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til he can be controlled. At each inclination to follow, he 

 is caressed ; while for running away, or resistance, the whip 

 is applied, until he soon learns to follow to avoid punish- 

 ment. 



There are several objections to this method : First, the 

 horse is greatly excited and frightened by the severity of 

 the punishment, before he can know what it is for, which 

 is entirely prevented by the other methods. Second, if 



Fig. 97. — Teaching a colt to follow with the whip. 



the horse is warm-blooded and plucky, there is danger of 

 teaching the most aggravating kind of kicking, as the in- 

 tense excitement and pain of the whipping impresses the 

 nervous system so greatly as to weaken and injure it, mak- 

 ing what is termed a habit of nervous, switching kicking — 

 a habit very difficult to overcome. The writer has at dif- 

 ferent times found fine colts that had been treated in this 

 manner by traveling horsemen, and completely spoiled. 

 The other methods are so much simpler, and more humane, 

 that there is no need whatever of resorting to such needless 

 cruelt^ . 



