l62 EDUCATING THE HORSE. 



manner of treatment and education, but, know- 

 ing full well the difficulty sometimes attending 

 the first haltering of wild colts, I have prepared 

 the foregoing plate as illustrative of my method, 

 and now proceed to give directions which, if 

 strictly followed, will insure success. 



Take a pole about ten feet long; drive a nail 

 near the end, then drive another about fifteen 

 inches from it; now take a rope halter, and hang 

 the part that goes on the top of the head on 

 these nails; then enlarge the nose-piece, by 

 means of the slip-noose^ sufficiently to allow it 

 to slip on easily, observing to Hold the halter 

 stale in your hands with the pole; approach your 

 colt with great care, and allow him to smell of 

 the halter, and, in a few minutes, he will yield to 

 your advances, and allow you to place the hal- 

 ter on him without much difficulty. Make the 

 shank or stale of the halter about three times 

 the ordinary length, for, as soon as he finds him- 

 self caught, he will use his best exertions to get 

 away from you. 



