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| To the uninitiated horse owner, there are timely | | | | Intelligent horsemen have learned that kickers, |
| facts about horses they should know. In fact, | | | | biters and balkers are natural results of abuse, |
| when someone first gets a horse these timely | | | | that not one horse in a hundred is vicious until |
| facts should be studied and learned. | | | | made so by cruelty; that whipping a horse is as |
| These timely facts come from the Jesse Beery | | | | mean and senseless as whipping a baby, and that |
| horse training manual. Jesse Beery was a famous | | | | the most useful, obedient and long lived horses |
| horse trainer from the 1800's. Interestingly, | | | | are those treated from birth with kindness and |
| Beery's training methods are as powerful today | | | | common sense. |
| as they were when Beery was alive. | | | | Timely Fact #4: |
| Timely Fact #1: | | | | The whip is the parent of stubborness, but |
| Make your horse your friend, not your slave. | | | | gentleness wins obedience. There is no such thing |
| Timely Fact #2: | | | | as balkiness in a horse that is kindly treated, and |
| Almost every wrong act of the horse is caused | | | | that gets an occasional apple, potato or sugar |
| by fear, excitement or mismanagement. One | | | | from his master's hand. |
| harsh word will increase the pulse of a nervous | | | | Timely Fact #5: |
| horse ten beats a minute. Hoses know nothing | | | | When a hose is afraid or excited, quiet him by |
| about balking until forced into it by bad | | | | kind words and caress. An excited horse is |
| management. Any balky horse an be started | | | | practically crazy and to whip him is dangerous, |
| steady and true in a few minutes. I never found | | | | foolish and cruel. I have known a single blow of |
| one that I could not teach to start his load in | | | | the whip to balk a spirited horse. Whipping a balky |
| fifteen minutes and usually in three. | | | | horse is barbarous and only increases balkiness. |