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METHODS OF HORSE-CONTROL. 



end of a pole (see Fig. 25). In applying this, the horse is 

 very apt to shy away from the halter, which has to be put 

 on from the front. I have found from experience that 

 the manner of haltering which I have described, and 



Pig. 25. — Pratt's method of putting halter on pole to halter horse. 



which was shewn to me by Mr. G. A. Banham, F.R.C.V.S., 

 is much better than Pratt's plan. 



Teaching a loose horse to come up and to follow. — 

 If a horse is difficult to catch when loose, we may make 

 him come up to us, by putting him in a suitable enclosure, 

 and then cutting him with the hinging zvhip — which may 



