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Title: Breeder and sportsman
Identifier: breedersportsma571910sanf (find matches)
Year: 1882 (1880s)
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Subjects: Horses
Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : (s. n. )
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
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Saturday, October 1, 1910.) TH1 BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN which often appear upon the surface of concrete, can frequently be prevented by keeping the concrete dampened and shaded from the sun for a week. A very rich mixture of mortar or concrete is more liable to thpse weather cracks than a lean mixture. If well made concrete blocks are kept moistened for a week after making and are then submerged in water for twenty days, crazing is not likely to appear. Concrete is not everlasting. A good concrete may last for an age, or for ages, but many of the concrete structures now being built will crumble long before many of their most ardent admirers re- alize. Too much depends upon the qual- ity of the "ingredients"—cement, sand and stone, and upon the method and manner of building, mixing and placing, as well as upon the climatic and other conditions, to say that, ordinarily, con- crete has the longevity that some give it. Generally speaking, however, good con- crete is as enduring as the most lasting of building materials.—Curtis Hill, State Highway Engineer of Missouri. THE MEAT PROBLEM. The American meat eaters who have made threats, idle threats, to elimi- nate meat from the bill of fare will find that they have considerable com- pany while complaining of high, prices. Many European countries, even some of them which, eat horse meat more from necessity than choice are facing a meat famine. The London Meat Trades Journal in discussing the above situation, says: In Austria the situation has be- come so alarmingly serious that the government has decided to admit im- ports of meats from Roumania and Servia. and cattle and swine of un- questionable origin from Italy. Hol- land and France, but more than all that they have agreed to allow the importation of Argentine meat for test purposes. This would appear to be the only available source open to them for immediate relief, as neither Roumania or Servia have any thing like their usual surplus stock to draw upon, while of the other countries named, France and Italy have for some time past been suffering from a serious shortage in cattle and sheep. In the latter country indeed arrange-
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LANCASTER KING Winner of first prize at California State Fair 1910. Owned by J. H. Glide, Dixon. Cal. BARB WIRE CUTS. More good horses have been ruined or blemished from the introduction of barb wire than from any other cause. When a horse gets his foot over a wire, instead of trying to avoid injury to the leg, the animal will struggle violently. The wounds made by barb wire are al- ways infected, so that healing takes place by the formation of granulation tissue. This being the case the wound some- times heals too fast and a large tumor forms. The skin can not grow over this tumor, and a raw, bleeding surface re- mains. The common locations of barb wire cuts are in front of the hockjoint, below the fetlock, along the canon bone across the breast. Wire cuts in front of the hockjoint are often very serious, the wound usually extending through the tendons and into the joint. Careful Treatment. In treating a wire cut, the wound should be kept absolutely clean and ex- posed to the air and sunshine. When the wound starts to heal, it should not be irritated by washing the raw surface or by removing scabs which have form- ed. Liquid disinfectants are best ap- plied by allowing the fluid to be poured onto the raw surface, not by rubbing the wound with cotton saturated with the disinfectant. Follow this disinfection by covering the wound with some good healing pow- der that is both astringent and disinfect- ant. Should the wound heal too fast, use some form of caustic to remove the excessive granulation tissue. C. L. BARNES, Colorado Agricultural College, Fort Col- lins. ments are actually in progress for the admission of frozen meat on a large scale for the army. With re- gard to Holland, its comparatively moderate resources have already been liberally exported to Germany and England. But it is not in Austria alone that the shortage of meat and consequent high price has produced a state of affairs than can only be described. as alarming. We find in Germany conditions almost similar, indeed to such a pass have things come that we read in the Butchers Guide of Silesa has made a personal appeal to the emperor, praying him to use his influence to secure the importa- tion of foreign meat. All these facts have an important bearing upon the question of our own future supplies, and it needs no great stretch of im- agination to picture what would hap* pen if a large share of the Argentine and Australian meat exports went to continental ports instead of London and Liverpool. This condition of affairs should stimulate every farmer and stockman in the United States to an energetic effort to not only regain the loss of hogs, cattle, and sheep during the past few years, hut to increase the num- ber to at least double within the next five years. 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