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THE GARDEN AND FIELD. 



March, 1914 



this reason, in fact, ranks as a 

 Icadinf: attribute of jjood jumpin;^ 

 conformation. Such Uo^htness is 

 primarily dependent upon the 

 shoulder blades beinjr well laid 

 back : and this is one of the rea- 

 sons whv sloping shoulders are al- 

 ways deemed such an important 

 feature in the himter and jumper. 

 A horse with a heavy forehand and 

 strai^rht, thick, and loaded should- 

 ers IS not, as a ride, much ETOod at 

 lumpinfT ; it will lumber over the 

 iuir.ps in clumsy fashion, and be 

 most liable to come to g;rief, sirnp- 

 Iv because of its inability to rise 

 freely when taking of!. Cleverness in 

 jumpino- is also to a certain extent 

 dependent upon licfhtness in front, 

 for a lip-ht forehand makes it much 

 easier for the horse to put in a 

 short stride, when required, in ne- 

 o-otiatin? an obstacle, and so en- 

 able if- to take off with ereater 

 )irecision. Revertinc; afrain to the 

 nuestion of slopintr shoiilders, a 

 further reason, besides that already 

 mentioned, why these are so de- 

 sirable consists in the fact that 

 this feature is of ereat assistance 

 to the horse w"hen it lands over a 

 iump, because a well-sloped posi- 

 tion of the shoidder-blade, by rea- 

 son of the elasticity which it con- 

 fers on the mechanism of the fore- 

 hand, tends irreatly to minimise 

 the force of the impact when the 

 forelesrs come to the r^round. Yet 

 another consideration in re'^ard to 

 this particular point is that when 

 the shoulders are well laid back 

 the horse is much better able to 

 recover it.self should it peck or 

 make a mistake in iu'mpinjj than if 

 it has straiffht shoulders. 



— The Forelej^s. — 



To a certain extent horses make 

 u.<ve of their foreleg:s as well as of 

 the hind ones for the purpose of 

 raisinsr their body off the r^round 

 and propellinp- it forwards in exe- 

 rutin"- a iinnT) ; but the primary 

 function which devolves upon the 

 lorelecs in pimpin'r consists in sup- 

 nortintr the horsf^ on landin<r, thev 

 havine to bear the whole brunt of 

 this concludiuir stacre of the act 

 of ieapinr^, for, as hardly need be 

 explained , they are the first to 

 come to the ground, so that the 

 wtip-ht of the whole body falls 

 unon them. This stibiects them 

 to much strain, and therefore it is 

 most desirable that they shoidd be 

 a stout and tomrh as possible. 

 Strontr forclef's are not. however, 

 in themselves actually PSsMiti-il to 

 the possession of.eood iumni"" 

 nowers, and a horse havinp- weak 

 for'-lef'^s may be able to iump vf-r-- 

 well, and even brilliantly, as is 

 abnttdantlv evidenced by the fact 



that steeplechasers are fre'itxently 

 most infinn on their forelegs, yet 

 perform very successfully. Btit the 

 trouble with weak forelejrf., as re- 

 n^ards jumpin?-, is that such will 

 very soon suf?er danao-e as a re- 

 turn of the heavy strain which 

 falls upon them, and are most 

 liable to becom-e badly strained or 

 to break do'wni. 



As another feature which is to 

 be sougi'ht for in p^ood iumpine 

 conformation, we have shortbess of 

 back. A short back means a 

 strong back, and there should be 

 plenty of strencrth in this' part if 

 a horse is to possess food leapino; 

 abilities. Shortness of back is, 

 moreover, usually associated with 

 strenjrth of loin, which considera- 

 tion alone constitutes a sufficient 

 reason for looking; upon this fea- 

 ture as essential in a ^ood jumper. 



4 



Humus. 



Kxperiments show that where 

 the supply of humus is maintained 

 the supply of ii1 ant .food is also 

 maintained. The Minnesota Sta- 

 tion, says Nebraska "Farmer, found 

 that after two years of a proper 

 rotation in which the supply of 

 orpcanir: matter was kept am.ple, 

 or perhaps increased a. little, that 

 the amount of nitroiren sivT'htlv in- 

 creased, while the amoitnt of phos- 

 phorus and potash rem'alined prac- 

 tically the same. Then farmers 

 know that when they keep the 

 sii'^nlv of humus ample in their 

 soils thev can always nroduce 

 crops. 1 saw a field last week 

 that has been farmed for seventy- 

 seven years, and \t produced 8^ 

 bushels of corn to the acre last 

 •v-ear. For the past twent^' years 

 it has been rotated as follows : — 

 Corn, corn, small erain, corn, 

 small Eirain, clover meadow two 

 \-oars, pasture two years, fud 

 then the rotation reneated. The 

 last vear the "round was in pas- 

 ture it received a coat of all the 

 manure the farmer could o-ather 

 around the lots. Twentv-five years 

 a'^o this farm was consirTpred worn 

 out. Tt was called a '.lay farm, 

 and never produced more tlian 

 thirty bushels to the acre. How- 

 ever, when the nresent owner took 

 pos.session and followed th^ sys- 

 tematic rotation Tiven abo^'f>, tbe 

 fcrtilitv b^fan to increa.se. till it 

 is the richest farm in THinois. Not 

 n narticl'' '->'' f-ommcrf^i^l fert.H^er 

 was annlied in that time, but the 

 productiveness of the soil was in- 

 creased. I 



What one fanner has done in one 

 neighbourhood can be done by 

 everA' farmer in the neic^hbourhood. 

 The <;reat need of the worn-out 

 soil i.s humus ; the ereat need of 

 the soil whose productiveness has 

 beeun to show signs of decreasing 

 is hutnus ; if the supply of humus 

 is maintained the fertility of the 

 soil will also be maintained. 



Grow more clover or lucerne, 

 rotate your pastures with yotir 

 crops, and apply all the manure 

 that accumulates around the lot, 

 and we believe that ypu will never 

 be confronted with a worn-out 

 farm . 



♦ 



Barley is Considered a "'ood feed 

 for horses, but in order that they 

 mav 'Tet the full benefit of it. it is 

 desirable that it should be crushed 

 or bruised, otherwise, owin" to its 

 hardness, a "^ood deal will Dass 

 throun-h undigested. 

 FARM NOTES. 



" T HOPE YOTT WILL PTTBLTSHj THIS 

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 (Adelaide Series No. 9). 



Mrs. Marlon Lamb, of Dale Street, 

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 11/10/'12. In this letter the reader 

 will seet what horrors of ill-health 

 comes to those who are afflicted with 

 dyspeiisl.T. They will also see what a 

 remarkable medicine Clements Tonic is 

 for its relief. 



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(Sl(?ned) MARION LAMB." 



Indigestion and Dyspepsia are two 

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 CLEMENTS TONIC strengthens the di- 

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