Oklahoma Farmer (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 19, No. 48, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 4, 1910 Page: 6 of 16
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OKLAHOMA FARMER, WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 1910.
with sweat upon even light exercise
of a warm spring day.
When this heavy coat becomes wet
it takes it a long time to dry. The
spring nights are often quite cold, in
strong contrast with the temperature
THE DRAFT HORSE.
< hin in 1851, and subsequently taken
United States began with the importa-
tion of the great Percheron stallion
Louis Napoleon, which was brought to
Ohio in 6811, and subsquently taken
by a noted breeder to Illinois. This
was really the beginning of a sweeping
movement for draft horses. The
Percheron interests started the pa>;e
toward the great draft breeds in this
country, and the Percherons were by
careful selection and breeding soon
brought to weigh 1.800 to 2.000 pounds
This start of the Percherons was soon
followed by the other great draft
breeds, the Shire, Clydesdale, Belgians,
etc. Probablyno country evermore
breeds, the Shire Clydesdale, Belgians
etc. Probably no country ever more
rapidly improved horses than this did
There are plenty of people living yet
who remember the small horses which
predominated in this country at one
time, not only sriall horses but the
light, poorly bred ones.
The roadsters and light harness
horses have also bounded ahead by se-
lection and better breeding till this
country can boast lines of horses suit-
able for every purpose. The draft
breeds of course are the farm breeds
tiot only for farm uses but for breed-
ing, and farmers have taken hold of
this breeding in a strong practical way
and more draft borsos will be bred this
year than in any single recent one
This is justified by the fact that not-
withstanding the power vehicle for
more rapid movements, both the de-
mand and price of draft horses have
more than kept pace with the supply
ercise is almost as essential as the
feed.
The old coat of hair should be shed
quickly as possible after cold weathei
has passed, and this can be hastened
by stabling the animal at night with a
good dry bed upon which to sleep and
grooming, blanketing and feeding a
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HORSES HERE AND ABROAD.
Russia alone has more horses than
the United States, her horse popula-
tion aggregating 29,000,000. Germany
is cred'ted with l,337,2fi3 horses, the
united kingdom with' 2,150,181, and
France 3,163,025. The Argentine Re-
public had 5,462,000 horses in 1907
the Australian commonwealth 1,869,674
and Austria-Hungary claims 2,308,457
horses. In 1909 the United States re-
ported 19,640,000 horses. The horse re-
ceives special consideration in Ger-
many, France, England and othei
countries that maintain large standing
armies, in England every horse cap-
able of classified military service is
subsidized and in Germany an official
record is kept of the horse population
suitable to be requisitioned for mili-
tary service. In France, Germany and
other European nations government
studs are maintained and special ap-
propriations and veterinary super-
■\ision promote the horse industry
Government supervision tends to uni-
formity and improvement of the sev-
eral breeds of European horses, and
their preprotency is so impressive that
many of the best stallions and mares
are annually imported into the United
States for breeding purposes.
CARING FOR HORSES.
An expert horse breeder says when
conditioning horses for spring work
the right kind of start and the "know
how" are required, the same as in do-
ing anything else properly. If the
horses have been allowed the run of a
stalk field or straw stack they are not
in good physical condition to immedi-
ately start at heavy work. With such
conditions it Is necessary to begin at
once to restore an animal physically
by giving at first a small amount of
grain and gradually increasing the
amount as he becomes accustomed
to it.
It should require at least three
weeks to get a horse accustomed to
consuming a liberal grain feed. One
feed of hay may be given each day to
replace the straw or corn stover. It
is not well to deprive the horse of his
daily exercise, as increased feeding
without exercise i« likely to cause de-
ranged digestion. For best results ex-
AN IDEAL PERCHERON.
small amount of oilmeal each day.
If the long hair is allowed to remain
the horse will perspire freely when at
work, which is exhausting, and he is
very apt to catch cold.
Some farmers resort to clipping
their horses, which is better than leav-
ing the long hair on, but clipping is
not desirable as the natural means of
removing it. Grooming should not b«
neglected in either case, since the ex-
cretory glands should be kept open.
As the time approaches for the
heavy work to begin the horses should
be hitched for a short time each day
and the amount of work gradually
increased as they become hardened. It
is necessary to not only harden the
muscles of the "horse, but to harden
the shoulders to the collar as well.
There are a variety of feeds all, of
which are well suited to the needs of
the horses and will give satisfactory
results when judiciously used. Oats
and timothy hay is considered a stand-
ard feed for working horses.
Timothy is not very palatable
Horses .are not likely to gorge therti-
selves with it, and oats, having a
large, coarse hulls, are bulky, and as
a result they become more thoroughly
mixed with saliva during the process
of mastication, and when they enter
the stomach are more readily acted
upon by them digestive juices. Be-
cause of this fact a horse is less sub-
ject to deranged digestion and colic
caused by careless or improper feed-
ing.
Good, pure water is important, and
this the horses should have in plenti-
ful supply at all times.
TAKING OFF THE
HORSE'S OVERCOAT
A prominent breeder has the follow-
ing to say regarding the clipping of
horses: A serviceable hand power
horse clipping machine may be bought
for from $5 up to $25, a very satis-
factory one for the former price
though, where there are several horses
to be clipped, it is better to get a
higher priced one. It takes two men
to run the ordinary hand power clip-
ping machine. The work can be done
by the regular farm help, and there
are usually off days in the spring
when not much else can be done, so
that very little time need be lost from
the regular field work.
Farmers do not appear to appreciate
the advantages of clipping the horses
In the spring, when hard work begins
for the farm horse, the coat of hair is
long, coarse and heavy. Nature fur-
nishes it to serve the same purpose for
the animal that the fur coat does for
its owner. When the horse is put to
work the long hair is at once a bur-
den and the animal becomes covered
CATTLE
SHORTHORNS
One of the largest, herds In Western
Oklahoma. Your stock always for sale
Poland Chinas—herd boar. Mo. Per-
fection 40747. Twenty young boars
ready for service. Some good young
stock left. Write us.
R. S. VAUGHN & SONS,
Texmo, Dewey County, Oklahoma.
WORKINd THE HAND POWKIt CLIPPER
during the day. Naturally the thick
wet coat which the animal Is forced
to wear at night, after perspiring free-
ly at work, subjects it to colds and
pneumonia. Many a good horse has
been injured in this way, not by over-
work when it was soft from the lack
of exercise, but by having to stand
through a long cold night in its wet
winter overcoat. It is as though you
should be forced to sleep between wet
blankets.
With this heavy coat removed by
the clippers the horse does not get so
warm when at work, perspires much
less, and the moisture evaporates from
its hair much more rapidly. When a
horse perspires copiously its vitality is
greatly lowered, and it is naturally
much less able to resist the attacks of
those ailments which horses are sub-
ject to in the spring. The clipped'
horse can stand more and harder work
than the one in long hair, just as a
man can chop more wood on a warm
day in his shirt sleeves.
The long hair also becomes more ot
less filthy, no matter how carefully
the horse may be groomed. Many have
the idea that the state of the blood is
bad when the skin of the horse gets
out of condition toward the end of the
winter. They endeavor to correct tilt
condition by the use of tonics when
in fact the trouble is an ill cared fm
skin. Besides, the task of caring foi
the shedding work horse is a dis-
agreeable job. The process of shed-
ing covers several weeks, and every
one knows how unpleasant it is to get
covered with discarded horsehair in
tending and working with the horses
Principally for this reason the livery-
men and city horsemen adopted clip-
ping long ago.
The farmer is supposed in some
quarters not to have as subtle sensi-
bilities as city folks, but that, like
many notions of urban people con-
cerning ruralities, is a heresy. The
farmer philosophically endures many
distasteful things simply because he
does not know how to avoid them eco-
nomically. As he learns that he can
enjoy his breakfast food in the spring"
time without horsehair accompani-
ments by the outlay of a few dollars
he will no doubt avail himself of the
opportunity and especially so when lit
discovers the fact that the possession
of a good clipping machine is a paying
investment otherwise.
Where sheep are kept on the farm
a shearing attachment may be had for
the machine at small additional cost,
which does the shearing at a great
saving in labor and cost. The ma-
chine clips closer than the hand shears
chine clips closer than the hand
shears. Some claim that the wool
saved by the machine will average a
pound to the sheep.
HORSES
Standard Bred
TROTTING STALLIONS
MARES AND GELDINGS
COLTS AND FILLIES
Of different ages and and of the high-
est and most fashionable breeding al-
ways for sale at CHICASKI STOCK
FARM, Blackwell, Okla., at reasonable
prices and guaranteed absolutely as
represented.
Write for general catalogue and list
of 1907 weanlings.
HOGS
HERDS OF POLAND CHINAS
Barred Plymouth Rock Chickens and
Mammoth Bronze Turkeys. I have
some good 'pigs, either sex, for sale.
Barred Rock eggs $1.00 per setting.
J. R. McNABB, Route 1, Sentinel, Okla
REGISTERED POLAND CHINA
Swine, Herd boars; King Rastus 1st,
sired by Big Perfection E. L. On and
On sired by On and On. Office phone
3. Farm phone 452.
LEE McREYNOLDS, Chickasha, Okla.
PRAIRIE GLADE HERD
POIvAND CHINAS
Brood sows by Oakwood Prince, first
prize winner at Oklahoma State Fair,
bred to 2nd prize yearling at Oklahoma
State Fair and some to son of Medder
2nd. Write me just what you want.
J. S. SHEARER, R. 3, Hennessey, Ok.
NAVEL DISEASE IN COLTS.
"1 should like to emphasize the ne-
cessity of knowing that the baby colt
is properly attended to," says a stock-
man. "There is absolutely no cause
for joint ill or navel trouble but lack
of care before the little fellow gets on
his feet. Some navel cords are very
large and hard and would tear the
skin of the belly before the cord would
break and thereby injure and derange
other organs of the belly so that blood
poisoning sets in. Then it may go to
the joints, etc. If the man is on hand
when the colt comes and can keep the
colt down and quiet till the cord stops
beating, then cut it about five inches
from the body and tie it with a good
stout cord, then double it up and tie it
again, you cannot get any poison in
its navel any more than you could in
its hip. Then rub the two front teeth
through above and below and see that
it gets a good dinner and your trouble,
are over >'n that line. If you practice
this you will be well repaid."
And the price of hogs went
down, turned right around and
light ud again.
right
went
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DRIED BLOOD MEAL
FOR PIGS AND CALVES
Dried blod meal is a very valuable
f<'Ul for calves. It not only supplies
them with an abundance of protein
which is very necessary to all grow-
ing animals, but it acts as a regulatoi
nf the calf's digestion. It Is also a
valuable feed for hogs.
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Greer, Frank H. Oklahoma Farmer (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 19, No. 48, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 4, 1910, newspaper, May 4, 1910; Guthrie, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc88286/m1/6/: accessed April 28, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.