8TUD BOOK. 81 



should be got rid o or put to slow and heavy work. 

 Youatt. 



PULLIXG AT THE HALTER 



The following is an effectual method of preventing 

 and curing a horse from pulling at the halter. It 

 should not be applied in a stable unless the animal is 

 watched, as he may throw himself and receive injury : 



Put a strong strap or rope around the neck, and 

 another with a ring in it around the pastern of one of 

 the hind feet, and attach a strong rope to the ring, and 

 pass it under a firm strap or cirsingle, buckled loosely 

 around the girth, just back of the shoulder. Continue 

 the rope between the fore legs and through a hole or 

 ring in the manger, or post, where the horse will pull, 

 and then tie it to the strap around the neck, then let 

 him pull " to his heart's content." A few such trials 

 will most likely subdue him. The harder he pulls back 

 the harder his hind foot is pulled forward, and the 

 experimenter will be surprised to see how little the 

 horse can do he will not be likely to even get his 



hind foot off the ground. 

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