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the coupling of the hip. From the point of the withers to the 

 shoulder should be just as long as from the coupling of the hip to 

 the point of hip by tail. The horse should measure from the point 



of his withers to the bottom of his front foot fiffcy-seven inches, and 

 from the point of the shoulder to the point of the hip; length of 

 horse, sixty-two inches. Parties buying by this rule will find it in- 

 variable. 



The Way to Shoe a Vicious Horse. 



Take a strap and buckle around the hind foot below the fetlock 

 joint, and take a rope ten feet long and place it through the ring 

 upon this strap ; take a wooden pin four inches long and an inch in 

 diameter, lay directly acros~ he hair of the horse^s tail — doubling 

 the hair over the pin makes a loop — then tie a slip knot in one end 

 of the rope and pass it over the end of the tail and the pin ; now 

 reach down and take hold of the rope, stepping directly behind the 

 colt, and say to him *' take up your foot, sir," and pull the rope at 

 the same time. After picking up his foot four or five times, by th^ 



