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give the other steer the same lesson. You will find 

 this course of training will make your steers quite 

 obedient, and willing to haw, gee, or back, which will 

 be all that you should require in one day's time. 

 The next morning, or when you have time, repeat 

 this lesson with both together. Then place the yoke 

 upon them and let them go for an hour or two, or 

 sufficiently long to become fully reconciled to the 

 restraint of the yoke. Then repeat yoar lesson in 

 open yard, until they fully understand what you re- 

 quire of them yoked together. 



This course of training does not excite, while it 

 conveys the idea most clearly of what is required, 

 and will enable the trainer to accomplish more in a 

 given time, than has yet been done by any other 

 system of managing steers. If your steers have 

 learned to run away from you, which is a common 

 result of tne ordinary method of training, put on 

 the rope and strap, to the foot. If hitched to a 

 wagon, or stone load, let yoar man hold the foot 

 strap, which run back between the steers, and the 

 moment they attempt to run, he pulls up the feefc, 

 while you whip over the head, which will stop them 

 immediately, and will very soon break up the habit 



