The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-03-21

All this trouble may be saved by
putting a surcingle on the horse, and
after placing a broom handle or other
round stick under the tail tie it by both
ends forward to the surcingle, placing
the stick horizontally. In one night
he is cured.
[ had at once a very fine horse, but
he had this fatal gift of kicking when
some n dropped the line under his
tail. He would hug that line with his
massive tail and kick everything into
chaos and run like a frightened comet
with its tail over the dashboard.
I got hold Of this recipe and had faith
in it, I have yet, but its too much ex
pense to take care Of the mans family
after he has put the broom handle I'm
der the horses tail.
The doctor has another good cure for
shying. 1t is a general rule, too, among
good horsemen. 1t is, in substance, to
lead the horse or drive him to the OBJ
je It, let him smell of it and put his
nose against it, and he will never fear
it again.
This is common sense, but it must
not be followed too closely. I had a
very spirited hunter once with which
I used to chase the fox whenever l
could get one that would last me two
or three years and come home to his
meals.
This hunter vas a claybank FLY
named Lady Pinkham. She was afraid
of nothing, it seemed to me. She would
jump a rainbow if somebody would
steady it for her. and I've known her
to jump an exorbitant livery bill and
come home without a futter of the
nOstril.
But [ soon discovered that she was
afraid of the bear, Of which there were
a great many On my estate. Well, now,
how are you going to take a spirited
horse and lead him up to a bear and
then rub his nose over the bear7
You can't do it, you know.
Then she was always afraid of a dead
cOlored man hanging to a tree so l had
to sell her.
She was also afraid of the limited
train which goes past our place, but
does not stop there.
Well, you can't lead a scared horse
up to a limited train that is going at
sixty miles an hour. 1t is undignifed
in the first place, and then again the
passengers resent it. People don't want
unknown horses to rub their noses
against their private cars that way.
One of the most valuable things in
the world is a recipe for making a
COW come up at night. Much sorrow
is felt in otherwise happy homes by
that sad, sad question in the heart:
"Where is my wandering COW to
night7"
Some COWS are wild and gay. They
become the heads of families before
their girlhood is fully passed. They
like still to spend the evening with
other young people. Thus they do not
come home where they often supply a
family with milk and then get kicked
in the stomach by the friendly hired
man.
This staying out of nights with gay
companions, on the part of the COW,
leads down to the dark and cherries
beef barrel. 1t is said, and it has to
be stopped. You can stop it if you
really admire and respect her. First
teach her to love you and come to you
when she wants a lump of sugar or a
new pair Of undressed kid gloves to
eat. Win her heart then; then you
can be sure she will come home when
there is nc other place open.
Now get her to come and breathe
her sweet tornado in your a while
feeding and petting her. Have prepared
two straps three inches wide and just
long enough to buckle around the knee
the cows knee. Drive these straps
full of tacks, with the points just pene-
trating the leather q fraction OF an
inch. Buckle them below each knee
on the fore legs, and when she gets
| over her giddy evening with young
friends of her own frivolous style she
will kneel down by the side of her bed
for a moment, as size should, but she
will feel panied by the sharp tacks and
will shake her head and snort, but
after a while she will examine another
bed and try it. This also will hurt,
and she will try to get the other heifers
up with her to put in the night. She
will lift them a little with n horn
and then try them with the other, but
they are slumbering and will only
sthake their heads in a dreamy way