132 BREAKING AND TRAINING 



are scarcely ever stiU, and consequently there must be 

 a large amount of energy wasted. Happily, the vice 

 is one which may be regulated. Different methods are 

 recommended for this, but to my mind one of the 

 best wa^'s of checking a weaver is that of tying up his 

 head so that lateral motion is no longer possible. For 

 this purpose a couple of pillar-reins can be used. Of 

 course, they must be short enough. 



Eating Bedding. — There is nothing that can 

 be more annoying to those who work in stables than a 

 horse that eats his straw bed. There are some horses 

 even which do not confine their pernicious appetite to 

 straw only, but will eat brackens, peat-moss, etc., the 

 strange thing being that lack of food has nothing 

 to do with this false hunger. If you wish to 

 check this habit, you must never put straw under the 

 manger, because a certain amount of hay usually falls 

 out of the rack, and when the rack feed is finished, 

 the animal proceeds to eat the mixed straw and hay 

 l3'ing on the ground. 



Further, 30U ought always to take up the bedding 

 in the day, or better still, you should use either sawdust 

 or peat-moss litter as bedding material. You can, of 



