STARTS A BALKY HORSE.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 203, 25 August 1916, Page 2 (Supplement)

STARTS A BALKY HORSE.

SIMPLE TRICK CHANGES ANIMAL'S -MIND FOR HIM. The balky horse has the most sense and the confirmed runaway horse the least sens? of any horse, says a writer in "Our Dumb Animals." The balky horse is not to be cured by beating and abuse. When a horse makes up inmind to balk he has no room in his mind for anything else. Whipp : ng only increases his stubbornness, but there is a method which goes to the cause of the trouble. With a single idea in his head, it was reasoned that the best way to get the horse to move was to give h'm another idea— sometlrng else to think about. Horses and mules resent interference with their liberty to move the:. - ears at will. It was noticed that ,i horse never changes Ins course of action without moving his ears. It was then found that when a horse balked it annoyed bin to have one ear pushed under the crown of the bridle so that he could not move it. And it was also found that if the ear was left there for about twenty minutes he was so annoyed that he forgot about his determination to balk. He shook his bead turned to one side and then the other and mad. l every effort to release the ear. This occupied Ins mind until when tin 1 driver ordered bin to go he went After a few minutes the ear was rnkiised, and he went on as if lie had forgotten a'll about balking.