The Kanzas news., 1858-08-28

/ oreS EVUEAT EDUCATIONAL LESSONS IN HORSE
1 TAMING---How TO sUBpUE A KICKING
HORSE
1 A kicking horse is the worst kind of a
horse to undertake to subdue, and more
dreaded by man than any other; indeed, it
would not be too much to say that they are
more dreaded than all the other bad and
vicious horses put together. You often
/ near the expression even from horse Jockeys
themselves, 81 don't care what he does, so
he doesn't kick" Now kicking horse
can be broken from kicking in harness, and
1 ieffeetually broken. too, though it will re
lqulfe some time to manage him safely; but
perseverance and patience by this rule will
lido 1t effectually. When You 90 to harness
'Ia horse that You know nothing about, if
! you want to know whether he is kicking
horse or not, you can ascertain that fact by
stroking him on the flank where the hair
lies upward, which you can discover easi-
ly on any horse. Just stroke him down
with the ends of your fingers, and if he
| does not switch his tail, and shake his
head, and lay back his ears, or some of
these, you need not fear his kicking If
! he does any or all of these, set him down
/ for a kicking horse, and watch him closely.
! When you harness kicking horse, have
strap about three feet long, with a buckle
on one end have several holes punched in
the strap; wrap it once around his leg just
above the hoof; lift up his foot touching
his body; put the strap around the arm of
his leg, and buckle it; then you go behind
him, and pull back on the traces; you must
not fear his kicking while his foot is up,
for it is impossible for him to do it. Prac-
tice him in this way awhile, and he will
soon learn to walk on three legs. You
should not hitch him up until you have
practiced him with his leg up two or three
times, pulling on the traces, and walking
him along. After you have practiced him
few. times in this way, take up his foot as
directed; hitch him to something, and cause
him to pull it short distance; then take
him out; caress him every time you work
with him.
You will find it more convenient to fast
en- up his left fore foot, because this is the
side you are on. After you have bad him
hitched up once or twice, you should get a
long strap; put it around his foot as before
directed (above the hoof and below the pas
tern -joint;) put it through ring in your
harness; take hold of it in your hand; hitch
him up gently, and if he makes motion
10 kick, you can pull up his foot and pre-
vent it. You should use this strap until
you have him broken from kicking, which
will not take long. You should hitch a
kicking horse by himself; you can manage
him better in this way than to hitch him
| by the side of another horse.
HOW TO BREAK HORSE FROM Soaring.
1t is an established rule in philosophy
that there is not an effect without cause,
and if so, there must be some cause for the
soaring of horse. The horse scares ei-
ther from imagination or from pain. Now,
| il is a law of his nature, that If you will
convince him that any object will not hurt
| him, there is no danger of his soaring at it,
no matter how frightful it may be in ap-
pearance. To exemplify this, take horse
| that is very easily scared at an umbrella;
take that horse into tight stable, where
you can have his attention; take him by
the bride, and hold the umbrella in your
hand; when he first looks at it, he will be
afraid of it, and if he could, he would soon
be out of its reach; but hold it in your
hand, let him look at it and feel it with his
nose a few minutes. and then you can open
and shut it as you please, occasionally let
/ ting him feel it with his nose, and soon he
will care nothing about it.
In the same manner you can break any
horse from soaring at things that may look
! frightful to him, logs, stumps by the road
side, or anything that you may wish to car
ry on him. If you wish to make trial of
this theory, Just take horse into the stable,
and let him examine the frightful object q
| few minutes after his mode of examining
things, and you viii be perfectly satisfied.
| We have tried horses that would not suffer
| 4ol-o IL chT nd
| in fifteen minutes you could open and shut
| it at pleasure, and they will pay no atten-
! ton to it. There is something peculiar In
the horse Though it is because he has not
the faculty of reasoning). You can take
an object that he is afraid of, take it only on
one side, let him examine it on that side on
Ely; do not let the other eye see it; he viii
| be broken on one side, and, as soon as the
other eye beholds it, viii be afraid until he
| looks at it and touches it with his nose; then
| he viii be broken on both sides.
HOW TO TEACH HORSE TO FOLLOW ToU.
Take him into large stable or shed. take
| hold of the bride or halter with your left
hand, have long switch in your right;
after caressing him little put your right
hand over his shoulder with the whip ex-
tending back so that you can touch him up
with the whip applied gently around his
hind legs. Start up little. give him
gentle tap with the whip, walking him
around the stable. saying to him, Come
along boy" or call him by his name, tax
| ing him around the stable few times.
hoEiing him. by the bride. After you
hare taken him around IN this way few
times, you can let go of his bride, saying
Come along boy" and if he stop. tap him
with the whip gently. and in short time
he will learn that you want him TO folio"
you; then gradually get before him, have
him to follow around the stable in this way
few minutes, then be will understand what
| xzo1, want him II, da