Feeding and Grooming Farm Horses.

King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 133, 22 February 1909, Page 4

Feeding and Grooming Farm Horses.

It is a known fact that a well-fed and carefully groomed horse will do double the work of one carelessly treated in these two important respects. Too often, however, farmers are prone to practice fatse economy in handling their working teams. The denning process is rarely carried out with any regularity, and an occasional "lick and a promise" with a dandy brush, ofte:: the worse for wear, is all the attention they receive before being harnessed up to commence the day's work. As a consequence of such negk-ct sore shoulders and trace chafes make their appearance long before lh«." reason's operations are completed, and the suffering animals are unable to do the work which under more careful grooming would be possible. Time spent on attention to the thorough cleaning of the working horses is time well laid out, and will return compound interest. Sound food is necessary to the maintenance of health, and regularity in feeding should be assiduously exercised. By the adoption of such a method perfect digestion is induced and the best results are attained. A horse is humanlike aud unable to do his work properly unless tuned up to concert pitch. Ever}* farmer should see to it that his teams arc fit in ever}' respect to give the best that is in them.