DETAILS OF TREATMENT. 



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such means, but depend mainly upon the regular course of 

 subjection to force submission. 



OVER-DRAW CHECK. 



The over-draw check can be modified in various ways, 

 according to the case. Sometimes a simple over-draw check 

 is all that is necessary. If more power is desired, in ad- 

 dition to the check, the restraint can be carried to the hips, 

 thence to the shafts. (See cut 161.) So that in the act of 

 kicking, as the quarters are elevated, the restraint will be 



FIG. 160. Simple method of forcing the head up, and preventing 

 kicking by the elevation of the hips. 



instantly brought upon the head, throwing it so high as to 

 disable. This principle of control was learned by the writer 

 under the following circumstances : In 1861, when in Hen- 

 derson, Jefferson Co., N. Y., a half-witted fellow offered to 

 instruct me how to drive any kicking, runaway horse. He 

 said, " Bring the center of a slender rope of sufficient length 

 to the top of the horse's head, and pass the ends down 

 through the rings on each side of the bit, and thence back 

 into the wagon as reins." I afterward used this means of 

 control and found it would work well in some cases, though 

 not in all. I gave the idea to a man named Hartman, in 

 Lancaster, Pa., who modified it into what was afterward 

 known as the "Hartman reins," which he patented. A 



