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with a low and weak condition, w^hich is an 

 entirely different thing, and not to be recom- 

 mended, on account of the various troubles it may 

 indirectly bring in its train. 



Catching 



If a colt will not come to hand in the paddock, 

 he will have to be driven into a shed or stable and 

 there captured. It will save time if he is ac- 

 customed to come to a quarter-peck measure with 

 some corn in it. Then, if he is without a head- 

 stall, he can be captured with a halter in the fol- 

 lowing manner : Pull out the running nose-band, 

 and slip it round the quarter-peck measure, keep- 

 ing the head piece of the halter to the outer side of 

 the measure. As the horse feeds with his nose in 

 the measure, the nose-band can be almost imper- 

 ceptibly slipped up the measure and round his 

 nose, while the head piece is passed quietly over his 

 ears. 



When endeavoring to catch or drive in a horse, 

 never run. If the animal breaks back, do not, by 

 violent gesticulations, endeavor to stop him, or 

 run and try to cut him off. If you rim, so will the 

 horse ; and as he can run the fastest, he will get 

 the best of it, and will, furthermore, enjoy the 



