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ment a few minutes; when mounted, do not allow him to start 

 off in a hurry — walk him off. After practicing this a few times 

 he will be perfectly submissive. 



HOW TO CURE BAD KICKERS. 



For extremely bad kickers, or horses bad to shoe, the following 

 method will be found effectual. Put on a common rope or strap 

 halter, with a hitching rope or strap about twice as long as the 

 animal's body. Have around the body a common rope or sur- 

 cingle. Then pass the rope or strap between the forelegs over 

 the surcingle, back around the hind feet, below the fetlocks, and 

 forward over the surcingle between the legs, and tie short into 

 the halter beneath the jaws. Xow make him kick, and he will 

 yield readily. 



HOW TO MANAGE BALKY HORSES. 



Free-going and high-spirited horses are the ones more liable 

 to become balky. The cause of this is due to drivers who seem 

 to believe that all horses have the same dispositions and should 

 be treated alike. When a horse balks it is from some misman- 

 agement, excitement, or from not knowing how to pull, but sel- 

 dom from unwillingness to perform all that he understands. 

 When you find a balky horse, you will always find him a free 

 goer, or he is hitched by the side of a slow horse, and the driver 

 an impatient man and usually possessing a small amount of com- 

 mon sense. The anxious horse can scarcely wait until he is called 

 on to go, and when the driver, who scarcely knows a horse from a 

 cow, bawls out for them to start, he springs forward against the 

 load, wliidh gives him a severe jerk on the shoulders, causing him 

 to flyback and jerk the slow horse thatis just now getting started. 

 The driver bawds out again, and the free horse springs up again, 

 but the load does not move, leaving them confused and not 

 knowing how to start the load. Now the driver flies into a pas- 

 sion and begins whipping and slashing and hollowing until the 

 poor animals are so confused that the-y know nothing. The 

 driver, who is whipping, knows less and has lost all reason and 



