worst scrub in the lot. The owner wishing to breed to a 

 better and larger horse sometimes lassoes that little scrub 

 stud and split his sheath, three or four inches long, back 

 between his testicles and push his penis back, and put the 

 end through this cut, downwards, so he cannot draw the 

 end back into the sheath proper. 



Then when a mare comes in season he will mount her 

 frequently, but his penis points downward and he cannot 

 serve her. While so doing the owner or herdsman out on 

 the ranch can see what is needed; will drive the whole 

 band of horses into a yard and separate that mare in a pound 

 to herself and then turn his better stallion in with her, and 

 after service let her go, &c, &c, &c, until the good stallion 

 has served them all; in the breeding season, then lasso the 

 scrub and replace his penis until spring again. 



I am told one of the little scrubs will whip and drive 

 clear away any large well bred stallion. I was also told 

 that strange mares, lotted one night with the little scrub 

 are so subjugated and instructed in the law of wild horses 

 that she dare not desert his band, under penalty of being 

 severely whipped by him, as the king. In this way cheap 

 horses are raised on the range, south and west, at almost no 

 expense, but are also almost worthless, except as herding 

 ponies; are born wild, live wild, die wild and are danger- 

 ous to handle* are not worth the cheap grass they eat. If 

 Congress did not have its hands full now, I think war 

 should be declared against all such scrub ranch ponies and 

 the wolves and coyotes, of our western grazing lands, by 

 killing the meanest ponies first, and sprinkle strychnine 

 on the flesh and call the wolves all up to dine and die, and 

 so on, until such destruction would stop for want of ma- 



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