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PRECAUTION IN PURCHASING 
HORSES. 
REMEDY FOR HOVEN. 
In looking over the Rural of 8(1 month, 
18tli, l observed it remedy lor Hoven in 
cuttle, from the Journal of Agriculture. The 
treatment, in this condition will consist in 
trying to get rid of the gas, which can lie 
done effectually without the use of the pro- 
bung, trocar, or the knife, by simply taking 
it round, smooth stick of wood (one foot 
long from two to three inches in diameter 
according to the size of the animal), tying a 
string or piece of rope three or four inches 
from each end ; then force the middle of the 
stick of wood into the mouth of the animal 
and tie the string together on the top of the 
head dose behind the ears or horns. Thus 
the mouth is kept open and the gas will soon 
escape and the animal will be relieved with¬ 
out any further trouble. 
1 have been aroused at. the dead hour of 
the night and performed this simple process 
and in the morning found the ox ready to 
eat. grass as soon as he lias been relieved 
from the stick of wood that kept his mouth 
wide open. Joel Button. Sr. 
Winchester, Va., ltMJa. 
J. R. F ueeman, V. S., Richmond, Vn., 
writes to the Southern Planter and Farmer 
a scathing review of the practises of quack 
horse doctors, and gives the following sug¬ 
gestions, which avc extract from his article: 
“ The majority of the diseases of the 
horse arc traceable to man’s inattention and 
stupidity. All intestinal troubles are caused 
by man’s injudicious feeding. Too long ab¬ 
stinence from food, with stables badly ven¬ 
tilated and worse drained, are also sources 
of much evil. Even over exertion and con¬ 
sequent exhaustion, without, proper stable 
management, is sure to produce disease. 
The horse is the medium of more humbug 
and fraud than any other animal, and is sur¬ 
rounded by men. who are f/imn to sharp prac¬ 
tice, who palm off, by misrepresentation, an 
unsound animal upon a customer, and flatter 
themselves they are smart. If a merchant 
were to pursue the same line of conduct, how 
long would lie be patronized? Yet these 
men meet their victims with unblushing 
effrontery and ask further patronage, The 
rogues often associate themselves with a low 
horse doctor, who, through his supposed 
knowledge of the equine race, helps to fleece 
the public. 
“ The remedy for all these fraudulent vam¬ 
pires, is, in all cases, to protect yourself 
with a written ‘ warranty,’ or have the 
animal examined by a Veterinary Burgeon. 
The dealers will not submit a quadruped of 
known unsonndness to such a test, because, 
in case of rejection, the property is not only 
deteriorated, hut the owner lias to pay for 
the process, which casts a taint upon his 
stables; whereas, should the examination be 
passed, the purchaser takes the horse and 
pays for the certificate, which assures hitn of 
its value. This precaution being taken be¬ 
fore the bargain is concluded, always specify 
for a trial, which alone can inform the future 
master of matters most essential to his per¬ 
sonal pleasure, but which no veterinary 
inspection could discover. 
“ It is prudent to attend to these particu¬ 
lars, and it is folly to imagine a warranty 
can shelter the person who knowingly dis¬ 
regards the security which the certificate 
and trial alone can afford. 
“ The customer is thus fenced in and pro¬ 
tected on all sides. The conduct of the 
dealer should declare the personal opinion 
of the man who is best acquainted with the 
animal. The professional judgment being 
deliberately pronounced and duly certified, 
guards the points where a gentleman’s 
knowledge may lie deficient, while the trial 
permits the individual to ascertain such 
traits as mouth, temper, habits, step, spirit, 
and mode of going. After such qualities are 
approved, the horse may be safely accepted, 
and no warranty can be necessary if such 
directions are observed.” 
A JERSEY COW 
A correspondent of the Practical Far¬ 
mer gives the following as the true points 
breeders should aim at. ns perfection in the 
Jersey cow:—Head fine, long, narrow be¬ 
tween the eyes, dished and fleshless; horns 
short, finu, amber color at base, pointed with 
black and crumpled; eyes black, large, not 
too prominent, placid, with a well developed 
orbit; tongue black; ears thin, small and 
orange within; cheek thin; neck light or 
lean, with a slight fall from the shoulders; 
throat, clean ; dewlap fiCunty; breast not too 
broad; shoulders slanting from front, back 
rather thin and light ; back perfectly level 
from shoulders to drop of tail; girth rather 
round, and forming a wnist-like appearance 
when viewed from the side; ribs standing 
well out and deep, giving the animal a great 
capacity for food. All flat-sided animals 
with diminishing width of loins and pelvis, 
are objectionable. 
Flank very deep; loins wide,; pelvis wide, 
giving the cow a square walk and plenty of 
room to accommodate a large udder ; rump 
long and pretty level, — length increasing, 
also capacity lor bag; the tail should be long 
and whip-like; the thighs must be broad 
and thin a fleshy one, belonging to beefy 
cattle, leaving no room for the development 
of udder. 
The escutcheon must be broad, and run¬ 
ning all the way up to the vulva, the hair 
thereon being fine and velvety to the feel; 
the udder should run well under the belly 
and well up behind, and ought lobe much 
shrunk after milking; the teats must, lie of 
full size, not funnel-shape, and standing well 
apart from each other—must never point to 
the belly or sideways, but to the ground, 
where the pail stands for milk; milk-veins 
well developed, running in a zigzag course, 
and entering the belly by a large cavity. 
The fore-arm must not bo too large or 
muscular; the hock flat and wide; the joints 
well defined; the canon bones small and 
rather round in the fore-legs and flat in the 
hind ones, and hoofs small, black, yellow or 
striped; shin thin and yellow and mellow. 
The general health of the animal must he 
good, and should show vigor. 
For our success, the bull must approach 
the shape of the cow as much as possible, be 
of kind disposit ion, and vigorous. 
the fore and upper arm, from great constitu¬ 
tional disturbance, fever, and delirium. As 
the inflammation and fever subsided, a chain 
of small abscesses formed along the course 
of the inflamed absorbent vessels, extending 
from the base of the* thumb to the arm-pit, 
but more especially from the thumb to the 
elbow, followed by an unhealthy ulceration 
along the whole line of disease. After many 
mouths of severe suffering, the poor man 
eventually recovered, lie was repeatedly 
seen by Bir Astley Cooper, and the other 
medical and surgical officers of the institu¬ 
tion. The disease did not affect the nasal 
membrane. Borne weeks after the com¬ 
mencement of the disease, and after the 
establishment of ulceration, a small quantity 
of the purulent disci targe was inserted by 
the point of a lancet into the nasal membrane 
of two donkeys. On the second day they 
became very ill, and died on the sixth or 
seventh day. 
M I have briefly communicated these tacts 
more.especially for the sake of the opportu¬ 
nity which it affords me of cautioning and 
earnestly warning all those who may have 
much to do with horses to be very careful 
how they “ handle ’’ them, when suffering 
from any nasal discharge. A man should 
never touch a glandercd horse, if lie haye 
at the time any sore, scratch or chap on any 
part, ot his hands. Indeed, he ought, not. to 
do so without having his bands protected by 
gloves. He should also avoid standing too 
near the horse’s head, as he is apt in snort¬ 
ing or sneezing to scatter the discharge 
around him, some of which might possibly 
tall on the membrane at the commencement 
of the nostril, thereby causing the disease, 
and much suffering, if not even death ; or it 
might fall on the conjunctiva of the eye, pro¬ 
ducing inflammation of the most destructive 
character." 
“ As a proof of the subtlety of the poison 
of this terrible disease, and as a caution to 
those engaged among horses, 1 may relate 
the following well authenticated anecdote, 
recorded in an English paper some years 
ago:—A farmer, going his usual rounds one 
morning to inspect his stock, observed a 
favorite horse in an adjoining field showing 
symptoms of distress. The horse, on seeing 
his master, trotted up to the fence, according 
to his custom. There was a narrow lane 
between the two fields, and while the farmer 
was looking to discover what was amiss, the 
horse snorted or sneezed, and some of the 
mucus was borne, by the breeze over Ihetwo 
fences and across the little lane on to the 
farmer’s face. In a few days I lie usual symp¬ 
toms set, in, and tlm man died of glanders, as 
did also the horse. There being no known 
abrasion of the skin on the man’s face, it is 
highly probable that this was a case of in¬ 
fection through thi! mucous membrane of 
either lips, eyes or nose." 
rubs his nose directly in there. On return¬ 
ing from a drive lie expects two lumps. As 
two are invariably forthcoming when unhar¬ 
nessed, it, is unmistakable evidence to the 
horse that his conduct and efforts were satis 
factory. The sight of a whip to that animal 
wonkl lie an insult and an outrage to his af¬ 
fectionate regard for one who looks carefully 
to his health, security and comfort, Such 
an instrument of barbarity does not, belong 
to that, good man’s carriage, and may (»oi> 
speed the incoming day when they will only 
be seen in museums, to illustrate the condi¬ 
tions of countries that ultimately became 
Christianized. 
STALLION SENECA CHIEF. 
TRAINING COLTS, 
Herewith avc give a portrait of Seneca 
Chief, a stallion owned by Iua II. Coleman, 
Esq., ( Lake View Stock Farms, Sheldrake, 
Seneca Co., N. Y. Seneca Chief—live 
years old the middle of last, September — 
was sired by Rvsdyk’h Ilamblctonian; (sire 
of Dexter,) dam, Lady Jourdnn, by Latou- 
rette’h Young Rellfounclcr; be by Latou- 
kkttk’h Old liellloniulisr; he by Imp Hell- 
founder; Latourkttr’s Old Hellfoundcr’s 
grand dam by Imp. Messenger; Lady Jour- 
dan’s dam by Walden Messenger; he by 
Wild Air; he by Imp. Messenger. Walden 
Messenger’s dam was a Messenger mare. 
Description .— Color, blood bay; flowing 
mane and tail; two white hind feet, and star 
with black points; fifteen and three-quarter 
bauds high ; weight 1,1315 pounds. 
A correspondent of the Western Rural 
says:—“ My mode of training colts is this: I 
first halter them and put them in the stable. 
1 curry them gently each day; place the 
harness on t hem and let them remain in the 
stable with it. on for a lew hours each day 
for a few days. After they have become ac¬ 
customed to the harness, I place them before 
an empty wagon and drive them about a 
few hours each day for a number of consecu¬ 
tive days. After they are sufficiently sub¬ 
dued, so that I can latch and unhitch them 
at will, 1 use them harrowing in grain, and 
all light work the first season." 
We should bo glad to receive practical ar¬ 
ticles from horsemen on this subject. 
GLANDERS—BE CAREFUL, 
A correspondent of the Canada Farmer 
gives the following important caution to 
horsemen;—“ In the year 1833 a man came 
under my care (as dressing pupil at Guy’s 
Hospital, London), who was suffering from 
attack of glanders. He was in the habit of 
dealing in “ scrcAvs” and diseased horses. 
In sponging and cleaning the nostrils of a 
i glandered horse, lie got some of the dls- 
A charge in a chap on his thumb. About the 
x second or third day after, he was taken very 
|> id. and was at once admitted into the hos- 
<L pital. He avos thirty years of age, and pre- 
j. viously to his illness was a strong, healthy 
(f man. On his admission into the hospital he 
r/ was suffering from severe inflammation of 
f. the thumb, and of the absorbents all along 
SCOURS IN COLTS, 
KINDNESS TO HORSES, 
A correspondent of the Iowa Homestead 
says :—Colt raisers, don’t dose your young 
colts to death with strong medicine, when 
they take the scours, .Just take a string 
(buckskin or soft leather is the best,) and 
cord the tail as close up as you can conveni¬ 
ently; that will give relief in half an hour 
and cure in from six to twelve hours. I 
have tried the same on two old horses, and 
it. cured them in a few hours, and I have 
been told the same remedy is as good for 
calves, but have never tried if. myself. Let 
us fry to do away with dosing stock with 
strong medicine as much as Ave can, when 
something simple will do just as well.” 
A writer in the American Stock Jour¬ 
nal, discussing and denouncing the cruelty 
practiced by men called “ horsemen," says: 
A gentleman of New Y'ork is the possessor 
of a thousund-dollar horse, whose organ of 
approbativeness is so prominently active he 
can be coaxed, but rarely driven against his 
will. When the considerate owner enters 
the stable t he horse greets him with a hearty 
whinny, his only language, which is equiva¬ 
lent to a cheerful expression of delight. He 
is at once treated to a lump of sugar, which 
the beautiful and sagacious creature knows 
is usually carried in a vest pocket—for lie 
Chalk in milk — an ounce to the pint is 
recommended as a remedy for scours in 
calves. Milkmen constipate their customers 
with the same mixture. 
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