Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-10-13

makes hun a loafer in harness. aud If nut
trOtter Injuries his usefulness on the
road. In Jogging make him prompt ;never
drives hun till he ceases to be prompt,
aud when speeding at first adopt the brush
system only. A full mile at top of speed
is liable to lay up an otherwise good colt
for an entire season. Watch his mouth and
his feet: sore mouth or tender feet from
excessive pairing of huof inside or on The
bottom is sure to destroy speed, while
the latter is sure to produce cripples.
The hoof is the only protection of nature
to the tender tissues inside the horny
box; any impairment of the resistance of
that box means shortening of gait, testv
trOttIng, loss of speed. Let no man
pare the hoof anywhere till the blood
comes willingly out Of the capallaries.
Let no man pare the inside of the horny
box till you can feel it give beneath the
pressure of your thumb. Keep your
eye on the pairing crank who cuts the
hoof till it beeds and then shouts for
the red hot cautery to stop the flow
resultant of his idiocy. These men
make hosts of colts cripples; they get
a few in the list by the tin cup method.
but who can name II colt trotter that
went down the line a season and steadi-
lv improved as he went, came home and
did not visit the hospital for cripples {?
Shooting can make or mar speed it can
ease or strain tendon; it can change
the motion of the foot, prevent knee
knocking, prevent horse from strik-
ing the tendons of the fore legs. One
of the speediest PAGERS in the world is Il
cripple today with injured tendons be-
cause he strikes it with the hind hoof
the moment he is urged to his clip.
There are wonderful possibilities in the
improvement of action in correct and
intelligent shoeing. but when. as some
men proclaim on the house tops of
journalism. horse can be shod so that
IN one single shoeing or for that matter
half dozen shoeings, pair of crooked
and handy hind legs resting when the
animal is not in action the one against
the other will be Strengthened up and
the horse move of as if nothing had
ever been wrong, then just give that
fakir wide berth.
Development does not mean destruc
ton. If you have no speed after six
months patient work, turn the animal
out and sell it to somebody in need of Il
road horse. If you find you have speed
it is poor plan to ask for too much :
your colt is growing, his bones are
soft. his carriages are only in process
of development, his tendons are inrma-
ture; ask too much and you inure his
, tendons, you make the carriages sore.
you bring on tursal inflammation that
once started remain an eye-sOre and
shortens speed. If you have world of
speed don't ask some anxious driver
to put up IA fence around it so nobody
else can look over. When the season is
over rest the colt, feed him we'll, ex-
but let the exercise be slow and be sure
he takes on flesh freely. Remember
colt life is not troubled with deposits of
fat inside, it is all on the outside; it
protects from the cold; in the processes
of oXygenaton for heat it furnishes
elements so necessary in growth
therefore in the winter lay on the fat.
Then again full tleshed colt can resist
disease better than weakling, so here
is another cogent reason for fat. And
last but not least, when you start train
ing you always need some fat to spare
and when you get rid of it the well de
veloped muscles beneath delight the
eye of horse connoisseur and tells him
as plainly as words that the animal is in
form and will round much quicker than
if you had at the same time to make
speed, blood and muscle.