Amateur Farming.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3094, 3 January 1889, Page 2

Amateur Farming.

On the traimng in the Boolta o|i amateur famine Bavlhatl>* great care should, he taken in the choice of a horse,- In this, as in all. other things, 1 do hot agree with thetii choice volumes of. deluding fiction. .My experienced that no matter what cure the amateur farmer takes in the, seleotipn of his aninials he will lia-J • cheated out of his eye teeth, eo it is A better to buy blindly, and then, you j - will have less trouble and the rtßult will be the same,. ; Tbe lioreo is the most complicated thing about the apiat4ur tariu. He can pet more different tilings the-' inatter with liini t|)aw pnyjnimjil I;'am acquainlfd'with,''' TjieVe'is'pardlj; a horse' Belonging mer to : daiy, t|)'at has' not', ut least ja : dozen complicated arid ulterly incpf-, in thjtikjnj depply on i|)p mitject at' w)iat hp amateur farmer . . fo'n'lhe e/:onD)j|y:'ofjiatiire, I'jj»y§.; poptptfteqoppllf ßJiitiaf jig'ijfof' , the |iufjiosp"of uploadfd o& him all the worthless horses thftfc the. honeat genuine farmer can't get rid: ■- of otherwise, . - ■ ■ ; The first horse I got wsi cofhbafi* tively flc Jud only flngUe, Wee, glanders, spavin, founder and - Wfeinesg the IPftttep Wtji f|in. i tides tjie I j)iting a new j»{eca-out i of.- me ■ every. j l ime I came ;ffithin range pf him; these accomplishments he • added «rt aocnf'aqy.j an 4 i "■ tfm( war mncji admired' iyj coiijioißßeuri', rW?pn { pni 'writing-' 1 - thin managed dufrmg our afso'eiallon together "to keep- , ontsido hie hind foot area. I got fa tbt bbit.of bwiK(tinjHia .{rMi & ; ■

next nihil..-. iJy iiiubus of irslcji ladder . against the |mrtiiion of tho Stalls ] dropped the harnesson him piece ly Bt'fi mid then .clinibing'over: aii-i - fw*!»g liini i>y tlie forelock to that, he ; could not bite I g«-neraliy iimnayd to buckle enough of I lie liui iiths together . to enable me' to tuku Imii: jut »nJ attach him to tho baggy. It was« slow Mill tedious operation, mid ul'ier a\vhile,although I grew moro itouhtutiifd to it I y practice, I found it was better to walk down town tliali bother with the horn. His name was Samuel but familiarity brod contempt and we called him Bam. Iu that excellent work. ".The . Horse, and how to thiiii liim," (price Idol 50 cts), soma remarks onhow to cure ut bors* / of biting. I have'since found out that the only cure for anything about a burse i» to sell him, but at (hat ■ time 1 did not know as much as I du now, and I thought there were some . things you could cure, ' • ■ B> . Thß book said that a sure cure for L waa 10 | ,r oceedas follows. Oct r- of mutton ami roast it piping hot. Suddenly obtrude this red Lot leg of mutton on the attention of the biting horse, and when he'fastemd his teeth up to the roots in it he would never bite anytbingelseas long as lim lived. The method seemed a good one, ,and I resolved to facritiue a leg of mutton on the schemo. This is one thing I Imve always Hilmired aliout Hgriciiltiual books. Their instructions always look' plausible. Wit heated the tuulton good and hot and then the hired man and I had some, discussion us to ■ which of us should administer the remedy. Ho absolutely declined to 'havo anything lu do with the project. He knew more about horses than I-did, I climUil over the partition between the stalls ami Hjjjdeiily confronted the horse with the mutton..-The horse bit it nil' right enough; I will say that much for the book. But that horso would bile at anything He dug his treih to the hilt iulo the mutton and then gave a vi-ll that shook the roof, I instinctively Wt that 1 had gone too f/far. He shook himself free from the mutton and then reared iip and broke v the halter strap. He h t lly threw V kicks in rapid succession at the partition and knocked every board out having only tho Iratne work on which Iyvas perched tremMing wilh all mv might. Then he kicked out the dof r arift ( knocked tlw Iront wheel of the buggy into matchwook. I never saw a horse no much annoyed about n li'tle tiling. Finally he saw me, I yelled for the hired man to come with ) an axe but he did'nt like to interfere. The lioise gave a shriek of tieudish delight; opened his mouth to the fullest extent allowed by the law and rushed for me. I jumped into the I other (tall, Be reached after uie through the wrecked portion of tho partition and tore most of my £jkt out by thn roots. I escaped up ' into tho haymow and he Jfa kicked .the ladder to pieceß, It ijjr was three days before any of us darnl ■M go near that horse. All that night f the how was so mud about the mutf ton that whenever ho thouglit about it he kicked a lieV hoard out of the eide of the stable, Ever after lie bit at everything he saw, •. 1 offered the street car company a bonus if they would accept «Bs hoise as a gift, but wlien the -plnagerßaw the animal ho would come to no terms within reason. I thought Sam whs calculated -to shine in front of a street car..