DEVELOP SPEED IN HORSES. ft 



want a pailful set down for them so they can drink it 

 unobserved. 



In checking a horse up you need a check bit inde- 

 pendent of the driving bit. Some horses will check 

 with an old-fashioned check rein and check bit with the 

 gag runners sewed or hooked high on the crown piece of 

 the headstall, but nearly all the trotters and pacers are 

 checked with an overdraw check running over the top of 

 the head and buckling into the small check bit. You 

 want a set of bandages, a couple of scrapers and plenty 

 of rubbers made from linen salt sacks ; you want a dozen 

 for each horse ; you want a couple of soaking tubs ; take a 

 kerosene oil barrel and saw off each end with a depth of 

 six or eight inches, fit some boards inside of the chime 

 and screw them to the head, so your horse will not push 

 the bottom out when he steps his weight onto them. 

 Wire spring skewers are essential ; and you also want a 

 good muzzle, but be careful how you use it. You will 

 need a rubbing out headstall, merely a strap over the top 

 of the head, each end buckling into the ring of a bit ; 

 you want a foot and a tooth rasp, and numerous other ar- 

 ticles as your wants will suggest. Toe weights are very 

 useful in some instances, and occasionally indispensable, 

 but never use a weight that you have to fasten to the 

 foot with screws screwed into the horn. I have seen in-^ 

 flammation set up in the foot from the screws pressing into 

 the laminse of the foot, and severe lameness result from 

 their use. • 



TEETH. 



The teeth in horses are receiving more attention than 

 formerly, as it is a well settled fact that their teeth are 

 subject to decay, ulceration, irregular growth etc., same 

 as in the human family, though not perhaps, in the sam^ 

 degree. A horse in his three or four year old forms '> 

 most liable to suffer, as the three-year-old cuts foux 

 front teeth and eight back teeth, and in their fourth year 

 they cut four front, eight back, and four tushes, and con- 

 siderable irritation and fever often attend the cutting of 

 these teeth. 



