The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-15

power to give his pain surcease," and to make him happy and contented-for then homesickness of the acute and chronic form man knows few more wearing ailments. Is your horses dis position sociable CT misanthropic? You don't know? Well, why not find out? Does it irritate him to has his yoke mate or neighbors eating noisily and visibly while he does? Is privacy evi- dently his preference? Very well, then, by boards, or zinc, or tin or canvas, shut off both sides of his stall at the head so that he may eat in peace and live the isolated life which he prefers.
 If he lays back his ears or snaps at his neghbors, or fidgets and kicks at the partitions, etc, he does not fancy company-at least at meal times, and he vii, be better, do better and (here
 the pockets comes in) keep more cheaply if you cater to his fancy. If, on the contrary a shy feeder" let <, him see others eat; even let him by a simple arrangement feed from the | same manager as one of his neighbors, which is to be tied up short until Mas ter Dainty has eaten all he Will when,
 upon allowing the neighbor to par IQake, the fastilious one Will redouble his efforts to eat just to spite the late
 comer at the feast. The writer has used this plan with many poor feeders from race horses down, and always
 with the best results.
 Is the stall always sweet and we'll | ventilated not at the rear, or in tho ! passage way (and in cool weather), but
 at the head and ins the hottest nights
 of summer and at say, o'clock of a
 stilllng July morning? You don't know?
 Well. why don't you? And are you fit
 10 have horse if you don't? Is the
 surcingle always comfortably loose, or
 is It, as usual, drawn as tight as an
 average husky groom can draw it Ito
 Keep the blankets in placer" Now if 1t
 is tight when the animal is standing
 up f. is far more so when he is lying
 down, and if you have horse whom
 yopG man says Sleeps standing up"
 just go personally and give him two or
 three holes in the surcingle for few
 nights C'uubeknownst" to your en- ploye), and then inquire again. This c0relessness is universal and hideous-
 ly cruel It bruises the ridge and back. prevents rest and sleep and is inde , fensible upon any preteXt, for q breast girth, or any of she blankets with straps. sewn on will keep the covering : in place and allow the sufferer--for he l is nothing else--to rest in peace. While | You arc about it, just measure his hal- 3 ter shank and see if he can lie down. l Many q horse Is purposey tied too
 short to save the groom trouble in 3 cleaning him; also sec if the nosc-banA . ot the hal,er is loose enough so that he
 can chew comfortably; that the throat :. lash is not too tight; that the crown r piece and brow-band are not harsh
 edged leather which will rasp and ir 0 ritate his enrs; and then offer him {
 pail of walter-or two probably-and set S if James has not, as usual, left hin
 abont half cared for to get along unti
 daylight tho best way he can Agail
 find out if he is afraid of the dark
 many horses are-and if he is nigh
 Kicker" be sure that he does thu
 dread the departure of daylight, an IT leave an artificial light, dim or bright st hut at all events, enough to altay hi V paroxysns of terror. Ninety stall kick CTS in the hundred will abandon th " nractice forthwith if light is left i 'e the stable The expense is small, tn UT cure almost certain. Outing Magazine