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may not have been occasioned by indispositon to work 

 against an ill-fitting or dirty collar, which may have 

 produced abrasion or tenderness of the skin under it 

 (see page 61). If the unpleasantness proceed from 

 innate stubbornness in the brute, and simple means 

 do not succeed in single harness, place him in double 

 harness, beside a well-tempered, good worker, that will 

 drag him aicay, starting down-liill. In this manner 

 the habit, if not confirmed, will be overcome. In ex- 

 treme cases, different appliances have been used with 

 varied success in making the beast move on — such as a 

 round pebble, about the size of a hen's egg, placed in 

 the ear, and secured with a cord tied round the latter, 

 near the tip, or stuffing a glove in each ear. I have 

 also seen coachmen put two or three handfuls of mud 

 into the horse's mouth, and rub it against his palate 

 with good effect, or tap him with a stick at the back of 

 the fore legs, j ust under the knee. 



Letting a stubborn beast stand for hours in harness 

 in the spot where he has taken the fit, and, w T heu he 

 has become well hungered, placing a feed of corn before 

 him and gradually walking away with it, is a dilatory 

 proceeding sometimes resorted to, but scarcely worth 



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The size of horses should be in proportion to the 

 weight and size of the vehicle and loads they are in- 

 tended to move, upon the principle, easily demonstrated 

 by experiment, that weight drags weight. For in- 

 stance, a horse having to drag a cart up a hill, will do 

 so more easily with the driver on his back than other- 



