Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1882 — Watering Horses. [ARTICLE]

Watering Horses.

One thing in the treatment of working horses in hot weather we are disposed to deprecate, viz.: The custom of watering them three times a day, and no more. It is simply cruelty on the part of man toward his beast to compel the team to plow or mow from early morning until noon, or from noon until night, without allowing it the privilege of a refreshing draught. It is inconvenient, many times, to water the team during the forenoon or afternoon, and we are apt to think the time thus taken lost, but when t ie farm< rs millennium < o nes there will probably be water in every field, supplied from some elevated spring, or from a running, stream. In the meanwhile, time “ lost ” in doing good, even though it may be in behalf of the dumb animals, is well.“lost” —it may be regained. Could they speak, it might be to say that they would like to be treated in the matters of times for food and drink somewhat as we—their wise masters —are accustomed to treat ourselves. —lndiana Farmer. The most diffusive pleasure from

public speaking is that in which thO speech ceases, and the audience can turn to commenting, —Gwrge Eliot,