WHIMS AND VICES, 



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oughly well dry the part with a clean coarse rubber ; the 

 rubbing to be kept up until the part is not only dry, but well 

 warm with the friction. Also inject a little sweet oil into 

 the rectum. Then apply a liniment made of new milk and 

 spirits of turpentine, in the proportion of an ounce of the lat- 

 ter to eight ounces of the foiTner. 



If the horse kicks the sides of the stall he can probably be 

 broken of the habit by hanging a smooth stick of wood from 

 the joist above by a rope, so that when he indulges his vice, 

 his feet or legs will strike the stick. This will put it in mo- 

 tion ; it will swing back and forth and take his attention so 

 he will forget about kicking. This is a pretty sure cure. 



There is no escape for the puller tied in the following 

 manner, and the tie will in time break the bad habit : Make 

 a slip-noose of a strong manilla rope and place it around the 

 animal just forward of the hind legs, having the noose on 

 the under side. Then pass the rope between the body and 

 girt,' next between the forward legs and through the halter 

 ring and post and tie to the girt. After the puller has set 

 back on this novel tie once or twice he will find he is only 

 squeezing himself unpleasantly and that without breaking a 

 halter or doing any damage. 



If the horse paws in the stable, turn it out every day for a 

 run in a yard. When driven every day it will not paw, un- 

 less fed irregularly. 



If you cannot stop your horse bolting his food by putting 

 a handful of shelled corn in his manger, give him cut hay 

 with ground feed. He will masticate that. 



To prevent a horse from rolling in the stable : Fasten a 

 strap to the ceiling above his shoulders, letting the lower end 

 hang about two and one-half feet from the ground. Fasten 

 a ring to the top of the halter, put a snap on the end of the 

 strap, and snap into the ring. Simple but safe. 



