:20 COLT TRAINING, 



However, you may use your own pleasure about 

 that; but under all circumstances give the above les- 

 sons irst. If you wanted to teach a dog to drive cattle, 

 you wouldn't get an old dog that would run in front 

 of the cows and chase them wherever you didn't want 

 them; nine chances out of ten, the youns^ dog would be 

 like the old one. It would be natural for him to learn 

 more from the old dog than from your teaching. For 

 that reason I prefer to educate the colt by itself. It 

 is very common for a man to hitch his colt first, with- 

 out any training at all, by the side of an old farm horse 

 that is lazy, possibly blind in one eye, and so old that he 

 is listless. When you have this nervous, excitable colt 

 harnessed by the side of the old slow horse, you then 

 take your lines and ask your team to go. The colt 

 plunges ahead; the old horse having spent many days 

 in the harness takes Ufe very easy and gradually gets in 

 motion. The colt comes back and the load don't move. 

 The next time you ask them to go the old horse moves 

 ahead, the colt sets himself back in the breeching. 

 Xow you are in a good position to teach your colt to 

 balk. If you will take the colt away from the old horse, 

 and teach him by our system of training to drive single 

 first, you v, ill have no trouble to drive him double. The 

 first tini'j you hit<3h the colt up, if it is wild or inclined 

 to be doubtful^ it is advisable to use a single foot strap; 



