LITE STOCK. 



How to Judge a Horse — 1. Never take the seller'a word. If di»- 



po«ed to be fair, he may have been the dupe of another, and will deceive 

 you through representations which cannot be reUed upon. 



2. Never trust a horse's mouth as a sure index of his age. 



3. Never buy a horse while in motion; watch him while he stands at reat 

 and you will discover his weak points. If sound, he will stand firmly and 

 squarely on his limbs without moving any of them, feet planted flat upon the 

 groimd, with legs plump and naturally poised. If one foot is thrown for- 

 ward mth the toe pointing to the groimd and the heel raised, or if the foot is 

 lifted from the ground and the weight taken from it, disease of the navicular 

 bone may be suspected, or at least tenderness, which is a precursor of dis- 

 ease. If the foot is thrown out, the toe raised, and the heel brought down, 

 the horse has suffered from lamnitis, founder, or the back sinews bare 

 sprained, and he is of Uttle future value. When the feet are all drawn to- 

 gether beneath the horse, if there has been no disease, there is a misplace- 

 ment of the limb at least, and weak disposition of the muscles. If the hors* 

 stands with his feet spread apart, or straddles with his hind legs, there is 

 weakness of the loins, and the kidneys are disordered. When the knees are 

 bent, and totter and tremble, the beast has been ruined by heavy pulling, 

 and will never be right again, whatever rest and treatment he may have. 

 Contracted or ill-formed hoofe speak for themselves. 



■t. Never buy a horse with a bluish or milky coat in his eyes. They in- 

 dicate a constitutional tendency to ophthalmia, moon-blindness, etc. 



5. Never have anytliing to do with a horse who keeps his ears thrown 

 backward. This is an invariable indication of bad temper. 



6. If the horse's hind legs are scarred, the fact denotes that be is a kicker. 



7. K the knees are blemished, the horse is apt to stumble. 



8. When the skin is rough and harsh, and does not move easily and 

 Bmoothly to the touch, the horse is a heavy eater, and digestion is bad. 



9. Avoid a horse whose respiratory organs are at all impaired. If the ear 

 is placed to the heart and a wheezing sotmd is heard, it is an indication o' 

 trouble. 



Feed for tUe Horse. — One of the most sensible articles on the treatment 

 of a horse is that which ia given from a physiological standpoint by Cohin. 



It is the opinion of this authority that the horse's stomach has a compacity 

 of only about 16 quarts, while that of the ox has 250. In the intestines tliia 

 proportion is reversed, the horse having a capacity of 190 quarts against 100 

 of the ox. The ox, and most other animals, have a gall bladder for the re- 

 tention of a part of the bile secreted during digestion; the horse has none, 

 and the bile flows directly into the intestines as fast as secreted. This con- 

 struction of the digestive apparatus indicates that the horse was formed to 

 eat slowly and digest continually bulky and innutritions food. When fed on 

 hay it passes very rapidly through the stomach into the intastiues. Th* 



