Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1883 — New Cure for Balking Horses. [ARTICLE]

New Cure for Balking Horses.

It is thought that a new cure has been discovered for balking and cribr bing horses by the application of electricity. A gentleman of Baltimore, who has a horse subject to. balking, placed an electric battery, with an induction coil, in his buggy, and ran the wires to the horse’s bit and crupper, and as soon as the horse came to a standstill the current was turned on, and, after the horse was-relieved of his shock, it is said, he proceeded without showing any disposition to balk. The same application was successfully made to a horse who indulged in cribbing, whereof he was soon cured through the unpleasantness of the electric shock. Those who have balking or cribbing horses may give the foregoing a trial.