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Y0LXXHL NO. I. 
FOR THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JAN. 7,1871. 
WHOLE NO. 1003. 
[Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1871, by D. D. T. MOORE, iu the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.] 
THE F^vivroxjs TROTTING COLT “STARTLE.” 
DRAWN BY H0CHSTE1N, FROM A PAINTING BY J. B. BURR, AND ENGRAVED EXPRESSLY FOR MOORE'S RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
more, if required. Apply with a quill, 
dipped in the mixture and draw it through 
the eye. Two applications removed the film 
from father’s horse’s eye. A lady In this 
place removed a film from her cyu with pul¬ 
verized burned alum; use it dry.—M rs. J. 
R Finch, Orleans Co., N .Y. 
G. B. Kauffmans, Iowa, wants to take a 
cataract from a horse's eye. Here is a reme¬ 
dy that has cured twice for me:—Take oil 
of wintergreen; get a email glass syringe 
and inject a few drops in the eye, and then 
in three days put in some more. I never 
had to use it but twice to take it off clean.— 
J. Harris, 
Tell 0. B. Katjffmann to try calomel; 
it will only cost him ten cents. Blow it 
into the horse’s eye through a goose quill. 
B gives no pain, and if it has not got too 
bad it will remove it in a few days by apply¬ 
ing the calomel to the eye every morning. 
I have a horse that I have owned four years; 
every spring and fall one of his eyes are af¬ 
fected, and the remedy has never failed to 
cure him. This fall I only had occasion to 
apply the calomel once; 1 did it the very 
first time it made its appearance.—W. O., 
Montgomery Co., 111. 
To Cure Stifle-Stopping. 
Here is a certain cure for stifle-stepping. 
1 offer it to the consideration of yourself and 
readers: — Half a tea-cup oi vinegar, the 
whites of two eggs, a piece of alum the size of 
a chestnut, well beaten, dissolved and warm¬ 
Now take a very hot flatiron and iron it, 
being cautious not to blister your horse too 
severely. Turn him out, and in one week re¬ 
peat ; in the mean time bathe the parts with 
a (lecoctiou of white-oak hark. The above 
is a remedy for the difficulty in its worst 
form, and it is from experience.— Young 
Farmer, Troy, JV. Y. 
I.inns Three Abreast. 
A correspondent asks for the best ar¬ 
rangement of lines for plowing three abreast. 
We give an illustration of an arrangement 
we have used. Alter the team is properly 
broken in, the lines, a and b, may be dis¬ 
pensed with. But a raw team may require 
the arrangement as shown in the engraving, 
especially in plowing. 
will heed the advice and admonition. Sure¬ 
ly, “ the merciful mail is merciful to his 
beast,” aiul everybody ought to be merciful: 
“ One of the most cruel things to dumb 
beasts is putting frozen iron bits into a horse’s 
mouth. It is not only painful but a danger¬ 
ous act. For every time living flesh touches 
a metal much below the freezing poiut, the 
latter extracts the heat from the former and 
freezes it. Thus a hores’s mouth becomes 
frozen by the cold iron being several times a 
day put into it, each time causing these 
freezings to go deeper and deeper, to end at 
last in extensive ulceration. With such a 
mouth the horse refuses to eat and pines 
away, which calls the horse doctor in. They 
call it tints, glanders, horsc-ni], etc., and go to 
cramming down poisonous drugs in big doses; 
and the next you know of the poor creature, 
he is tmufiled off to he food for fish or the 
crows. Many a valuable horse has been 
“ mysteriously ” lost In that way. 
“ Thinking and humane people avoid this 
by first warming the bits; but this is much 
trouble, and is sometimes impossible as in 
night work, such as staging and physician’s. 
Now all this trouble and loss are entirely 
avoided, as we have found on large trial, by 
getting the harness maker to get up leather 
bits for winter use, so made that no metal 
substance can touch the flesh. They are 
durable and cost only half a dollar. We 
wouldn’t exchange ours for a gold one if it 
couldn’t be replaced. Don’t fail to try it.” 
|iic ll or smart. 
BONNER’S PAMOTJS OOLT “STARTLE,” 
The interest which to-day attaches to 
trotting horses of great speed is largely due 
to the high prices which have been paid for 
them, during the past few years, by men of 
wealth who can afford to indulge in such 
costly luxuries for their own pleasure, inde¬ 
pendent of any sport on a racecourse. These 
enormous d rices have stimulated breeders to 
labor to produce horses of great speed, and are 
affecting the social features of rural life, and 
the habits and modes of thinking of young 
fanners, far more than a superficial observer 
would think. 
Perhaps no man in this country 1ms been 
so munificent in his expenditures for trotting 
horses ns Robert Bonner. And his pur¬ 
chases have not been made for profit. That 
is, the horses are withdrawn from what is 
known in sporting parlance as “ the turf,” 
and made to contribute only to his own 
pleasure and that of his family and friends. 
We give an illustration of Mr, Bonner's 
colt “ Startle,” got by “ Hambletonian ” out 
of “ Lizzie Walker,” by “ American Star.” 
He is brother in blood to “ Dexter ” and 
“ Aberdeen.” 
Concerning this colt and his dam. George 
WiurES wrote in 1887 .—“ Lizzie W ulker, a 
chestnut mare, with white legs behind, eleven 
years old. She was got by Star, and when 
in training trotted in 2m. 38s. The mare is 
a fine one, of fair size, with ftslvong, arched 
loin and quarters, wide spread and low let 
down, like those of the famous daughter of 
Glencoe. She has white hairs in her coat. 
The bay colt at her foot, with white legs 
behind and a star and snip, is by Hamble¬ 
tonian. He is called Startle, and though 
not large, he is in great perfection—the 
traveling-tackle being big behind, with bony 
hocks.” 
The best time this colt had made on the 
track prior to Mr. Bonner’s purchase was 
2:36, when a three-year-old. And this is 
said to have been performed with ease. Air. 
Bonner 9aw this performance, and imme¬ 
diately bought Startle, paying $20,000 for 
him. He is called, by competent judges, 
“ the best three-year-old ever brought out.” 
Carl, Burr, who is keeping this colt, for 
Mr. Bonner, and who has the reputation of 
knowing more about colts than any man 
living, wrote Mr. Bonner concerning him, 
as late as December 1st, as follows: 
“ In relation to Startle, he is acting and 
moving well. 1 have not pulleil his shoes off 
yet, for I have been jogging him more or loss, 
until 1 could get the yard built for him to 
run iu; hut to-day I shall turn him out for 
the winter season. I moved him this morn¬ 
ing for a short distance. 1 should judge lie 
went about a 2:25 gait, with perfect ease, ap¬ 
parently. He could have trotted faster if I 
had called on him. He is the world’s won¬ 
der, and no mistake.” 
Our portrait was drawn by ITochktein, 
from an oil painting by J. B. Burnt,(brother 
of Carl Burr,) who is a blacksmith, and 
shod Startle the week before he painted him! 
Good judges pronounce it the best likeness 
of a horse they have ever seen. The owner 
of Startle was so well pleased with the por¬ 
trait that he gave for it ids check for double 
the amount promised. 
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NOTES FOR HORSEMEN. 
Hi I in on a IIorwc’H Eyo. 
C. B. Kauffman writes Can you cr 
any of your readers give me a remedy or 
cure for a film or scum growing on a horse’s 
eye?” Yes, sir. Drop in the opposite ear, 
once a week, a lump of fresh butter t he size 
a hickory nut. This seems incredible, 
but is no hoax. — O. D. Milford, Del. 
C. B. Kaufman, Dexter, Iowa, asks, “ Can 
any of your readers give a remedy to cure a 
film on a horse’s eye?” My father removed 
a film from the eye of his horse with deer’s 
horn and honey. Prepare it as follows; 
Take a piece of deer’s horn and burn it, till 
you can pulverize it fine, sift it through lace, 
add a tablespoonful of strained honey, or 
ed. Twitch and knee-strap the fore leg 
standing off from the Affected member. Ap¬ 
ply with the hand and ran it in mil; satu¬ 
rate a piece of flauncl six inches square, 
place it over the joint, cover this with a 
double thickness of the same, long enough to 
lap behind the leg, and draw very tight. 
Avoid Frozen Bits. 
The Belfast, Journal talks thus seasonably 
and sensibly about a matter which concerns 
every horse owner or user, fVom the Atlantic 
to the Pacific. Wo trust every reader of the 
Rural New-Yorker, in town and country, 
who has to do with horses in frosty weather, 
rrbsnmn. 
STOCK RAISING. 
A Letter from the Secretary of Wyoming 
Territory. 
In a late issue of the Rural New-Yorker 
a correspondent at Oswego, N. Y., of the 
American Institute Fanners’ Club, seeks in¬ 
formation with regard to the best locality lor 
stock raising, stating that he has $5,000 to 
invest in that business. Undoubtedly Hie 
best opening for this party is iu Wyoming 
Territory, for he can buy eows here cheaper 
than at any point farther east. Texas cows 
can be bought here for fifteen dollars. There 
is an abundance of good teed on government 
lands for any number of cattle, during the 
entire year, and plenty of good water. The' 
climate is excellent for man and beast. The 
only expense a stock raiser has to incur is 
the herdsman. A good, experienced herder 
can be hired for forty dollars per month. He 
will not be obliged to buy a pound of hay 
the entire year. In the stormy season the 
herd can lie kept in the mountains and can¬ 
yons where it will be well protected and safe 
against wind and weather. 
The grass everywhere in this Territory 
cures in the summer where it grows, and 
becomes sweet and nutritious, so that cattle 
fatten on it at once when brought here from 
Texas, The beef of the cattle herded in .Ids 
vicinity is sold in the markets here every 
day, and it is equal to the best stall-fed heel' 
I have-ever seen in the East. The Union 
Pacific Railroad running through this Ter¬ 
ritory over five hundred miles, the stock 
raiser finds for his beef cattle a ready and 
easily accessible market. 
Please tell your correspondent that he can 
double his capital invested every year after 
the first year. This can he substantiated by 
all those who are at present engaged in the 
business. Any further information desired 
wilt be furnished on application to [1. 
Glafkke, kkvretury of Wyoming Territory. 
NOTES Ft)R HERDSMEN. 
To Relieve a Choked Animal. 
To cure a cow or any animal choked with 
apples or potatoes, jump them over as high 
a fence as you can. It is a sure remedy.—J. 
Block, Tioga Co., Pa. 
Hick Calves. 
In the Rural New-Yorker of Dec. 15, 
W. H, H. says his “calves have grown poor, 
run at the nose and eyes, and have a bad 
cough.” lie asks “ what shall I do ?” 
Answer. —Shelter, and give them regular 
doses of water, corn meal and roots.— f. w. o. 
Cattle Dintrane in Michigan. 
I am troubled with a very curious cattle 
disease; the symtoms are these:—The legs 
break out in small scurfy blotches; rub the 
scurf oft', and it leaves a raw sore. In a few 
days the blotches spread all over the whole 
body. The animals grow poor very fast. 
The eyes are heavy. The animals have a 
good appetite and eat well. Any informa¬ 
tion in regard to the disease will be thank¬ 
fully received. — B. L. Ward, Mich. 
Ri-ubH In Cattle. 
A correspondent iii Pennsylvania asks: 
“ What is that which deposits ils egg iu the 
skin of cattle and hatches out an ugly grub 
or worm, that conies out on their backs in 
the spring of the year?” It is called by 
veterinarians yh'm'rus bom, an insect which 
pierces the skin of the animal and deposits 
its egg in the orifice. In a short time after 
the egg is deposited u small swelling is ob¬ 
served, which grows larger, and finally, 
when iu a state of suppuration discharges 
this larva, which in turn becomes an insect. 
If an animal is well fed these parasites re¬ 
quire no treatment, it is well, however, to 
press the lame out with the lingers. 
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