| To the uninitiated horse owner, there are timely facts | | | | Intelligent horsemen have learned that kickers, biters |
| about horses they should know. In fact, when | | | | and balkers are natural results of abuse, that not one |
| someone first gets a horse these timely facts should | | | | horse in a hundred is vicious until made so by cruelty; |
| be studied and learned. | | | | that whipping a horse is as mean and senseless as |
| These timely facts come from the Jesse Beery horse | | | | whipping a baby, and that the most useful, obedient |
| training manual. Jesse Beery was a famous horse | | | | and long lived horses are those treated from birth with |
| trainer from the 1800's. Interestingly, Beery's training | | | | kindness and common sense. |
| methods are as powerful today as they were when | | | | Timely Fact #4: |
| Beery was alive. | | | | The whip is the parent of stubborness, but gentleness |
| Timely Fact #1: | | | | wins obedience. There is no such thing as balkiness in |
| Make your horse your friend, not your slave. | | | | a horse that is kindly treated, and that gets an |
| Timely Fact #2: | | | | occasional apple, potato or sugar from his master's |
| Almost every wrong act of the horse is caused by | | | | hand. |
| fear, excitement or mismanagement. One harsh word | | | | Timely Fact #5: |
| will increase the pulse of a nervous horse ten beats a | | | | When a hose is afraid or excited, quiet him by kind |
| minute. Hoses know nothing about balking until forced | | | | words and caress. An excited horse is practically |
| into it by bad management. Any balky horse an be | | | | crazy and to whip him is dangerous, foolish and cruel. I |
| started steady and true in a few minutes. I never | | | | have known a single blow of the whip to balk a spirited |
| found one that I could not teach to start his load in | | | | horse. Whipping a balky horse is barbarous and only |
| fifteen minutes and usually in three. | | | | increases balkiness. |
| Timely Fact #3: | | | | |