Caldwell County MO Archives History .....HORSE CLOGS 
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HORSE CLOGS
	Narrator:  Stephen Stubblefield of Kingston

	A Pioneer Farm Contrivance

     Some one recently brought from the Ozarks a queer wooden contraption.  No 
one except Steve Stubblefield of Kingston was able to identify it.  He called 
it a "horse-clog" and told of its use in earlier days.
     The horse-clog consists of a piece of wood with a wood clevis which was 
used in early Caldwell county and elsewhere on a horse's foot to keep it from 
running when it was turned loose.  Mr. Stubblefield says that this wooden 
hobble was used in this part of the country when a lot of land was still open 
prairie, before the stock law required fencing.  The horses would be turned 
out with the clog, and when the owner wanted to catch them, the horses would 
not give so much trouble, since they could not run.
     The clog was made of a wood pole about 3 inches in diameter and 15 inches 
long.  It swung on one end from the wooden clevis ping, and the clevis went 
around the horse's foot, just above the hoof.  When the clog was used, the 
hobble form of tying the front feet together was not necessary.
     The above specimen, now on exhibition at Kingston, is possibly the only 
one to be found in several counties, since it is a long time ago when they 
were used.  Mr. Stubblefield says that anyone who had chased a horse all over 
a field on a wet day to corner it with a bridle would appreciate the value of 
a horse-clog.
     Interview  1934.


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