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lessons for three or four days in this manner, and in the majority oi 

 cases you have got a horse that will pull. 



There are other balky horses that it is necessary to throw and give 

 a good whipping. This character of a horse is generally of a slug- 

 gish disposition, and the only way that you can get it to go will be 

 to frighten it with the whip. I had one horse that I could not work 

 by any other means than as follows: I hitched him to a wagon and 

 asked him to go, but he would not even straighten the traces. I got 

 a man to take a good whalebone whip and stand, at the side of the 

 horse and whip him over the end of the nose. This I kept up for 

 about ten minutes, just as hard as he could whip him. At the end 

 of that time Mr. Horse got sick of balking and has never balked 

 from that day. 



There are other horses that it will be necessary to handle in a 

 more quiet manner, but in some cases you must use the whip to 

 get the animal frightened, so that when you speak to him he knows 

 that he must move forward. When workiug a horse you must not 

 leave him until you conquer him, if it takes twenty-four hours. 

 But understand me correctly, don't lose your temper, don't use a 

 club, don't kick him ; use a good whip. Be careful and not hit him 

 on the body or in the eyes. Use the whip on his legs and on his 

 nose. I have started a great many balky horses by striking them 

 with a whip around their front legs. This is a very tender spot and 

 they won't stand long and take the punishment there. In working 

 a balky horse, always keep a large stock of patience on hand, and 

 don't think you are going to break him in two hours, because you 

 are not. The moment he goes, reward him for it by giving him an 

 apple. 



Question. How would you break a halter puller ? 



Answer. Take a strap fifteen feet long and throw it over his back; 

 reach under his body, take hold of the end of the strap and tie an 

 ordinary slip-knot ; have this knot come directly under the horse's 

 body ; place the strap between his front limbs up through the halter, 

 and hitch to a post or to a ring in the manger; do not hitch the 

 halter strap ; then step in front of your horse with tin pans, blank- 

 ets, umbrellas, and all kinds of objects, in fact, everything, and 

 frighten him and make him pull if possible. After pulling back 



