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
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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. Another fault of too many
smiths is they do not eut or trim
enough from the bottom of the foot and,
on the other hand, eut back too muei
of the shell in order to make the fooaT
fit the shoe, exposing too much of tin
tissues of the foot, thai allowing water
to soak in and oil to evaporate. The
enamel or coating of the hoof should
not be broken or removed more than
possible.
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