Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1874 — Narrow Stable Boors. [ARTICLE]

Narrow Stable Boors.

A man who will habitually take a horse through a narrow door knows very little of what a horse remembers, or what is fair treatment to the animal. One single blow on the hip against the sharp corner of a doorway is sometimes sufficient to ruin a valuable horse. But when that blow lias been several times repeated the horse becomes a highly dangerous animal. We have seen a horse whose hips were never healed after striking two or three times in passing through a narrow way. Another dangerous practice is the leading of horses out of the barn doors by the sides of loads of hay, grain, etc. A slight blow upon the hip will sometimes so excite a high-spirited horse that the person leading loses control over him, and he escapes upon a jump, banging his hips and shoulders as he proceeds, leaving patches of skin and hair as evidence that. he has got through. Many a valuable horse has been ruined in this way, and many a valuable one can- be saved by never leading him through a narrow space. —Neio England, Farmer.