RUNAWAY HORSES — CLIPPING. 173 



Runaway Horses. — lu some horses this habit merely 

 amounts to an inclination — waiting for an occasion to do 

 so — and should be settled then for ever. The horse should 

 be harnessed with coarse harness and hitched to a strong 

 wagon, taken to a mud road and given every opportunity 

 to run away, but not without a good steady driver as a 

 guide, and to urge the animal to take his satisfaction in 

 full by a thorough run without an effort to stop him. 



Pasturing of Colts and Young Horses. — The ex- 

 perience of many years has taught the author that the 

 present system of pasturing colts and young horses is 

 not only wrong, but positively injurious to them ; espe- 

 cially if they be high-bred animals. How often have 

 we been called to see young thoroughbred colts afflicted 

 with diseases of the bones and joints of the legs — ring-bone 

 and spavin ! Why is this so in animals that have never 

 been worked in any way, and only from one to three years of 

 age ? It is simply because of too much range of pasture, and 

 often the pasturing of too many of them together. Let 

 a half to one acre be strongly fenced for each colt, and there 

 will be no ring-bone among them. The fence for this 

 purpose — or at all events one that answers well — is the 

 dri/ stone wall (laid up without lime or mortar). 



Clipping. — We refer to this subject, not to describe 

 how it is performed, because there are persons who make 

 a business of clipping horses, but to show in what kind of 

 horses it is an advantage, as well as those on whom it 

 has a contrary effect. Horses that are used for long drives 



