Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1893-04-01

from overwork to a limited extent than
the one that is neglected entirely and
allowed to roam at its own free will till
5 years old, which Is often the case.
Place halter upon your colts as soon
ss they are able to stand, be firm yet
kind i'm your treatment You will find
that he little fellow will soon
learn to obey and enjoy it. If the colt
is to be developed as a colt trotter in its
yeailing or two-year old form then it
should he handled by an expert from the
time 1t is weaned and even then the colt
is not expected to make a reputation
for its father and mother. By trotting
as yearling or two-year old 1t should
by all means be broken in the fall at its
yearling form and thoroughly broken
as there is much less danger of accident
if taken at that age than when allowed
to wait till they are four or five. Fire.
quently an old gentleman is the owner
of young colts and lacks tact 70 give
them their regular exercise and syste-
matte care, such a one should be
aroused from his lethargy and engage
the services of an expert for month or
more to give steady judicious handling
and training. such an outlay will
be returned a hundred fold in the
price attainable when the colt is
put on the market, and if such course
was freely adopted you would not hear
the pessimistic ideas advanced by the
owner of few mares and q rapidly
increasing band of colts, and instead of
his finding fault because of the dullness
of the horse market he would be dis
posing of his well broken colts at re-
munerative prices. A month or two
of work or handling by an expert given
a colt, when two years old, will enable
any owner to continue safely with his
care and training, unless he or she
should show promise of speed, then it
IS much better to leave him where he
received his early training, for man
who lacks experience can do more to
kill speed in a months work than the
most ;skillful can remedy in two
months. The length of time for prelim-
mary work will vary, with different
animals. Where the owner or trainer
knows the disposition of the ancestors,
he can usually judge of the amount
of time he should expect it would re-
quire, for an expert to turn him over to
his owner. First teach your colt what
the harness and bit is and get him ac-
customed to being guided with the
reins, after which he must understand
what it means to have buggy or cart
rolling aud rafting behind him. Don't
put on a cheap harness for the first
time, or hitch him to cheap cart, for a
lesson or accident learned when young
is sometimes very hard TO forget. This
preliminary work should be given a
colt one at time with an older hOrse.
1t is counted by many that all this fuss
does not pay. Of course it does not pay
II you haven't good colt begin with,
but youngster that is sound and right,
having a good disposition and in its
veins predominance of the great blood
of the land, can be trained expensiyely
with great profit if training and devel-
oping by the owners of colts was more
literally INDUCED in, throughout this
section, there would not be the feeling
existing as it does at the present, re-
garding the breeding of the favorite
mare. There is always a market for
the we'll broken, promising youngster,
whereas the unbroken grows and in
creases until by the weight ofnumbers,
the owners heart as well as his bank
accountis broken