The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-09-24
HORSE AND HoRsEMAN.

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and endurance, and then style.
The best way to make horse
gentle and trusty is to be gentle
and trusty yourself.
The efficacy of "blood" in brood
mares Is quite as noticeable in the
sires.. and always will make an i'm
portant showing in the offspring.
Colts should be learned to eat
meal and bran now, so that they
can be fed without any trouble,
and their growth be kept up when
weaned.
The young colts should be han
died every day and learn to stand
quietly hitched In the stable, so
that there need be no trouble when
weaving time comes.
The most handsome horse is not
always the best for practical pur-
poses Very often it is the plain
horse that shows the most endur-
ance, speed and useful traits.
DR.. Horne says: Handsome wo-
men and handsome, good horses al
ways did go together. l would
choose a wife on her appreciation
of good, stylish, intelligent horse.
The best women l have ever known
were great admirers of a good
horse.
Prices still rule dull in England
with agricultural horses, for purely
working purposes, the cause beng
the general dizziness of trade. Con
tractors in London have for some
time past been out of the horse
market, having not enough work
for the horses they have on hand,
let alone refllin9 the empty stalls.
A kind disposition is a very i'm
portant quality in a horse, and
should be looked after very careful
ly in selecting one for practical
use. Especially should breeding
animals be selected or rejected &C
cordlng to the development of this
characteristic. A horse with an
unruly disposition is very many
times Of little or no account.
The hair shows the breeding of
an animal very plainly, and more
attention should be paid to its quail
ity. A well animal will always
show its blood in its fine, glossy
hair, and if any animal shows a de-
parture from this rule it is either
out of health. or something is wrong
with its breed. A coarse, rough
haired animal is generally coarse
grained, sluggish and inactive, and
many times also i'll natured and vi
cious, and especially is this true of
the horse. A fine, bright, sleek,
clean haired horse always has nerve,
action and endurance, generally
coupled with a nervous Hbut gentle
disposition.
This, according to the Canadian
Breeder, is what an English groom
said to yankee hostler: When a
horse comes in all wet with perspi-
ration you let him stand in the sta
BILE and dry with all the dirt on.
In England we take the horse as
he comes in from a drive and sprin-
kle blood warm water all over him,
from his head 10 his feet. Then we
scrape him down and blanket him,
rubbing his legs and face dry. Thus
in an hour he is clean and dry and
ready to take a good feed, while
with your way he will stand and
swelter for hours, and finally dry
sticky and dirty. Our horses never
founder and never take cold. We
never use curry comb. You
scratch your horses too hard. The
only care necessary is to have the
water not very cold, then bath them
instantly, while you are rubbing
their legs.
A high spirited, mettlesome horse
is generally an animal capable of
enduring much hard usage, if it is
only properly managed and con-
trolled; but very often these ami
mails are made more excitable than
they really are by nature, by the
bad judgment and fussiness of the
driver. Take team full of life,
Yigor and fire, and one or two jerks
and harsh words from the driver
will so excite the animals that they
will almost be unmanageable the
whole day, and will worry them
selves out in short time through
mere fretting; but if the same team
be taken in hand by driver who
will handle it in such a way as to
get the excitable animals to work
without in any way fretting them,
they will in a short time be moving
smoothly and at the same time
quickly, and within an hour would
be showing the results of extra
stamina.
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