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Some dissolve the alum and lead in boiling water, and the coat or 

 other garment is dipped in the clear liquor poured off when cold 

 from the white precipitate of sulphate of lead. In waterproofing 

 all kinds of cloth it is as well to do it before making up lest the 

 cloth shrink. 



JIBBING HORSES. 



No. 1. — Put the horse behind the two first horses in a waggon, 

 when he may be induced to go without any coercion. 



No. 2. — Let the horse be ridden down to a field with his harness 

 on, and then yoked to a light bush-harrow ; he will draw this about 

 very well with the man on his back ; when his shoulders have got 

 well warmed to the work, let him be yoked to a plough or harrow 

 beside another horse, the man still on his back. He will soon take 

 kindly to his work. 



No. 3. — Take a cart or light waggon to the middle of a large 

 field, and having harnessed the horse, put him in the shafts, and 

 there leave him, with a boy at a distance to watch him — leave him 

 there till he thinks fit to move ; don't give in the first day, but try 

 it on for a few days — of course removing him to the stable in the 

 evening ; use no violence, but merely leave him alone in the cart. 

 He will soon get tired of this solitary way of going to work. 



No. 4. — Never hit the horse, but ask him to go, and, on refusal, 

 put a head-stall on him, and, with rope enough attached to give the 

 head liberty, fasten to the end a 4st. weight. Place it on the 

 ground, and leave him standing eight hours ; then take it off, and 

 ask him to go. Next morning, if he refuse again, repeat the dose. 



No. 5. — Before starting, order the groom to be prepared with a 

 few cut carrots in a server. The groom holds them at just sufficient 

 distance from the horse's nose, so that he cannot reach them without 

 moving; and take care that nothing is in the trap, and that the 

 wheels are on tolerably level ground. The groom must continue to 

 move, with the horse's nose in the server, allowing him to eat a few 

 carrots, until you have gained the seat, when a smart touch of the 

 whip will send him into a trot, and the difficulty for the time is 

 overcome. Continue this treatment, the groom each day at starting 

 offering the carrots at a greater distance from the horse, and allowing 

 himself to be overtaken, when the horse must always receive his 

 reward. 



No. 6. — Take the horse into a fallow field, and there harness and 

 put him to a heavy cart. If he will not draw, have ready a couple 

 of strong horses, and yoke them to the hind part of the cart, and 

 draw him backwards. Let him have plenty of it. 



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