The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-02-03
HINTS TO hORSEMEN.
How to Develop Good and Eradicate mad
Traits in Horses.

Traits in Horses.
1t is very desirable and important to
be able to catch horse in the pasture
field, which can most always be done
when he is treated with uniform kind
ness. 1t is often necessary to get up
horse quickly, and if he is hard to catch
the delay thus occasioned may result
quite seriously to his masters interest.
/ never go into field to catch horse
without a nubbin of corn, bit of apple,
handful of oats or something else he
likes, and, as consequence, never
have the slightest trouble in catching
him.
In turning horse out to pasture
never frighten him and make him run
away from you, by striking him with
the halter or bride and yelling at him.
This is mean, heartless habit, and is
apt to make horse hard to catch.
know a farmer whose horses cannot be
caught in the field, and the only way
they can be stabbed is to get the dogs
after them and drive them in! Should
tie dogs be away from home some day
| Tor night when he wants to get up a
horse to go for doctor or to see sick
neighbor, he would doubtless realize
I what it is ''to be in pickle"
Of the many bad traits the horse may
possess, that of being breachy may be
classed as one of the worst think
that the author of the expression: ''an
ounce of prevention is worth pound
| of cure" must have had some expert
ence with breachy horses; at any rate,
the adage holds good in this connection.
Ordinarily it is no very difficult matter
to keep horses from becoming breachy,
when managed with observation-disclosures
ton, AYE, there's the rub, " for many
farmers possess but very little of this es-
sential characteristics They buy horse
or colt and take it home and turn il
right out in a poorly-fenced field, be-
fore it becomes accustomed to the
place, and being Disconnected and anX'
ious to get back to its old home, i,
pushes down or jumps over the weak,
low fences and bounds away like a deer
in the direction of it's home. Therthe
farmer goes after it again and brings
it back and turns it out in the same
field, after having slightly repaired the
fence. But it has now become breachy
and has but little respect for fences
1t gets out again and again, and
thenceforward goes whithersoever il
pleases, regardless of fences and
Jokes
When you buy horse and take him
home don't turn him out for few days
unless you can provide him with very
well-fenced lot or field. And in wean-
ing a colt exercise some Judgment.
Don't take it away from its dam and
put it into poorly fenced field. 1t will
be sure to jumpif you do. Never force
nor even permit a horse to jump back
out of a field he has jumped into, but
open gate or lay down panel Of
fence for his egress.
Before turning horse Tor any other
kind of stock into an unoccupied field
fences. Horses often form the habit
of pushing down the fences and jump
ing, in reaching over after grass and
weeds within their reach. If such
weeds and grass were cut with q
scythe, and the fence corners kept
clean, the temptation for them to gel
into mischief would often be removed
Exercise a little "horse-sense" in this
matter, and your horses will not be-
come breachy.-Frank Leslie, in Ohio
Farmer