The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1877-02-24
About Baking

Awriter in The Golden Rule makes
some very sensible remarks on tins
snbirct, II the education of the colt
has been conducted in accordance
with correct principles he will! not
bak. Baking on the part of colts
IL, for the most part, the result OF
the trainers ignorance or passion:
Yelling and whipping on the part OF
the trainer or driver, overloading,
sore shoulders, or ill-ftting collars
these are the causes that make horses
balk. But if you have a horse or
colt that balks, while one cannot,
without u personal knowledge OF the
subject, tell you what to do, we can
tell YOU what not to do-never whip:
If he won't 60 let him stand still and
think it over. He will very often
think better of it, and after few
moments reflection and few losses
Of the head 90 on of his own accord
Or if this does not answer, get out OF
the wagon and pat him and talk to
him kindly. A horse is very suscep-
tib|e to kindness and the writer says
lie has known more than one qnite
vicious horse gentled into good he.
havior by few gentle pats from a
lady's gloved hand on the moist neck
and yeinel muzzle. Sometimes it is
well to loosen q strap or start bnck'e.
The mere act Of unchecking and re
checking the animal has sometimes
answered the purpose. 1t took his
attention off in another direction,
changed the current Of his thought,
and broke up his purpose and deter
mination to resist. For this same
reason an apple, or bunch Of grass
from the roadside, or handful Of
oats, or a few kernels Of corn, will
ef,en accomplish what an hour o1
beating could never effect.
The truth IL, q man must govern
himself before he can hope to gov.
ern lower animals. A man flushed
with passion, his brain charged will
heated blood, and eyes blazing will
rage, is not in condition to thinl
clearly and it is just this thinking
clearly that is, above all else, needed
in directing and controlling horses
Hence it is that contact with horses
and ar actual experience In teaching
them, is one of the finest discipline
a man can have, He grows to low
the colt lie is teaching; and no ma
ture is utterly depraved in which
going on the exercise Of affection, n
matter how humble the object ma
be. His employment makes It nee
sssary for him to think and thi
keeps intellect, which might other
wise have no development, alive
The language Of the stable is not,
many pious and ignorant people in
asiue, all slang. Care and anxiet
are felt 10 the groom's room, and COT
situations held npon the Issue
which the health aud safety Of valu;
Die property depend. Plans are form
ed and methods Of procedure adop
ed, upon which fame and vast sun
Of money come and 60. Faults
nasare and errors Of education al
practice are corrected, and the train'
discovers that in schooling God
creatures he is being schooled hin
self. Thus, as 10 all other brancli
Of honorable industry, the horsems
discovers that he Is the point fro
which one current goes forth aud al
other enters in. He bestows, and
receives; be ed.scates, and isseduc
ted; and the life which so ma,
thoughtless people desPise closes,
in the case Of Hiram Woodruff
upright in heart aud act-witL hone
aud q fame which can fail ouly VIII
kindness toward animals and integ,
" among wen are regarded ~ OF
account. n ae.
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