98 TAMING HOKSES. 



pretty well ; he appeared to be afraid of many ob- 

 jects he met with, and was far, very far from being 

 that gentle, docile animal, tamed by the simple, 

 natural means made use of in my method of break- 

 ing horses. Besides this, those horses do not re- 

 main gentle. I speak from experience. 



ANOTHER MODE OF BREAKING A HORSE 

 FOR A FEW HOURS. 



Stop up the horse's ears, so that he cannot hear 

 at all, and you can very soon handle him as if he 

 were a gentle horse; but, when you unstop his 

 ears, he will become as wild as ever. If you per- 

 form this two or three times upon the same horse, 

 it will have no effect upon him at last. 



ADVICE TO FARMERS, CONCERNING THE 

 GENTLING OF YOUNG COWS. 



Though I did not intend to say any thing about 

 horned cattle, it may not, perhaps, be amiss to re- 

 late what I have experienced and been eye-witness 

 to, in the state of Louisiana, concerning the gen- 

 tling of young cows, since I discovered the secret 



