Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1891 — LIVESTOCK. [ARTICLE]

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Let Them Have Time. Don’t hurry your horses and cattle about drinking in the winter. Give l them plenty of time. Very cold water is not relished by live stock any more than a child not educated to that modern abomination, ice water. Often a cow’s or horse’s teeth are sensitive to the cold and so they are unwilling to drinlf all that they ought to drink when given\ the opportunity. What they want arer frequent opportunities. An old farmer' writes: “Some horses act as if they do not care for a thimbleful of water, but if you will be a little patient with them they will drink a goodly allowance, which is very essential to their well-being. Don’t give them water which has stood for several hours in a cold place as it becomes ooldft than

fresh water from the well and Is not aH healthful, rs your cattle can run to! water at will so much the better, providing they can get down easily to the water and not slip 'on Ice or slide down a steep bank, both of which are dangerous and Injurious to heavy cattle, especially breeders. My own belief is there is nothing mu'h better than a good tank if kept in good order. Those cattle which are watered from the pall should be. given time to drink and not have it snatched away from them before they have hardly time to look at' it Let them have time to put their mouths in it and sip a little and most likely the pall will become empty.”— Toledo Bee. The root of a Horse. The foot of a horse is one of the most Ingenious and unexampled pieces of mechanism in animal structure. The hoof contains a series of vertical and thin laminae Jof horn, amounting to about 500, and forming a complete lining to it In this are fitted as many laminin belonging to the coffin-bone, while both sets are elastic and adherent The edge of a quire of paper, inserted leaf by leaf into another, will convey a sufficient Idea of the arrangement Thus, the weight of the animal is supported by as many elastic springs as there are laminin in all the feet amounting to about 4,000, distributed in the most secure manner, sirlte every spring is acted on in an oblique direction.