The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1877-01-24
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HOUSE, FARM AND GARDEN.
About Baking"

HOUSE, FAkM AND GARDEN.
About Baking" =.
A writer in the Golden Rule makes
some very sensible remarks on this
subject. If the education Of the colt
has been conducted in accordance with
correct principles he will not balk.
Baking on the part Of the colt is, for
the most part, the result of the train
er's ignorance or passion. Yelling and
whipping on the part OF the trainer or
driver, overlooking, sore shoulders, or
ill-dtting collars-these are the causes
that make horses balk. But if you
have horse or colt that balks, while
one cannot, without q personal knowl-
edge of the subject, tell you what to
do, we can tell you what not to do -
never whip. If he won't go let him
stand still and think it over. He will
very often think better OF it. and after
a few moments reflection and few
losses Of the head 60 on of his own &C.
cord. Or if this does not answer, get
out of the wagon and pat him and talk
to him kindly. A horse is very sus-
ceptible to Kindness: and the writer
says he has known more than one quite
vicious horse soothed into good behav-
ior by a few gentle pats by lady's
gloved hand on the moist neck and
veined muzzle. Sometimes it is we'll
to loosen a strap or start a buckle.
The mere act of unchecking and re.
checking the animal has sometimes
answered. the purpose. 1t took his at.
tention off in another direction, chang
cd the current of his thought. and
broke up his purpose aud determine
ton 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 often accomplish
what an hour Of beating could never
effect.
The truth is, man must govern
himself before he can hope to govern
lower animals. A man flushed with
passion, his brain charged with heat.
ed blood, and eyes blazing with rage,
is not in a condition to think clearly {;
and it is just this thinking clearly
that is, above all else, needed in d.
recting and controlling horses. Hence
it is that contact with horses, and an
actual experience in teaching them, is
one of the finest disciplines man can
have. He grows to love the colt he is
teaching and no nature is utterly de-
PRAYED in which is going ON the exer-
else of affection, no matter how hum
BILE the object may be. His employ
ment makes it necessary for him to
think: and this keeps intellect, which
might otherwise have no develop
ment, alive. The language Of the
stable is not, as many pious and igno-
rant people imagine, all slang. Care
and anxiety are felt in the groom's
room, and consultation held upon tie
issue Of which the health and safety
of valuable property depend. Plans
are formed and methods of procedure
adopted, upon which fame and vast
sums of money come and 60. Faults
of nature and errors of education and
practice are corrected, and the trainer
discovers that in schooling Gods crea.
lures he is being schooled himself.
Thus, in all other branches OF honor
able industry, the horseman discovers
that he is the point from which one
current goes forth and another enters
in. He bestows, and he receives; he
educates, and is educated and the life
which so many thoughtless people de-
spise closes, as in the case OF Hiram
Woodruff-the upright in heart and
acts-with honor, and fame which
can fail only when kindness toward
animals and integrity among men are
regarded as of no account.
Farmers Wives.
Some years ago I was talking with
DR.. Gray, chief physician in the New
State Lunatic Asylum at Utica, and he
told me that, as a class, more farmers
wives were brought to that institution
than people of any other occupation.
He said 1.-THE reason why this is so,
is that their minds are constantly on
one changeable routine of work, from
daylight in the morning till late at
n1ght-no change-no relaxati0n-no
rest"