6 HAY SEED, OR HOW TO 



gentle green colts — three, or even four years old — is to 

 tie them in a stall in a barn with other horses and 

 treat them just the same, viz: feed, water, bed, 

 groom and go through the whole business with them 

 until they become accustomed to the noise, and having 

 people around. They will in a couple of weeks be- 

 come perfectly docile. I have found that the less fuss 

 that was made about hitching up a green colt the better. 

 If you have got a good driving pole horse, hitch the colt 

 in with him, to some light running vehicle, having first 

 had a harness on him a few times and a bit in his mouth, 

 and if he has had the proper kind of treatment around 

 the stable it is a hundred to one he will go off readily, 

 and by the time he has been driven a mile he will act 

 like a horse ; don't drive him too far, two or three miles 

 is far enough the first time. Keep driving him every day 

 carefully. But if you have not got a good driving pole 

 horse, hitch the colt to a skeleton wagon or sulky and 

 get up behind him just as though he had been driven be- 

 fore. Make him think he is a horse, and above all don't 

 fight him, and don't try to pull his head up too high un- 

 less you know he is going to kick. Get him to do what 

 he does cheerfully and you will have a better broken 

 horse in two weeks than half the old ones are. 



