EDUCATING THE HORSE. 311 



THE ONLY SAFE METHOD OF CONTROLLING 

 A HORSE BAD TO SHOE. 



I appended to a former plate instructions 

 whereby a horse may be educated not to kick 

 while shoeing; but if owners of horses will not 

 take the pains to educate, it is scarcely reason- 

 able that the blacksmith should be subject to 

 severe torture in shoeing a vicious horse ; there- 

 fore I have provided the foregoing plate as de- 

 scriptive of the mode of perfectly controlling 

 the horse's hind-foot, so that the farrier need 

 have no fears for his safety. Take a single rein 

 or cord, make a slip-noose and put it on the 

 horse's hind-leg between the fetlock-joint and 

 hoof ; then bring the rein or cord forward to the 

 breast and pass it around over the neck at the 

 shoulder ; now bring it down and put it under 

 the rein or cord, forming a half-hitch, and bring 

 up the leg so as to make it convenient for the 

 smith to pare the hoof or nail the shoe ; then 

 take a pole-strap or one of similar width, and 



