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Question. How would you break a horse from switching his 

 tail ? 



Answer, Place on the horse a collar and hames, and then take 

 hold of his tail. Take a wooden pin five inches long, one inch in 

 diameter, lay directly across the hair of his tail, double the end of 

 the tail over the pin ; then take a rope eight feet long, in the middle 



of the rope make a slip-knot and fasten over the end of the tail and 

 pin ; then bring the horse's tail up over his back, bringing one of 

 these ropes down to the ring of the hame and tying it, and on the 

 other side in the same way ; the rope prevents the tail from going 

 either side ; take an ordinary cloth surcingle and put that over and 

 around his body ; leave the tail up in this manner for six hours ; if a 

 very bad case, repeat three times. This is the best method I ever 

 ■used, and will surely do its work. 



