Holbrook argus., 1904-04-23
Still Pursued by Two Farm Hcssss
 That Were in tho War.
They Are "Battery Broke" cad Fer sist iu Going According to nals- tary InstrUctions In
 Their Work.

theyurp called battery broke, and they are relieved from all obligation to know another thing during their careers. The first item in the education of the artillery horse is that when he is stand- ing stlil he is to stand still, regardless of everything, until he gets the next or der. The next point is tha, when he is ordered to go, then go he shall for all there IS in him. The third poin, is, that when halted he shall swing around in the direction from which he has come and stand stock still, and that he is the prett.est of all, for it goes to the tune of "battery front into action." When horse in the artillery knows those three things he's battery broke." and he never u. eds to know any Lore. If there is need of few-other pits of mis- cellaneous information the horse looks to the n,rileryman to know them.
 The simpiicity of all this is what raised hob on inc farm. The commando ing officer of the farm had bought q pair of condemned horses at an army sale. Fine. big, heavy beasts they were, and there is seldom too much the mat ter with the ho, sr when the army comes to sell him. so there IS many a good bar gain to be had m that wa. sc long as one dorslr'i mind the "C. $" and the condemned brand on his bit oi stock. This iarmci maybe didn't know the difference IT perhaps h, forgot to make sure. and there was nobody at the hale 10 tell nm tnai these were battery broke" horses that knew only three things and would never know more ncr less.
 The farmer had out his pair in q big field, where he was busy about some of the tasks which keep farmers busy at this time of year. I hey were hitched up to a good big farm wagon. which took up hi'put us much room as the caisson arl i"her did in the light bat tery in whi"h ."cc" horse hat served, but it didn't begin to weig.. anything like as much, and it was just easy for those two horses. All vert well, so long as it was question of using the first idea those horses had. The feld was big one, ard they were stopped at one end of it. There they stood. Ihc farmer chrruped at ther, io ioliow hlm along the r'w he was setting out. When that was N bout result Il, yelled "Get up!" with 7'nrings. The order was not milith ,i,e trimrIngs seemed natural; tns.. en,irded line horses of the artillery. still the order for the for ward march had not come and the horses were too well trained to budge. At last the farmer came running up with whole lot of almost renuine ar tillery lan"inre and grabbed the whip and lashed tiir iorses. lie did not hurt them--thcy were too tough for that : but he did convey the impression that the time had come to bring their second idea into play. They started for the other end of the neid full tilt, as they had bt rn taught to go under all circum- stances. and with the fine scorn of what may be m the way which characterlzes the artillery. Along toward the other end of the field it seemed to strike them that things were not altogether as they used to be in the old battery; there were no drivers to keep the pace up and to use language. But they found a farm road which worked them around the field nearly to where they started. This brought them back to the farmer, and the way in which he was swearing made them feel natural once more. Therefore when he got close enough to them to enforce his order, although "whoa!" was not quite the same thing as "halt!" they wound up in fine shape; they swung the farm wagon clear around with good imitation of battery front into action. But the wagon was so much lighter than the piece to which they were used that damage resulted. The contents of the wagon were shot out uDOn the advancing fa nd Jeff