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Show CLEAHI-UP CIRCULAR ; 111 I OF IKS I 1 Do not fail to provide clean, warm quarters in which your cows, ewes aud mares can bring torth their young. Navel ill comes trom dirt. 2 It is dangerous to expose young stork, especially foals and colts, to sprlnc rain-storms. A day's exposure, if not latal. may stop a month's growth. 8. It is bad policy to turn the stork to pasture before the grass has well started. bad for the pasture and bad for the stock. 4. When the pasture begins, turn the sinrk out al night, instead of in the morning. Then they will feed through the night, and not lie down until the sun has warmed the air and the ground. 5. Get your horses into condition for spring work, the young horses especially. es-pecially. Many a colt has been ruined I by being put to hard work without! preparation It is the same with t;reen horses. t 6. In warm weather, thorough grooming is almost as important as fneding. Without it. dried sweat, dead skin and dirt clogs the pores, make; the h.orse uncomfortable and affect his health. 7. Look out for sore shoulders and backs, especially in plowing. Ee sure that your collars fit A collar too big j is as bad as one too small. If the collar rides up, use a martingale, or a girth, running from trace to trace, back of the forelegs. 8. When the horses are at work on a warm day, lift up the collars now) and then to cool their shoulders, nnd Wipe off the sweat and dirt with a bunch of grass 9. Wipe off the harness on your j horses when you stop work at noon and at night, and clean inside of ihe harne-.s, ihe collars especially. The salt sweat, drving on the skin and on the harness, ia what makes the trouble. trou-ble. 10. If the skin i-- wrinkled upder the collar or saddle, bathe it with diluted inegar or wltchhazel. If the skm I broken, bathe it w ith clean warm I water containing a little salt. Fix the collar, with padding or otherwise, so that it will not touch the sore spot the next daj little carelessness at the beginning may cause a lot of trouble to you and suffering to the horse. 11 ( lean your horses at night, water them, give them a good bed, and water them again after they have eaten their hay so that they will not be thirsty all night. Let them rest in hour or more before they aro grained, grain-ed, The observance of these simple rules will not cost ou a cent, and will make a big difference In their e0nii-tiom |