Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1874 — Hints to Horsemen. [ARTICLE]

Hints to Horsemen.

BY PROF. O. HOWEGREEN.

If your'horse is in use a low dash board, and yodrhorse will soon get over it. j TO.fclst Keep your horse fat; don't allow any > one to get a lien on him. , ■ When your horse refuses totakft up an oat, consider him as having failed. To make your horse very faSt, tih him - with two halters. t**" Never feed horse chestnuts to chestnut horses, flor horse sorrel to sorrel horses; I you can give cream to a cream home r if i you like and the horse likes it. Itisnot necessary to employ a cream pitcher te ' pitch hay to a cream horse, however. It may answer to stirrup your saddle,' *; but don’t stir up your horse—rat least a stirring horse— in a crowd.- -It might cause a stir. t : *' Look carefully after the Wteo£youf -- 1 horse, or you may soon be looking after the bits of your wagon. ■ ‘ s ’* If you have the proper address, you, may receive acouple of lineafrom ahorse, but on no account “drop a line.” • ' . However well you may be attached to your horse, you most be emrtaih*Wßf f? ' j horse is well attached to your carriage. If a horse is recommended to 'y<WM ; being a horse of good carriage, dosFHn* - fer that he is a good carriage horse: * s ' When you tell a hqrse to “get up,” Iqpk , well to his “get up” Some horiwwhfw* within the buggy, and some get uo with' out the buggy, but like deep Sorrow, ’ ‘leave their traces there.” ' . ; Ahorse is something like a publfq ,oft. - ecr when he is installed, in this thafl ns' begins to “feel his oats" diiectlyf IT . are any oats in the stall. Whatever smll ■ '' you use for your horse in the stsbte; you should always use a head-steH.-wheu you < > drive him. An unbridled hbrpe is, much like an unbridled tongue. . Rearing colts is often very profitable, but rearing horses are not profitable, especially those who rear up tn the rear and' execute flank movements oh the* dashboard with shoe-fly accompaniments. They "foot up" a bill for repairing too harnessing a horse resembW get Sig married, in this, that the bridle comes first; but you don’t feel the brlde’llYeign till you “get into the harness” andfeel the check. Blind bridles are mpst common in both cases, and poor things jn either. You may make a home laugh byWiling your horseunder the ribfi»,b®t |twyl always be in a crowd of donk When you go to church you ought to shed tears of repentance for youreen, if you don’t have any shed (jgr -JroUt horse. -Detroit (frmwarettl ,