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and all the other things common to a human habi- 

 tation. That is the way all young horses should 

 be treated. To be sure this involves a good deal of 

 work and many think that it does not pay, so they 

 turn their colts out and let them get two or three 

 years old before anything is done with them. This 

 is as wise as to let a boy run wild and uninstruct- 

 ed until a year or so before he is bidden to go 

 forth and earn his own living. When a colt is ac- 

 customed to persons and not afraid of being 

 touched or led, only patience and intelligence is 

 required to complete his education without any 

 fight or contest whatever. 



Before the colt is a year old it should be ac- 

 customed to the cavesson while running in a pad- 

 dock, and when a year old it should be practised 

 on the lunge, a rein of fifteen feet long attached 

 to the nose-piece of the cavesson. This is a head- 

 collar.with a metal nose-band, upon the front and 

 each side of which are rings. To the front ring the 

 leather lunge is fastened and from the side rings 

 straps will be buckled to a surcingle or girth at 

 such lengths as will prevent the colt from ex- 

 tending the face much beyond the perpendicular. 



