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HORSE SENSE. 



friends instead of enemies. This natural timidity can only be overcome 

 by kind, firm treatment, relished morsels for the stomach and an assur- 

 ing manner that they need not fear anything from those who have charge 

 of their care and keeping. 



EDUCATING THE COLT TO THE HALTER. 



This IS about the simpliest, easiest and most satisfactory demonstra- 

 tion of the natural laws of anything we have to do in their education. 

 If the colt has been treated in the manner heretofore suggested, there 

 need be no trouble in getting the halter on the colt's head, but I here 



Fig. 7 outlines the method of laying Betsy down for the first time at ten days of age. 

 She did not take kindly to this at first, but in a few lessons she became as famil- 

 iar with her humble attitude as any other. Note that the left foot is held in the 

 hand while the head is turned to the right, which naturally throws the weight of 

 the colt to the teacher, and he can lay the little, young thing down as gently as 

 putting a baby in Its crib. 



beg of the handler not to pull at the colt's head to get it to follow, as 

 in this it will certainly be on the wrong line of operation. But as soon 

 as the halter is nicely fitted to the colt's head, a small rope — the size 

 of a light clothes line — about ten feet or more long, with a slip noose 

 or ring in one end, should be gently placed over the colt's back just 

 in front of the hips, with the noose or ring on the underside of the body, 

 so that when the other end of the rope is run through the noose the 



