Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1869 — Laming Horses. [ARTICLE]

Laming Horses.

The hone is one of the most powerful, ambitious and sensible of domestic animals, andyet, in acertainsense, is for from being a hardy one. In this respect the horse is not equal to the rough and tumble usage which the mule or even the ox can bear without exhibiting marked signs of the severe discipline to which they have been subjected. In reviewing the many horses daily thronging the streets of the larger towns and cities, the number of defective ones can scarcely.fail of being remarked. Some are ajjing in the fore limbs, others in the hind ones, and not a few in both. Thia is not necessarily the result of age, defective blood, nor of special hard work, though in some instances it may be so, but much oftener is the consequence of careless handling or positive cruelty on the part of those to whom they am entrusted. As has been already Intimated, the horse, in a certain sense, is a delicate animal, and if pounced upon in a passion while encumbered with harness, and possibly with a load too heavy for easy movement, the chances are that efforts toescape punishment will result in such an over-tension at the muscles as to produce permanent lameness. Kvery one conversant-with the rough and tumble work of the farm the lumber the docks and the like, will have encountered many difficul ties in which teams and teamsters hen

•evereiy triad <B«iu become Ixcited and ftaettous, and whatever the fenlt, if fkult thsrpfes, the -horyo-js Ukelyteo receive prettyfeevere treatment if not-permanent damage. Mot« few hones are lamed uh der kuch circumstances, while others are injured by Want of proffer consideration <fe IM vnnbf those having them in charge —not from pbsitive ill trtatthent, but bv careleatneakin placing the animals in such ■ftuatiqps Sji Id reuse unwonted exertions to escape frefeii'an Mppfehended danger. _ ILurah Nyninh man are not suited to the«XWanTnUßiTiMVtag the spirit, tenderness and susceptibility pertaining to the horse, and were .such leas frequently entrusted with* the taanagement of stable stock! there would be fewer limping and comparatively valaeless horses ia oar public thorough fares-thM there are at present. The greatest care* it is frua, cannot prevent accidents to horsss, to all cases, buU with proper attention the number of the halting ones wouH Constitute the exception, and hot the rule, as !s now too often the Ftyd and Harm.