. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. Saturday, December 7, 1907.] THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN 13 The famous cartoonist. Homer Dav- enport, has purchased the Arabian steed, Masoud, and has signed with General John B. Castleman of Louis- ville for an endurance contest with the latter's Carolina from the Pacific to the Atlantic. Carolina is a fine specimen of the Kentucky saddler, noted for her stamina and a majority of cavalry officers believe she will easily win and this is our opinion. This transcontinental go-as-you-please race is to be held next spring. The start will be made from Portland, Oregon
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. Saturday, December 7, 1907.] THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN 13 The famous cartoonist. Homer Dav- enport, has purchased the Arabian steed, Masoud, and has signed with General John B. Castleman of Louis- ville for an endurance contest with the latter's Carolina from the Pacific to the Atlantic. Carolina is a fine specimen of the Kentucky saddler, noted for her stamina and a majority of cavalry officers believe she will easily win and this is our opinion. This transcontinental go-as-you-please race is to be held next spring. The start will be made from Portland, Oregon, probably in March, and the Oregon trail, blazed and cleared by Lewis and Clark, is to be followed as closely as possible to St. Louis. At the latter city the riders will strike the old National road and will *go over it into Washington. A simi- lar contest was arranged about a year ago, but the Arabian which Daven- port had entered became ill and was withdrawn.âRural World. Exhaustive experiments have been conducted to ascertain the proper amount of hay which should be fed to a horse doing ordinary farm work. The horses keep in better health and spirits, and in fully as good flesh when fed only one pound of hay for each 100 pounds of weight, this amount being not for one feed, but the entire daily ration of hay. Thus a 1,200-pound horse should receive twelve pounds of good hay a day. A larger amount seems to make the animals more lazy and sluggish, with- â out producing any apparent gains in weight Now, we know that most farmers feed fully three times this much hay to their horses. The farmer or his son will fill the man- ger in the morning before breakfast and usually twice more during the day and we have known farmers to feed as high as fifty pounds of al- falfa daily to a common 1,200-pound plug. The stomach of the horse is small, requiring that a large propor- tion of its food be in a concentrated form, and when we interfere with the plans of nature and try to feed the
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