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and sometimes most brutally, or the more sickening custom of 

 procuring a bundle of straw or some shavings and setting them 

 on lire under the body of the horse. Such kinds of treatment I 

 utterly discard, and the reader will find, in another part of my 

 book, that 1 give several methods which will prove effectual in 

 eradicating this habit, only meting out sufficient punishment to 

 secure obedience. 



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To Start a Balky Horse. 



Below I give' an excellent method of starting a balky horse, 

 and one which will prove effectual, though it will not educate the 

 horse to abandon the habit. When your horse balks get out of 

 your carriage, walk up to him and commence kicking him with 

 the toe of your boot under the fetlock joint, first one then the 

 other using the word "shoo !" loud and quick every time you 

 kick. Then take your seat in the carriage and use the w^ord as 

 before directed, when your horse will start at once. This process 

 diverts his attention and causes him to move on. 



