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TURNING IN THE STALL. 



A horse addicted to this habit should be tied 

 in either corner of the manger in front of him, which 

 at once prevents him getting round. This bad habit, 

 like most others, is generally caused by idleness. 

 The horse gets tired always standing in one position, 

 and naturally turns round to look about him in order 

 to relieve the monotony. 



SWINGING IN THE STALL. 



Some horses acquire a very peculiar habit of 

 swinging on their fore legs from side to side of the 

 stall, just the same as a confined wolf in his cage at 

 a menagerie swings incessantly from corner to corner. 

 When the horse, like the wolf, once thoroughly ac- 

 quires this habit he never abandons it, and will swing 

 on till the day of his death if only he can stand upon 

 his legs to do so. Some writers hold that the habit 

 is acquired through some derangement of the digest- 

 ive organs; others, that it is a nervous disorder arising 

 from shock or excitement ; but it is doubtful if it 

 arises from any other cause than utter weariness 

 produced by standing too long in the stable without 

 intervening intervals of change. Confinement is the 

 cause of the incessant pendulum -like movement in 

 the wolf, and on the same reasoning we are inclined 

 to attribute the motion of the horse to the same 

 source. It is impossible to cure a horse of this habit 

 in the stall, and the only way to prevent it is to 



