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with him, and after a patient waiting alone, for au hour, it went on all right. 

 He expected about four hours, this time, would effect a permanent cure of 

 the bad habit. I went on about my business, leaving the stoUd German to 

 his pipe and his thoughts. To-day I met him again. He said the horse was 

 eager to start when he went back to the buggy, and though he has used it 

 every day since, no disposition to balk has been manifested. He behevea 

 there will be no repetition of the offense. Most men think they cannot afford 

 to waste time in this way, perhaps, but if the horse is cured he is a valuable 

 one, whereas, if it had become a chronic balker, through cruel management, 

 it would be worthless. Hermann thought he could not make money faster 

 than by saving the reputation of his horse. It is a new system, but Hermann 

 says it will work well every time, if the horse is not naturally vicious. It 

 looks reasonable to me, and if my nag ever tries the stop game with me, and 

 I can conmaand patience sufficient, I will try his plan. 



Kicking Horae.). — We present herewith a method that wiU be found 

 available in all cases of kicking by horses. The beast should have a good 

 pair of bits in his mouth, to 

 which should be attached a 

 strap or rope sufficiently long 

 to reach back between and 

 behind the fore legs about 

 eight inches, and should pass 

 through the girt or surcingle. 

 A loop should be made in 

 this, the back end of the rope 

 or strap, about two inches or 

 more in length. Now take a 

 rope about seven or eight feet 

 long. (The length of the rope 

 will depend upon the size of 

 the horse; the rope should be 

 long enough to allow of a 

 free use of the horse's hind 

 legs in traveling.) Pass one 

 end of the rope round the leg, upon the inside, so the fastening shall come 

 upon the outside, to prevent interfering, and bring it round upon the outside 

 of the leg, and pass the end over and around the middle of the rope and wind 

 it round the rope upon the outside of the leg, as illustrated. Draw the noose 

 up roimd the pastern— i. e., between the fetlock and hoof— and pass the 

 unfastened end of the rope through the loop in the rope or strap which passes 

 through the surcingle, and fasten the end round the other leg, as was done 

 the first time in fastening. This mode of fastening is simple, is easily done 

 and undone, and will not work off, provided the noose is drawn up tightly 

 around the pastern. If you have a horse that is addicted to the unpleasant hab- 

 it of kicking, try this experiment, and you will find that it works admirably. 



Training Vicious Horses — A new and very simple method of training 

 vicious horses was exhibited m "West Philadelpliia, and the manner in which 

 some of the wildest horses were subdued was astonishing. The first trial 

 was that of a kicking or " bucking " mare, which her owner said had allowed 

 no rider on her back for a period of at least five years. She became tamo in 

 about as many minutes, and allowed Jjewelf to' be ridden about without » 



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