HORSE SENSE. 



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ami while lie naturaiiy would go ahead by the tap of the whip on the 

 rump, he now acts under the impression that he is nut to be per- 

 mitted to go ahead from the treatment he had in the mouth, and now 

 that the punishment is coming at the rear, he says by his actions, "what 

 am I to do now?"' and in his confused condition he generally rears up 

 and throws himself, breaking the harness or wagon. 



BAD MANAGEMENT IS A FRUITFUL CAUSE OF BALKING. 



Who is to blame with the balker? Ninety-nine times out of one 

 hundred it is the result of bad management, in the first place by the 

 driver, consequently the old adage that "balky horses are made by 

 balky drivers." 



REMEDY FOR BALKY HORSES. 



Before giving the remedy, it will be well to repeat the law governing 

 the horse, to-wit: Whatever happens at the front of the horse, impels 

 him backward; and that at the rear sends him forward. Now we must 

 take advantage of this law in applying the remedy to the balky horse. 

 Instead of the usual confusion, excitement and punishment, we should 

 quietly get down from the wagon and caress the balky horse as though 

 nothing was wrong. We should then take a rope or strap strong 

 enough to draw the load, and from eight to ten feet long, with the short 

 end toward us. Then we should lay the rope or strap across the tail of 

 the horse, just below the end of the tail bone, about three feet from the 

 end of the rope or strap; now turn all the hair of the tail back toward 

 the body of the horse, holding the same with the left hand. Reach under 

 the tail and grasp the long part of the rope or strap with the right hand, 

 bring it around the tail and tuck it under that part of the tail double, as 



Cut No. 99. 

 THE BALKY HORSE HITCHED FOR THE START. 



