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men who have owned and kept many horses, 
and who have never used a whip at any time 
upon them. Wha t a pleasant thought it would 
be, if mankind were all so reasonable and 
patient and thoughtful with their horses, that 
whips were never known or used in anger upon 
these useful, generous, docile and patient 
animals ! 
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FARMING FOR BOYS AND GIRLS, 
No. 46. 
HENRY STEWART, 
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TOILET ARTICLES, 
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HORTICULTURAL CLUB SEED DIS¬ 
TRIBUTION. 
THE CARE OF HORSES, 
Horses are the most useful of all farm ani¬ 
mals, and deserve our very best care. One 
horse is able to exert the strength of five men. 
The power of a horse is not nearly so much as 
we might suppose. I£ a weight of loO pounds 
is hung over a pulley by a rope, and a horse is 
fastened to the rope, he will have all he can 
do to raise the weight and walk slowly at the 
rate of 220 feet a minute, which is at the rate 
of two and-a-half miles in an hour. Thus, if 
Le continued walking for a whole minute, the 
horse would raise the weight 220 feet, and if 
these figures are multiplied by the weight— 
viz., 15U—we have 33,0iK); and this amount 
represents what is known in mechanics as a 
horse-power, which is the force exerted in 
raising 38,(XXl pounds one foot high in a minute. 
We know that by using pulleys, in blocks, we 
can raise heavy weights slowly, and the more 
slowly the weights are raised, by adding more 
pulleys, the greater weights can be raised. If 
by using a great many pulleys, or a wheel and 
axle, we could make the horse walk 220 feet 
while it raised a weight only one foot, the 
weight raised would be 33,000 pounds; and this 
is all that a horse can do walking at the rate 
of two-and-a-half miles an hour. If he goes 
five miles an hour, be can draw only half as 
much. When a pair of horses draw a full 
load on a wagon, each horse pulls with a force 
of 150 pounds and no more; that is, with the 
same force that would be required to lift 150 
pounds up out of a deep well by drawing on a 
rope over a pulley or wheel. 
A horse has a small stomach, and requires 
very careful feediug. More harm is done to 
horses by wrong feediug and watering than in 
any other way. When a horse drinks water, 
the water stays in its stomach a very short 
time—a few minutes only—and passes, iqthat 
short time, into the blood When a horse eats 
its food, the glands of the mouth secrete a 
very large quantity of liquid, which is called 
saliva, which moistens the food quite enough 
for its digestion. On this account a horse never 
needs water after eating, and should never 
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we have done our part, and we wait to see 
how well the boys and girls do theirs. I 
wish them all success ! u. M. 
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LETTERS FROM THE COUSINS, 
Dear Uncle Mark —I expect I ought to be 
classed with the silent cousins, as I have not 
written to you since last Summer. I was so 
much disappointed in not seeing some of the 
cousins during the Yorkto wn Centennial, that 
I did not feel much like writing. I suppose 
the reason they did not come to see the big 
chimney that I told them about was that the 
celebration lasted so short a time. We did 
not have much luck with our seeds last season. 
A few of the carnations and dianthus came 
up, the White Elephant potatoes were small, 
owing to the drought, Red Bud and Celery did 
not come up, but we had a fine crop from the 
Branching Sorghum. Pa thinks it an excellent 
forage plant. The seed all ripened and we 
have saved three bushels of it. We will have 
some to sell if nothing happens to them before 
planting time. We have many pretty wild 
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