292 now TO MAKE THE FARM PAY. 



team should only be in the hands of a most careful and reliable 

 workman. In case a farmer keeps two teams, one of mares and 

 one of geldings, he can give the latter the heavy work and the 

 mares the light work, usually to good advantage. Says S. E. 

 Todd, " Horses can turn the grindstone, do the churning, pitch 

 our hay, hoe our corn, dig our potatoes, and do almost any thing 

 else, and do it with ease, and keep fat, too, if we will only think 

 foT them, and give them the word to go ahead and to stop. 

 Our business is to think, and it is theirs to do the work. When 

 [ see a little man lifting and tugging, hour after hour, to load a 

 few tons of hay, and get it on the mow, while he has two fat 

 horses standing idle, which could do it in a few minutes, I 

 always think, what a dunce you are, to make such a beast of 

 burden of yourself, when the Creator has given you such strong 

 nninials to perform your hard labor." 



It is undoubtedly true, that with a little exercise of ingenu- 

 ity, and a small outlay for tackle, nearly all of this hard labor 

 can be done by the horses. Every thing that can lessen the 

 hard labor of the farm, is worthy of consideration, and 

 especially every thing that will save time, during the busy season 

 of harvest. 



Anatomy of the Hokse. The precediug cut, {Fig. 71 A.) 

 gives a correct representation of the frame of the horse, and the 

 position of the different parts, of which we shall have occasion 

 to speak, in treating of the diseases of the horse. The skeleton 

 is composed of two hundred and forty-seven separate bones, 

 thirty-one of which are in the spine, thirty-seven in the thorax, 

 three in the pelvis, seventeen in the tail, the fore extremities 

 forty, the hind extremities thirty-eight, the cranium ten, face 

 and jaws eighteen, teeth forty, ears eight, tongue five. 



The hoofs are the foundation, and hold the coffin bone (31), 

 resting on this is the lower pastern bone (30), with an opening 



