It tomes lo lb depletion of carriage liortes the iriusiia Hun Is null, better than nothing it ill ror the itason that Instead or alum in long nuked horses, clean of thrntil and l ".-aslng an abundance of qui li It i-hnws a pair ot bull n, k. d duba that no one, outside of the d ,t lora ranks would think of tailing ,,. rlage hor-s The A merle mi laddie horse Is represented b) a din wing As a sample of the dtscrlptiu unit tei It Is onl) necessary to nuti Unit when that standard-bred horse Is Mill ",' , .J.'"' '!" approaching mint eluse) the greyhound In innloiinuili.u w dile h is far jrutn accurate In i, , the fastest burses aie never siilndilui In tonfeimatlun as gi shoumis ui i the droop-ruiuped, high hipped sn. . I horses arc n iw a-a big discount i,m neuily do Star lMlnlrr lm i-t, i, ,, John It Gentry oi interna or 1 1 Miuut aiixuarh th' spindling ahan. m the greyhound' Some Infurinatltin la I, tt,r ei.,... lone ut all It U Hue hut It i will "1 Hull suire that thi gov si nine in n bul leilu un the maiket r,lrHH f im. . un be pulsed In Ua Mnlem ni. tin n is sornt II f tin HI n (rll,i .11 pi in, of iithl. t, ti i, ,,, ,, . , . th I'nlted Mates but ihe truth n mlxM , th hulr .num,,. , , " ', mis eietl'im jns thot n vv II f r th n irt bo Irst wnll" ,i, e rr , tutementu, supplemented by some mi I idltig pictures, are bound to have a bil effect. It Is a pity that when the department undertook to Issue n. book f the sort, which Is so badly needed ii could not have cmp!o)od some one thoroughl) conversant with the subject to do the work Breeders' (larette. nnndling rt Balky Horse. In a downtown street, Just off Ilrond-wa) Ilrond-wa) a constantly changing bunch of onlookers had gathered on the sidewalk side-walk to wat h a balky hoisc and the doings of the horse's driver. This horso was not only balk), but a kicker, also. There was il good stout bit of rope carried over his haunches und down to the shaft on either side He was hooked to an empl) light delivery wng-on wng-on and he had Just balked because he was a balk) horse. This horse muy have been made bilky by lll-trentment and overloading, but. If this was the ease the mishandling had not been done b) his present driver, v hose treatment of him und whose per-feet per-feet control of himself nwokencd the admiration of all the b)stundets. He was a joung man, but ho wus nevertheless, never-theless, calm, level-headed and sensible sensi-ble Above all things, he was In no hurry. He neither tutted the horse nor permitted per-mitted himself to ret fretted. Ho took his time about eventhlng. Ot come, he treuted tho horso with absolute kindness, and he Hour once Inst his temper In the slightest degree. Two ur three times he tiled to lead the horse und on one nf these occasions a truckmun stopped Ida horse nnd Jump. cd off his truck and put his w tight on one of the rear wheels of the w agon He was n strong rain this truckmnn, nnd he pushed the wagon up agilnst the balk) horse goeid unci hard making it absolutely clear to the hors that there wus nothing there but what he could easily haul, but the horso wouliln t Mart The man pushing on the wheel got him forward a little bit until tho horse realised what wus going on, and then he settled back against tho wugon and there wus nothing more doing In that line Twice, when the driver tried to lead blni the horse', Instead of going abend itarted to bark And then the driver tucked Mm. He didn't )ank un the bit nor pull and haul on him at ull, hut with perfectly cool, mini, deliberate even-temperedness ho lucked him slowly slow-ly clean mound n circle When ho got the horse hncked clean nround tho driver would halt him, and then stand beside him. No burr), plenty of time. About live minutes later the driver having decided, apparently, that he had now given the horse ull the lesson thit he could glvo him to advantage on this oicislon accepted nu offer of a tuw- frum a passing truck driver. The truckman took n piece ot rope which he made fast to n dinwpln on hla truck, while the driver of the wugun niadejhe other end fast around one of tho shafts of his wugon. While this was going on tho balky horso fnlrly trembled llvilcntly ho knew perfectly well Hint the die kerlng with him, the effect to mnko 111 in go ns other horses went had leased nnd that they were going now lo move him. Ho realized thnt the solid, chunky horso ahead of tho truck could draw him und the truck and the wagon behind him right nlong with perfect ease. And Hint's Juat whnt the truck horro did. With everything mude fast ench driver got on his seat nnd the true k-man k-man started up his horse Then In Just u bout a minute th whole Incident was closed. Thus compell-tl to It the balky horse took up his lend and began to pull It himself, and Juat nround tho corner In Broadway the) cast the Inn line looe, and the people who had remained for u moment to see the outcome of It all siw- the bulky horse stepping briskly up Ilroailwny. going right uhead now under his own steam "Ho louldn't hive hnndled him with better judgment, said u iniin nu thu sidewalk who appeared to know something some-thing about hon.es and tho handling nf them "and If he keeps It up that wny he'll get the horse so thnt he won't balk any more." New York Sun. |