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If in throwing a horse you find it requires too much strength, the 

 horse being too large or fights too hard, when using my method of 

 drawing up one foot, I would suggest the appliance of my double 

 safety strap. Buckle the strap around each front limb below the 

 fetlock joint. Take a strap twenty feet long, snapping to strap on 

 nigh front limb, place through the ring in surcingle underneath his 

 body, draw through ring on off front limb and back through ring in 

 surcingle. ISTow take hold of strap with right hand, take the halter 

 in left hand. Your horse is standing on three legs. Now pull him 

 to you, and when he makes a move, you pull the strap and raise the 

 other leg; this brings him to his knees, Xow pull his head around 

 to you, and the horse will gently fall upon his right side. This is 

 the safest and best method of throwing a horse I know of, there being 

 no danger of hurting either horse or man. 



You Must Educate Your Horse. 



Educate and teach hini as you would a child, and thus make him 

 more useful and valuable to man. The horse is an animal of no 

 little intelligence, docility and faithfulness, qualities which would 

 be more generally apparent were it not for the cruel treatment so 

 commonly practiced in breaking him. Have patience with him, and 

 practice good judgment and common sense in handling liim. Un- 

 derstand before you commence to drive him that he is a dumb brute, 

 and as he cannot talk he will watch your every movement. A finely- 

 bred horse is as sensitive as a well-bred person, and you should not 

 halloo, whip or spur him as you would an old dung-hill of a brute. 



The whip is a very good thing, but should only be used in its 

 place, which I will give you a little illustration of here. If you are 

 driving along the road and your horse shies at a covered wagon or a 

 bicycle or a vv'hite dog, or anything that excites his fright and causes 

 him to shy, do not wait until he gets by and then up and whip him 

 for the next fifteen minutes, but when he discovers it, take the lines 

 in the left hand and the whip in the right, and when he makes his 

 first shy give him a sharp crack of the whip, at the same time say- 

 ing " take care, sir ; what do you mean ?" Don't talk as though you 

 were half asleep, but as if you meant just what you said. Keep both 

 eyes open and don't whip him as though you were trying only to kill 



