Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1874 — Clean the Horse Stables. [ARTICLE]

Clean the Horse Stables.

An intelligent pterson would suppose that such a suggestion as the above heading conveys is entirely superfluous. Yet if one will visit the premises of farmers it will be seen that more than threefourths of those who keep horses are surprisingly slack in regard to having their stables cleaned. We have in mind several energetic and intelligent tillers of the soil who sometimes do not clean their stables once in two weeks. A short time since, having occasion to go into one of the stables of the farmers alluded to, the horses were found standing with their hind feet on the accumulations of the stable, which were more than six inches in depth, while their fore feet were on the floor. Such a filthy and unhealthy practice cannot be denounced with too great emphasis. Besides this, such a pile of manure renders the position of any aninial, whether lying or standing, exceedingly uncomfortable. To day we went into the stable of a neighbor who keeps good horses and nice harness, and in the rear of one horse one harness had been trampled down into t manure all night. To appearance ie droppings, had not been removed for a week. His large, indolent boy is accustomed to fritter away several hours every day loafing at the stores and hotel. ’ The remedy is to give peremptory orders that every stall must be cleaned neatly, twice daily, and well littered at evening. As soon as the animals are fed in the morning our stables are cleaned out. If this is not done twice every day some one’s memory gets such' a waking up that the stables will not be neglected again for a long time. Let a heedless helper be called out of bed once or twice in the evening and be directed to clean out the stables and litter them properly, and this light task will not be likely to be omitted again for a long time. When stables are kept clean, as they should be, it Will not require one minute per stall, morning and evening, to keep, all the accumulations removed, so that every ani mal -will have a comfortable place to lie down. The large box stall of our cow is scraped clean every time a person goes to milk. Before milking the floor is generously littered with’ bog grass. Every Time thmstabies are _ Cleanef the accumulations are thrown on a wheelbarrow’ and wheeled to a compost heap, a few rods distant, w’here the manure is mingled with muck. By this practice the entrance of t®B barn and stable is kept neat and free from manure. If the small item of cleaning the stable twice daily can only be made a practice not to be omitted, a helper will accomplish just as much at other employment in a day as if the stables were not cleaned oftener than once in two weeks. Try it, and see how much more satisfactory it is, in every respect, than to let the stalls be reeking with filth day after day.— N. Y. Herald.

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