Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1874 — Care of Team Horses. [ARTICLE]

Care of Team Horses.

The Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals presents the following concise rules , for the care of horses: Potatoes or carrots may be given once or twice a week to good advantage. See that your horse is kept clean, warm and comfortable, with plenty of bedding. — A piece of rock salt should always be left in the manger. See that the harness is kept soft and clean, particularly the inside of the collar, which ought always to be smooth, as the perspiration, when dry, causes irritation, and is liable to produce galls on the shoulder. The collar should fit closely, Witji space enough at the bottom to "admit a man’s hand. If too large it has the bad effect of drawing the shoulders together. On no consideration should a team or any wqrk horse be compelled to w’ear a martingale, as it draw’s the head down, and prevents him from getting into an easy and natural position. . The check-rein may be used, but only tight enough to keep the head in a natural position, and it should never be wound around the hames. See that the hames are buckled tight enough at the top to bring the draft-iron near the center of the cellar. If too low, it not only interferes with the action of the shoulder, but gives the collar an uneven bearing. Caution should be taken that the girt-h is hot buckled too tight, particularly on string teams, for when the traces aie I straightened it pas the tendency to draw

the girth against the belly, and distress the horse. s See that the horse is kept well shod, with a good stiff shoe, always calked at toe and heel on hind feet, as it is there where all the propelling power comes from when heavily loaded. Keep the feet good and strong by not allowing them to be cut away too much by the blacksmith. The best of judgment should be used in loading, taking into consideration the condition of the street and the distance to be traveled. - , f . • Neveroverload, for by so doing you only distress, strain and discourage your horse, and do him more injury than you can possibly gain by carrying the extra When your load is hard to pull, stop often, and give your horse a chance to breathe. No good driver will ever resort to the cruel practice of whipping or beating his horse. A light whip may be carried, but there is seldom use for it. Much more can be accomplished by kind treatment and good judgment. Remember the horse is a very intelligent, proud, sensitive, noble animal, the most useful known toman, and is deserving of the greatest kindness. —lce Cream. —A cheap ice cream is made as follows: One quart of milk, six eggs, one cup of sugar, one teaspoonful of corn starch ; beat tlid eggs, sugar and corn starch together, put it in a tin pail, set in a kettle of hot water, stir every few minutes till it boils, and while cooling stir in a teaspoonful of flavoring to every quart of milk; then freeze. A firstrate icc cream is thus made: To a gallon of cream allow two pounds of loaf sugar. The flavoring must be quite strong, as the freezing destroys it in part, if you wish to give a strawberry or raspberry flavor, add sugar to the berries, wash them and strain the juice. A quart of berries will flavor a gallon of cream. If you prefer milk to cream, to a gallon of milk allow ten eggs. Boil half the milk; beat up the eggs; turn the boiling milk into them, stirring them all the time; strain it and then add cold milk, the sugar and the flavoring, whatever it may be —peach or anything else. Black Currant Vinegar.—To four pounds of ripe fruit put three pints of vinegar; let it stand-three day3;Btir-oe-casionally; strain and squeeze the fruit. Boil ten minutes, and to every pint of juice add one pound of lump sugar. Boil twenty minutes.