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Show BREAKING A WEANLING COLT Half of Education of Horse Is In Getting Get-ting Him Used to 8tsnd Tied When Hitched. (By J. M. BELL, Virginia.) A New York horse dealer came to Virginia twenty-odd years ago and bought a farm for the purpose of raising colts In addition to small farming. farm-ing. His method of handling colts is ' worthy of Imitation. At thirty-six hours of age the colts were haltered and left in the stalls-one stalls-one to a stall, of course, as their dums slept there at night. Very soon the colts were perfectly halter broken (long before they were weaned) and la being baiter-broken, A Virginia Hackney, they were taught one of the most Important Im-portant things in horse-breaking, namely, to stand tied when hitched. This one quality ts about half of the education of a horse, and without It no horse la properly broken. When old enough to eat solid food, they were fed each day, and later on turned out to pasture, but still were given some extra feed and their mother's milk until ready to wean, when they were put out in a good grazing field. The dams were well fed, and regularly regu-larly worked at leatit eleven months out of the twelve, If the weather permitted. per-mitted. They kept In good working order, did good work all the year round, and four out of five raised a thrifty colt. Never let a colt grow to any age and size without baiter-breaking htm. Hundreds of valuable young horses are much injured In deposition by letting them run until they are from two to three years of age, and then for the first time cornered in a stall by several farm hands, which may be a frolic to the latter, but quite the contrary to the former. |
