The art of taming and educating the horse : with details of management in the subjection of over forty representative vicious horses, and the story of the author's personal experience : together with chapters on feeding, stabling, shoeing, and the practical treatment for sickness, lameness, etc: with a large number of recipes . ng arbitrary checks upon horses forgiving fictitious style to them in driving, at the expense of agreat deal of comfort, freedom, and vital force, is of the samefoolish character, which, in the hands of ignorant people espe-cially, has become so very common as to demand
The art of taming and educating the horse : with details of management in the subjection of over forty representative vicious horses, and the story of the author's personal experience : together with chapters on feeding, stabling, shoeing, and the practical treatment for sickness, lameness, etc: with a large number of recipes . ng arbitrary checks upon horses forgiving fictitious style to them in driving, at the expense of agreat deal of comfort, freedom, and vital force, is of the samefoolish character, which, in the hands of ignorant people espe-cially, has become so very common as to demand the most seri-ous effort to prevent it. CHECKING AND BLINDERS. Cropping aud Docking.—In accordance with these ridiculousnotions, introduced, perhaps, by some titled fool, it was thecustom in England, about forty years ago, to crop horses earsand manes, illustrations of which are given from an old Englishwork, showing the method of doing it. Thirty years ago, inthis country, it was common in every neighborhood to seehorses with their tails cut off and nicked, which requiredtheir standing for the stable with the tail drawn upwith pulleys, and this even at the risk (which often occurred)of so much inflammation setting in as to cause the falling outof the hair of the tail, or of producing tetanus and the loss of. Fig. 304.—The head as usually drawn up with the overdraw check. the horse, which was not infrequent. This was carried to suchan extreme by many, that it became the point of ambition ofthe professional dealer to have a horse with the shortest andmost elevated tail, with a short tuft of hair hanging to it. Toshow that this is true, I give an illustration of such, copiedfrom the English work before named. This custom, absurd asit may seem, was as common about a generation ago as theoverdraw check is now. CHECKING AND BLINDERS.
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