The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-11-05
HORSE AND HORsEMAN.

Don't allow the boys 10 make
trials of speed with farm horses.
Horses were not designed to be
abused, and a man who persists in
abusing them should not be allowed
to own or control them.
Horses which are given continu-
Gus work are less liable to be in
jured than those which are only re-
quired to do a days work oces
sionally.
Watch the feet of your young
horses'while upon the pasture. They
are liable to grow out long and
break of, probably injuring the
feet permanently.
Indians have been stealing large
numbers of horses in the southwest
recently. They seem to have a
weakness for horses and are to neg
ligent to raise them.
If you think there is nothing in
blood and breeding in a horse, 90
to the fairs and see what kind of
horses secure the awards. Blood
will tell in the show ring.
Proper fastenings for the horses
are necessity in every stable. A
farmer cannot afford to take
chances on losing a valuable animal
or two for the cost of a few good
halters.
To successfully handle horses re
quires constant and untiring atten-
ton. What is taught them in a
month may be more than lost in a
day by careIessly allowing them to
do as they please.
While scars, sores, blemishes, ETC.,
are often caused by accidents, their
origin may more frequently be
traced to carelessness than other
cause. The man who exercises
proper care over his horses seldom
experiences any annoyance in this
direction.
Do not make prisons of your sta
bles by coping your horses up in
them when there is no work for
them to do. You may be obliged
to keep them in the stable, and
in come respects 1t may be a
good idea, but when such is the
case the stables should be made
comfortable. Plenty of light and
air is necessary to comfort, and free
as they both are it is a shame to
deprive anything of them.
1t is a much easier matter to keep
horses from learning to jump over
and break down fences than to
break them of these habits after
they have contracted them.s Seldom
if ever3are horses naturally breachy
but the habit is either acquired by
seeing others az it, or by allowing
the fences to get so poor that the
horses are tempted to get over
them. The horse that is used to
good strong fences all his life is
never a very bad one to jump over
them.
Many farmers believing a horse
should not drink water after labor
until entirely cool, bring their teams
from the field after a six hours
seige at the pillow, and hitch them
to a rack of dry hay to eat during
the hours incoming" and water
just before returning to the field.
Think of this a moment. What
is the team in to eat dry
hay when suffering with a burning
thirst? And what condition are
they in for blowing in the afternoon
without taking food, but with twice
as much water as they should ever
be brought into a condition to want
at any one time? Is not this prac.
tice inhuman, to say the leastP
Speaking of speedy trotters
springing up in the west, A. Gold
smith, the veteran turfman, says: l
never saw anything like it. You
cannot calculate on anything with
these new trotters and drivers.
These horses would come from the
back woods that nobody knew any
thing about, and with drivers that
nobody ever heard OF; but the trot-
tiers would have so much speed
that the hayseeds behind them had
to do but hold the lines,
and the old drivers couldn't make
any combination that would beat
them. May be the old guard can
get the best Of them on the grand |
circuit tracks, but l tell you the
downed them in the |
west.