, 1879-12-01
Breaking Colts.

Breaking Colts.
Colts, says the National Lipe Stock
Journal, should bs hslter.broken when
following the mare; it helps to subdue
them. and supersedes the necessity of
breaking them over again when grown
up. "Once broken always broken is
an axiom as old as the art of breeding.
It is advisable to break them to harness
at two and one-half or three years old.
They will receive no injury from care
full usage in light vehicles. The most
practical mode of subduing wild colts
is to hitch them up with a we'll broken
horse. and teach them, by example, to
perform service.
The first step is to bit the colt-to
make him bride wise. This is accom-
pllshed by checking up the head with
the biting bride. They may be turned
into the yard to run at large, taking
care that their heads are not left
strained up more than one hour at a
time. The head should be let down
often to give the neck rest. It will pre-.
vent their contracting coarse, unpleas-
ant hog mouth. After they become ac-
customed to the bit they should be
driven in harness, without any load,
for several days till they yield implicit
obedience to the bit, and obey with
alacrity the word of command. They
will become comparatively broken by
the simple process of suppling the
neck, and teaching them to stop and go
forward at the will of the driver. They
will seldom offer any resistance when
hitched TO the vehicle. Patience and
perseverance will accomplish wonders
in horseaesh. Intelligent instruction
improves the disposition and develops
the speed and endurance of colts-es-
sential qualities in the roadster. The
more good qualities developed when
young, the greater will be the merits of
the recipients. Those subjects that
will do the most work in the least time
are the most profitable to the owner.
1t costs no more to keep or raise the
fast worker than it does the slow mon
grel. The former will perform twice
the service of the latter. The best are
the cheapest to wear out besides there
is pleasure in using superior animal.
Colts should be broken to harness
before they get so strong as to control
the driver. They are not perfectly de-
veloped for hard work before they are
five years old. Gentle usage at light
work for one or two years will bring
them into submission. They will be-
come accustomed to different kinds of
service, and the force of habit will
make them kind and trustworthy.
When broken under the law of kind
ness, they seldom contract vicious hab-
its-they are not naturally vicious;
they are made SO by ignorant or brutal
drivers. Incompetent trainers make
balky horses. They use too much
brute force without reason or common
sense. They appeal to the lowest pas
sions, in place of intelligent instruction.
Reason is better than force to govern
the horse-kindness is the weapon to
subdue the wild colt. This humane
law removes terror, and secures the
confidence of the colt in his driver;
and so long as that confidence is not
abused, he will yield implicit obedi-
ence to the word of command. When
the wild colt is trained under the law of
force, he becomes terror-stricken with
fear, and fights back to relieve himself
from oppression; and, having the ad-
vantage of superior strength, often tri-
umphs over his trainer, and contracts
the vice of rebellion. This vice lives
on to be inferred with his bones.
HEAVIEST, TALLEsr, AND OLDEST
MEN.-The tallest men of whom rec
ord is made were German named Hans
Bar and q Hungarian soldier, name not
given, who lived several centuries ago,
each of them being eleven feet high /;
their weight is not known. The heavi-
est man of whom record is made was
Miles Darden, the Tennessee giant, who
was seven and one-half feet high, and
weighed over one thousand pounds
he died in 1857. Daniel Lambert, the
English "mass of flesh" was five feet
and eleven inches in height, and
weighed seven hundred and thirty-nine
pounds. In 1865 there was buried at
Bengal, India, man named Cugua,
who claimed to be three-hundred and
fifty years of age. The oldest person
who died during the present century
was Frenchman in Paris, named Jean
Golembeski, who was one hundred and
twenty-six years old. A man named
David Kurnison died in Chicago in
1851, who claimed to be one hundred
and sixteen years old.-Chieago Journal.
An experienced dairyman states that
he considers the critical point in the
process of churning, in order to make
good butter, is just when the butter
and buttermilk begin to separate. Two
or three gallons of cold strong brine
added to the churning at this moment,
he claims, wonderfully facilitates the
process, and improves the condition of
the butter; the warmer the cream the
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