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:;'.   'Devoted'to Agriculture,- Horticulture, OTcchaiiics and tlie Useful Arts,*...
D. P. Holloway Wm. T..
Dsskis.R. T. Reed—.Editors.'
RICHMOND, NOV".!, 1856.
.Holloway «&: Co.,
! vol. v	
.PuMia*ier«.
. No.   21.
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instinct and..the laws of its "mechanical ac
tion? , .... ;'.,.', '*■ ' ...'""■'. '"." V ■" ":
"We have.frequently thought that the field'
of politics had displayed more human stupidity than any other department of man's;
action.    But a greater  and more consistent.
the management  ofthe  horse' than in any".
other business man has undertaken in this,
, world.    How few gentlemen—-how few sur-:
geons  even—know that  a horse should he
treated precisely  as we treat a man.    His!
muscles are like ours, anp the laws that gov-!
A Plea for the Horse—Cruelty, of the I em musclar and nervous action in his .system',
; :_._        . .*     Cheek Kein. '.... * ,       !are the same that we are subject to.    Tho
• The Buffalo Democrat publishes the fol- |laws of health arc the same in horse and in'
lowing excellent article.and we copy it with I man*-an! %° mostnI'"tell!Sent veterinary.
_,    ,      •   _, ..,.: - ■     V, , ,-       ; surgeons m 1 ranee, Germany, and England
the hope of aeeophshmg much good by it: -;. I treJt the _nterrupti0ns of normal action in the
..It would be quite as sensible to bit aud; two animal economies in precisely the sa-me;
curb a hod carrier's head backward, by a ! way, and with precisely the same remedies*.!
strap buckling to the seat of hispantaloons, | Now, regard a German carrying a bag of
and to set him to carrying brick up a ladder ' oats upon the back from a vessel to the ware-
in-that hampered condition, as to brace a'house. -See nature's provisions for easily
hor'ses neck towards his tail, as an aid in getting along with that job. Thcmanstoops
drawing a wagon or getting fast over the! forward. He stretches out his neck. The
ground. ... j weight of his body is thrown in advance of.
Three things oceured to establish this stu- j his center, so as to give him a falling tenden-
pid tyranny upon the horse, iu England we.' cy, and in that way aid. his motion. How
speak of. But one thing-was'necessary toes-'Stewpyd does overlook this teaching when
tablish thc custom in thc United States—\ he harnesses Godolphin for diagin'g brick up
that it was practiced by the English. Not- j a grade. Thc horse's head is pulled back-
withstanding our Fourth of July, we arc yet! ward toward his tail, anchored there, by the
in a state of provincial servility to the fash-1 senseless and merciless cheek-rein. The ar-
ions' and opinions of Britain, and we iucvita- rangement is unnatural—the animal Is eVn-
bly take the check-rein from them, as the \ strained by it. He must inevitably lose
sham democracy take free trade from their I strength by it—for it distnrbesthe vitalforee,
transatlantic masters. j and induces -an unnatural action in.tho mus-
. To hold up the horse's head, and make [ cles of the neck, head, shoulders,and mouth,
him look grand, among the grand institutions j There is'achtally less energy and vigor left
of England, was undoubtedly the pulse to I for the limbs and chest than there would bo
the use of the check-rein. It was also, found if the stupid contrivance were jerked off and
that it was useful in evenly matching thc thrown over the nearest fence. If reason
gait and carriage ofthe nobleman's pair:— cannot teach this promptly to any man, just
Some timid fellow bethought him, on an an- let him try the experiment by putting a mar
cient occasion, as using it as a.sort of tie to a
post—holding thus a spirited and; dangerous
horse, and quite economically too, for. he
made^imhold himself.:   *..*;       .      -.,
In time,- too, grew tip in stables and halls
a' venerable and obstinate belief, that' the
check-rein prevented the horse from falling.
Nobody with tho fox-hounds at tlie same time
proposed to take off the squire's' suspenders
to brace his jaws back with them, by attach-
,. ihg them to his cruppor. He was left'to nature in" his pursuit of the fox. . Why was
; not the noble animal he bestrode left to its
tingaleupon himself and go to wrestling, ori"
putting a check in the jaws of a boxer that
shall  extend  down Ms back to his belt.—'
Who beside the British use the check-rein
—*save their free-trade  slaves and  general •
imitators, the Americans'? . The French do i
not use it—the Germans do hot—the Indi-'
ans and Spaniards of South America, who
lite-cajly live on horse-back, and are perfect .
horsemen, do not—the Spaniards of Europe
do not—nor do the Tnrks.^  The mostob-*:
servant and most natural people in the world
are free, from this .mischevious error.   It'is
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