The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-07-10

d. Swigert, of Woodtord county, Ky.
sold thirty-onc head of trotting horses and
colts, May 27th, for SSl0, $50, an average of
S643.
To prevent horses from rubbing the hair
off their name and tail, take half a teacup-
full of sharp cider vinegar. pour on the spot
where the rubbing is done, and card it while
pouring on, and it will be found that this
SIMPLE thing will stop rubbing down fences,
or spelling the looks of the tail in the
stable.
We find.thc following in the Lice lStock;
Journal: A beautiful and high-spirited
horse would never allow q shoe to be put
on his feet or any person to handle his
feet In attempting to shoe such horse,
recently. he resisted all efforts, kicked
aside everything but an anvil, and came
near killing himself on that, and finally was
brought back to his stable unsliod. This
defect was just consigning him to plough,
where he might walk barefoot, when an
officer in our service, lately returned from
Mexico, took cord about the size OF bed
cord, put it in the mouth of the horse, like
a bit, and tied it tightly on the animals
head, passing his LETT ear under the string.
not painfully tight, but tight enough to
keep the ear down and the cord in place
This done, he patted the horse gently on
the side of the head and commanded him
to follow, and instantly the horse obeyed,
perfectly subdued, and as gentle and obe-
dent as dog, suffering his feet to be lifted
with entire impunty, and acting in all re-
spects like an old stager. The gentleman
who thus furnished this exceedingly simple
means of subduing a very dangerous pro-
pensity, intimated that it is practiced in
Mexico and South America in the manage
ment of wild horses.
A writer in the National Lire .Stock
J0urnaI thus dwells upon the importance of
training horses to walk fast: Zone of the
most desirable and valuable gaits for
horse is walk, and it should be the aim to
first develop this gait in the handling of the
colt. The good walker will always make
good time on the road when days journey
is to be made, without wearying himself,
while the slow NOPE must be constantly
kept on the tret if time is to be made. A
horse that will walk five miles an hour will
go as far in day, confined to this gait as
an ordinary horse can be driven when kept
half of the time to the trot, and with much
greater ease to himself. If onehalf the
pains were taken by the farmers boys to
make fast walkers of the youngsters on the
farm that is usually taken to make them
trot, the result would be more beneficial,
and we would find plenty of teams that
could do their five miles an hour with ease.
But instead of this. as soon as the colt is
bridled, the sole aim of 'tlic boys is to make
a trotter Of him, and both gaits are spoiled.
Make the colts walk, boys; make them ev-
tend themselves in long, sweeping, square
walk, and don't be satisfied with anything
less than five miles an hour When he
gets to trottng he will trot all the faster for
this preliminary training to the walking
gait; and if he cannot trot fast enough to
beat Dexter or Goldsmith Maid, or Occi-
dent, he will have gait that is invaluable
for business purposes. We hope to see more
attention paid to fast walking than hereto
fore, and we respectfully urge upon agri-
| cultural societies the importance of offer
ing liberal prizes for walking horses at the
fairs for the coming year"