Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 2, 1888, Page 14

UNION SEWIN 1888.~-TWENTY-FOUR PAGE 92 - CMBER G MAGHINE 1607 and 1609 Howard, Street, Omaha, Neb. MAN'S NOBLEST DUMB FRIEND Hints on the Breeding and Care of Horses. 1 HOW TO JUDGE A DRAFT HORSE. Heavy Horses are Demanded—Improv- ing Stock by Combination-—- The Horses of New York—The Mouth of the Horse. Begin on the Colt. American Agricuiturist: There is no danger of handling and feeding the colt too early. The handling properly should begin as soon as the colt is aropped. When two months old, halter it and teach it to lead. The earlier this work is begun after the colt is made docile by handling, the easier itis. Assoon as the colt has become acquainted with the halter, tie it up and ruband brush it. This must be done gently until the colt is accustomed to it, and will submit quietly to a more vigorous use of the cloth and brush. The tovift of the colt is wonderfully incrensed by a daily grooming. This extra theift brings such a good return that the grooming is well paid for. It pays to give the colt wheat bran and oats as soon as it will e them: and if it can get at them it will Jearn to eat very soon. A gool plan is to put up a box behind or at the side of the dam’s stall, low enough for the colt to reach into it easily. In this put a little bran and meal each time the dam is fed, The colt will soon learn to eat this, when oats may be added. You cannot begin to feed and train the colt 100 early. Heavy Horses Are Demanded. St. Paul Farmer: It would be very gratifying to the producer if, in add tion to receiving the highest market price for the things he raises to sell, he could at the same time say what the kind and quality of that product should be. But fortunately the consumer dic- tates to the producer what he wants paying the highest price for that parti- cular product which he considers as best for his purposes, quite independently of the opinion which the producer may hold as to what is best for the consum- er’s needs, We have a good illustration of this in the horse busin horse breeders, because a 1i 1,200 pound horse is found to be well adapted to wading through the soft Elowed ground on the farm, and for acking around to the ilway station and general uses on the m, condemn the slower going “*mountains of flesh,” as they call them, of the exclusive draft breeds, as cumbersome and useless, and therefore not worthy of propagation on the Thoy forget that a very ent set of conditions exists in our large cities as contrasted with the country. In the crowded streets space has a money value. One- half of the stall room saved in the livery stable is 50 much more every month; the streets are densely crowded, and it is imflortnnt to haul a very large load, which ouly the *‘mountains of flesh’ can do on the nlippcr{, hard pavements, where “heft” will tell. All this yearsof experience have told the merchant, and he willingly pays 3500 to $750 a span for the full bred ‘or grade heavy draft horse when he would not have tho fiery, light common bred horse at any rice. And it is surprising how many orses are used up every year in the cities. Chicago alone uses 80,000 per year, and so heavy are the demands made on a horse’s endurance that it is said that the average length of useful- ness for a horse there is only thr years. The market decides what wants by the price it is willing to pa; © it That decision is in favor of the heavy draft horse—the heavier the better. It is the business of the farw not to at- tempt to dictate to city men what kind of a horse they want, but to raise the uality they ask for and then chargo them roundly for the wvrivilege of being choosers. The Mouth of the Horse. ‘Western Rural: Be careful of the horse’s mouth. Men who jerk the rei because they are too mad to be sen and homane, should have a bit placed in their own mouths gnd have it jerked by some brutal fellow who would enjoy giving pain, In breaking colts bo very caroful about the mouth, and never bit An animal that has a sore mouth while it continues sore. The mouth of the horge should be more frequently exam- dned than it usually is. Sometimes there is inflammation that needs atten- tion. Sometimes the tecth need atten- tion and occasionally it way even bo necessary to draw a tooth. It is by no means uncommon that the poor condi- tion of a horse can be traced tosome ail- ment of the mouth which prevents the proper mastication of the food. It is not much trouble to open the mouth and look into it, and it will often pre- went trouble. Give Oue to the Boy. Kan sas Farmer: Let colt. Let it be a blooded one if you can afford it—at least let it have a good #ire. Encournge the boy to keepitin good condition and handsome in ap- nce, thus getting him accustomed :blb'll of care which will stand him in good stend when he comes to handle other kinds of stock. Encourage him t0 develop his steed in every way but e---and that is in speed competitions. h:'.varlou do, keep him out of the fuir-ground trot or pace, and teach him that he is not to learn how much value ® good horse can be to a jockey, but of how much use it can be to a mad. Nine out of ten farmers’ boys who get into the speed ring are worsted by its asso- ations and tendencies, and we cannot close this paragraph hetter than by urg- iug every father to keep his doys out of it. The Horses of New York. Western Agriculturist: We much interested in the horses of York; the marked incrense of the num- ber of those grand teams of the grade draft horses from the west, and could our readers see the high app tion of these horses and the necessity and requirements of them in the city, there would be a greater effort to raise more of the best class. a general active demand for avy horses at good prices in all the cities, but the largest and finest hors bring fancy prices. They are the “ari tocral and the merchant or manu facturer uses them as an advertisement for his business. As to the breeds. most of the drivers call them Normans from the west, | though we see Clyde and Shire grades. They have c¢ 5. If the hair is were s long they cut it off, which is an easy so- lution of the objectionable hairy legs. The most important feature good feet. Many grand horses we see with split and broken hoofs.bound with great heavy shoes; but with all the protection that can be given to the hoof the horse soon becomes useless on these cobble stone pavements, where tugging along with immense londs they slip and fall and bang their feet to picces. The foot of the heavy draft horse must from ne- cessity be bottor than the light horse. The high headed, ish, big draft horvses attract great admiration.proudly drawing the great loads in their hand- somey wagons., They are indispensable to the march of progress. We could not getv little horses enough into the crowded streets to do the business. The abseunce of check reins attracted our attention, and we involuntarily think of Bergh, who has done for the horses of New Yor Almost all of the heavy hol have no check reins, or if any, very loose, and they bend to their work with a will. Ask the drivers how they do without check reins. *‘Oh, sir, they pull a deal better without it, and it is so much easier on them with the loads we take.” > much raft Horse, How to Judge a D Western Agricultur Mons. J. Minot, Freuch veterinarian, in his book, *““Appreciation of the Horse,” gives the following directions for the choice of heavy draft horses: “The choice of o heavy draft horse is a great deal casier than'of a_race hovse, yet it is important to know how to distinguish the best, ongest, most enduring, those that will feed well, those that are fiery, and those t are slow. The draft horse derives his power from sev- 1 causes---the development of those which constitute bulk, the energy s museular action, and the firmness and hardness of its ovgans. The ex- terior characteristics of a good, heavy draft horse are a large, deep chest, straight shoulders, a little inclined, fleshy, a thick body, yet not too much’ belly, ¢ straight ~ loiu, © tho hindquarters’ a little depressed, thick through the thighs, and u long perineum. The horse that has a long perineum, prolonged down from the anus, and thick and short museles of the s, is a very strong and_good draft animal, The ‘walk of a heavy draft horse is immaterial; theve are draft horses “that are quick, and therve are those that are slow. The. light, quick hovses are good for tarm work wheve the ground is lightand even; the heay slow horses, with firm tread, are excel- lent for new, sticky ground andon bad ven roads. A horse for drawing to be well formed, ought to be high in front, having high and paoject- ing withe large chest, tront legs strong and well spread apart, hack and loins straight, hindquarters a little de- ressed, muscular, short in the flank, pur boy own a arge sinews. With such a shape a draft horse is solid and able to resist all the knocks from uneven roads, and weight which presses azainst it when going down a hill, To be too fiery is o drawing heavy londs on is case” & strong it will v t and do more service.” nproving Stock by Combination. Every intelligent farmer knows that in many localities stock of all kinds is being steadily improved by the use of ires that ent the best blood in the world, placing 1t within the reach of the most humble breeder. Hence my plea to the people to organize com- panies for the introduction of such sires nto the neighborhood; that they get together, put the shoulder to the wheel, and resolve not to get discouraged. Sires of the very hest kind can be pro- duced on yo vms; the only thing that prevents it 1s lack of courage and combination. When you have. taken the fivst steps others will easily follow. You should at once take steps to bet- ter the grade of vour stock. Different animals are only different grades of machines for converting the feed pro- duced on the farm into money, and the better the machine the more satisfac- tory the result. It 5 produce u good animal than a poor one, and I think it safe to th yoar-old steer that pounds, costs no more than one that will weigh 1,200 pounds, and will inany market bring a better price per pound. It costs more to raise & four-year-old colt that will weigh from twelve to six- teen hundred pounds und bring from 8150 to 250, than it does to raise oue that will weigh from eight to twelve fatigue more hundred, and bring from $75 to $150, and you can sell ten good ones where you ¢an one poor one. I base my cal- Cculations and my figures on stecrs and ind on actual tests and sale Ten years ago L and a few neighbors bought an imported Percheron stallion. I started by first breeding from ordin- s, and bred from five to twent » mares each season with good suc- ng from five to twenty colts per year, and always found a ready mar- ket for grade mares and stallions at from $150 to $500 a head, and my suc- cess is no better than hundreds of oth- ers around me. This in a country where twelve years ago the first imported stal- lion was landed, but where now are forty registered and standard bred stal- lions, and all full of business. el A FLORIDA CRACKER DANCER. 0dd Characters Keep Time to Queer usic—Scaring a Locomotive. T had not been in tral Florida a week when [ was invited to a dance, 8 n the Detroit Free Pr y first opportunicy to mak acquaintance of the ive Floridian, and of course I went. The dance was held in a school house in Polk county, and two kerosene lamps illuminating roou, produced a decidedly Rembrant- ish scene. The benches were removed from the center of the room, leaving a t all around the sides. The place dy filled when I arrived, the being oceupied by two s The neighborhood for miles around was well represented, entire [amilies from the youngest to the oldest turning out, babies and all. I too, had brought by with me, only said baby was teens and already beginning to flirt with the young S The older men were most of them 1n their shirt sleeves, their wives in calico. The young people put on more style, some of the young girls being in white. ‘What did I wear? Let me see, I think it was my blue and gold calico, and I felt myself the best dressed woman in the room. The mothers didn’t sit and hold their babies—oh,no. The latter were laid on the floor in a corner of the room where they rolled and tumbled and waked and slept and kicked their little foet; one never once cried. Among the infants there were a pair of twins who had come to the festive scene with father, mother and five brothers and siste The next in age to the twins was a com- ical little fellow 5 years old who re- garded it as a great pr ge to be per- mitted to attend the dance. He slept the evening through, sitting do upright on the hard bench and mani- fosting deep but silent indignation if anyone insinuated that he was sleepy or sought to put himin a more comfortable position. The belle of the gum as she danced. The musicians consisted of a fiddl er who, as well as I could make out, not attempt to play a tune, but cont in- ually repeated a single strain and a second performer, who; with a couple of sticks beat a loud tattoo on the violin, almost drowing its sound. Each set on the floor had its own caller, so that each danced independent figures, ac- cording to the fancy of the caller, and euch cotillion was J)mlnngofl until the dancers were tived out. The duncers varied in age from 9 years old to seven times that number. Certain whisky bottles had been cir- culated privately outside the door, and presently their effect began to be mani- fest, Some of the young men grew noisy and then quarrelsome. It was notlong before there was a dispute about o place on the floor, and the two young men went out in the pine woods to settie matters, a number of their friends accompanying them---some pro- bably for the purpose of helping on the fight and others perhaps to try to pre- vent it. When they had retreated a sufficient distance the combatants stood und sassed one another. ~] want you to know I'm the king of Pike county, ) am,” says one. “I's a whale, I ball room chewed is; I wallers over seventeen acres and a half” retorts the other. “Come on, if you dare, and T'll shoot you plumb through the blubber, and then I reckon you'll wailer some more.” “You're a king, be ye? Well, you can't king it over me. I'm no bug- eater if T do scratch bar I's a whale, Iis, and bigger'n any king that ever swuny a pine knot,” Thus the wordy battle raged, but memory fails me oun the remainder of their taunts, boasts and threats. They came to no blows, and after having made sufficient display of courage both the king and the whale were content to ve- lapso inte normal Florida crackers. The revelry was kept up to a late or rather an early hour, One by one, and family by family the dancers dropped off, and in the early morning noisy shouts dying away in the distance pro- claimed that the last of the revelers were on their homeward way. Before I close I must tell a little story the truth of which is vouched for by an acquaintance, It isn’t so many years since the railroad was extended to Polk county, and the day on which the cars veached the jubilantlittle city in which 1 am tarrying was observed asa holiday. A barbecue was held, and I don’t know how many oxen roasted. The country people came from far and near to see the cars. My acquaintance stood on the platform of the station just as the train was coming in. Beside him stood a raw countryman who had never seen a train of cars before, and who was watching the upproaching locomotive with open- mouthed wnd wide-eyed awe and won- der. At this wmoment it begun to rain, edly | did | and the countryman naturally raised | his umbrella. “Put th DIFFICULT TO BE HONEST. and three silver dollars into the con- duetors hand and made tor the door. “lt's too gasted much trouble to be scidedly uncomfortable for the fume But the hardy body-snatcher would have first to penctrate through T t down!” e Failure of a 'Fris claimed my ac- » Man Who At- quaintance with a cautionary gesture. tempted to Return Stolen Money. honest,” he shouted. muny obstacles and difficultios before he “You will frighten the locomotive. an [eancisco BExaminer: “Change, | was broke and took a job ‘hed the place whore he could sita The umbrella came down sir, said the conductor of ° MeAllister [ on this voad. I had ‘u be torily blow himself into smitne - stroet cavs as he held out nineteen nick- | vestand sounded it when I e ercens. b HER BUSTLE. els to a tall man who wasnodding in the | fares instead of the bell punch. In four Theve is room inside this well-pro= A Thousand Dollars Sewed Up In 1t. | corner. R AL LA L e A [1ioHR ve e RN D b ki P N DB vt shange. You just | went south, got in on the boom and 3 onaire and his wife, and tho i e el gL | made & fortung ont of thit 825, Now I cofing are also hemg manufactived by'a farmer of Bronaugh, ysmall station near | replied the sieepy man. come back and want to return the com- | Boston firm, and will cost in the neigh- Nevada, Mo., and his “wifo have been | “Ican’t collect more than one fare for | PANY'S money, and ‘a lot of blooming | borhood of 45,000 ap TR stopping at the New Albany Hotel for | asingle passenger.” ] ) G s R Bl G, Bt LT A sevoral” duys. They left yosterduy [ “Punch thom all, T say,” growled the | ffym qre car when [ mado the t\”fi\; THTE moos Bl oty morning for home. Yesterday after- | other. o Ll AR ity 1 gy . emblomitic. off ¢ noon Chief Speors and also the proprie- | The conductor got mad, and his bell | time I hand you ono. - ML e (1 L fora'of tho hotol raceived telogtaing | Dunch rang ot nikotoen tims, ey Bt Eiihu Veddor, whose blora, hoavily stating that Ballingsley had lost $1,000 I man went to sleep again. e AP LUABRAL oIEthS Drink in the hotel. The clerk made a careful v reached the parkand stated on A Burglar-Proof Tomb, REERT LV tuar Noreshins Ty search of No. 45, the room they had oc- | its return journey There is a certain_rich man in New | W8 xhivited here lust i cupied, but could find no monéy. Sergt, i The tall man woke up. “Conductor, | York, currcntly veported to be out of | [IEPIIIONS Bt afiug & deep ime Bouleware was assigned 1o the case, and | you w't collected my fare,” he | health, who is " spending his summer TETk thariidey satende s Othar £ after a careful examination of the em- | shouted. cheerful mortuary pursuits. On this | g 8 FE ey FECHADE T Lae Job o ployes of the house decided that none | *Got nineteen rides comin’ to you, | subject a writer in the Brooklyn T T R of them had found the money and | sir.” has picked up the following points: itely etohod with the names. and. dates another search of the room was com- [ “Nomatter, here’s my fare, and he [ The architeets who design his houses | of the hirths of the tao o iciod omees menced. The money finally found | presented another doll . and yachts for him are just now hard at | Pants, oceupies a place on -the. Hd. dis between the slats of the bed and the | The conductor fished 95 conts ehange | work on the drawings for a tomb that is | Foctly over the fave of one who should mattress. It was done up in a most | again. to be at once the bigge most orny N ; be within. strange fashion. Around g lopg leathe *Punch 'em all out,” said the man. and most thoroughly burglar-proof last ory le inch of the intervior ig purse that contained the mofey a piec STt don't go,” cried the conductor. | resting place in this country. 1t will | hegutifie ARG Tobia of a coffee sack bad been wed as | “I'm willing to work for_the company, | reach some hundred or more feet1n the | bgmiiicd with the cutting: tools, and tight as twine could séw #tt Around | but I won't rob any man.” . cover nearly half an acre of ground, | made of heavy twisted black silk. and this was wrapped a towel:which was [ **Punch out those fares, T tell you.” [ require something like thre ars: 01| with thick silver fringes depending also tightly sewed, and the whole bound | Again the punch rang like @ tele- | complete the rich and beautifil seulp- | from the sides, o the interior of tie up in another towel, loosely stitched to- | phone bell. tures with which it will be adorned, and | 1i is fastened an ivory crucifix. copied gether. Mr. Ballingsley arrived th The fervies were reached in due time, | the vault to contain the ashes of the 3 H i \ from one in the museum in Venico, sup= posed to have been earved in the fours teenth century. The tele hde ish post oftice is cos morning and _gog, his money. He o ained that his wife had done it up in that munoer so thi she could, wear it as a bustle, In her hurry to cateh the train yesterday morning she forgot to put her and still the tali man heid his When the ¢ started duced another dollar. “*What kind of a me at. dead plutoerat isamarvel of mechanical back he pro- | i snuity. In the first place the pon- derous slabs of granite forming the four sides of the receptacie for the coftin are near three feet in thickness, e are you giving ductor, helplyssly. artment of the Brite ng th overnment bustle on and_did not discover it till [ *Sir! upper one moves on springs as smooth mueh move than it brings in. Tk they veached Nevada. You'r ving me I | asadoor, but only when certain intri- | loss reached about 0000 in 1881-2, “My wife was almost crazy nid Mr. | won't ur dollar.” cate combinations have been carrvied | In the year 1856-7, howe it was more Ballingsley. *‘Just as we stepped off d er d and insisted, but | out upon the lock,and any fumbling n_four times as great, or about the train at Nevada. she slapped me in onductor was firm, with the fastenings by a hanl that does 5,00 The: facts the face, ‘Great heavens, what did you hit me for? 1 exclaimed. *T didn’t hit you,’ she said, ‘but I forgot the money.’ not know the proper springs to be pressed and pulled awakens ecrtain en- gines of destruction which will make it m the London Economist. tions are much more favc i Britain than in the ST won't The tall man crowded two $10 picceg | OMXIXX [EDICAL AND SURGICAL INSTITUTE Sk . N. W. 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