Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-02-18

ing them TO stop, and No note : yiolen3
use Of the whip when they chance 10
manifest Au intention TO turn down
some familiar street or road without an
indication from the iu-tempered slave
driver. Some men-we fear many men
who have. to do with horses, think
them made to be beaten and abused,
and that nothing can be done with them
without full quantum of punishment.
Persons in the daily use and hand
ling of horses should have tact, patience,
the faculty of observation, knowledge
OF the different dispositions of horses,
and above all, . kindly feeling for them.
In tanning by fear, it must be remem-
bered that all the interest which tho AMI
NAL has is the avoiding of an evil; but
in tanning by gentieness, and caresses,
and food. it is the attainment of enjoy
ment. The most extraordinary results
have been obtained by gentleness and
patience with almost every species of
animal when persistently tried. In
stances innumerable might be given,
even from personal experience, in which
kindness has conquered when cruelty
only made obstinacy and viciousness
more incurable.
No men deserve the title OF "horse-
men" who beat horses. It is not the
way to manage them, and it will always
be found that those who do so are ig-
norant, stupid men, or possessed of
cruel dispositions. Such individuals
should have nothing to do with horses.
We are too apt to consider animals nm
der the dominion of man in no view but
that of property, whereas the dominion
granted to Us over the animal world is
not conceded to us absolutely. It is
dominion in trust; and We should never
forget that the animal over which we
exercise our power has all the organs
which render it susceptible of pleasure
and pain. It sees, it hears, it smehs, it
tastes. It feels with acutenese: How
mercifully, then, ought We to exercise
the dominion entrusted to our carel
There is another form of mismanage-
ment frequently INDUCED in, namely,
beating and abusing animals, which,
from defective training by incompetent
men have become what are called
"jibbers." It frequently happens that
horses addicted to this habit are intelli-
gent, high couraged animals, which, per-
fectly docile at one time, have Become
through haste and passion on the part
of those who have driven them, sulky
and obstinate. This is more especially
the case with young horses; at first
many of them are somewhat afraid of
the collar, and if not gently and observ-
antly treated, will take positive dis
like to it, which may assume the form
of jibbing, and be most difficult to over
come. An ignorant, brutal fellow,
would of course, adopt the cruel expe-
dent OF numerically beating such an
animal to make it 60; and to prove his
utter inability to understand the crea-
lures nature, or to manage it nationally,
he may even punish it about the head,
perhaps the most sensitive part of the
horses body, to cause it to go forward
"a strange procedure, certainly.
1t is scarcely necessary to say that
the brutal treatment resorted to, in
order to compel jibbing horse to 60
forward has never yet been successful
If patient persuasion and mild coercion
do not succeed, brutality never will.
To attempt to conquer by brute force
and by brutal means what should be
achieved by observation, reason and
humanity, must fail. High-couraged,
sensitive and intelligent horses, Of all
others, will bear least maltreatment, and
will soonest offer o stubborn resistance !;
just as they are most docile and affec-
tionate with gentleness.- Prairie Far
mar