Ellsworth American., 1876-07-06
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Nature exercises hcr colts nthe field
She SENDS them tearing through bu,he-,
.ai iumpn4 brooks and bouder>. and
r.er- ever hil.ock,: nor VIII She let
t.rm A4j uuul their uccks ara moist.
ts.lr uo-,til~ di,,cudcd to their utmost
capacity. and ;hcir fauk- all qyiver.
We acrep, the hint; and, standing, in
iue center OF the exercise lot, whip in
hand, have our groom send our iayoritc
coli around time aud again, time and
a..iu-uow al a tro;, now al his keen
o-t jump-until hi, no,irii, show their
..t, hi- neck moi,,cns, and Iii, ribs
stand ont to sight a. lifted by every in
Ga.ion Of The lung. This, remember, i
done day By day. month in aud out.
tie year round. 1t j. this steady, per-
-i-ied-in exercise touching any organ
,.at -iye. TO il, in the end. it, highest
re--iblc doye'opeueut. Those who
,aiuk thar they can devclope horse,
wlAd Ia TWO or three month. are greatly
mistaken. Lungs, like ships, arc MOI,
hui.t III a day they cannot be !5Ut into
"a horses mouth before the expected
race. They must be gro'cn up tn the
horse, beginning at tie day he j. able
toirotb the dams side
IA conjunction with the exercise lot T.,
and alternating with it, if convenient,
comes Jogging on tie road or around
the track. Some pcop.c eay Never
uIiye nor harncs. colt before lie is five
Years old" This j. shecr nonsense. The
natural state /. not the best state, nee
c,~arily. 10 an animal so highly organ.
ilc3 q. the horse. Nou can take boy
and train him, 80 that, at twelve years
of age, he will lit twice a. much as any
Indian lad Of That age who ever lived.
For the purposes OF nature, Nature j.
perfect IN hcr educational processes
Utt. Tor the purposes of man, man j. the
better di-piinaIian. y colt, if lie be
wei formed and OF an average size,
should be- driven from five TO ten
macs TO light hilch-lp twice week at
beast, and be allowed 10 "strip out once
OF .wirc every drive for 4 quarter of a
mile, too, al that. Colts are made % go;
and gVtag does not Eut them. a. any
usc can see who watches them in the
Yu-,urc. It doe. not hurt colt to "puf'
Aui .sneqt:r but on the other hand
tbs swift aud hot lu"g-and-heart action
j. iu,t what his system needs foI its de.
yc,opemeut.
We would not say word to eucOur-
a-c4nv TO orefdrice colts; Tor we hold
HAT such conduct Is criminal; but We
beieye lAat, where one colt is crippled
by over exercise. liity in the country
ale being crippled by constrained idle
nr,-. Give your colt, friend, plenty oi
oals and may and pure water. and fresl
air in hi> stall, and plenty q exercise il
Tie exercise lot and on the road, anG
YOU Will have an animal, when he j.
matured, able TO 20 fast and 20 far, and
pull weight, without giving out either
dill II on eIDtt4u Il tI tuAEI MN " Ill
another horse OF equal speed by nature
but educated in the old approved styl,
of being babiel il box stall nnti
h.: was put into actual training, you viii
see Your horse trotting under the wiz,
with ears pricked, and unlabored &C.
ton: while your rivals nag is strainin;
and blowing in vain but frantic effort
halfway down the stretch toward tn,
It>iance-po-t Whatever else YOU neg
lcct in The education and training 0
your colt, reader, do not neglect the de
VclOpeDienL OF his lungs. No matte
what theoI. ofdevelopement you adopt
have i theory; for this implies though
Oh your part touching the matter; iau,
the trouble now is, very likely. that you
have never given any thought to it a
all.-Goiden Rule.