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told the man I did not know what the after effect would be, 

 and if it injured her in any way to report to me. Two 

 weeks later he informed me that she was broken of the 

 habit, and all right. Although this mare had 

 resisted the other methods, she was of the ex- 

 act temperament to submit easily to this 

 treatment. 



This success induced me to try the effect 

 of severe pressure upon other cases, for the 

 purpose of learning how much i)ressure should 

 be used, and the limit to which it could be 

 safely carried. I found this to be governed 

 in a great measure by the character of the 

 horse. Ordinary cases could bear a pressure 

 of three cords, or a little over sixty feet, and 

 would submit in from five to fifteen minutes, 

 while some extreme cases of courage and pluck 

 could bear the pressure of a hundred feet or *'ig- 45. — cord 



-,-, n -, . when on. 



more equally well, and in some very excep- 

 tional cases even a much longer time. In one case of a 

 wonderfully tough, plucky mare, as an experiment the 

 pressure was left on nearly an hour, when she fell down 

 helplessly, but upon removing the cord she quickly recov- 

 ered, and so far as I could judge, without sustaining injury. 

 I learned to use on an average from seventy to eighty-five 

 feet, drawn more or less tightly, and leaving it on a longer 

 or shorter time, according to the resistance shown. 



I did not give this method to classes, but held it as a 

 reserve until after my experiments in New- York in 1872. 

 The simplest and best way of applying it is as follows : 

 Take a small, firmly wound, smooth hemp cord about five- 

 sixteenths of an inch in diameter and from twenty to 



