Show WHY A HORSE BALKS Edward Vaughn writing in the cur current current rent issue of Farm and Fireside the national farm paper published at Springfield 0 tells why a bor horse e balks s and also adds that a a. balky balk horse hore should not be he whipped The explanation q lana tion of a balking horse borse lies Beg in the horse having basing a delusion that he be is hitched toan to toan toan an immovable body or is tied Mr 11 Yau Vaughn goes on as 88 follows Let mo me illustrate Have you von ever e seen Keen a man whip a a. horse borse tied in in a 1 astall stall If you ou did lidon you noticed that the hor horse did not tr try to get et away a It would lump Jump around snort Imort paw pa kick possibly but hut it would not try to get ct awa away Why you vou ask does dors it St not try tr to get awn nt For the tho cry ery good gOOi reason it ha has good horse and will not t try a ting thing that it knows it an cannot annot not do Some timo in the past it tr tried d to break it itS halter found fonn it impossible and good sensible horse that it knows itself its t lf to tobe I be will not try tn 3 again ain So it is with your our balk balky ho horse e. e Some Som time in the tho past someone overloaded o tho the poor hors horse got it tt stuck then beat it for a awhile awhile while and as a last rc reM resort ort rt unhitched I and left the load then taking the bruised half dead with fright BO so called I balky horse to the barn unloaded the tho whole wa wagon on pried it iti it out and if it were in the mud pulled it up up- upon on solid I footing hitched the balky horse borse up again and after a lot of r swinging around finally got ot of off f. f Bat But you sa say that should not make the horse permanently balk balky Well WeB sometimes it does docs not but hut one or two more overloads o ono one or two wo more mort beatings beatings beat bent ings ing and it jt is all isaU all over o with mth lour horses horse's working days If Ii your our horse norse could reason from irom cause caUM to effect the tho same as ou thin then we would never ne has havo such sucha a thing as 35 a balky balk hor horse e. e But it cant can't It knows on only onis' 1 this One Ono time it was ri rigged ed up with a lot of straps around its neck Deck collar a lot moro more covering ering its body harness and tied to a solid place wagon agori Its master at that time tune beat b beat Rt it and yanked it around until it wa was almost dead and it t could not get getaway getaway away so with the same straps upon it its bo body the tugs tug fast neck yoke nj DE v er environment the tho same samo as when It it tried to go o upon a previous pre occasion and could not why should bould it try again Sometimes bv by f leading ea in it itt it you can get et it to go but bu 1 if ir it comes 11 tip up 1 against the tho collar and then flies back it thinks itself tied and will win try tfX no more |