| Show cur curl 0 or check cheok rein bein 07 on horses borses hor horses ses we ayo avo havo have aye a serious intention of erecting our solves dve into a permanent institution foi for the relief of distressed animals in ili a late number we fenced briefly at tle practice of kitting upon horseback while the tile horse was wag at rest we wo come now to 0 o a more morn pie prevalent valent alent evil practices practice in the abille nae nac of the curb and check chieck rein in III the cultivator for 1854 p is an article on this subject from all an english poper paper which ought to be repeated repealed or something like tike it every 5 year ear As we go upon our daily beat from the cottage oil on third street to the cultivator office our sense sensa of horse manity maulty la is almost daily outraged by what we see at the tile rails and poets posts along tile the curbstone curb stone country people come in with their generally well weil kept horses and hitch them up w while ave they thoy do their shopping or other errands which some bome sometimes timea takes half a day or more now these people have not tile slightest intention to abuse horses on the contrary many of them would fight for their steeds as soon as they would for their wives or children but this is tile the way they do it most of those who come on hor bor horseback beback ride a spanish seddie saddle with high pommel and with a short bridle they dismount and to keep the bridle rein from getting over the horses head they hitch it back over the pommel by which it is drawn tight light aud and the tn borses horses head slightly curbed if the tile horsa vas vaa in motion this tilis slight curb would cause very little uha una uneasiness ulness winess but while nil all the tile muscles are ara at rest this thid tension soon becomes exceedingly pain painful ful rul especially as many of these country horses are not at any other time subjected to the tho curb the horse beara bears it very well for a little while lut soon begins to step out and champ tile the bit and if it had the tiie gift once vouchsafed to balsams baia Bala ams ass would reprove its owner with all the modern improvements of the language but as the tha poor brute has no such faculty and as the rider is the ass ILI in this caselt must grin and bear it unless indeed the editor of the tho cultivator happens along alon aion gand and quietly putting a finger under tile the rein fillips it off the horn and goes on as innocently as if nothing had happened while the tile nili n lii ili ved animal holds out liis his grateful nose and sy iraik 3 ou on old fellow iu in a kind of horse ini luit that is perfectly lo 10 tile the editor f r d one day last fall we were sitting in the store door dour ol 01 our friend urbana Urba iia lia it was the d y of the country fair and as nelsons belsons Nel sons store is right lorli enst tile the public i quare square the rural eques ti tans came canie ili jn and soon eoon filled the rails with their saddle nags the riders as usual hitched hit clied up the bridle rein over the horn hoyn of the saddle and went to see eee the sights we noticed one colt a spirited troll gray aused trussed ru sed up in this way which soon b gan to how low signs of intense torture our ali finger i i t r tm began to itch to get got hoid hold of that curb the et coit colt I 1 i ailed riled ut tit the rail and we hitched about as I 1 unea onea uneasily bily fily ily lly in our seat and finally as we were about going to tiie the rescue after saying to nelson that a man deserved dt serve to ix ik 4 who would truss up a burbe hure in fit that liitt kiy the tile gray luckily slipped the rein off the pot poi ninel and wid out went his ilia no sethe gladdest colt on oil the public square and we were about to take off our hat and give three cheers when we thought it might compromise the dignity of the cultivator to t o 0 we only clapped cave gave three cheers inwardly r but this Is is only one phase ili in the abuse of tile the check rn reh n farmers Fr mers are not tile the only sinners in III this ili ill is respect in ill fact fuel they are least dulity and it is because t air horses borses are so seldom subjected to check that they summer suffer most intensely when it is I 1 imposed our tawn and cuy folks have most to anser answer for here we see even the cart boys with a tun full of sand iu lit their cart and tile the poor horse horge which is generally a castoff cast off omnibus or livery horse checked up most unmercifully because the ragged raged driver takes as much pride in having lis fits ils team look beti i au as ills his more aristocratic aristo craic and ald at every jar of tiie ilia cart or misstep of the poor poor damaged brute that hau bau hauls Is it the latter gets the full benefit of the jolt upon his jaws which are by this time aime providentially pretty well flardell hardened ed the evil begins much further back the colt ili in tte ite tie tile barnyard barn yard that has lias never known restraint until row lie is some three years old is roughly caught and a bit forced in his mouth a crupper put over ills liis tail tall and a belt around his body and then his nose drawn in ili half way to his breast when lien llen he lip is left tp bufter suffer and sulk sometimes for half a 1 ea cay cas when this editor was a lad be hew was as guilty offutt of just such enormities but these are among the original irmi siti sor bof which lie has most heartily repented in ILI a colt coll to bit the rein should never be yuwu druwit so as a to cause positive pain in tile the muscles of the neck peck for besides the inhumanity and of such a cour course se 1 t the h D horses mouth is irretrievably damaged by it 1 t for f 0 r hm all future use a good mouth is indispensable for fora a good saddle horse when the tiie horb horte e goes into harness again ogain comes the abor abominable nina ble lie curb to make him hold up bis his is head As before remarked in a little hore horse with all al his muscles in action a moderate curb is not very painful and is often useful after long habit in steadying his carriage it is like every other bad habit in this respect but to hitch up the team to a post leaving lavig the curbs tightly drawn is is an unmitigated abuse every daytre see fine carriage teams standing in that way left by the hour the noble beast first puts out his ills fore foro forefeet feet theli thell galliers again I 1 i turns turus his neck quite to IG one side sije ide then to the other side to relieve the aching muscles and all because the thoughtless driver 1 had a d neglected to take the check reins out of the hooks or for fear his team would get their heads beads down P on sundays our devoti devotions lons jons are often very much disturbed by such sights fine carriage carria gb teams team are trussed up for two hours bours at the church doors sometimes hot and in fly time they can only twitch their skin and wag a stump slump ofa ora of a tail sometimes in ili winter with tile the keen wind singing in their ears and their forefeet in the frozen slush of the gutter in uch such cases if ita it were ere not sunday a and iid lid if it were not for disturbing better worshippers wor shippers we would like to throw a into a pew of the owner wlm who ought to be made to sit astride of a sharp rail without any cushion on it all the time his liia team was hitched up that way ohio ohio cultivator ti |
