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goes to get up pull the rope, and this brings his head to his shoulder 

 and prevents him from getting up ; then take tin pans, bells, rattle 

 them all around him, then you can let him up ; then you take and 

 put on an ordinary open bridle, straight bar bit, using the pad of 

 your harness, run the rings through the thill straps, then put on my 

 double safety strap, which goes as follows: 



Buckle the strap around each front limb below the fetlock joint, 

 take a strap twenty feet long and snap in strap on nigh front limb, 

 place through ring in surcingle underneath his body ; draw through 

 ring on off front limb back through ring in surcingle; step back 

 behind the horse and take reins in right hand, pull on the left hand 

 and commence to drive him ; every time he kicks bring him to his 

 knees ; then take a back strap, attach to the reins with crouper and 

 fasten on to that bells and one-half dozen tin pans, a bundle of straw, 

 and drive him around with these articles hitting his heels ; have an- 

 other man take a pole ten feet long and rattle these pans and bells ; 

 carry the pole in front of the horse's limbs, and back behind his 

 limbs, and every time he makes an attempt to kick bring him to his 

 knees, using the command " take care, there, sir f speak this very 

 sharply and firmly; give him two lessons each day, each lesson not 

 to be over one hour in length, and in five days your horse is thor- 

 oughly broke and will be gentle to drive to the carriage. 



When working the horse, always use him on the soft ground where 

 there are no stones ; always use knee protectors, as this guards 

 against any accident happening. 



Question. How would you break a bad balker ? 



Answer. There are three or four kinds of balky horses ; some 

 are nervous and excitable, while others seem to have no ambition 

 whatever. A dead-lifed balky horse, to my knowledge, is not worth 

 breaking. All high-lifed balky horses can be brought under per- 

 fect control and thoroughly b^roke by folio winof these directions : 



Take your horse out and t,\row him repeatedly fifteen or twenty 

 times; then put on the bridle and the harness, running the lines 

 thiough the thill strap and telling him to "get up," and stop and 

 ba^k by the word of command. Teach him this thoroughly before 

 y » place him before the wagon. If he will not move forward 



