Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1869 — Agricultural and Domestic. [ARTICLE]

Agricultural and Domestic.

Worses. Horses should never U' k<*|»t eo-lghg without water that they diink largely when they get itl Give it to them often, wild they will never injure themselves with it. Nothing is more common tlmn to hitcli n team to a plow, ami work them half a day without a drop of water. What man won h i nuhinit to such treatment? If the plow i» started by seven in the morning, water should be given before ten, and again j in the afternoon about four j o'clock. Keen if half an hour is thus consumed more work, will be done in a day. 1 lie objection that horses on the road should hot lx loaded w ith water is not valid. A horse j weighing 1,2ti0 will hot be I mucli eacnmbt-red by twenty; pounds of water, while the distension will give him additional streugth. Every fanner knows that when he himself nudertakes to lift a large log. ot* a ; heavy stone, he can du more, by first inflating himself with air, , and uot unfirquently be looses , a button or two from his pant a- J lo *U3 in the operation. Some ; degree of inflation by water will add to a horse's strength in the same manuer. In driving a horse on the road a nutural gait, of nine or ti n iniloati hour,Thave frequently had occasion to observe that Jit* was laboring with pm>piraii'>ii until I let him drink lively, when lie ceased to sweat ami evidently traveled more tasiiy. Don tbe afraid to give \ our horse water: the danger is in making him abstain too long, ia which case, care is needed.