KEEPING HORSES.
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Every gentleman, who is obliged by his
health or business to keep horse, complains
of the enormous expense incurred by 1t. 1t
allowed to eat and waste as much as he choo-
ses, horse will consume from four to five
tons of hay in year, besides the necessary
grain. But it is asserted from actual ex-
pertinent. that ten pounds of good hay, With
two quarts of corn day are enough to keep
common horse in fine order. Ten pounds
of hay day are $3.50 pounds, little more
than a ton and half a year, and two quarts
of corn day are about twenty ythrce bushels
a year. Call hay dollars ton, and corn
4 shilling bushel, and you make the annu-
al expense offceding horse twenty-six or
seven dollars, about half as much as it com
monty costs. To keep horse in the cheap
est and healthicst manner, let him stand OIL
green turf, dug up pretty thick, and placed
OIL the floor of his stable-let him be care
fully curried every day. This is of more
Importance than is sometimes imagined. 1t
opens the pores and preserves healthful
state of the skin, on which, in horses as in
men, depends as much as on almost any
| thing else, the proper and healthtul opera
J ton of the various animal functions. Al
though the inferior animals are not like men
subject to unnatural appetites on account
| of unnatural stimulants received into the
stomach, they unquestenably often consume
more food than is necessarily to maintain their
vigor and spirit. This surplus it is economy
to ascertain and retrench. Corn is cheaper
than oats for horses, because there is more
heart in quantity of the same price. 1t is
bettcr to be given two or three times day,
in small messes--and to be given dry that
the mastication of it may keep the mouth
:. Iat lNn
tare of the basket may be taken, and the hay
given from it in small quantities through the
! day, but chiefly at night. A horse that is


not used should be fed with corn sparingly
1t should be occasionally salted. 1t is not


perhaps generally considered, that horses
are subject to colds and fevers as readily as


men. They should therefore be used with


great tenderness and delicacy, and often


washed in cold water. The pulse. generally
indicates the health of horse. 1t may be


felt about an inch back of the eye. and ir
he nth beats about 35 strokes in a minute.


The East Florida Herald gives an account


of horrid murder having been committed


on the body of Mr.. Van Swearingen, wht
has heretofore been in the employment 0
Major Chairs, the Contractor. He was OF
his way from St. Augustine to Hambly's


and is supposed to have been killed by TIVE
| Indians, who travelled with him.


| a case has been decided, we observe b,
the Court of last resort, in South Carolina
that an eudorser on note may be a comhe


tent witness to invalidate note; that hi


interest in the note does not vitiate his tes
timony; and that the only exception which
can be taken to it, is, to his credibiiity az ;


witness. Thee occurred in a suit upon
note, the maker of which pleaded usury tc
evadc its payment.