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forgotten the details, but remembered the general plan. 

 He took a three-fourths inch rope, and put it on the Second 

 Form of War Bridle, as described for balking. He next 

 took a rail from the fence, and tied one end to the gentle 

 horse's singletree ; to the other end he attached the rope. 

 He then started the gentle horse, and jerked the balky 

 horse out of his tracks two or three times. Using his own 

 language, " That 'ere horse did n't wait to be pulled upon 

 the second time, but pulled as if for life, and never offered 

 to balk afterward, though I put the plow down to the 

 beam." 



It was by mere good luck that this man succeeded, con- 

 sidering the crude, imperfect manner in which the treat- 

 ment was applied. It is hardly safe to risk attempting to 

 make a bad horse go directly in this way. He should be 

 made to yield first to the War Bridle until very sensitive 

 to its restraint, then the pole should be adjusted very care- 

 fully. If too short, or so limber that it will bend much, 

 the experiment will be liable to fail. 



Case No. 4. — A great many cases illustrative of the ef- 

 fect of the treatment could be referred to, but to saA^e space 

 I wiU add but one more, selecting as a representative case, 

 one among single balkers, an eight-year-old pony owned in 

 Linesville, Pa. This horse was brought in to be treated 

 before the class. He attracted my attention at once from 

 the fact that when irritated he would resist every effort to 

 make him follow by the War Bridle, by bracing his fore 

 legs with all the stubbornness of a sullen mule. He would 

 balk, riding or driving, and was entirely unmanageable. 

 To test him a little, I put on the War Bridle and tried to 

 move him. He spread his fore legs, and gave his head 

 around to the shoulder on either- side, but I could not move 

 him. To undertake to handle him before a class in the 

 small space at my disposal, and with a large crowd of men 



