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VOI/. XXXIf. No. 10.1 
WHOLE No. 1336. ! 
NEW YORK, AND ROCHESTER, N. Y, SEPT, 4, 1875, 
PRICE SIX CENTS. 
8*.H5 PER YEAR. 
[Entered according to Act ot Congress, in tlie year 1875, by the Rural Publishing Company, In the office of the Librarian of Congrt, ftt Washington.I 
Horseman. 
PREMIUM ENGLISH HORSES. 
Tue spirited engraving, which we present 
' this week, represents three heavy Draft- 
horses, which took premiums in different 
classes at a late Fair in Taunton, England. 
The breeding of heavy horses has long been 
a specialty in some of the counties of En¬ 
gland, and prize animals are naturally sup¬ 
posed to represent models of their kind. 
The pictures will be especially interesting 
to American horse breeders, who are of late 
giving increased attention to growing the 
best heavy horses for marked, Some of the 
finest English and French Draft stallions 
have been imported into this country. The 
engravings portray— 1st, an Agricultural 
Horse, (in the rear); 3d, a Clydesdale, (in the 
center); 3d, a Suffolk, (in front)—all stallions, 
and each awarded first prize in its class. 
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FACTS ABOUT SHOEING HORSES. 
A v» riter in the N. Y. Herald states some: 
facts about how horses should be shod, which 
are wort hy the consideration of blacksmiths 
and farmers as well: 
“ Most of the horse-shoers of the country 
prepare the foot, fit a shoe, and secure it to 
the hoof in the same manner that a wood 
butcher fits a shoe to an old wood ox-sled. 
The mechanism of a horse’s hoof is oue of 
the most wonderful and ingenious structures 
that can be found in all the works of the 
Creator. Beneath and in the rear of every 
hoof there is a frog, which is a tough and 
elastic pad for preventing injury to the ani¬ 
mal whenever he plants his foot suddenly on 
any hard substance. Large rolls of cylinders 
of india-rubber are placed beneath railroad 
cars to prevent injury to any part of th6 car 
or to the cargo with which it is loaded. The 
frog beneath the foot of a horse is designed 
to subserve a similar purpose. But the 
manner in which most horses arc shod lifts 
them up, as it were, on short stilts, so that 
the frog cannot perform its appropriate func¬ 
tions. 
If we look carefully at the young horse 
when he is trotting or running, it will be 
I perceived thut every foot is brought down 
:^*tOtthe ground in such a manner that the frog 
receives the powerful blow. By this means 
all injury to the auimal is prevented. Science 
teaches us to permit the frog to develop and 
expand downward. But most blacksmiths 
seem to think that the All-wise Creator made 
a great mistake when he formed the hoofs of 
horses. lienee, they fall at the frog with 
red-hot burning Irons, with edge tools, and 
with any other appliance that will enable 
them to remove this extraneous excrescence. 
Illustrious ninnies ! Why not shave and 
burn away all the tough, callous adipose 
tissue beneath their own heels, and allow 
the bare bones to rest on a plate of iron in¬ 
side of their own boots and shoes.** 
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FRENCH MODE OF SELECTING HORSES. 
A Paris correspondent of the Lancaster 
Farmer says -.—The purchasers of horses for 
the French army always endeavor to obtain 
a first look at the animal when he is tranquil 
and in the stable ; noting if the animal sup¬ 
ports itself equally well on all its legs, and if 
one seems to yield, to specially examine it; 
attention is then directed to the largeness of 
the pupils of the eye, which ought to te 
mor? dilated when in the stable than when 
expo,,Q to f u j; After the animal has 
been 1^ out 0 f the stable, the eye ought to 
bo agav examined to observe if the pupil 
has conb^ c t ec i ) jf no t ( the sight is feeble. 
Others, tOV, H t the power of vision, feign to 
strike the tvehood with the hand. If the 
hollow over < l0 eyes be profound, and the 
temple gray, qq ago is to bo concluded. 
Wounds about temple suggest attacks of 
staggers, and \vv, t) the end of the nose 
presents circular s^rs, it may be concluded 
that the horse has twitched with a cord 
to insure his quietn oAyv hq& being shod, or 
having had to submit toaoi«© painful opera¬ 
tion. 
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FOR “LAMPAS,* 
A correspondent who asks us wh»,t to do 
for his horse’s mouth, which is sore, is ad¬ 
vised to feed soft food. The animat has 
probably caught cold in its head, which set¬ 
tles about the gums, as it does in people 
sometimes. Don’t burn it out, unless that 
Is your practice when your own gums are 
swelled, Tne method is just a9 sensible for 
horses as foy men, and no more. Simple rem¬ 
edies are good for quadrupeds and bipeds. 
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