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him ?" No. "Why ?" Because it is impossible for me or any other 

 man to break all the balky drivers in the land. Now there are many 

 grades of balky horses. It is a habit of a great many persons, when 

 breaking a colt, to hitch him up first beside of an old farm horse 

 that is lazy, blind in one eye, and so old that he is deaf. When you 

 have got this nervous, excitable colt harnessed beside the old, slow 

 horse, you then take up the lines and ask your team to go. The colt 

 plunges ahead, the old horse having spent many days in the harness, 

 takes life very easy and gradually gets in motion. The colt comes 

 back, the load don't move. The next time you ask them to go the 

 old horse moves ahead, the colt sits back in the breeching. "Ha ! 

 ha I " your neighbor says, " got a balky colt there." Not at all. You 

 certainly will have if you persist in your present course. Take him 

 out of the double harness, break him to drive single, and you will 

 have no trouble with him, single or double. 



In handling a balky horse of long standing, one that has been 

 spoiled by mismanagement, it is advisable to first throw him four or 

 five times. Then put your harness on with an open bridle, running 

 the lines through the thill straps, get behind him with a good whip, 

 and teach him the words "get up." At the same time that you give 

 him the command to move forward, hit him a cut with the whip, 

 showing him that that means "move forward." Work with him in 

 this manner for three or four lessons. Yoa then tie a rope in the 

 traces, carrying it around your back, and teach him to pull your 

 weight, walking behind him. When you have got him so that he 

 will turn right and left quickly, stop at the word "whoa," get up 

 at the word and pull your weight, you can hitch him to a light road 

 cart, getting into the wagon, giving him the word "get up, sir." If 

 he should fail to go, have your assistant take a rope twenty feet long 

 tie it around his neck, pass it through his mouth, back through 

 the cord that you pass through his mouth, making a half hitch on 

 the lower jaw. Let your assistant stand directly in front of the 

 horse with the rope being slack. Hold your whip in the right hand, 

 when you are ready to go give the word, and the man pulls the rope 

 and you hit the horse with the whip, all at the same moment. If he 

 don't move forward then, let the party who holds the rope step to 

 the right and left, jerking his head until he moves forward, you using 

 the words at each and every time, "get up, sir." Give him a few 



