Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1878-06-13

aort. nut it in his mouth anu cioo' i"'
an II. If he goes to drop it, draw MS a''eh-
tion to it by pressing his jaws tose'her win
vour hands and speaking to Nun ~ VIZ.
not take long for him to learn what "hoio
and "giye" mean. TO make him take hoia
Of If at a particular place-as the mare ooes
whom she fires the pistol attached TO her-
won hold the handkerchief ut the deslfe1
snot. and then, using the WORD you purpose
on,nl loving in the trick, touch him with the
noipt of a pin so that he will think II Is ny
and put his nose around to bite the spot
When he reaches around, you put fhe haho-
kerchief in his ~moutll-that is all there Is OF
if, Before long, if its ''fire" you nave sald
when YOU pricked him with the pin, ne Will
reach around for a nip whenever he hears
the word. When you have taught hlin
what .take'' means, and to kneel, you have
only to combine the two things to get him
to pick up any object you may fanlllaf1ze
him with from the ground. If you teach
him s'get the handkerchief" he will get you
anything white that he finds in the ring, tor
his ideas, of the difference between a hand
kerchief and a piece of paper are not clear.
TO move him toward the object, you use
oesticulations and touches of the whip,
which, he by this time understands and
watches. intentiy. That is the secret OF the
apparent selections of colors by one of the.
horses. He doesn't know the flags apart
but he does know just what my whip means
IL Il. S. ,,o ,,rrl, tN COW nho1t that trick that,
if there is a mistake in doing At, the fault
will be the mans not the horses.
FACING THE FIRE.
There are some curious things about
training horses to face fire. Once broken
0 it, they never forget it. Let them pass
safely through flames once, and they al
WAYS seem to have a mania for gushing into
fire ever after. 1t excites then-seems to
madden them. I.once trained a horse for
that feat who acquired two men to hold
him willie wetting him for it, and as soon
as he was let loose he would dart at the fire
and 60 through it. He would have rushed
into a bonfire on the street, had he come In
sight of one. The broncho horse that does
it here now is the qujetest | ever saw, but
ever he shows that it excites him greatly.
TO make them go through the hoop OF
flames we first teach them to jump a gate,
then put a little flame IN the whip and hold
it over the gate, and they go over that.
Next we enlarge the flame until WI get it
as you saw tonight, a mass OF fire. 1t is
necessary to accustom them to it very grad
ually, for if,once frightened by fire so that
they bolt from it, it is subsequently much
more difficulty to get them near it.
TEE HORSES MEMoRY.
[ don't know how long it will take a
horse to forget a trick that he has once
thoroughly learned, but Pm sure I've will
not forget in three years, because | have
had occasion to test that. Some may have
better memories than Others, just as some
have quicker comprehension. There's that
horse Nettle, Il leaper; | don't thipk lie
would ever foget anything. He is not a
broncho. but an American horse. with a
strain Of Arabiau-a splendid horse but Vi
cious. He cane near killing a groom the
other day. Now, Nettle observes a great
deal, reasons. thinks, and has ideas OF his
own about things. He use to jump over
six horses, but in Cincinnati one Of them
SHE'D, and he got hurt. Since then he will
not jump more than four. He knows he
can make the leap over six with little more
effort than over four, but he will not take
the increased chances of one of the number
moving on: OF place. So he always counts
them before taking a start for the leap, and
it we try to ring in five on him, he refuses
to attempt it. -Four is his limit.
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