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Show 4-H Horse Project Draws Big Response and scripts. Lessons, worksheets, work-sheets, and audiovisuals may be ordered separately. Additions' Addi-tions' to the series are being developed and will be offered later in the summer. Authored by experts in their fields, the 4-H horse project was prepared by a group of Cooperative Extension Exten-sion Service program specialists special-ists with the financial and technical aid of Purina Horse Chows, Ralston Purina Company. CHICAGO, ILL. - A red ribbon tied to a horse's tail means he's a kicker. If his ears . are pinned back, he's , angry; if they're pointed directly at an object, he's frightened-or interested! Horse lovers nationwide will find a lot of fascinating and practical facts about their favorite animal in information-packed 4-H horse project aids, a multimedia approach, to instruction recently made available through the National Nation-al 4-H Service Committee with the support of Purina Horse Chows. x Broad subject range The project covers such subjects as practical horse psychology, genetics of coat color, intermediate trail riding, rid-ing, and equitation. It also deals with health hints, principles prin-ciples of foot care and shoeing, shoe-ing, saddle selection and construction, con-struction, training, and buying buy-ing a horse. Materials include 1 0 printed print-ed lessons and worksheets, and 15 slide sets with accompanying ac-companying tape cassettes Orders pour in Tyrus W. Thompson, assistant assis-tant director of the committee, commit-tee, called response to the project "overwhelming." Orders for 300,000 printed lessons and worksheets were . processed in the first three months of 1975, he said. Originally developed for use by 4-H youth in programs , conducted by the Extension Service, the materials also have proved popular with adults-from breeders to showpeople to weekend riders. rid-ers. The response is not surprising, sur-prising, since horses are being used by more people today in pleasure activities than at any time in the nation's history. In fact, riding is so popular nowadays that the bridle path sometimes becomes the bridal path for horse lovers who decide to get married on the trail rather than in a traditional tradi-tional setting! A descriptive brochure on 4-H horse project aids is available avail-able from the National 4-H Service Committee, 150 N. Wacker Drive, Chicago, 111. 60606. Horses are more popular than ever, and so are the multimedia 4-H horse educational aids made possible with the support of Purina Horse Chows, through the National 4-H Service Committee, Chicago. The aids-including lessons, worksheets, slides, tapes and scripts are created by horse specialists with the guidance of a committee chairmaned by Dr. Melvin Bradley, extension horse specialist, University of Missouri. |