Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1871 — Horses In Sommer. [ARTICLE]

Horses In Sommer.

Farm work, during the hot summer months, requires only the lightest harness. Wooden collars are now used with great .comfort to the horse. In the city of New York the harness worn by the street railroad horses is as scant as is consistent with the work they have to pCTform. No breeching is used, and hip-straps are dispensed with. Teams may often be seen plowing in the hot days of July and August 1 in the same harness they jwore during tthe winter. This is unnecessary, nay sometimes it amounts to positive cruelty. Remove every superfluous stop, take away the back strap and crupper* band and let the air circulate freely around the body. # At night when work is over, wash the sweat and dust from the legs and thighs of the horse; a dash of water on his flanks would be grateful to him. Let his stable be aiiy and clean, with a bed of clean straw. Slimness to these serviceable animals is the truest economy. Besides, we feel butler jy£en our horses are made comfortable; the Sensation is akin to that derived from doing of a benevolent

• action. A sensitive man cannot see a horse sweating under and galled by a fi avy harness during the intense heat of it summer’s day, without sympathy and pity, nor can be retire to test with an easy conscience, knowing that his faithful servants in the stable are improperly cared for and suffering. “ The righteous man regarded) the life ol his beast."- 3<-Anun-oin Agricutlurut A BURGLAR, who attempted to enter a house in Germantown, Pa., through u win dow, a few nights ago, startleff a little gut who was sleeping in the room. Half awake, she exclaimed, “ Don’t touch that candy," and the burglar lied. -t-Thcre are In Illinois *5,145 Sunday schools, containing 51,346 officers and teachers, and 303,085 pupils. The libraries of these schools contain 230,464 volumes.