Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1892-07-23
THE FARM AND HOME.
SOME ESSENTIAL THINGS
ABOUT COLT BREAKING.
Few aIen Who Are Competent to Under
take It-A Splendid Garden--Pota-
toes--Sheep shearlngs and
Home Hints.


iects to break or handle a colt A
man may know Just how it ought to
be done but still be unable 70 do IT.
There are Two very essential things re-
garding colt breaking. First you
must DO a man OF courage and second.
you must be blessed with mild dis
position, and be u true lover OF the
class OF animals you are handling.
! II you have an ungovernable temper
don't ever undertake to break colt
There are times when the whip
must DO applied but all men do not
know when TO stop whipping after
they once commence. Two or three
smart blows with tho whip Is far
better than double the number halt
as smart Don't keep continually
hitting the colt for every little Of.
fence and don't keep tapping him
along on the road but when you find
him unwilling TO obey the word OF
command hit him once or twice. aud
hit him hard. then put up tho whip
You will find him very apt to start
the next time you speak 10 him.
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a writer in the American Cultivator
for i gives the colt good mouth aad
accustoms him To the check. so when
you hitch him up he Is not Ia tho least
troubled with either check or Bit
which is very annoying to him until
he becomes we'll used 10 them. HAIR
ness tic colt and drive him about sey.
eral times, teaching him 10 back ana
start al the word Of command before
hitching him to sleigh or Whee.A
when you do hitch him have your
harness strong and so regulated tia,
you wont have 10 upbuckle any
straps Then II you happen 10 ~,
into scrape and want 10 aetnch The
colt quickly from the cart you can 40
80.
Never leave OH the kicking strap
until the colt has been driven long
enough TO be thoroughly broken ~
matter how kind he may appear II
you wish to be safe keep on tho strap
at Least two months. We read ana
near about controlling bits bur they
are no good There Is not bit too 81
earth that will prevent Il colt or horse
from kicking and d harsh hlt d, ang
KIND y the worst thing you can put
into the mouth Of colt Dr. 4 pailer
Once In while you will find \ horse
that requires a Jaw. breaking bI, p.it
they are few and far between ana a.c
generally not worth the price o,
the bit 4 good sized lcather.coy.
cred DIT and "a nose strap buckled
ught enough TO keep tho mouth closed
"ilI contro any ordinary pul.cr 81
colt and will not fret or chafe them
When you first start out with your
colt he Is very apt 10 want 10 stnrs M
quickly. II is better 10 indulge him
IN this at first rather than 10 pull hin
pack az he will settle down altar
gong snort distance, aud 1! YOU pntl
or yank him. he Is very art to NM
ana i Is better always to avoid nail.
ing II possible ~"
Colts differ In intelligence tho anna
az children. and as rule the bs,trr
bred the more they know and tho I'M.
app lhey are to forget would murh
rather lace locomotive with well.
pred, high-strung colt thnn WIN \
Iunkhead. The well.brcd colt M.
confidence In his driver but the lunl.
mead never. The dull colt never se,s
an OBJECT until he comes In cootne,
with II; then his first Impulse il d 81,
away; but the bright clear. headed (
colt secs ahead. and BY tho timo ~ .
comes up 20 tho very thing thai has
scared the dull colt has. with Tho NM +
81 MS driver reasoned the object ont
M, anu nine times out Of ten will 20 past
inc OBJECT without shyiug.
lake great care when unhltchjpg
the colt to see that no don't star, IN,
with hoIdback or some other alrnn
nltched When you hitch Tho MI,
Tor drive compel him 10 stand n fc,g
moments after he Is hooked IL Nv
This will touch him 10
wait until you arc ready. Give MIN
snort drives ut first aud never driyc
ong enough to get him lep.wenry
Always drive him good road oni,
him road over the little bitfs [
.nd well up to the large ones. Nv e. /
long you teach your colt 10 becorno
yood road horse which will mako him
iery valuable even II he never ,ro,l
asst. 'to1s
1each him to be good walker
ma whenever you find him lnvgfnna,
ne walking gait touch him IN ~
VIII soon learn to walk we'll. which q
'ery essential &c a good horse p