Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1894 — Water Your Horses Often. [ARTICLE]

Water Your Horses Often.

Feeding a horse principally on grain and driving it five hours without water is like giving a man salt mackerel for dinner and notallowing him to drink before supper time—very unsatisfactory for the man. If you know anything about the care of horses and have any sympathy for them, water them as often as they want to drink—once an hour if possible. By doing this you will not only be merciful to your animals, but you will be a benefactor to yourself, as they will do more work, look better, and live longer. If you are a skeptic aud know more about horses than anyone else, you are positive that the foregoing is wrong, because you have had horses die with watering them too much, and boldly say that the agitators of frequent watering are fools in,your estimation, and you would not do such a thing. Just reason for a moment and figure out whether the animal would have overdrunk and overchilled, his stomach if it had not been allowed to become overthlrsty. A driver who sits in his wagon and lashes his worn-uut, half-curried, half-fed, and half-watered team deserves to be punished as a criminal. '-Our Dumb Animals.