18 THE HORSE OWNER's 



strap ; loop one to the upper or right hind leg ; draw it 

 up and make fast to the eighth ring ; the lower or left hind 

 leg to the fourth ring'. Now all of the legs and head are 

 fast to the surcingle, and as much under your control as 

 though he was screwed in a vice, and he is just in the right 

 position to perform any surgical operation, such as cas- 

 trating and the like. We never ask over ten minutes to 

 castrate any stallion alone, without the assistance of any 

 one. I claim, after long experience and acquaintance 

 with other methods, that this is the best and only true 

 device in practical use for this purpose. 



By handling your horse in this manner, you place him 

 in a position that he is wholly unconscious of his strength, 

 and when you bring him to his feet, he is willing to do al- 

 most anything you may require of him without resistance. 

 You now have the three points established, fear, love, and 

 obedience, and a foundation laid for future education. 

 Your colt has learned to follow to the right and left 

 and straight ahead. By the use of your whip, you have 

 also satisfied him that you can control him. You mast 

 now teach him to stand hitched with the halter, and in a 

 way to prevent his ever learning to pull on the halter. 

 (See Fig. 5.) 



Lead him into the stall and hitch by this plan, and he 

 is thoroughly halter-broken, without ever being injured 

 about the head. After testing all other methods ever in- 

 troduced, I find this decidedly preferable to any other; 

 and, how far preferable to the old barbarous and inhuman 

 way of snubbing him to a post, and permitting him to 

 pull until nearly or quite dead! And what right has 

 man to inflict so much agony upon any life entrusted to 

 his care ? What right has humanity to complain of tyr- 



