Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1895 — The Balky Horse. [ARTICLE]

The Balky Horse.

Notwithstanding the fact that the press continually admonishes whom it may concern that it does no good to whip or pound a baiky horse, almost every owner or driver of one does it today. It is probably the greatest piece of horse folly in existence. It is not a remnant of barbarism, says the National Stockman, but is continued barbarity, and brings out wfiat original and acquired sin there is in a man. The brain of a horse can retain but one idea at a time. If the idea is to sulk, whipping only intensifies it. A change of that idea, then, is the only successful method of management This may be accomplished in scores of ways, a few of which will be named: Tie a handkerchief about his eyes; tie ills tail tightly to the belly-band or back band; fasten a stick in his mouth; tie a cord tightly about ills leg; uncheck and pet him awhile; Hasp his nostrils and shut his wind off until he wants to go; unhitch him from the vehicle and then hitch him up again, oir almost any way to get his mind cn something else. Whipping or scolding always does harm. The treatment should ever be gentle. There are more balky drivers than horses. The Luciferians, an early Christian sect, took their name from Lucifer, th* Bishop of CagliarL