The Country Gcntlemaiis Magazine 



585 



^h^ stable. 



R UNA WA Y HORSES. 



THE American Agricidtm-ist some time ground, the weight ^f the body thrown com- 



ago gave an illustration and descrip- pletely off the fore-feet, so that kicking is out 



tion of a highly useful and convenient inven- of the question, and the animal, being thrown 



tion for restraining impetuous and hard- upon its haunches, of course must stop ; he 



mouthed horses, which we have had engraved cannot e\en back, for tlie Doctor says — and 



or the benefit of our readers. The inventor though we have not tried this, it seems true 



is Dr S. B. Hartman of Millersville, Lancaster 

 County, Pennsylvania; and the accompany- 

 ing illustration shews in a very clear manner 

 the effect of these reins upon a horse. " The 

 head," says the journal referred to, " is thrown 

 up, the eyes lifted so that he cannot see the 



— that a horse may be made to sit down 

 squarely on his rump. The bit is a simple 

 snaffle, or plain bar bit, attached to the head- 

 stall in such a way that the check-strap (not 

 buckled into the bit ring, but running through 

 it) may be shortened up almost indefinitely 



