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lingly. Then increase your load, and if he refuses to pull 

 use the cord as above. We have seen the worst of balky 

 horses in three hours time made perfectly kind — to pull in 

 any spot or place. The plan is simple. And why is it so 

 effectual ? there is nothing you can place in a horse's mouth 

 by which you can control him with such ease. The cord 

 is placed around his neck, and brought forward into his 

 mouth, and by a sudden pull with the other end it is drawn 

 suddenly across his tongue, comes in contact with the 

 nerve of his lower jaw, which he cannot long endure, and 

 he willingly moves off. If, at any future time, he should 

 show any symptoms of balking, a lesson with the cord is 

 all that is necessary. 



HARD PULLERS. 



(See Fig. 9.) 

 It is often remarked, and by horsemen, too, if you have 

 a hard puller upon the bit, give him all the road he wants, 

 and let him go. If he goes too fast jerk him up, first with 

 one line, then with the other. I have known some hard pull- 

 ers, which, by giving them the - rein and all the road they 

 wanted, would run until they would fall, and repeat the same 

 thing day after day. The idea is perfectly absurd ; it will 

 amount to nothing but a broken down constitution. Let 

 me speak of a simple plan by which you can control such 

 horses at pleasure. Get a common snaffle bit, around which 

 weld two iron rings one and a half inches in diameter ; the 

 bit is now placed in the horse's mouth, with rings slipped 

 close to the cheek bars ; get a half inch strap, ten inches 

 in length, with billet buckle and loop attached to each end 

 the same as for buckling check-reins in bits ; now place it 

 across the horse's nose, and buckle each end into the rings 



