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AnotUer and Better Plan for Breaking- a 

 Halter-Pnller. 



Lead your horse to a place most convenient for 

 hitching him. It don't matter whether to a post, in 

 the stall, or elsewhere. Place a common strap hal- 

 ter upon his head, then procure a piece of rein web- 

 bing tifteen feet in length, or a strap one and a fourth 

 inch wide, of same length ; get the center of said 

 webbing or strap. Now buckle a common web sur- 

 cingle around his body, just back of the shoulder, 

 then lay your webbing across his hips ; carry one end 

 forward between the surcingle and body, on the left 

 side, the oposite end between the surcingle and body 

 on the off side of the colt ; the center rests across his 

 hips, the ends carried forward. Take the center of 

 the webbing in your right hand, give it one turn 

 over ; that leaves it crossed upon his hips ; carry the 

 center and' pass his tail through the loop you made 

 by turning the center of the webbing over, the sanie 

 as cruppering with harness. Step forward ; reach 

 your left hand through under the horse's neck ; take 

 hold of the end of the webbing on the off side ; with 

 your right hand take the end on the left side ; bring 

 the two ends together under the neck, and tie them 

 around the chest. Then carry the end of your tie- 

 strap through the ring in manger, or some point 

 where he has been in the habit of pulling ; bring 

 back and make/ast to the webbing that passes around 

 the chest. Your halter-puller now is in the right 

 position ; if he refuses to pull, induce him to do so 



