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clever timber jumper than the majorit}^ of two-season hunters. 

 To construct a bar for the purpose, let it be strong and large, with a 

 small iron peg at each end, fitted to rest on iron notches, the notches 

 being fixed on a flat piece of iron, and fastened to the side posts. 

 From one side the bar is firm, which it should be at first when 

 placed low for the horse to jump in hand ; on the other side the 

 bar, resting on a notch, will fly out if struck, and yet, being heavy, 

 requires some force to make it fall. The notches or rests for the 

 bar should be at an angle of about 30deg. with the posts. By means 

 of this bar a young horse can soon be made clever at jumping in 

 hand, and so taught to balance himself and jump from his haunches; 

 and also, on the other side, it can be made useful and safe to ride. 

 The side barriers should not be too high or have tops to the uprights, 

 so that a man (with a horse in a line) can run outside and hold the 

 line as the horse takes the bar." 



PINK, CLEANING OF. 



When a red coat has become spotted apply spirits of turpentine, 

 and when this has evaporated saturate the spot with liquor ammonise ; 

 or, apply liquor ammoniae alone diluted with about five times its 

 quantity of water. 



PRESERVING HOOFS OF A DEAD HORSE. 



First remove the internal parts ; this is best done by placing the 

 feet in the centre of a hot manure heap for twenty-four hours, when 

 the hoofs will readily come off. Wash them in a solution of car- 

 bolic acid, 1 to 50 of water, then fill them with plaster of Paris, and 

 dry slowly without heat. The hoofs may be mounted as inkstands 

 or snuffboxes, or simply shod, according to fancy. 



PULLING HORSES. 



Put the curb-chain inside the mouth from hook to hook. It is 

 often effectual. To stop a runaway horse, or render the most pulling 

 brute quiet and playful with his bit, get a double-plain snaffle, rather 

 thick and heavy, the joints rather open ; cut an old curb-chain in 

 half and let it hang down from the bottom snaffle joint. When the 

 brute offers to pull or bolt, instantly merely drop your hand ; 

 of course the curb-chain will drop between his front teeth, and 

 should the beast savage it, he will soon understand the vast difference 

 between pleasure and pain, and in a short time he will play with the 

 very thing he before tried to savage, and in the end become, from a 

 vicious brute, a playful and good-mouthed horse. This plan is 



