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CARE OF THE HORSES IN HOT WEATHER. 
Use Him as a Brother. 
The following inquiry once came to us by mail! 
"If a hit is so full of frost that it sticks to the 
horse's tongue when put in the mouth, will that do 
the horse any harm?” Our answer was “Try the 
hit in your own mouth, brother.” Assuredly the 
humane man will be kind to his "dumb friend” the 
horse. Dumb? So people term it; but what horse 
does not speak plainly, in some manner or another, 
when suffering from pain or discomfort? Has not 
your horse whinnied (called) to you when you came 
out of some warm, comfortable cheery place in Win¬ 
ter, well fed and with thirst quenched, to find the" 
hungry horse still hitched where you left him, and 
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also of carelessness on the part of the driver. They 
should be tied up, to save the lines, and to prevent 
tripping the horse. Are not the horses thin? Are 
not they staggering or "wobbly” in gait, in many 
instances? Are not they sore under those collars? 
Let us turn them back and have a look. Yes; there 
are angry, red, irritated or bleeding spots hidden 
there, and they were made by badly fitting collars 
and ill-adjusted harnes and tugs. Or mayhap the 
collars fitted all right; but they were not removed 
at noon. Do you take off the harness at noon? 
"No. Well, that is the common answer, and the 
And there is no time to 
and eyes. No time to cleanse 
the sun. No time to see that 
bodies lodged in the soles or 
explamttffonm "No time!’ 
waslyrhe hors^^mouth ai 
m'y/t^ejcbn^ in 
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of the little brown jug set in the cool mud of the 
nearby slough? Shade his head when at work. The 
cool cabbage leaf in your hat might remind you of 
his hot head. Sheet his body against sun and flies, 
or at least allow him the help of a fly net. Wash 
his nose and mouth at noon and allow a little cold 
water; then feed one to two pounds of hay, while 
he is cooling off. and afterward allow all the water 
he wants and then feed the oats. Do not feed more 
bulky feed than this small amount of hay at noon 
when the horse has hard work to do. Much bulky 
feed simply distends the digestive organs, does not 
nourish and proves a nuisance; also it helps to 
cause heaves. 
The harness should be removed at noon and the 
collars wiped and then set in the sun to dry. Scieen 
1 HE DAY S WORK IS OVER—GIVE YOUR FOUR-FOOTED FRIEND A CHANCE. Fig. ; 
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possibly shivering from lack of a blanket? Does 
not the limping horse speak a sign language of tor¬ 
ture in a foot or joint? Does not that foot "pointed” 
«>ut m the front of the body cry aloud "For good¬ 
ness sake, take off this shoe that pinches and hurts?” 
! 'iay remember when you kick off your boots at 
n, (| i at night, that the horse’s shoes are nailed 
often the feet have been made to fit the sh 
uud soon (he shoes cause suffering. What rt 
' uhl come to the horse could he kick them i 
*' h. neighbor, that the shoes are made to 
j lu> loet to start with and then have them reset 
least once a month. 
1 be horse may be “dumb.” but if "actions sp< 
""'b i' than words,” in some cases, so always 
•'l'pearanees and performances tell a true tale 
' u ''“'king horse. Study the tired team that coi 
lushing to the watering trough at noon and nil 
rp. --o nv uvv/n aim u 
ll0se trailing "lines” tell the story of hurrv 
frogs of the hoofs. No time to bathe the hot. tired, 
bruised shoulders with cold water, or salty water, 
or a tea of white oak bark, or lotion of tannic acid 
°r alum. No time to be humane, and kind, and 
thoughtful and sensible in the treatment of the poor, 
willing, long-suffering "dumb” helper of man. Rut 
there is plenty of time to wash the hot, sweaty 
hands and face of the workman, to "slick" and comb 
the head that has been luxuriously laved with cold 
water, to drink in ecstasy of the brimming nectar 
from the dripping bucket that hangs in the well. 
Man looks out for himself; no fear of him forget¬ 
ting that. But too often he is simply thoughtless, 
and so forgets the rights and needs of his horse. 
Let us give these things more thought. Let us love 
to be kind, and kind, to be loved in return. Give 
the hard-worked horse cold water in small quanti¬ 
ties often when at work. How would you like to 
get along all'forenoon or afternoon without the help 
the stable against entrance of flies and darken it to 
prevent flies from biting and direct sun rays from 
irritating the eyes. Keep the stable clean and per¬ 
fectly ventilated. Do not allow fly-breeding manure 
to congregate anywhere near the stable. Allow the 
horse ample time in which slowly and perfectly to 
masticate his feed at noon. Bolted feed does little 
good. It is not properly wetted with saliva and is 
not perfectly digested. Sunstroke and heat exhaus¬ 
tion kill the horse that is suffering from indigestion 
in hot weather. Care, such as we are suggesting 
here, tends to prevent indigestion and incidentally 
pre\ ents sunstroke. Do not work a horse more than 
half a day sandwiched betweeu two mates. He suf¬ 
fers fearfully from direct heat and from the radi¬ 
ated heat from liis comrades. The “middle horse” 
is most liable to heat exhaustion. Rest him often 
and often change his position in harness. Bed the 
horses well at night so that they may rest. Do not 
