Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1871 — Management of Colts. [ARTICLE]

Management of Colts.

Coi.ts are very apt to be left to shift for themselves after weaning. This is wrong. A year’s gain in the usefulness of a horse may easily be made by care and attention during the first few months of its life. The mare, while nursing its foal, should not be overworked, and good pa - ture or green feed in the stable will keep her in fair condition, and furnish sufficient nourishment for the foal. When weaned, and pasture becomes short, neglect is hurtful ; then care should be exercised to keep it growing. During the fall months some of the best early cut hay should be given it; and when the horses are stabled, let it have a loose box or stall adjoining them where it can see and become used to the discipline of the stable! Everything around it should be well secured, lest in rubbing itself it mieht get something loose. A habit of breaking things and getting loose is easily and invariably formed at this time, and should be guarded against. During winter, feed your colts as you feed your horses. Give them a share of what is served out, oats, corn or ground feed as it may be. They cannot grow or fare well otherwise. “ Stinginess” don’t p3y in rearing young animals. An addition of twenty-five or forty dollars to its value may result iu the winter’s feeding and cars of one colt. Generosity here (of course exercised with judgment) is only wise foresight, and will pay good interest on the investment. Colts are better kept up than allowed to run around. They will become more docile and tractable, and will learn fewer tricks. Take them out only for exercise, except when at pasture, and. then be sure to have a secure fence, br they will inevitably learn to rub it down or jump over it. Train your colt to walk, and keep it walking. Farmers don’t want fast trotting horses—as yet—we have need so far of fast-walking horses, great need, we may say, for they are far too scarce. Therefore, train colts to walk at the rate of four miles an hour, at least. The time will come when a horse that can walk his mile in twelve minutes will take a prize at an agricultural fair, equal in value to the best trotter. A team of such horses could plow an acre of ground, with a furrow six leches wide, in five hours, allowing time for turnings round. This is above the quantity plowed on the average now, in & dry of ten hours. Horses of such capacity

would be worth a large price, and it should be our endeavor to produce them. We have a breed that cun transmit trotting capacity to its descendants, why could we not raise tip a breed of walking horsesf Some one might make a name ana fortune ia this. —American Agrierdluritt. It is stated that there are now no less thftn 214 weeds which have been introduced into the United States from foreign countries, and principally from England. As a proafofthe rapidity with which useli SB plants are accidently brought over the setts, it is said that in 18J7 there were only 137 foreign weeds known in this country. Ajb far back as 1073 a curious little volume called Weis England parities, gave a list of twenty-two plants, which the author considered hail sprung up since the English had kept cattle in New England. j—• —a »l Man as a Barometer and Thermometer. —Science has failed to invent any apparatus as sensitive to atmospheric changes as the human frame. It is therefore of vital importance to gnard it airainst the effect of variations in the weather; and experience has demonstrated that I)r. Walker's Vineoar Bitters is the best medicine for this purpose ai present known. If taken as a protection against the disturbing influence of sudden alternations of heat and cold, it will certainly prevent the bowel complaint, fevers, bilious disorders, rheumatic affections, and throat diseases, arising from these causes, Prcssinq’s Celbiirated White Wijie Vinegar will keep Pickles. Ask for it. For loss of cud, horn ail, red water in cows, loss of appetitite, rot, or murrain in sheep, thick wind, broken wind, and roaring, £nd for all obstructions of the kidneys in horses, use Sheridan'* Cavalry Condition Powder*.

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