| Show work horse needs and deserves proper care correct fitting and proper adjustment of harness Is a big step in the elimination of sore shoulders on horses says sas the nebraska college of agriculture cleaning the horses shoulders following the days work and again before harnessing in the morning will help prevent sore shoulders A properly fitted collar barely allows the flat hand to pass between the collar and the windpipe and permits the finger tips to pass at the side of the neck just above the shoulder points the names iiames should fit hugly and be drawn tightly around the cullar collar so that the point of draft will be about one third odthe of the distance above the shoulder points the average farm work horse consumes about pounds of grain and pounds of roughage yearly when the horse Is doing hard work the average animal will need approximately wa tely 25 bushels bus liela of corn or 40 bushels of oats and about a ton of roughage hard grains such as wheat barley rye and other small grains may be improved by grinding or rolling nebraska farmer |
