1897 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
111 
nature, properties and action. There is, 
in fact, no similarity between them ex¬ 
cept in name. 
Granting that the experiment with 
the mustard and yeast will result as 
stated, that is no reason for assuming 
that the mustard has an injurious effect 
upon the digestive ferments of the ani¬ 
mal. Mustard seeds when swallowed 
whole, are only partially digested, and 
beyond a slight laxative effect on the 
bowels (which is more noticeable in man 
than the horse), have very little effect 
upon digestion. The crushed seeds or 
ground mustard taken in large quan¬ 
tity, is an active irritant. In smaller 
quantities, or medicinal doses, the mus¬ 
tard is a stomachic and stimulant. 
Instead, therefore, of the mustard de¬ 
stroying or diminishing the digestive 
ferments, it tends to increase the secre¬ 
tion of saliva and gastric juice, and 
would promote digestion rather than 
cause indigestion. 
The impaction due to the too exclusive 
dry feeding may be mostly avoided by a 
little attention to the diet. The addi¬ 
tion of considerable wheat bran, ground 
flax seed or oil meal to the grain ration, 
will keep the bowels open. An occa¬ 
sional thin bran mash (made by pouring 
boiling water over wheat bran and 
allowing to stand until cool), once or 
twice a week at night, is also beneficial. 
ference is very slight. If the mare get 
a trivial hurt, she can still be bred. If 
the gelding go wrong, he is worthless. 
In these days of cheap work horses, it is 
a question whether this carries any 
weight. JOHN B. LOZIER. 
There is little if any difference between 
geldings and mares as to their ability to 
perform labor. Naturally, the female 
of horses is weaker than the male, but 
under domestication, the females have 
been used as animals of burden very 
largely, and comparatively few of them 
have been used for breeding purposes. 
This has resulted in changing the fe¬ 
males throughout the long period of 
domestication, and they now have, in a 
majority of cases, an equal muscular de¬ 
velopment with the gelding. It should 
be remembered that the comparison is 
made between the gelding and the fe¬ 
male. If we make the comparison be¬ 
tween the entire horse and the female, 
it will be found that the male is stronger 
and able to endure greater hardships 
and to perform more labor than the fe¬ 
male, or in other words, under domesti¬ 
cation, the muscular power of the female 
has been increased and that of the geld¬ 
ing diminished, as compared with the 
stallion. In some countries, all males 
are left entire, and if the comparison be 
made between the males and females in 
such countries, it will be found that the 
males are superior in size and in power 
to the females, in a majority of cases. 
I. P. ROBERTS. 
Apples, roots or other green food may 
be fed with the same result. Free access 
to salt is a preventive in most cases. I 
always have a small compartment of the 
feed box partitioned off (or a separate 
box if desired), in which salt is con¬ 
stantly kept before the horse. By this 
method, horses can eat of it as they re¬ 
quire it, without danger of eating loo 
much, as might be the case when the 
salt is mixed with the grain. 
That Egg-Sucking Dog. —Tell I. S., 
Winger, Ontario, to try this prescription 
on his dog ; it is a sure cure for egg- 
suckers : Go to the doctor or druggist 
and get a powerful emetic, odorless and 
tasteless ; get a big dose. Watch the dog 
and see out of which nest he gets the 
egg. Don’t let him see you. Break a 
hole in the end of an egg (a small one), 
put the emetic in, and mix with the egg. 
A piece of wire is good to use. Take 
out all other eggs and leave this one in, 
then watch the dog. p. k. h. 
North Guilford, Conn. 
HORSE OR MARE? 
which does the more work ? 
Which will do the more work under similar cir¬ 
cumstances—a horse or a mare ? 
The question is a very simple one and 
easily answered. There is in no way 
any difference between a mare and geld¬ 
ing as to strength or endurance. Mares 
are usually preferred as workers on the 
farm, because they keep cleaner. They 
stale behind them, and their stalls and 
bedding are dry under them. The geld¬ 
ing stales forward about where the front 
feet usually stand, and the result is his 
bedding is wet. Again, mares are pre¬ 
ferred because if, through accident they 
are injured, or through carelessness 
overworked or fed, they may often 
be of use to raise colts, when if they 
were geldings, they would better be de¬ 
stroyed. w. w. latta. 
A few years ago I had a severe attack of Pneu¬ 
monia. I continued to grow worse, until at last THE 
DOCTORS GAVE ME UP TO DIE. I then com¬ 
menced taking Jayne's Expectorant, and improved 
steadily under this medicine until I was completely 
cured.—JONATHAN REEVES, Hutchins, Texas, 
November 6, 189ti. 
Stimulate your Liver with Jayne's Painless Sana¬ 
tive Pills.—Ado. 
COST OF SEPARATORS 
De Laval Cream Separators are not 
low-priced to begin with. Still they are 
truly cheap. Production not cost demon¬ 
strates cheapness. They are good ma¬ 
chines and durable ones. You use the 
drill, the reaper, the thrasher a few days 
or weeks in the year. You use the 
separator once or twice a day every day 
In the year. It is saving and producing 
you something every time you put milk 
through it. It pays you better ten times 
over than anything else. It is by far 
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Send for Catalogue. 
We have for the past 30 or 40 years 
worked large numbers of mares and 
geldings together, and have never yet 
been able to decide which would do the 
more work, the difference being in the 
individuals, rather than m the sex. 
There is, however, quite a general feel¬ 
ing that mares are more desirable and 
profitable for farm work, from the fact 
that when, for any cause, they are 
unfitted for work, they can be used for 
breeding purposes, and frequently to 
great advantage. We have for this rea¬ 
son generally given preference to mares 
for our farm and nursery work. We 
have been unable to discover any differ¬ 
ence in endurance or strength of the 
two sexes, where they are of the same 
breeding, weight and condition. 
SMITHS & POWELL CO. 
I think that the entire horse would do 
more work than either the gelding or 
mare. Next to the stallion, I should 
rank the mare. Of course, there are 
those periods of heat that, in some 
mares, interfere with their work, but 
those cases are more rare than common. 
It stands to reason that an animal in its 
entirety should be stronger than one 
that had been castrated. In the case of 
dogs, it is very apparent. My opinion 
on the subject, however, is that the dif- 
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PIGS 
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