Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-03-11
Management of Horses.

In the management of horse one should
never get into passion but what is under
taken or required of horse, he should be
made - do; yet nothing unreasonable, or
what he does not know how, and is not able
to do, should be required of him.
When you have taught a horse that you
are his friend and master, you have laid the
foundation Of complete success in his manage
ment
Ii you are afraid Of 4 horse, do not go near
him, and have nothing to do with him per
sonally till you make him fear you. A horse
knows when his driver is afraid of him, and
he viii have his own way accordingly; but
no horse should be expected to do what has
never been taught him to do. You might as
well require child to solve question in
algebra, who had never learned to count be-
yOnd ten, to demand of horse to do what
no one has ever taught him how to do
For instance, a young horse that has never
been . set " in a gulley with a load before
is whipped by his owner or driver, because
he does not draw the load out The animal
is willing to do what he can but he does not
know how to draw the load He .:v9 and
finds that it does not move, not knowing that
a steadier and stronger pull would do it, and
when the lash comes down upon him, and he
hears the wells Chat is the right word too
often) of his driver, he is frightened, and
Jumps and rears through fear, rather than
ugliness or balkiness. No better way could
possibly be devised to make horse balky,
than to beat him under such circumstances.
You might as well attempt to make horse
move three story building and draw it off,
as to get out Of a slough with heavy load,
when the animal has never been taught by
egrees to draw load out of such places
1t is true that it is bad policy to unhitch
horse from load, under such circumstances
- l. /. -,
then have to do it. Our way Of teaching
colts is as follows We put on light loads,
after they are well broke to harness, and 60
into bad places where it requires hard pull
ing by degrees and the animal learns how
to draw the load out. He reasons as man
does, thus s. I've been here before and got
out, and l can do it again, and out he goes.
We add to the load one or two hundred
pounds, and 90 through the same process,
then wait day or two and try him again,
taking care that require nothing 10 be
a little lighter load This is teaching horse
TO have confidence in himself, which is the
basis Of all good draught horses.
A truckman of Boston got into deep snow
bank with a heavy load. He WAS % set
Did he brawl, or yell at and beat his horses
Not at all :. Charley said he, addressing
one of his horses, - we are in a bad fix here,
and want you to do your best" And when
he gave the word 60. they did 60, exerting
themselves to the utmost, and the truck went
on to it's destination. These horses were
rational animals, and knew what it was to be
encouraged and 50 it should be in all cases.
4 gentleman who witnessed the truckman's
operation, stopped him and handed him five
dollars. g Take that said he, 9 it is the
first time that | have seen truckman treat
his horses, under such circumstances, III
proper manner.-Cdl. Farmer
Cause OF APPLE Trees DYING.-Mr. Muir
raw, writing to the New York Farmers Club,
saws: Where [ was raised, in south western
OHIO, have known my father to frequently
gather, eighteen and twenty years ago, as
nigh as forty bushels of apples from single
tree, and those of the most excellent varieties.
In the same region it would now take nearly
forty trees to produce one bushel Apples
had begun to decline there previous to 1850.
In our own orchard the progress of disease
was quite marked. 1t began il the centre
of the orchard, on a Beethoven that had al
ways given fine fruit. The apples began to
speck with bitter rot, and fell off premature
". Other trees were soon similarly affected,
and finally the whole orchard. NV father
grew alarmed. The orchard had generally
taken pretty good care of itself. He now
hauled muck from the bottom eff the canal
and placed around his trees, with straw and
leaves He MANFRED, mulched, and pruned.
1t did no good. The trees sickened and died.
Now | attribute this solely to the climatic
changes. When we used to raise those large
crops of apples there were swamps and ponds
near The country had been slightly cleared.
The air was damp and humid. One-half of
our summer mornings We had a dense fog
almost invariably heavy dews. We had, also,
plenty of ague-not that the fruit produced
the ague-but the same Influences that were
favorable fer the development of rich, juicy |
fruit, likewise engendered intermittent and |
other fevers. This much the case that /
people generally associated the consumption
Of the fruit with the occurrence of the dis
ease. A good fruit year was always good
fever and ague year. By-lnd-by the country
was cleared up, and ponds We're drained, the
fogs and dews were rare, droughts frequent
the ague disappeared, but the apples grew
,ick How could they make cider of their
ruit without moisture Apples are almost
is choice of their locality as grapes In a
imbered country, we'll watered, and not TOO
ar north they will bear immense crops with
carce any attention. In other places they
nay do fairly, but in dry climate they can
not succeed