Feeding and Watering Horses.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 250, 28 March 1888, Page 3

Feeding and Watering Horses.

Tree feeding of a horse, says an American writer, should be varied according to the purpose for which the animal is employed* and the size, age, etc. In many stables all the horses are fed the same quantity without regard to constitution or need, Experience and good judgment will soon enable one to decide the quantity needed by each horse to keep it in good condition. If driving on the road is the principal work of a horse, more grain should be fed, in proportion to the hay, than if used for farming or slowwork. For a laree road horse, iour to six quarts of oat 3, and eighteen pounds of bright hay daily, are generally sufficient. A horse that is kept for general purposes, or family driving, may be fed oats in the morning and uncut hay. At noon, cut hay mixed with feed made of oats and corn ground together, in the proportion of two of oats and one of corn, if at work ; but when not at work, the noon ration may consist of uncut hay. The evening i*ation may bo of cut hay, and feed with a little uncut hay afterwards. Good mixed grass hay cut just before blossoming, if well cured and kept stored in a dry place, makes the best hay for horses. When not at work very little corn meal or other heavy feed should be civen, but oats, bran, and uncut hay. A few carrots with the evening meal ocrasionaliy ■willbe very beneficial. Rock salt should be kept where the horse has constant access to it. If turned out to grass salt often. The water given a horse should be pure. Do not have the well in the barnyard, for the wash will soak into it, and pollute the water. If a running brook of clean water be convenient, lead the horse to drink from, it A good cistern can be made of a large hogshead sunk half way into the ground, and the water from the barn roofs led into it will be preferable for the horse than very cold well-water. A horse needs at least two p^ils of v ater a day, and if given half a pailful before meals, or four times a day, it will be sufficient, unless when hard ab work in sultry weather. Do not give warm water at any time of the year, but the chill may be taken off in winter, so that it will not be icy. Do not water or feed directly after coming in very warm, and do not work hard immediately after eating heartily. There is nothing new or original in the above hints, but there are many who will find them useful amongrst our New Zealand farmers who are as yet acquiring their experience with respect to live-stock management.

Gooses are the biggest birds knone to the human eye, and he the one is a gander. The gander is the mcna-k of the air, but the rooster can lick him, cos the rooster he is brave like General Solomon, but the gander isent fighty, more like preachers. The goos is a sailer, but not a wicked one like Jack Brily, wich chews tobacko, and swears, and evry thing, and it has got lethers between its toes to wolk in the woter lick a thing of life. Ducks thay are sailors too, but the swon has got a long neck like a giraft, and when it has got & sore throte'it is mighty sick. The little gooses is goslums and is green. My sister she see a goslum and she ast Uncle Ned wot made it green, and he said, Uncle Ned did, that it was cos it wasent ripe. Then Billy, he spoke up and said wen it was ripe it would be picked. The Melbourne press consider the fate of the bank blackmailers is likely to cow the larrikins, and to act as a deterrent to. violence.