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Show Work Horse Needs and Deserves Proper Care Correct fitting and proper adjustment adjust-ment of harness is a big step in the elimination of sore shoulders on horses, says the Nebraska College of Agriculture. Cleaning the horses' shoulders following the day's work and again before harnessing in the morning will help prevent sore shoulders. shoul-ders. A properly fitted collar barely allows al-lows the flat hand to pass between the collar and the windpipe and permits per-mits the finger tips to pass at the side of the neck just above the shoulder shoul-der points. The hames should fit snugly and be drawn tightly around the collar so that the point of draft will be about one-third of the distance above the shoulder points. The average farm work horse consumes con-sumes about 3,000 pounds of grain and 5,000 pounds of roughage yearly. When the horse is doing hard work, the average animal will need approximately approxi-mately 25 bushels of corn or 40 bushels bu-shels of oats and about a ton of roughage. rough-age. Hard grains such as wheat, barley, bar-ley, rye, kafir and other small grains may be improved by grinding or rolling. roll-ing. Nebraska Farmer. |