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About The gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 8, 1914)
nOME AND FARM MAGAZINE SECTION Caring For Your Horse IN THIS DAT and age of a large per centage of the galea of pure-bred animals are consummated by mail. Founded as the breeding business is, port honor, it is as safe to do business trith the reliable breeder by mail as it ts through personal Interview. In handling business by mail, not tnough importance is attached to the printed matter used by many breeders. In the first place when an inquiry leaches the breeder he replies by lot tar. If the inquiry comes from 'a Stranger the nature of the breeder's reply goes far to establish a first im pression, and with most people first im.; preseions are hard to efface. The paper upon which a letter is written goes far to fix an idea of the personality of the writer in the mind of the reader, and a neatly printed letter-head upon a good quality of paper is the first Bsential of good salesmanship by mail. The writer has frequently bad the subject of good letterheads mentioned by people who have written to breeders, and one particularly striking instance will serve to illustrate my point A man who was improving and stocking a high-class stock farm once asked the writeT what kind of stock Mr. had in his herd. I replied that his herd aires were among the best of the breed, and that the females in the herd had won frequently at our fairs. lie said that he had intended to purchase his foundation stock from this man, and had written him for prices and pedi grees, but that the reply was written very badly on a Bhect of common rough newspaper tablet paper, and he had de cided that a man who did not display more judgment in his correspondence was not likely to display any great amtfunt of judgment in breeding. As a result the breeder lost a good sale, a sale which had been developed by him through his advertising, and a sale to which he was entitled on tho merits of his stock, for he really had an ex cellent herd. FEEDING INTELLIGENTLY. THE AVEEAGE farmer can learn a valuable lesson in horse feeding from the race horse man, believes C W. HcCampbell, assistant professor of animal husbandry at the Kansas State Agricultural College. The success ful trainer knows that too much rough age is extremely hard on the wind and endurance of a horse. If it pays the owner of a race horse to feed for the greatest possible wind and endurance, It will also bo worth the while of the fanner to use earo in feeding his work horses. "The farmer who knows how to get the most efficient service from his horses," explained Doctor McCamp bell, "will increase the amount of grain used in the ration, as the work is Increased; but he will not increase tho hay part of the feed, because he knows that a horse cannot do its best work when overloaded with rough feed. An overloaded digestive apparatus inter feres materially with respiration. Horses doing very hard work should not have more than ten or twelve pounds of hay for each thousand pounds of live weight. About one-third of the hay should be fed in the morning, only a little should be given at noon, and the rest should be fed at night." It pays to know the comparative feeding value of different feeds, so that one can choose a ration that is eco nomical and at the same time meets HOTEL ACKLY Cm. 12th and BUrk St, Portland, Oregon. RATES : $2.50 per week np. With private bath, $4.rj0 up. CLEAN ODTSIPK ROOMS. MODERN BRICK BUILDING. 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(Plnvn SMetioa this paper.) Cash Register Bargains Dor prices about half other dealers. W pay highest price for second-hand regis ters. We do expert repairing and guar antee our work. Will exchange to suit your requirements. SUNDW ALL CO., 805 Bud avenue, Seattle. Phone Main 1180. the needs of the horse. Prairie, timothy, cane, kafir, corn and small grain hays have approximately tho same feeding value, according to Doctor McCampbell. Alfalfa, clover, sweet clover and cow pea hays have similar feeding values, al though alfalfa is slightly tho richest of the group. This second gToup should be considered moro as concentrates than as roughago, he believes, because of high protein content and the ease with which they are digested. Dr. McCamphell appreciates oats as a much more satisfactory feed than corn or barley. He recommends that only about five pounds of alfalfa hay be fed daily for every thousand pounds of live weight. "In feeding alfalfa remember that it is more of a concentrate than a rough age, one pound containing 35 per cent more digestible protein than does one pound of shelled corn; and that the feeding of excessive amounts of pro tein is one of the principal causes of all kinds of digestive and urinary troubles. For the best results, alfalfa hay that is to be fed to horses should be pretty mature when eut. This hay should never be fed without some other roughage, such as cane, or straw, or prairie hay." TREATING THE FEET. GOOD and bad feet are largely in herited in horses, yet very often good feet are ruined by bad treat ment, writes J. L. Buchanan in the National Stockman, If colts are foaled with crooked feet and especially if the hind feet turn over sideways you can soon remedy this trouble by keeping inside of bottom of foot rasped down and toe cut back a little, leaving the outside alone. A fow trimmings will make tho foot straight Thus every pro ducer of horses should be tho owner of a good horseshoer's rasp and use it when needed. While horses are going without shoes a good rasp should be kept close at hand so all irregularities of feet may be kept rasped off. The feet of horses allowed to stand too long on a dry, hard floor or on a pile of heated ma nure are apt to get too dry and hard, in which case I should recommend a little fish oil rubbed on tho upper edge of the hoof just at the edge of the hair, not over the shell of tho hoof, bocauso it would shut the air and moisture out. If put on at junction of boof and hair the hoof will take up the oil, and it will help to grow and toughen the hoof. I have known horses to stand on hot manure until it burnt all of the lower part of the hoof out. It is a splendid idea to keep horses on the ground all yon can. Continuous shoeing is ruinous to any horse's feet unless frequently changed. I know of horses allowed to carry their Bhoes for three months, and somo until they are worn off. No wonder so many horses' feet are ruined. We frequently see colts shut in stables for all winter and no attention paid to their feet, and by spring their hoofs are two or three and even four inches too long and pasterns sprung back and toes turneu up until you would declare that both feet and pasterns were ruined. Yet when prop erly trimmed and turned out to pas ture they soon come all right. Blacksmiths often damage a horse's foot by holding redhot shoos too long at one place and by making shoes tool short and narrow, producing contracted hoofs, corns, side bones, etc. Black smiths are often in a hurry and some times fit the foot to the shoe instead of the shoe to the foot, which is the proper way. 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